How to configure terminal emulator Alacritty

[@bbits_0789]

Thanks man, would be a hell of a journey to set the configurations without you!

[@friendlyalien379]

Any time!

[@bigchill07]

Thanks Bro, I setup my configuration with process you explained. It was ButterySmooth.

[@friendlyalien379]

@@bigchill07 I'm glad it helped :)

[@Илья-й8э2и]

thank you so much

[@friendlyalien379]

You are welcome :)

[@HarshilJain15]

I want to add the functionality like file view edit whcih exist in qtemrinal but not in this how can I achieve that

[@friendlyalien379]

You mean like bar on top of the terminal? As far as I know you don't have that with alacritty. You have only toml file where you edit all your options.

[@HarshilJain15]

@@friendlyalien379 Yeah that only from which we can split terminal into multiple windows and drag and adjust the terminal

[@friendlyalien379]

@@HarshilJain15 for multiple terminals in alacritty you can use tmux, but that's another program to configure. Alacritty is really basic terminal emulator that is fast.

[@cybernit3]

Hi, I do have an alacritty.toml config file but I am getting an BOTTOM SCREEN RED BOX ERORR when I first launch into Alacritty. Error message> Config error: shell: data did not match variant of untagged enum Program I have in my alacritty.toml [shell] program = "/usr/bin/bash" If anyone can help get rid of this message, much appreciated.

[@friendlyalien379]

Can you paste the whole config file?

[@cybernit3]

@@friendlyalien379 I put the whole alacritty.toml there hopefully you might be able to figure out this red box error. THank you.

[@friendlyalien379]

@@cybernit3 I'm soory, where did you put the whole alacrity.toml? Did you mean THIS is all you have in your alacritty.toml? [shell] program = "/usr/bin/bash" If this is all that is in your alacritty.toml, did you try deleteing it all? Because this is just a shell, and since bash is mostly default for all users on many distros, you don't need to define it in your config file. Which distro are you using?

[@cybernit3]

@@friendlyalien379 I use Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and BASH shell from default. I will try to comment program = "/usr/bin/bash" out and see; makes no difference still get that error: untagged enum Program.

[@friendlyalien379]

@@cybernit3 Delete the whole file, alacritty.toml.