bash: get layout > create toggle function

[molleweide]

Hi there,

I am quite new to yabai and I am wondering if it is possible to get the yabai layout in a bash script and eg. check if layout is stack and then toggle
it to bsp?

The reason why I am asking is because I am using kmonad for mapping my keyboard, and if I map a key to a yabai command
it outputs yabai-msg: failed to connect to socket.. and so therefor my work around would then be to create a bash script and map it to my key and then toggle layout from this script.

[es183923]

A simple one-liner will suffice.
For setting the space layout:

[ "$(yabai -m query --spaces --space | jq -r '.type')" = "stack" ] && yabai -m space --layout bsp

For the global layout:

[ "$(yabai -m config layout)" = "stack" ] && yabai -m config layout bsp

[es183923]

Do you have a config file in ~/.config/yabai/yabairc?

[molleweide]

Yes! Yabai is working but just not via kmonad keys.

[es183923]

I'm out of ideas. I have no clue why yabai doesn't work with kmonad.

[molleweide]

No worries. I have posted an issue under kmonad. This probably has to do with how kmonad is execute shell. In kmonad there is special key for executing shell cmd on button press and I don't know how it is working under the hood.
I'll report back!!

[molleweide]

it turned out that kmonad was running commands as root user and therefore it didn't work fyi.