v0.17.0-dev

Chartacritty synced with Alacritty 0.17.0, with new decorations that react to what is on screen, a bonsai that loses its leaves when the terminal gets busy, and the sunrise, sunset and rain around you.

The full resolution video is attached below as chartacritty-demo.mp4.

The config now lives in ~/.config/chartacritty/chartacritty.yml, Alacritty's config paths are no longer read. chartacritty.yml, attached below, is the setup of the screenshots and documents every option.

Packaging

• Updated rustls, rustls-webpki and tokio for RUSTSEC-2026-0346 to RUSTSEC-2026-0349,
  RUSTSEC-2026-0382 and RUSTSEC-2026-0386
• Dropped the bevy tonemapping LUTs and their ruzstd decompressor (RUSTSEC-2026-0344),
  nannou_draw is only used to tessellate
• The example chartacritty.yml uses the current config keys and documents every new decoration

Added

• decorations.grid_lines: runs of line characters, i.e. nvim indent guides and borders, drawn as
  continuous lines trimmed to the reach of their end characters, with a star travelling from line to line
• decorations.repeated_text: text repeated across the visible lines, i.e. ping output, is
  dimmed and the parts that differ are highlighted, hovering a pattern outlines it everywhere
• decorations.pattern_links: faint lines in the padding linking the lines sharing a pattern,
  patterns on the right half of the screen are linked from the right side of the window
• decorations.tables: the cells of box drawing and markdown/ASCII tables drawn as rounded
  rectangles, each table in its own color
• decorations.nature: faint grass along the bottom and an origami red maple bonsai drawn as
  outlined triangles, moved by a wind blowing as the characters on screen change; leaves grow
  while idle, fall to the ground under heavy activity and grow back once calm
• decorations.location: a rough location to compute the sunrise and the sunset
• decorations.weather: the next sunrise or sunset and the rain outlook from
  Open-Meteo in the bottom right corner, with a rain shader when rain
  is falling or coming
• A timeline along the top of the window, from 12 hours ago to 12 hours ahead, with the daylight,
  the sunlight left today, the cloud cover, the rain and a marker at the current time

Changed

• Synced with Alacritty 0.17.0
• Nannou decorations ported to nannou_draw 0.20 (bevy)
• The config is loaded from ~/.config/chartacritty/chartacritty.yml (then
  chartacritty.toml) instead of Alacritty's config paths, without the YAML deprecation warning
• Log messages from the chartacritty crate are shown

Fixed

• Animated decorations stuttering on Wayland while the terminal is idle
• GLES2 compilation of the hexagon background shader

The Alacritty changes are in the CHANGELOG.

Full Changelog: v0.16.0-dev...v0.17.0-dev