NAME

       Alacritty - A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

SYNOPSIS

       Alacritty  is  a  modern  terminal  emulator  that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive
       configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it
       manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance.

FLAGS

       -h, --help

           Prints help information.

       --hold

           Remain open after child process exits.

       --daemon

           Do not spawn an initial window.

       --print-events

           Print all events to STDOUT.

       -q

           Reduces the level of verbosity (the min level is -qq).

       --ref-test

           Generates ref test

       -v

           Increases the level of verbosity (the max level is -vvv).

       -V, --version

           Prints version information.

OPTIONS

       --class <GENERAL> | <GENERAL>,<INSTANCE>

           Defines the window class hint on Linux.

           When only the general class is passed, instance will be set to the same value.

           On Wayland the general class sets the app_id, while the instance class is ignored.

           Default: Alacritty,Alacritty

       -e, --command <COMMAND>...

           Command and args to execute (must be last argument).

       --config-file <CONFIG_FILE>

           Specify alternative configuration file.

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

               1.  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.toml
               2.  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.toml
               3.  $HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml
               4.  $HOME/.alacritty.toml

           On Windows, the config file will be looked for in:

               1.  %APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.toml

       --embed <PARENT>

           X11 window ID to embed Alacritty within (decimal or hexadecimal with 0x prefix).

       -o, --option <OPTION>...

           Override configuration file options.

           Example: alacritty -o 'cursor.style="Beam"'

       --socket <SOCKET>

           Path for IPC socket creation.

       -T, --title <TITLE>

           Defines the window title.

           Default: Alacritty

       --working-directory <WORKING_DIRECTORY>

           Start the shell in the specified working directory.

SUBCOMMANDS

       msg

           Send IPC socket messages (see alacritty-msg(1)).

       migrate

           Migrate the configuration file.

           -c, --config-file <CONFIG_FILE>

               Path to the configuration file.

           -d, --dry-run

               Only output TOML config to STDOUT.

           -i, --skip-imports

               Do not recurse over imports.

           --skip-renames

               Do not move renamed fields to their new location.

           -s, --silent

               Do not output to STDOUT.

           -h, --help

               Print help information.

SEE ALSO

       alacritty-msg(1), alacritty(5), alacritty-bindings(5)

BUGS

       Found a bug? Please report it at https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues.

MAINTAINERS

       •   Christian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com>
       •   Kirill Chibisov <contact@kchibisov.com>

                                                   2025-04-28                                       ALACRITTY(1)