New window under one icon: Better implementation for 3rd party tools launching alacritty on macOS about alacritty HOT 4 CLOSED

The following commands:
osascript -e 'do shell script "open -n -a Alacritty"'
open -n -a Alacritty
should open under one icon by default.
Since this is not the current behavior, I wish it to be available as a user-config default createnewwindow option - without assigning it to a bind in alacritty.

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Mac, skhd, yabai user here.

To open new window without getting a new icon I use the following command: /Applications/Alacritty.app/Contents/MacOS/alacritty msg create-window

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Thanks, that's helpful. You can try to send the create-window message first and then fall back to opening the application if it wasn't already running:

cmd - return : alacritty msg create-window || open -na alacritty

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Excellent!

cmd - return : alacritty msg create-window || open -na alacritty

Fixes FelixKratz/SketchyBar#12 (reply in thread):

in alacritty, I can make more than one window instance. When you have more than one, sketchybar doesn't update the title because it thinks both alacritty instances are the parent instance.
So one alacritty terminal will run one application, or change directory, and when I cd the title changes. But focusing on the new alacritty window doesn't change the title. and Changing Directory in that instance won't change the title either.

So I'm wondering if anyone's fixed this? The only way I've ever gotten it to work is to run zellij in all alacritty windows, which is really slow on my machine.

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