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Alacritty
Raised as a usability problem by 21 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 15 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Typing feels laggy, with higher input latency than xtermUnreviewed
20172026- Terminal lags badly and frame rate collapses when screen has many characters2020-08-01
- Typed input shows up with noticeable lag, so the terminal feels slow to respond2020-05-31
- Terminal feels sluggish because keystrokes respond slowly2018-09-06
Can't paste into remote tmux session over SSHUnreviewed
20172026- Paste is broken when running Alacritty on Windows2025-08-13
- Terminal output becomes slow when tmux runs inside Alacritty2021-04-01
- Alacritty's copy/paste shortcut needs two hands, unlike Ctrl+C/V elsewhere2020-08-01
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 24 complaints
- Search mode must be exited before doing anything else in the terminal2025-12-04
- Paste is broken when running Alacritty on Windows2025-08-13
- Config docs are unclear, and imported config file paths often fail to resolve2025-01-31
- Config format gotchas and shortcuts for tmux and nvim don't work2024-05-22
- Must manually bind keys to control characters, finding escape sequences is a nightmare2024-05-16
- Font rendering looks dreadfully fuzzy in places, hard to bear2024-01-07
- Ctrl+Shift+C shortcut opens browser dev tools and scrolls the page to top2021-07-26
- Double-clicking the title bar doesn't maximize the window, and close button needs precise clicking2021-04-01
- Terminal output becomes slow when tmux runs inside Alacritty2021-04-01
- Lacks basic window management, so users must add tmux to get it2020-09-18
- Ctrl+C always needs Shift, so users accidentally kill running processes2020-08-01
- Alacritty's copy/paste shortcut needs two hands, unlike Ctrl+C/V elsewhere2020-08-01
- Terminal lags badly and frame rate collapses when screen has many characters2020-08-01
- Cmd-C and Cmd-V don't copy and paste in the terminal on Linux, unlike macOS2020-08-01
- Typed input shows up with noticeable lag, so the terminal feels slow to respond2020-05-31
- Alt key does not act like Esc-prefix, making Emacs nearly unusable2019-04-09
- Terminal feels sluggish because keystrokes respond slowly2018-09-06
- Typing feels laggy, with higher input latency than xterm2018-07-28
- Separate terminals on same display stay in lockstep by default, frustrating multi-window use2017-01-15
- Can't paste into remote tmux session when running Alacritty over ssh2017-01-08
- Resizing a split lags and judders after a find command is interrupted2017-01-07
- Output renders noticeably slower than xterm, taking longer to scroll through find output2017-01-07
- Terminal runs noticeably slower than xterm, especially when the window is small or hidden2017-01-07
- Up arrow doesn't scroll through recent command history2017-01-07