Remoting into Freebsd with Alacritty

Whenever running a terminal, alacritty is my main driver. Recently, I’ve been dabbling with FreeBSD and ran into some curious output when SSHing into a server: 1 2 No entry for terminal type "alacritty"; using dumb terminal settings. It turns out FreeBSD doesn’t have a definition for alacritty’s terminal capabilities by default and we have to put that in place. Alacritty defines an alacritty.info file that specifies its terminal capabilities. While FreeBSD doesn’t have support for terminfo, it does have support for termcap....

January 5, 2024 · 2 min · 348 words