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ALACRITTY-MSG(1) General Commands Manual ALACRITTY-MSG(1) NAME alacritty-msg - Send messages to Alacritty. SYNOPSIS 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 communication. MESSAGES 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: alacritty msg create-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: alacritty msg config '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 get-config Read runtime Alacritty configuration. OPTIONS -w, --window-id <WINDOW_ID> Window ID for the config request. Use -1 to get the global config. Default: $ALACRITTY_WINDOW_ID SEE ALSO alacritty(1), alacritty(5), alacritty-bindings(5) BUGS Found a bug? Please report it at https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/is- sues. MAINTAINERS * Christian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com> * Kirill Chibisov <contact@kchibisov.com> 2026-06-13 ALACRITTY-MSG(1)
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