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alacritty-shell

zsh alacritty-shell plugin

alacritty-shell is a dynamic theme chooser based on the alacritty.yml schemes: setttings

requirements

yq

• yq is used to update the alacritty.yml file
• check that the version is greater than 4.31

❯ yq --version
yq (https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/) version v4.31.2

install

custom alacritty themes

Alacritty color-schemes describes how to use multiple schemes.

alacritty-shell themes wiki

Note add index: 208 = orange

setup

zinit

zinit wait lucid for \
  casonadams/alacritty-shell \
  ;

oh-my-zsh

ZSH_CUSTOM="${HOME}/.oh-my-zsh/custom/" git clone --depth=1 "https://github.com/casonadams/alacritty-shell.git" "${ZSH_CUSTOM}/plugins/alacritty-shell"

# ~/.zshrc

plugins+=(
  alacritty-shell
)

manual

Add following lines to .bashrc or .zshrc:

if [ ! -d "${HOME}/.alacritty-shell" ]; then
  git clone https://github.com/casonadams/alacritty-shell.git "${HOME}/.alacritty-shell"
fi

ALACRITTY_SHELL="${HOME}/.alacritty-shell"
[ -n "$PS1" ] \
  && [ -s "${ALACRITTY_SHELL}/profile_helper.sh" ] \
  && eval "$("${ALACRITTY_SHELL}/profile_helper.sh")"

NOTE restart shell

usage

add a builtin theme (tab complete)

add_alacritty_darcula-dark

change terminal colors (tab complete)

alacritty_darcula-dark

using with vim

install walh colorscheme

set notermguicolors
colorscheme walh-gruvbox

Note not tested on windows (probably won't work) open to MRs to support it though