Autostart not working with alacritty

[jorian]

Very happy with Zellij, but one thing isn't working as expected. When I start Alacritty, I want it to open Zellij automatically.

I use ZSH and oh-my-zsh, and have the Zellij plugin installed and enabled in .zshrc. It's there where I also define ZSH_ZELLIJ_AUTOSTART to be set to true. However, Zellij isn't automatically started in Alacritty.

It does however work on VS Code. Zellij is automatically started in VS Code, which is a bit annoying.

When I check the ENV ZSH_ZELLIJ_AUTOSTART in Alacritty, it is set to true, so that isn't the issue.

I use this plugin.

Anybody have an idea what I'm missing?

[jaeheonji]

Hi! Actually, I'm not the Alacritty user, so I don't know the exact reason. However, I have confirmed that the plugin works well with wezterm, windows terminal, and iterm2 in the latest zellij version.

So I think this is a problem related to setting up Alacrity.

[ken-matsui]

Hi @jorian,

How about setting the shell option on your alacritty.yml?

Here is my configuration:
https://github.com/ken-matsui/dotfiles/blob/5426a08732a79711ccd77e573e6c781ed3a3e207/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml#L133-L138

This lets Zellij attach the first created session if exists or create a new session if no session exists.

[jorian]

Thanks, that seems to work, although I had to remove the arguments to zellij to make it work. Alacritty crashes when I leave the arguments in.

Now I still need to figure out how to prevent VS Code from opening zellij and just run a separate zsh session

[jaeheonji]

Try to check the $TERM_PROGRAM variable. If it's a vscode terminal, $TERM_PROGRAM will be "vscode".

[imsnif]

Hey, can we close this issue?

[jorian]

Yes, everything is fine now!