alacritty-msg - Send messages to Alacritty.

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       •   Christian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com>
       •   Kirill Chibisov <contact@kchibisov.com>

                                                   2025-04-12                                   ALACRITTY-MSG(1)

create-window

           Create a new window in the same Alacritty process.

           FLAGS--hold

                   Remain open after child process exits.

           OPTIONS--working-directory<WORKING_DIRECTORY>

                   Start the shell in the specified working directory.

               -T,--title<TITLE>

                   Defines the window title.

                   Default: Alacritty--class<GENERAL> | <GENERAL>,<INSTANCE>

                   Defines window class/app_id on X11/Wayland.

                   Default: Alacritty,Alacritty-o,--option<OPTION>...

                   Override configuration file options.

                   Example: alacrittymsgcreate-window-o'cursor.style="Beam"'-e,--command<COMMAND>...

                   Command and args to execute (must be last argument).

       config

           Update the Alacritty configuration.

           ARGS<CONFIG_OPTIONS>...

                   Configuration file options.

                   Example: alacrittymsgconfig'cursor.style="Beam"'FLAGS-r,--reset

                   Clear all runtime configuration changes.

           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

       alacritty-msg - Send messages to Alacritty.

-s,--socket<SOCKET>

           Path for IPC socket communication.

alacritty(1), alacritty(5), alacritty-bindings(5)

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