altp

A simple theme-picker for alacritty - a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

[al]acritty [t]heme [p]icker

Full credits to @rajasegar and @juanvqz for the awesome alacritty-themes NPM package that inspired this.

Credit for the included themes goes to the original authors. See the individual themes for the author details.

Requires Alacritty >= v0.13.0

Motivation

I'd wanted to try out some other themes for Alacritty so thought I'd give alacritty-themes a go, but found it didn't support the newer TOML config syntax for Alacritty.

Naturally, like any sane human being and instead of just updating my Alacritty config manually, I decided to re-write the entire thing in Rust with support for TOML config files.

Installation

If not already installed, first install rust.

Then install altp globally:

$ cargo install altp

Usage

Using the command with no arguments or options will show an interactive menu to select a theme:

$ altp

Select a theme: [Page 1/7]
> 3024 (dark)
  3024 (light)
  Afterglow
  Alabaster
  Alabaster (dark)
  Argonaut
  Ashes (dark)
  Ashes (light)
  Atelierdune (dark)
  Atelierdune (light)
  Atelierforest (dark)
  Atelierforest (light)
  Atelierheath (dark)
  Atelierheath (light)

More advanced options can be used to customise behaviour.

Use the h or help options to view the documentation.

$ altp -h

Usage: altp [OPTIONS] [THEME]

Arguments:
  [THEME]  The name of the theme to use

Options:
  -l, --list       Print a list of available themes
  -C, --current    Print the current theme name
  -d, --dir <DIR>  The directory to search for the alacritty config file
  -c, --create     Whether to create a new config file if one does not already exist
  -h, --help       Print help (see more with '--help')
  -V, --version    Print version

Note that, by default altp will assume the alacritty config dir path to be:

C:/Users/user/AppData/Roaming/alacritty

for Windows and:

/home/user/.config/alacritty

for all other operating systems.

Use the d or dir argument to provide a custom alacritty config path.