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Typo in terminal detection: allacrity → alacritty breaks DevcontainerConnect #31
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Describe the bug
DevcontainerConnect silently fails when using alacritty as a terminal emulator. Neovim closes, but no new terminal window spawns to connect to the devcontainer.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Use alacritty as your terminal emulator (no tmux session active)
- Open a project with a
.devcontainerconfig in Neovim - Run
:DevcontainerUpto start the container - Run
:DevContainerConnect - Neovim closes but no alacritty window appears
Expected behavior
A new alacritty window should open running devcontainer exec --workspace-folder <path> nvim.
Root cause
Typo in lua/devcontainer-cli/devcontainer_utils.lua — vim.fn.executable("allacrity") should be vim.fn.executable("alacritty"). The terminal detection falls through all checks and hits the "no supported terminal emulator found" branch.
Additional context
- Plugin commit:
a92bae84eedaadcef1a0fcabb9d58a3c2bc28ebc - Workaround: run neovim inside tmux (the plugin checks
$TMUXfirst, before falling through to alacritty detection)
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[-]Typo in terminal detection: `allacrity` → `alacritty` breaks `DevContainerConnect`[/-][+]Typo in terminal detection: `allacrity` → `alacritty` breaks `DevcontainerConnect`[/+]fix: correct alacritty executable name (allacrity → alacritty)
Jah-yee commentedon May 12, 2026
PR submitted 🎉
Just opened PR #32 fixing the
allacrity→alacrittytypo inlua/devcontainer-cli/devcontainer_utils.lualine 238.The terminal detection now correctly finds alacritty when installed. Thanks for the detailed bug report!
Jah-yee commentedon May 20, 2026
Friendly follow-up 👋
Hi @erichlf! Just checking in on this PR.
PR #32 is a simple 1-line fix: corrects the alacritty executable name (
allacrity→alacritty) in terminal detection.Status: CLEAN/mergeable, just waiting on review.
Is there anything I can adjust or any questions I can answer? 🙏
erichlf commentedon May 20, 2026
Thanks for the ping github hasn't been notifying about any issues.
fix: correct alacritty executable name (allacrity → alacritty) (#32)