Swaymsg commands for listing windows and outputs

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Get Active Window ID

xdotool getactivewindow

Get Current Desktop ID

xdotool get_desktop_for_window "$(xdotool getactivewindow)"

Sway

List output positions

$ swaymsg -t get_outputs | jq -r '.[].rect | "\(.x),\(.y) \(.width)x\(.height)"'
0,0 1280x800

With Names

$ swaymsg -t get_outputs | jq -r '.[] | {name} + .rect | "\(.x),\(.y) \(.width)x\(.height) \(.name)"'
0,0 1280x800 Virtual-1

Select windows

$ swaymsg -t get_tree | jq -r \
> '.. | (.nodes? // empty)[] | select(.pid and .visible) | .rect | "\(.x),\(.y) \(.width)x\(.height)"'
1280,47 1280x1553
0,47 1280x764
0,836 1280x764

With Names

$ swaymsg -t get_tree | jq -r \
> '.. | (.nodes? // empty)[] | select(.pid and .visible) | {name} + .rect
  | "\(.x),\(.y) \(.width)x\(.height) \(.name)"'

Misc (Untested, or for older Sway versions)

Select whole output

swaymsg -t get_outputs | jq -r '.[] | select(.active) | .rect | "\(.x),\(.y) \(.width)x\(.height)"' | slurp

Windows from workspace where id = 4

swaymsg -t get_tree | jq '.. | (.nodes? // empty)[] | select(.type == "workspace" and .id == 4) | (.nodes? // empty)[] | select(.pid) | .rect | "\(.x),\(.y) \(.width)x\(.height)"' | slurp

All windows from all visible workspaces

swaymsg -t get_tree | jq --argjson visible "$(swaymsg -t get_workspaces | jq -c '[.[] | select(.visible) | .id]')" '.. | (.nodes? // empty)[] | select(.type == "workspace" and .id == $visible[]) | .. | (.nodes? // empty)[] | select(.pid) | .rect | "\(.x),\(.y) \(.width)x\(.height)"' | slurp

Windows and outputs

swaymsg -t get_tree | jq -r 'recurse(.nodes[]?, .floating_nodes[]?) | select(.visible or (.type == "output" and .active)) | .rect | "\(.x),\(.y) \(.width)x\(.height)"'

@tleb Thanks, well spotted! I'll be honest, I forgot I even made this Gist... Fixed now :)