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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

alacritty -e tmux

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

On the newer versions of Alacritty, which use toml. In the Alacritty config file (usually found in .config/alacritty) you can set this:

[shell]
program = "tmux"

With that set, Alacritty will open with Tmux started by default.

Answer 5

Thanks to @jogarjia's answer i was able to create my solution. If you add these lines to your alacritty config file, Whenever you open a new alacritty window, it will try to connect a tmux session named "general", if it doesn't exist it will create it and attach to it.

shell:
  program: /usr/bin/tmux
  args:
    - new-session
    - -A
    - -s
    - general

Also please check if the tmux path is correct by:

where tmux