dotfiles/alacritty

Alacritty

A terminal that can handle a nerd font. Used alongside lazyvim.

MacOS

1. Download a release from https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases or get it using Homebrew

brew install --cask alacritty

2. Install a nerd font. This is just some one suggested online.

brew install font-meslo-lg-nerd-font

3. Create an Alacritty config folder and link the alacritty config in this repo into there.

mkdir -p ~/.config/alacritty
ln -sfn /path/to/dotfiles/lazyvim/alacritty-macos.toml ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml

Ubuntu

1. Install Alacritty through a third-party PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aslatter/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install alacritty

2. Install a nerd font (I am using "MesloLG Nerd Font" from https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads)

unzip Meslo.zip -d Meslo
mkdir ~/.local/share/fonts
cp Meslo/*.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts
fc-cache -fv
rm -r Meslo Meslo.zip

3. Create an Alacritty config folder and link the alacritty config in this repo into there.

mkdir -p ~/.config/alacritty
ln -sfn /path/to/dotfiles/alacritty/alacritty-ubuntu.toml ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml