Alacritty Dropdown

Win script that adds drop-down feature to Alacritty.

It provides:

• Display/hide Alacritty when Meta+F12 is pressed.
• Make Alacritty window always on top of other windows.
• Make Alacritty visible in all desktops.
• Make Alacritty fullscreen.

What it doesn't provide:

• Start Alacritty.
• Move Alacritty to multiple displays (it is always displayed in display that it was started from).

Works only on KDE.

Requirements

From version 0.3 (tag v0.3.0) only KDE 6 is supported. For KDE 5, use version 0.2.2 (tag v0.2.2).

Current requirements:

• KDE Plasma >= 6.1
• KDE Frameworks >= 6.5
• Qt >= 6.7
• Alacritty >= 0.13

Requirements are based on the version which I am running, so it might work on earlier versions of the afore mentioned components.

Installing

• Clone somewhere and cd into:i

git clone [email protected]:vgobbo/alacritty-dropdown-kde.git
cd alacritty-dropdown-kde

• Inspect the code, so nothing weird is being added to your computer ;D

• Install:

kpackagetool6 --type=KWin/Script -i .

If you are upgrading, use:

kpackagetool6 --type=KWin/Script -u .

If you just upgraded to KDE 6 from KDE 5, you might have to manually remove the old plugin and then install it fresh.

• Enable by pressing Alt+F2, typing KWin Scripts and selecting Alacritty Drop-Down in the script list.

Debugging

The preferred way is through wm console, according to KDE documentation. But it didn't work for me, so I relied on journalctl for debugging:

journalctl -f -t kwin_x11

Adapt it to Wayland if needed.

Common Issues

Nothing happens when Meta+F12 is pressed

• Make sure Alacritty is installed and running.
• Make sure the script is installed and enabled.
• Make sure the compose key is not set to Meta on the System Settings > Input Devices > Keyboard > Advanced > Position of compose key.

Window is borderless but not fullscreen

• Make sure startup_mode is not set to Fullscreen in .config/alacritty/alacritty.yml: let the script take care of the window configuration.