Alacritty font rendering

Question

[Initial] I installed alacritty on Ubuntu 20.04 without a problem, by simply installing cargo and then running this script.

[Root Cause] Wanting easier theme juggling, I looked up utilities for this purpose and found this one. After installing a random theme, the script left behind a ~/.alacritty.yml file.

[Current issue] Now the terminal looks like this:

[Issue description] Fonts clearly aren't rendering anymore, the powerline prompt is also messed up. I tried running a bare sh session with alacritty and the same behavior could be observed. Deleting the .yml did nothing. Overwriting it with cp .config/alacritty/alacritty.yml .alacritty.yml also did nothing.

[Now what?] I am curious if anyone would have any suggestion about how to fix this, my internet searches were fruitless.

Answer 1

Running alacritty -vvv and skimming through the output, it seems that the loaded config was the one under .config/alacritty/alacritty.yml. Deleting that fixed the issue.

Keeping only the color-related block managed to be an okay hack in experimenting with themes, but I am open in finding out if there's any easier way in theme picking/previewing.