The issue is reported in detail in the Alacritty repo: alacritty/alacritty#8050.
TL;DR: in the latest versions of Alacritty (0.15.x and probably some older versions too) some icons are not shown correctly (show black-and-white) or not shown at all no matter the font.
The Alacritty devs don't have a direct fix, as the root cause of the issue appears to be somehow related to freetype. The original issue provides some workarounds compiling the latest freetype and running Alacritty with it by preloading a custom .so via LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which is off-course not a solution.
So this issue is to request to assemble the snap package of Alacritty with the correct version of freetype.
Environment:
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
- Alacritty Version: 0.15.0 (snap)
- Graphics Cards: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620
The issue is reported in detail in the Alacritty repo: alacritty/alacritty#8050.
TL;DR: in the latest versions of Alacritty (0.15.x and probably some older versions too) some icons are not shown correctly (show black-and-white) or not shown at all no matter the font.
The Alacritty devs don't have a direct fix, as the root cause of the issue appears to be somehow related to
freetype. The original issue provides some workarounds compiling the latestfreetypeand running Alacritty with it by preloading a custom.soviaLD_LIBRARY_PATH, which is off-course not a solution.So this issue is to request to assemble the snap package of Alacritty with the correct version of
freetype.Environment: