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+title: "Alacritty open links with modifier"
+url: alacritty-open-links-with-modifier.html
+date: 2023-06-25T17:17:16+02:00
+type: notes
+draft: false
+tags: [linux]
+---
+
+Alacritty by default makes all links in the terminal output clickable and this
+gets annoying rather quickly. I liked the default behavior of Gnome terminal
+where you needed to hold Control key and then you could click and open links.
+
+To achieve this in Alacritty you need to provide a `hint` in the configuration
+file. Config file is located at `~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml`.
+
+```yaml
+hints:
+  enabled:
+  - regex: "(mailto:|gemini:|gopher:|https:|http:|news:|file:|git:|ssh:|ftp:)\
+            [^\u0000-\u001F\u007F-\u009F<>\"\\s{-}\\^⟨⟩`]+"
+    command: xdg-open
+    post_processing: true
+    mouse:
+      enabled: true
+      mods: Control
+```
+
+The following should work under any Linux system. For macOS, you will need to
+change `command: xdg-open` to something else.
+
+Now the links will be visible and clickable only when Control key is being
+pressed.
+
+Source: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/5246