Is it possible to make alacritty starts with tmux?

Question

I am using alacritty and tmux together. Is it possible to make tmux run everytime when I launch alacritty?

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '21 at 08:02

Yes. In the shell option, you can set the program you want to run and even pass in the arguments. For example, in your alacritty.yml file, you can set this:

shell:
  program: /usr/local/bin/tmux # <- set this to the path of your tmux installation
  args:
    - new-session
    - -A
    - -D
    - -s
    - main

Every time you start alacritty, tmux will start a new session and pass the other args.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '21 at 05:59

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Or go the easy route and launch your terminal this way:

alacritty -e tmux

answered Jun 22 '21 at 05:59

Earthling Z3R0

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Cool idea, but I'm guessing many won't have a terminal open to start another terminal :) – Raheel Junaid Jul 04 '21 at 22:53
You don't have to. Not sure what you're talking about. Go to your keybinds and change the launch parameters. – Earthling Z3R0 Jul 06 '21 at 06:46
True, though I don't launch alacritty with a key bind. – Raheel Junaid Jul 06 '21 at 15:50

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 28 '21 at 00:45

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i'm using this script: https://cedaei.com/posts/ideas-from-my-dev-setup-always-tmux/ had it from https://lobste.rs/s/n5blid/ideas_from_my_development_setup_always

and use it in alacritty as:

shell:
  program: /home/user/.local/bin/tmux_chooser.sh

answered Dec 28 '21 at 00:45

bugrasan

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Is it possible to make alacritty starts with tmux?

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