How To Make Your Boring macOS Terminal Amazing With Alacritty

I recently switched from iTerm2 to Alacritty and in this video I show you everything I do to create a minimal, amazing & fast terminal setup with it on macOs. I've really enjoyed this change. Hope you guys enjoy the video!

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⏰ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:29 - Install homebrew
01:23 - Install alacritty
01:55 - Install git
02:02 - Install nerd font
02:32 - Create config file
03:30 - Window configuration
05:03 - Font configuration
05:32 - True colors (for tmux)
05:52 - Setup p10k theme
07:38 - Setup theme colors
09:46 - Better history completion
11:20 - zsh-autosuggestions
11:54 - zsh-syntax-highlighting
12:43 - eza (better ls)
13:13 - zoxide (better cd)
14:25 - Setup tmux
15:59 - Conclusion

[joseanmartinez]

Hey guys! I’ve been using Alacritty recently and have really enjoyed it because its simple and suits my nvim/tmux workflow well. That said, there’s other great options out there I haven’t tried yet like Kitty, Wezterm or Warp. I might look into them in the future, but use whatever works well for you! Hope you enjoy the video!

[scottfwalter]

I've been using Alacritty for a couple months so I didn't pick up many tips from that section. However, your history keybindings tips were awesome. That was worth the price of the whole video.

[ykhemani]

The video coupled with the blog was amazing! Thank you so much!

[alicagank]

Thanks man! After tinkering with the config files a little I was able to rice my dream terminal! :))

[ettorerossatto]

I got Error msg trying to run "brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts":
"Error: homebrew/cask-fonts was deprecated. This tap is now empty and all its contents were either deleted or migrated."

Then I directly run:
"brew install --cask font-meslo-lg-nerd-font"

Looks like works. Let me know if there is something wrong. Thanks

[akshitgupta]

Awesome. Just setup my config last month and had to research a lot. It's great finally someone did the hard work and dropped the vid. Also can you make a video on setting up fish terminal?

[MrArso]

thank you for this video.
For eza i recommand two aliases.
The first the one you show
The seconds alias ll="eza -l" to show permissions and users

[nagisupercell]

I love the instant changing when I save the config file of Alacrity.

[zemaria]

What an ABSOLUTE LEGEND!!!! This was very enjoyable. Thanks!

[utvikler-no]

Yet again there are some gems here ☺️👍

[ilyeshammadi]

Thanks for the video. I used Alacritty for almost a year on Mac. But I switched to Wezterm due to the lack of features in Alacrttiy compared to Wezterm. Font ligatures was for me the reason to switch to Wezterm and also Lua config.

[JoeAzure]

Thank you for this! I love learning new environments and taking back control of my daily view :)

[pupfriend]

great vid - never messed with anything to change the terminal, but the blog post made it pretty easy. Thanks for the content.

[alonelyproducer]

hi, i recently discoverd your channel, all i may say is, thank you, wow. Good quality, well presented, not bloated with unuseful information. Thanks!!!!

[wheaten]

Fantastic tutorial. Thanks for the clear instructions and blog.

[StoneColdET_]

Another banger. Commenting for the algorithm 🎉

[qiangwu]

Bro, I love your keyboard!
It's so cool!

[TBO]

FYI be sure to check that logos actually mathc at around 6:30 an arabic symbol was being displayed instead of an up arrow. Might lead to some unusual behavior if not careful!

[gregsonberlin]

Quite interesting that a lot of obviously very IT-familiar guys use „clear“ to clean the terminal instead of using the shortcut or save/quit vi with „:w :q“ instead of using the shortcut.

[alamba]

The brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts is deprecated.