How would folks go about adding a way to switch between dark/light mode in their #terminal emulator? Or would it be the #shell? I just want an easy way to switch in my #alacritty terminal to switch to a light mode theme and then go back to a dark theme?

687 - Por qué Linux es el MEJOR sistema para programar

#linux es el sistema mas eficiente gracias a sus potentes terminales como #kitty o #alacritty a su ecosistema de herramientas y la increíble personalización

Llevo programando aplicaciones y herramientas para Linux mas de 15 años. Sin embargo, en esto último año, he estado implementado servicios web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APRbEDt56Rw

SSS (v2.1.26) now sports a fully modular #emacs config with some nice additions, like controling #spotify from Emacs (with smudge) and some UI tweaks as well as better #rofi, #mako, #alacritty and #waybar and more love to light themes as well as #everforest

https://codeberg.org/jjba23/sss

Hello #fediverse

I jotted down a workaround for using `Ctrl+Shift+<key>` in #Neovim when using #Alacritty

https://blog.suryatejak.in/how-to-use-ctrlshiftf-keybinding-in-neovim

switching to alacritty for my terminal has been a fun adventure. i'm loving all the convenience features that it has over my tried and true gnome-terminal.

well done to the devs on this project.

Hello #fediverse

I am happy to report I have managed to migrate to #LazyVim from my custom #nvim config.

The major pain point for me was that Konsole was screwing up my keybindings:
1. It translated `Ctrl+/` to `Ctrl+_` (this took me so long to figure out, thank you r/neovim)
2. I never got to register "Ctrl+`" keybinding for toggling terminal. (This is originally done by (1) but this is something I use in VSCode so I needed it)

Alas, I gave in and installed #Alacritty and all my problems have vanished. I also managed to customize it a little.

Now, I need to figure out how to manage the dotfiles!! Any ideas? What do you use?

FreeBSD

All setup, I installed #Hikari #waybar #doomemacs #kitty #alacritty.

FreeBSD is almost easier than setting up a Linux distro now.

Fun #activities from last night:
Spending 4 hours trying to come up with a way to install #Alacritty on #Aurora #Linux without layering packages.
I ended up installing #rustup from #homebrew, using rustup to setup #cargo and then using cargo to install Alacritty. And I had to make .desktop file myself.
Only caveat - no way to include updating cargo and crates in "ujust update" (or I'm not smart enough). So after updating I have to manually run "rustup update" and "cargo install alacritty"

#ViernesDeEscritorio de vuelta a #SolusOS.
Con el tema #Catppuccin en #Sway y tambien en la terminal #Alacritty.

Solus ya viene preconfigurado si quieres usar algun WM o entorno, asi que es muy facil migrar de entorno.

This is weird but alt + backspace no longer works on #Alacritty if you're using a #Fish shell, it does work on #Bash. I don't think this is a Fish "issue" either, since that keybind still works as expected, with Fish, on #Konsole. Anyone knows how to fix this?

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edit:

I just realised that this is prolly not an issue with Alacritty + Fish on a "vanilla" setup - this only occurs when using #Toshy, a neat utility I've been using for a (long) while now that configures and mimics a #macOS like keybinds on a #Linux system through a service (that can easily be stopped/started, etc.).

I've reported this issue on their repo to see if they're able to figure this out. It most likely has something to do with the new Fish 4.0.0 release, since I'm still using the same Alacritty (and Toshy) version since this issue started.

https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy/issues/573

Alacritty Contributors released #Alacritty version 0.15.1. https://alacritty.org/

I see a lot of fuzz about #Ghostty #TerminalEmulator, and I'm sure it's great. But all that GTK and window/tab management stuff, no, thanks. I like fast and simple terminals, and letting my window manager take care of tabs, splits, etc. Been using #urxvt, #st, #kitty, #alacritty, #wezterm and then back to kitty. Give me a fast, spartan terminal with UTF-8, ligature support and a big buffer. That's all I need.

This clipboard issue I'm currently having on #KDE/#Linux/#Wayland is awfully bad btw, I didn't even realise earlier how it's an "all-encompassing" clipboard issue and not only with certain apps or anything like that.

It happens if I copy and paste a word on #VScode. It happens if I do the same on #Firefox. It happens if I do the same on #Dolphin (file manager). It happens if I do the same on my terminals like #Alacritty or #Konsole. It happens even if I click-to-copy an emoji on KDE's Emoji Selector. It even happens with any "Copy Link" option found on any "share sheet" on any website/social media.

I thought it might have been something to do with perhaps the action of copying using keybinds (i.e. Ctrl + C) but clearly not. In all those examples I've provided, I have to do the action to copy, whatever that may be, twice. Doing it once, does nothing as it will paste whatever was copied to the clipboard before it, not the latest of what you (thought to) have copied. An unintended consequence of this is "cutting" is no longer possible - since you'd have to do it twice for it to register properly, which just isn't possible (or at least sensible) with cutting.

This is beyond ridiculous.

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Update: Added a video to demonstrate this on KDE's Kate text editor. Also, wanted to add that this isn't just with text-based instances but really anything to do with clipboard - including with copying or moving files in Dolphin.

Also, IIRC this exact issue has happened a while ago (perhaps #KDEPlasma 5.2X) but was fixed (I thought) and I've never seen it happen since - it's happening to me now (KDE Plasma 6.2.5) seemingly out of the blue, with no obvious trigger.

Reported the bug to @kde@floss.social here:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498914

RE: https://sakurajima.social/notes/a380dycxbw

Alacritty Contributors released #Alacritty version 0.15.0. https://alacritty.org/

Kennt ihr #ghostty ?

Scheint so als wäre es eine Alternative zu #alacritty

https://ghostty.org/download

#alacritty doesn't have a Quake mode, so I did it myself https://store.kde.org/p/2236439/

(KWin only, but should work with any terminal software, or really anything that has one main window that opens at startup)

Happy new year! Still 3h15 left in 2024 around here, but I wish everyone has a fulfilling 2025!

Does maybe someone know why Kitty wouldn't show the Telescope preview area?

When I open Neovim in Alacritty the preview does appear (with the very same config).