2023-12-29
spatialmsg - Send messages to a running instance of Spatial Shell over the IPC socket.
spatialmsg [options...] [message]
--quiet
Sends the IPC message, but does not print the response from Spatial Shell.
--json
Prints the response from Spatial Shell as received, that is in JSON.
--type, -t <type>
Specify the type of the IPC message. See below.
<command>
The message is a Spatial Shell command. See spatial(5) for a list of available commands.
get_workspace_config
Gets the current workspace configuration: its layout, and the maximum number of columns displayed at once when in the column layout.
get_workspaces
Gets the list of the workspaces currently in used.
get_windows
Gets the list of the windows for the current workspace.
See spatial-ipc(7) for a description of the JSON objects returned for each IPC message.
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Spatial Shell returned an error when
Developed by Thomas Letan <lthms@soap.coffee>. Fore more information about Spatial Shell development, see <https://github.com/lthms/spatial-shell>.
Spatial Shell could not have been possible without sway, which remains a reference and a significant source of inspiration for the software architecture of this project, including for the wording of several man pages.