alachemy

A simple config manager for Alacritty written for a need of a simple utility to manage alacritty configuration on the fly.

alachemy has a builtin schema to validate any configuration set to alacritty config. The schema uses a set of regex to match certain values and value compositions.

alachemy is recommended to be used with the configuration live_config_reload set as true, since this will enable quick feedback loop when changing alacritty configuration values.

Currently alacritty configuration is expected to be found directly under $HOME folder. ($HOME/.alacritty.yml)

NOTE: Some configurations are not supported to be modified through alachemy.

Use cases

Let's imagine a screen share situation, where the font size is too small and you need to set the terminal opague (since for some reason you wanted to see your cool new background previously!).

With alachemy it's as simple as:

alachemy window.opacity 1 && alachemy font.size 16

Other useful use case for alachemy is when you are testing new configurations for font and colours.

Installation

Easiest way to install alachemy is with shm.

To install shm run either one of these oneliners:

curl:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erikjuhani/shm/main/shm.sh | sh

wget:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erikjuhani/shm/main/shm.sh | sh

then run the following command to get the latest version of alachemy:

shm get erikjuhani/alachemy

Usage

alachemy <key> <value> [-h | --help]

Options

-h --help	Show help

Examples

An example of setting alacritty window opacity to a value of 0.85

alachemy window.opacity 0.85