ALACRITTY-MSG

NAME

alacritty-msg - Send messages to Alacritty

SYNOPSIS

alacritty msg [OPTIONS] <MESSAGE> [MESSAGE_OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

This command communicates with running Alacritty instances through a socket, making it possible to control Alacritty without directly accessing it.

OPTIONS

-s, --socket <socket> Path for IPC socket creation

MESSAGES

create-window

Create a new window in the same Alacritty process

OPTIONS

--hold

Remain open after child process exits

--working-directory <working-directory>

Start the shell in the specified working directory

-e, --command <command>...

Command and args to execute (must be last argument)

config

Update the Alacritty configuration

ARGS

<CONFIG_OPTIONS>...

Configuration file options [example: cursor.style=Beam]

OPTIONS

-w, --window-id <WINDOW_ID>

Window ID for the new config.

Use ‘-1‘ to apply this change to all windows.

[default: $ALACRITTY_WINDOW_ID]

SEE ALSO

See the alacritty github repository at https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty for the full documentation.

BUGS

Found a bug? Please report it at https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues.

MAINTAINERS

• Christian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com>