Swap i3 displays / workspaces between displays

i3_screen_swap.sh

#!/bin/sh
# requires jq

stick_to="name" && cmd="workspace"      	# stick to the workspace
# stick_to="output" && cmd="focus output" 	# stick to the screen

initial=$(
	i3-msg -t get_workspaces |
	jq -r ".[] | select(.focused == true) | .$stick_to"
)

py_script=$(cat <<EOF
import sys
from numpy import roll

s, w = [], []
for l in sys.stdin.readlines():
	screen, workspace =  l.strip().split(':', 1)
	s.append(screen)
	w.append(workspace)

for line in zip(s, roll(s,1), w, roll(w, -1)):
	print(' '.join(line))
EOF
)

i3-msg -t get_outputs |
jq -r '.[] | select(.active == true) | "\(.name):\(.current_workspace)"' |
python3 -c "$py_script" |
while read -r screen_src screen_dst workspace_tgt workspace_final
do
	i3-msg -- workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth "$workspace_tgt"
	i3-msg move workspace to output "$screen_dst"
	i3-msg focus output "$screen_src"
	i3-msg -- workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth "$workspace_final"
	echo "moved $workspace_tgt to $screen_dst"
	echo "and restored focus to $workspace_final"
done

i3-msg $cmd $initial

I meant what shell /bin/sh points to you can see which it is with realpath /bin/sh

yeah thats the issue

Can you reference them by there number, for example does this put focus on your chrome workspace ?
i3-msg -- workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth "1"

If yes then just change screen, workspace = l.strip().split(':') to screen, workspace = l.strip().split(':')[:2]

If it works then I will add it to the gist.

Let me see. The original script this is forked from did not give me that error.

@Zackhardtoname it should work now ! thanks for your feedback, I keep my workspaces named with numbers so I never ran into this issue.
The problem here was that you have : in your workspace name and that's the symbol I use to split.

That wouldn't and didn't work because somehow i3 treats ws "3" and "3:" differently.
This works: screen, workspace = l.strip().split(':', maxsplit=1)

Thank you so much! I should have dug this more myself

Hi
I grabbed your script thinking that it would manage my special naming convention

set $workspace1 "1 "
set $workspace2 "2 "
set $workspace3 "3 "
set $workspace4 "4 "
set $workspace5 "5 "
set $workspace6 "6 "
set $workspace7 "7 "
set $workspace8 "8 "
set $workspace9 "9 "
set $workspace10 "10 "

Unfortunately, it doesn't, because of the spaces. Had to change the names changing spaces with underscores.
Not as pretty but it works.

Do you think there's a way to handle spaces in workspaces names ?

Regards

I just wanted to say thank you: I can't imagine how long it would have taken me to figure this out.