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>