Restart config monitor on file reload

[tllilleh]

Making changes to a configuration file that is imported by the main alacritty.toml file do not trigger an automatic config reload.

In order to get the changes without restarting alacritty I normally just do something like touch ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml.

System

OS: Linux Version: alacritty 0.13.2 (bb8ea18e)

[kchibisov]

you need to touch imported files and not the main one to reload them.

[tllilleh]

If I modify (or touch) the toml file being imported (say theme.toml), it does not auto reload the config (as I believe it should). Instead, I need to touch the top level config (alacritty.toml) for it reload the changes I made in theme.toml

[chrisduerr]

Any symlinking involved? It works just fine for me.

[tllilleh]

My entire ~/.config/alacritty directory is a symlink to my dotfiles directory:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 tllilleh tllilleh 39 May 14 10:13 alacritty -> ../dotfiles/alacritty/.config/alacritty/

But inside the alacritty directory there are no symlinks:

$ ll -R
.:
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 3 tllilleh tllilleh 4096 May 15 15:19 ./
drwxrwxr-x 3 tllilleh tllilleh 4096 May 14 10:11 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tllilleh tllilleh  576 May 15 17:24 alacritty.toml
drwxrwxr-x 2 tllilleh tllilleh 4096 May 15 17:24 themes/

./themes:
total 28
drwxrwxr-x 2 tllilleh tllilleh 4096 May 15 17:24 ./
drwxrwxr-x 3 tllilleh tllilleh 4096 May 15 15:19 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tllilleh tllilleh  711 May 15 16:39 base16.toml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tllilleh tllilleh  494 May 15 08:54 everforest_dark.toml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tllilleh tllilleh  573 May 15 08:56 gruvbox_dark.toml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tllilleh tllilleh  638 May 15 17:24 kanagawa_dragon.toml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tllilleh tllilleh  556 May 15 08:54 zenburn.toml

[chrisduerr]

Does it work without any symlinks?

Nvm, I managed to reproduce without symlinks.

[chrisduerr]

Is it accurate to say you added the import after starting Alacritty? Config imports are only monitored if the import is present at startup.

[tllilleh]

Is it accurate to say you added the import after starting Alacritty? Config imports are only monitored if the import is present at startup.

Yes, that seems to be the issue. If I restart alacritty now changes to my theme files are auto reloaded.

[chrisduerr]

I think there's two reasonable options here, both of which should work fine: 1) Shut down config monitor when the imports change 2) Notify the config monitor about changes to specific files (add/remove)

[ksolowoniuk]

My config imports a theme file but live_config_reload doesn't work and doesn't work if I comment out the import??

[vext01]

I've been trying to figure out why my script to flip alacritty themes between light and dark themes only updates some of the terminals. I think it may be this issue.

In the meantime, is there a command I can run to force alacritty to re-read its config file? touch doesn't seem to work for some reason. If I edit the config file in vim and :w the terminals all update.