dotfiles/alacritty/README.md

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

Windows

1. Install Alacritty.
2. Install a Nerd Font ( Download nerd font of choice. I am using MesoLG Nerd Font. Right click and select "Install".
3. Windows will not follow WSL symlinks, so you have to do it their way:

mkdir C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\alacritty
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path "C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\alacritty\alacritty.toml" -Target "C:\path\to\dotfiles\alacritty\alacritty-windows.toml"