--- title: I Finally Tried the Alacritty Terminal And It May... description: A hands-on exploration of the Alacritty GPU-accelerated terminal emulator by a long-time Kitty user. Covers key features including Vi mode for keyboard-driven... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-finally-tried-the-alacritty-terminal-and-it-may-replace-kitty-for-me-lzvg4uh22 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Finally Tried the Alacritty Terminal And It May Replace Kitty for Me | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on exploration of the Alacritty GPU-accelerated terminal emulator by a long-time Kitty user. Covers key features including Vi mode for keyboard-driven... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-finally-tried-the-alacritty-terminal-and-it-may-replace-kitty-for-me-lzvg4uh22 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lZvg4uH22.png og:image:alt: I Finally Tried the Alacritty Terminal And It May Replace Kitty for Me og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Finally Tried the Alacritty Terminal And It May Replace Kitty for Me **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on exploration of the Alacritty GPU-accelerated terminal emulator by a long-time Kitty user. Covers key features including Vi mode for keyboard-driven scrollback navigation, text selection modes, built-in search, and bracket matching. Also walks through practical configuration: splitting config files into modular TOML files, changing fonts, setting scrollback buffer size, switching shells, configuring opacity/blur, and defining custom keyboard and mouse bindings. Installation instructions for Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch Linux are included. The author notes the lack of native image support but finds Alacritty paired with Zellij a compelling daily driver. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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