ALACRITTY-MSG

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: October 2021
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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 <contact@christianduerr.com>


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
MESSAGES
OPTIONS
ARGS
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
BUGS
MAINTAINERS

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