Change the appearance of the terminal for the minimalist party with Alacritty + beautification.

Introduction#

Alacritty is a fast, cross-platform OpenGL terminal emulator with reasonable default settings but allows for extensive customization. By integrating with other applications instead of reimplementing their functionality, it successfully provides a flexible set of features and high performance. Currently supported platforms include BSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Name	GitHub URL
Alacritty	https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

Download link: alacritty

Beautification Effects#

Alacritty (Window)

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Alacritty (Icon)

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Take a look at the built-in one

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To achieve the above effects, only three steps are needed

Font Beautification#

JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source font for developers

Name	URL
jetbrains	https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

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Icon Beautification#

Alacritty

For Mac, find Alacritty.app in the Applications folder, right-click to show info, and then drag the downloaded icns file onto the top left corner icon to complete the replacement.

Name	URL
Alacritty	Click to download

Configuration File#

1. Online Update#

Run the following command in Alacritty and restart.

curl -fLo ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml --create-dir \
    https://geek.4everland.store/alacritty.yml

2. Or Download the Configuration File#

For Mac, place it in ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

Name	URL
alacritty	Click to download