Sway: `swaymsg output` doesn't respect quoted display name

[ohthehugemanatee]

after starting sway, the command swaymsg output "Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VS247 E2LMTF120338" mode 1920x1080 scale 1 position 0,100 enable returns Error: Invalid output subcommand: Communications..

• Tried with single quotes for the display identifier
• Tried with zsh, bash, and sh shells in case it was a shell expansion thing.

According to the sway-output manpage this is the correct way to pass the identifier.

• Sway Version:

  • sway version 1.4-a8a6ed66 (May 12 2020, branch 'master')

• Debug Log:
  probably not that helpful but still: https://gist.github.com/ohthehugemanatee/50c79e5acd22d22fdcf6319cb44199d1
  I see lots of spam from Variety wallpaper manager, but nothing related to the issue

[emersion]

Yeah that's an annoying thing. I wish we could just use argv, but Sway/i3 performs splitting again when swaymsg is called. So you'd need to do this instead:

swaymsg 'output "Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VS247 E2LMTF120338" mode 1920x1080 scale 1 position 0,100 enable'

[ohthehugemanatee]

thanks for the fast response! Unfortunately that still doesn't work:

» swaymsg 'output "Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VS247 E2LMTF120338" mode 1920x1080 scale 1 position 0,100 enable'
Error: Missing position argument (y).

Same error when I move the single quotes to start before the model name '"Ancor Communications..., and if I end the single quote after the model name.

Happy to submit a docs PR when we sort this out. :)

[RedSoxFan]

You'll need to wrap the 0,100 in quotes as well since commas are used as command separators. Replacing that comma with a space is also supported.

[ohthehugemanatee]

Thank you for your help! Linked a PR adding a note about this to the swaymsg manpage.

[emersion]

Thanks. Closing because this isn't a bug.