Sway: Cannot address monitors by their company name

[stratosgear]

My monitors output:

➜ swaymsg -t get_outputs
Output eDP-1 'Panasonic Industry Company 0x96A2 0x00000000'
  Current mode: 2560x1440 @ 59.999001 Hz
  Position: 3520,300
  Scale factor: 1.200000
  Transform: normal
  Workspace: 4:
  Available modes:
    2560x1440 @ 48.000000 Hz
    2560x1440 @ 59.999001 Hz

Output DP-7 'Goldstar Company Ltd 20EN33 303NDMTMM283'
  Current mode: 1600x900 @ 60.000000 Hz
  Position: 0,300
  Scale factor: 1.000000
  Transform: normal
  Workspace: 3:
  Available modes:
    720x400 @ 70.082001 Hz
    640x480 @ 59.939999 Hz
    640x480 @ 75.000000 Hz
    800x600 @ 56.250000 Hz
    800x600 @ 60.317001 Hz
    800x600 @ 75.000000 Hz
    832x624 @ 74.551003 Hz
    1024x768 @ 60.004002 Hz
    1024x768 @ 75.028999 Hz
    1280x720 @ 60.000000 Hz
    1152x864 @ 75.000000 Hz
    1280x800 @ 59.810001 Hz
    1440x900 @ 59.887001 Hz
    1600x900 @ 60.000000 Hz

Output DP-6 'Dell Inc. DELL U2412M 0FFXD46R5Y6S' (focused)
  Current mode: 1920x1200 @ 59.950001 Hz
  Position: 1600,0
  Scale factor: 1.000000
  Transform: normal
  Workspace: 2:
  Available modes:
    720x400 @ 70.082001 Hz
    640x480 @ 59.939999 Hz
    800x600 @ 60.317001 Hz
    1024x768 @ 60.004002 Hz
    1280x960 @ 60.000000 Hz
    1280x1024 @ 60.020000 Hz
    1680x1050 @ 59.953999 Hz
    1600x1200 @ 60.000000 Hz
    1920x1080 @ 60.000000 Hz
    1920x1200 @ 59.950001 Hz

If I do any sway output commands with eDP-1, or DP-x, they work fine:

 sway output eDP-1 scale 1.5
[ { "success": true } ]

But using the "make, model and serial which you can get from swaymsg -t get_outputs." as described in man 5 sway-output gives me:

sway output "Panasonic Industry Company 0x96A2 0x00000000" scale 1.5
[ { "success": false, "parse_error": true, "error": "Invalid output subcommand: Industry." } ]

Note that this parsing error happens with all output params.

Since this is laptop and I switch meeting rooms, plugging in different projectors, it seems that I'm getting a different "DP-X" every time I change rooms, so I cannot have a permanent script to properly switch to a mutlimonitor setup.

Thanks!

[RyanDwyer]

I suspect your shell is eating the quote characters. Try this:

sway output '"Panasonic Industry Company 0x96A2 0x00000000"' scale 1.5

[stratosgear]

Sweet, that was it!

I never before had to "escape" quote characters. I guess they somehow have to travel through IPC to sway as is without bash consuming them. Makes sense.

Thanks!

[emersion]

I think this is a bug. We should properly escape arguments with spaces in swaymsg.

[progandy]

I think this is a bug. We should properly escape arguments with spaces in swaymsg.

We'll lose some i3 compatibility with that, but that might be acceptable:

$ i3-msg 'workspace one'
[{"success":true}]
$ i3-msg 'workspace foo' '; rename' 'workspace to bar'
[{"success":true},{"success":true}]

[ddevault]

Closing, I think adding the extra quotes is fine for now.