Opening nnn in alacritty by keyboard shortcut bypasses tmux session

[sbushmanov]

I have alacritty + tmux and everything works fine when I start nnn in an opened terminal.

However, when I try to assign a keyboard shortcut to alacritty -e nnn -e some functionality involving tmux is broken, e.g. preview-tui: binary files preview is shown in another alacritty terminal on top of original, directory preview does not show up.

I've been able to pinpoint the problem to tmux not getting started along with alacritty, i.e. there is no tmux session when I start alacritty -e nnn -e from another gnome-terminal instance. However, when I simply start alacritty and afterwards start nnn -e everything works as expected (and tmux session is started indeed).

So my question is: "What is so special about alacritty -e nnn -e command that it bypasses tmux?

The top of my alacritty config looks like this:

#~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
shell:
  program: /usr/bin/tmux
  args:
  - new-session
  - -A
  - -D
  - -s
  - main

[N-R-K]

So my question is: "What is so special about alacritty -e nnn -e command that it bypasses tmux?

It bypasses the (interactive) shell AFAIK which might have something to do with this. Try ${terminal} -e bash -i -c "nnn -e" (replace bash -i with something equivalent if you're using a different shell).

[sbushmanov]

Tried using in fish:

$TERMINAL -e fish -i -c "nnn -e"

and

$TERMINAL -e bash -i -c "nnn -e"

and

{$TERMINAL} --config-file ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml -e bash -i -c "nnn -e"

and

{$TERMINAL} --config-file ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml -e fish -i -c "nnn -e"

And tried in bash:

${TERMINAL} --config-file ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml -e bash -i -c "nnn -e"

Nothing works.

And just in case:

echo $TERMINAL 
alacritty

[sbushmanov]

For those trying to reconcile nnn with alacritty + tmux:

alacritty -e tmux new-session -A -D -s main nnn -e