Alacritty TOML Config Files

[Wiian16]

Detailed Description

Recently when opening the alacritty terminal, a warning message has appeared about migrating current YAML config files to TOML. Alacritty has provided a tool to convert your config files, but it does not go into the folders for each wm. After running alacritty migrate, I still have a warning about my config file. Alacritty has said that they will be dropping support for YAML files soon, as they don't want to maintain support for both.

Feature request

I do not yet have a good understanding of either YAML or TOML, so I don't know how to translate between the two. On top of that, Archcraft adds some complexity by changing theme colors with your background. I would like to either have a tool to convert these files for me, or perhaps there could be new config files provided here.

[MattyPixels]

To fix this, here is what I did until the developer does something (this is for the Wayfire WM, your alacritty and theme folders might be located somewhere else under ~/.config but the process will be similar):

• Copy the ~/.config/wayfire/alacritty folder to ~/.config (so it would be located at ~/.config/alacritty)
• Run alacritty migrate, which will migrate the .yml files to .toml
• Move the .toml files under ~/.config/alacritty back to ~/.config/wayfire/alacritty and delete all .yml files (you can back them up for safety until you're done migrating)
• Now, opening alacritty should warn you about history and manifest
• In ~/.config/wayfire/alacritty/alacritty.toml, remove or comment out the lines that start with history and manifest, then save the file

Now, you will need to fix the theme.sh script as well, otherwise running it will recreate a .yml file. Here is the part that needs to be changed, my file is located under ~/.config/wayfire/theme:

## Alacritty ---------------------------------
apply_alacritty() {
    # alacritty : colors
    cat > ${PATH_ALAC}/colors.toml <<- _EOF_
      ## Colors configuration
      # Default colors
        [colors.primary]
            background = '${background}'
            foreground = '${foreground}'

      # Normal colors
        [colors.normal]
            black =   '${color0}'
            red =     '${color1}'
            green =   '${color2}'
            yellow =  '${color3}'
            blue =    '${color4}'
            magenta = '${color5}'
            cyan =    '${color6}'
            white =   '${color7}'

      # Bright colors
        [colors.bright]
            black =   '${color8}'
            red =     '${color9}'
            green =   '${color10}'
            yellow =  '${color11}'
            blue =    '${color12}'
            magenta = '${color13}'
            cyan =    '${color14}'
            white =   '${color15}'
    _EOF_
}

You should be good to go, however, the window doesn't seem to respect the line where the window size is declared (at least on Wayfire it doesn't, it just bugs out the window decoration). See screenshot:

Hope it helps! If you need help, let me know.

[adi1090x]

Already updated everything, you can get the wayfire update from ko-fi for free.

New alacritty version has some issue with geometry on floating windows in (some) wayland compositors (like sway and wayfire) To solve this, just edit the config file (~/.config/wayfire/alacritty/alacritty.toml) and comment out these lines:

[window.dimensions]
columns = 82
lines = 24

A PR fixing this issue has been merged to alacritty, wait for the new alacritty update.