So far so good with my CachyOS journey.
This time, I took a quick look at Alacritty.
Because it uses KDE Plasma, it comes with Konsole but not only that. It also comes with Alacritty which is new to me. I’ve never used it before but if CachyOS sees fit to have it come with their OS out-of-the-box, then I’ll try making time getting familiar with it 😊
The terminals (Alacritty & Konsole) are set up with Fish by default but Zsh is also installed so you can switch to it if you prefer (which I do 😅).
Not only Zsh but also with Powerlevel10k! So when you enter Zsh the first time, you’ll go through the first time configuration process. Alacritty comes with a font that works well with Powerlevel10k but Konsole doesn’t. So if you would rather use Konsole take care to select/add a font that will work with Powerlevel10k if you’re going to use it.
To tell Alacritty that you want the terminal to open with Zsh instead of Fish, you open its config file found here ►
~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.tomlI added two lines to the bottom of the file (see below), saved, closed and re-opened the terminal.
[shell]
program = "/usr/bin/zsh"Also, TIL Alacritty doesn’t do tabs. Well, I’ve been meaning to learn tmux 😄
As I continue to use CachyOS, I’m finding the experience pleasant. Just remember that it is an Arch Linux based distro so if you are thinking about trying it, consider getting familiar with the basics of Arch 👍