Recently, I started using Alacritty instead of the Terminal app provided by Apple. It sure is much faster.
There seems to be a new and annoying security feature introduced by Apple that has granular permissions for applications downloaded from the internet. So, Alacritty does not start with the same permissions as Terminal. Setting that up is a bit of a hassle. When I started gitk, it asked for some permission and I could not understand it then so I denied it. So, gitk did not work. I thought restarting Alacritty might request permissions again but that is not the case. The error I was getting is as follows:
% gitk
Error in startup script: 58:102: execution error: Not authorised to send Apple events to System Events. (-1743)
while executing
"exec osascript -e [format {
tell application "System Events"
set frontmost of processes whose unix id is %d to true
end te..."
invoked from within
"if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} {
exec osascript -e [format {
tell application "System Events"
set frontmost of processes ..."
(file "/usr/local/bin/gitk" line 12261)
So, I had to find the right permission and grant that to get gitk working. The System Events permission is apparently under Automation section. Once that is granted, Alacritty can run gitk.
