Use json output for more robust parsing

[kerneis-anssi]

Hi,

I just looked at your script here:

hyprland-dotfiles/hypr/scripts/workspace

Line 4 in 816a053

hyprctl monitors > $monitors

(referenced from hyprwm/Hyprland#747 (comment))

I'm trying to get xmonad-like workspace behavior so this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks for making it public.

For your information, you could make your parsing more robust by using the json output of hyprctl, combined with jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/

For instance, the following will display the id of the currently focused monitor:

hyprctl monitors -j|jq '.[]|select(.focused)|.id'

[taylor85345]

I actually rewrote this script using jq a few months back, but jq is seriously slow, especially when running multiple queries back-to-back, which made workspace switching noticeably sluggish. Unless I can find a faster alternative to jq for parsing json, or figure out how to streamline the script to require fewer jq queries (I have some ideas), I will be sticking with the current grep+awk method for the time being and just dealing with the occasional breakage.

Honestly this would probably be better implemented as a plugin, but I don't have the C++ knowledge to make that happen.