KeyError 'colors' on Alacritty

[tquin]

Hi,

I've hit an bug affecting Alacritty specifically from what I can see - on the same machine, xfce4-terminal runs the script perfectly. Specifically, this is the error I'm getting in Alacritty:

Enter OPTION(S) : 122

Theme: Neon Night
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
  File "/home/USERNAME/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ruamel/yaml/comments.py", line 918, in __getitem__
    return ordereddict.__getitem__(self, key)
KeyError: 'colors'

I'm assuming that's referencing the apply-alacritty.py file.

For system info, running on Arch/EndeavourOS, with i3 as the WM. Thanks!

[jdrusso]

In your alacritty.yml config file, uncomment the colors key, along with primary, normal, and bright under it. You may also need to export TERMINAL=alacritty.

apply-alacritty.py reads your current config in as a dict and tries to update it with the new colors. However, since colors are in a nested dict (i.e., config['colors']['primary']), if the top-level colors dict doesn't exist, it can't reference the nested ones.