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alacritty

Alacritty is an ok performing alternative to urxvt. It lacks scrollabars which sucks. The configuration live reloading is nice.

Listing 1: ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
dimensions:
  columns: 80
  lines: 60

decorations: full

dynamic_title: true
scrolling:
  history: 10000

font:
  normal:
    family: Hack
    style: Regular
  bold:
    family: Hack
    style: Bold
  italic:
    family: Hack
    style: Italic
  bold_italic:
    family: Hack
    style: Bold Italic
  size: 8

draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors: true
# monokai
colors:
  primary:
    background: '#1B1D1E'
    foreground: '#E8E8E2'
  cursor:
    text:       '#1B1D1E'
    cursor:     '#E8E8E2'
  normal:
    black:      '#333333'
    red:        '#C4265E'
    green:      '#2AD043'
    yellow:     '#FA9429'
    blue:       '#6A7EC8'
    magenta:    '#8C6BC8'
    cyan:       '#56ADBC'
    white:      '#E3E3DD'
  bright:
    black:      '#666666'
    red:        '#F92672'
    green:      '#63DE5D'
    yellow:     '#FFBA68'
    blue:       '#819AFF'
    magenta:    '#AE81FF'
    cyan:       '#66D9EF'
    white:      '#E8E8E2'

bell:
  duration: 0

selection:
  save_to_clipboard: true

cursor:
  style: block
  blinking: off
  unfocused_hollow: true
  thickness: 0.15

live_config_reload: true

alt_send_esc: true

key_bindings:
  - { key: Grave, mods: Control, action: SpawnNewInstance }