alacritty-msg - Send messages to Alacritty

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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 <[email protected]>


Updated 2024-01-29 - jenkler.se | uex.se