alacritty: Fail to launch from Spotlight

Mac OSX Sierra 10.12.6 (16G1314)

Running the alacritty binary works for me, running the .app bundle from a terminal works, but running the .app bundle from Spotlight does not.

I built alacritty with: git clone https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty.git && cd alacritty && make app && cp -r target/release/osx/Alacritty.app /Applications/

running /Applications/Alacritty.app/Contents/MacOS/alacritty from another terminal session works
running open /Applications/Alacritty.app from another terminal session works
running Alacritty.app by opening spotlight, searching for alacritty, and hitting enter fails silently
running open /Applications/Alacritty.app from another terminal session, pinning the opened version to the taskbar, closing the original instance, and then launching by clicking the taskbar pin fails silently

Is there any way to provide additional debug info? The best I’ve got is the following, which is the syslog output from attempting to launch alacritty through spotlight.

The IOFB failure line is probably a red herring, since it seems to be occurring regularly on my system regardless of alacritty.

default	19:09:51.701711 -0700	kernel	[alacritty pid:4121 mux-aware] starting, non-mux-aware app count 0, switch-state 0 IG FBs 1 EG FBs 0:0 power-state 6 3D idle HDA idle
default	19:09:51.709483 -0700	kernel	[alacritty pid:4121 non-mux-aware] starting, non-mux-aware app count 1, switch-state 0 IG FBs 1 EG FBs 0:0 power-state 6 3D idle HDA idle
default	19:09:51.709505 -0700	kernel	 PEG (usr IGD extdisp 0 capture 0 non-mux-aware app 1 ac 0)
default	19:09:51.709527 -0700	kernel	-------> Switching from IGD to PEG
default	19:09:51.725709 -0700	kernel	:::::::> PEG start powerup [0m 7.653s downtime]
default	19:09:52.128407 -0700	kernel	*******> PEG powerup took: 0.403s
default	19:09:52.223467 -0700	kernel	kPEEnableScreen 1
default	19:09:52.242026 -0700	kernel	+ IOAudioDevice[<private>]::protectedSetPowerState(1, <private>)
default	19:09:52.242034 -0700	kernel	+ IOAudioDevice[<private>]::initiatePowerStateChange(<private>) - current = 0 - pending = 1
default	19:09:52.243878 -0700	kernel	+- IOAudioDevice[<private>]::flushAudioControls()
default	19:09:52.243897 -0700	kernel	+ IOAudioDevice[<private>]::protectedCompletePowerStateChange() - current = 0 - pending = 2
default	19:09:52.243902 -0700	kernel	- IOAudioDevice[<private>]::protectedCompletePowerStateChange() - current = 2 - pending = 2 returns 0x0
default	19:09:52.243907 -0700	kernel	+ IOAudioDevice[<private>]::protectedCompletePowerStateChange() - current = 2 - pending = 2
default	19:09:52.243910 -0700	kernel	- IOAudioDevice[<private>]::protectedCompletePowerStateChange() - current = 2 - pending = 2 returns 0x0
default	19:09:52.243912 -0700	kernel	- IOAudioDevice[<private>]::initiatePowerStateChange(<private>) - current = 2 - pending = 2 returns 0x0
default	19:09:52.243914 -0700	kernel	- IOAudioDevice[<private>]::protectedSetPowerState(1, <private>) returns 0x0
error	19:09:52.263661 -0700	WindowServer	[ERROR] - Unable to find display pipe for IOFB service: 18439
default	19:09:52.316740 -0700	loginwindow	    token = 1000323
default	19:09:52.316909 -0700	loginwindow	    token = 1000324
default	19:09:52.320319 -0700	sharingd	Display added (id 69733378)
default	19:09:52.327274 -0700	kernel	=======> Switch completed, PEG active
default	19:09:52.420811 -0700	PowerChime	PowerChime: 1736.966409: handleDisplayHardwareChanged ENTERED
default	19:09:52.487951 -0700	kernel	FB0 Conection status change: Connected --> Disconnected
default	19:09:52.643145 -0700	kernel	[alacritty pid 4121 mux-aware] exiting, non-mux-aware app count 1, runtime: 0:00:00.942
default	19:09:52.643351 -0700	kernel	[alacritty pid 4121 non-mux-aware] exiting, non-mux-aware app count 0, runtime: 0:00:00.934

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Created 6 years ago
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Hello there,

I have the same problem, which started to appear when I added tmux to my alacritty.yml

Here is the relevant snippet:

shell:
  program: /bin/bash
  args:
    - -l
    - -c
    - "tmux"

This issue is not bugging me too much, but it’s indeed weird 👀 !

EDIT 3 month later: this is really terrible. I’ve stopped using tmux because of that

clouedoc on Jun 30, 2022

So, I spotted the problem:

shell:
  program: /usr/local/bin/fish
  args:
    - --command="/usr/local/bin/tmux"                        # This works!
    - --command="/usr/local/bin/tmux new-session -A -s main" # This doesn't work!

My objective here is to make Alacritty always start Tmux connected to a session called main (and create it, if it doesn’t exist).

For some reason, new-session doesn’t work in Spotlight and makes Alacritty crash immediately. Running from the terminal (e.g. open -a Alacritty) works, however.

Logs from Alacritty doesn’t provide anything useful about this crash, so flying blind here 😕

mauricioklein on Jun 30, 2021