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Terminal Emulator Overview

Terminal emulators show a GUI Window that contains a terminal. Most emulate Xterm, which in turn emulates VT102, which emulates typewriter.

Alacritty Overview

A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

Install Alacritty

pacman -S alacritty

Configuration

You can find the default configuration file with documentation for all available fields on the GitHub releases page for each release.

Alacritty doesn't create the config file for you, but it looks for one in the following locations:

• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml
• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.yml
• $HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml # we will use this for arch as all of our other configs exits in this folder
• $HOME/.alacritty.yml

Download Alacritty.xml from Github

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

Add the freshly downloaded yaml file to alacritty folder

mv $HOME/Downloads/alacritty.yml $HOME/.config/alacritty/

Uncomment the lines you want to enable

Exit & Save File

:wq

Some Terminal Emulator Options:

• Simple terminal (st)
• Termite
• Terminator

Learn More Here

Find Other Terminal Emulators to use: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Utilities#Terminal_emulators