I dug into this and narrowed the issue down to the macOS app bundle
Info.plist file. So, I spun up a native macOS app real quick and tested
it by launching the binary directly and launching it via the app bundle.
When launching from the command line directly, it created multiple
windows & instances of the app. However, when launching via the app
bundle it behaved as I normally expect a macOS app to behave, that is
when launched multiple times to simply focus the already existing window
and instance.
This informed me that it wasn't something in code as much as it was
something in the app bundle configuration. Hence, I reworked the
Info.plist file based on the one that was created by XCode when I made
the native macOS app and it started behaving as expected.
This seems to have broken the app by triggering a 'LSOpenWithUrls' error. However, I suspect this is why the path is not passed into the alacritty shell properly.
Andrew De Ponte