alacritty msg config "import=['/path/to/alacritty/toml']" does nothing

[FelixBrakel]

Setting an import path to switch alacritty theme at runtime using alacritty msg does not seem to import said file.

System

OS: Linux
Version: alacritty 0.13.2 (bb8ea18)
Linux: Wayland, Hyprland, Arch

Steps

1. add any config file (for example a theme) to the alacritty config folder ~/.config/alacritty
2. alacritty msg config "import=['~/.config/alacritty/additional_config.toml']"
3. Observe nothing changes

[chrisduerr]

Why do you want to do this?

[FelixBrakel]

So I can set a different theme per ssh host.

I need to work on a number of different servers and having the terminals be visually distinct from one another helps me to not mix them up all the time.

[kchibisov]

You can just do alacritty msg config "$(cat gruvbox_light.toml)" for that. The theme I've used is from https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty-theme, but it should work with any, really.

[FelixBrakel]

Wow that works great! Thanks for the tip!