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Install Alacritty on Ubuntu
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # This installs alacritty terminal on ubuntu (https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty) | |
| # You have to have rust/cargo installed for this to work | |
| # Install required tools | |
| sudo apt-get install -y cmake libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev xclip | |
| # Download, compile and install Alacritty | |
| git clone https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty | |
| cd alacritty | |
| cargo build --release | |
| # Add Man-Page entries | |
| sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1 | |
| gzip -c extra/alacritty.man | sudo tee /usr/local/share/man/man1/alacritty.1.gz > /dev/null | |
| # Add shell completion for bash and zsh | |
| mkdir -p ~/.bash_completion | |
| cp extra/completions/alacritty.bash ~/.bash_completion/alacritty | |
| echo "source ~/.bash_completion/alacritty" >> ~/.bashrc | |
| sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/X/ | |
| sudo cp extra/completions/_alacritty /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/X/_alacritty | |
| # Copy default config into home dir | |
| cp alacritty.yml ~/.alacritty.yml | |
| # Create desktop file | |
| mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/ | |
| cp extra/linux/Alacritty.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/ | |
| # Copy binary to path | |
| sudo cp target/release/alacritty /usr/local/bin | |
| # Remove temporary dir | |
| cd .. | |
| rm -rf alacritty |
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Instead of cargo install --path alacritty/ I suggest using cargo build --release. The former automatically installs the binary to ~/.cargo/bin/alacritty.
This is surprising... cargo build --release usually just normal cargo build command but for release target (i.e. with optimizations). So it should put the build artifacts inside target at the source root or $CARGO_TARGET_DIR if it's specified. Are you sure in this?
UPD
Hmm But doing cargo install --path alacritty/ doesn't make sense as well, because at the end we copy the binary from target/releaseanyway (which is built by cargo build --release as a part of cargo install). Will update the script.
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Another useful thing you can do is make Alacritty available as your default terminal:
The second command should present you with a list of terminals you have available for your default terminal. Just select Alacritty and it should open as your default terminal.