hyprland/workspaces is not working on waybar 0.9.20

[hnbnh]

Describe the bug:

I wasn't able to have hyprland/workspaces enabled on my waybar configuration

Configuration

{
  "spacing": 0,
  "layer": "top",
  "modules-left": ["hyprland/workspaces"],
  "modules-center": ["clock"],
  "hyprland/workspaces": {
    "format": "{name}: {icon}",
    "format-icons": {
      "1": "",
      "2": "",
      "3": "",
      "4": "",
      "5": "",
      "active": "",
      "default": ""
    },
    "persistent_workspaces": {
      "*": 5, // 5 workspaces by default on every monitor
      "HDMI-A-1": 3 // but only three on HDMI-A-1
    }
  }
}

Log:

[warning] module hyprland/workspaces: Disabling module "hyprland/workspaces", * Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.

[zjeffer]

This problem is already fixed in the latest master. You can compile it yourself or wait for the next release.

In the meantime, you should be able to use wlr/workspaces.

[Alexays]

New release 0.9.21 published.

[amplexus]

I was getting this same error with Waybar on Wayland. However I noticed that my monitor has hexadecimal in the model and make according to hyprctl monitors and I'm aware of another issue (#2475) relating to a jsoncpp limitation where it doesnt like/support escaped characters.

# hyprctl monitors
Monitor eDP-1 (ID 0):
	[email protected] at 0x0
	description: BOE 0x0866 (eDP-1)
	make: BOE
	model: 0x0866
	serial: 
	active workspace: 3 (3)
	reserved: 0 30 0 0
	scale: 2.00
	transform: 0
	focused: yes
	dpmsStatus: 1
	vrr: 0

Running Waybar v0.9.24-88-g748fc809 I get the same error:

[2024-01-10 19:18:08.619] [warning] module hyprland/workspaces: Disabling module "hyprland/workspaces", * Line 1, Column 1 Syntax error: value, object or array expected.

so I'm not sure if my issue relates to this here bug or the one over at #2475 (more likely).

I'd be curious whether @hnbnh has a monitor with hexadecimal in the monitor name/model/description when seeing this error (i.e. output of hyprctl monitors).

[amplexus]

Ok ignore my comment above, as it looks like my issue is unrelated to hex values.

I dug a little deeper, and it looks like the call is failing in src/modules/hyprland/workspaces.cpp within Workspaces::init() on this line:

      m_activeWorkspaceName = (gIPC->getSocket1JsonReply("activeworkspace"))["name"].asString();

That line throws an exception for me. If I comment it out and initialise the active workspace name to a dummy value, then the workspaces appear in waybar.

I also tried shifting the activeworkspace call into the doUpdate() function, but it failed there too.

[zjeffer]

@amplexus What is the name of that active workspace?

[amplexus]

@zjeffer here's all my workspaces - the active one has an ID of 3:

# hyprctl workspaces
workspace ID 1 (1) on monitor eDP-1:
	windows: 1
	hasfullscreen: 0
	lastwindow: 0x3571d960
	lastwindowtitle: (1) Facebook - Google Chrome

workspace ID 5 (5) on monitor eDP-1:
	windows: 1
	hasfullscreen: 0
	lastwindow: 0x35711c30
	lastwindowtitle: Alexays/Waybar: Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :tada: - Google Chrome

workspace ID 2 (2) on monitor eDP-1:
	windows: 1
	hasfullscreen: 0
	lastwindow: 0x35718590
	lastwindowtitle: YouTube - Google Chrome

workspace ID 4 (4) on monitor eDP-1:
	windows: 2
	hasfullscreen: 0
	lastwindow: 0x357223b0
	lastwindowtitle: Vite + React - Google Chrome

workspace ID 3 (3) on monitor eDP-1:
	windows: 1
	hasfullscreen: 0
	lastwindow: 0x3574abf0
	lastwindowtitle: hyprctl workspaces

And if it's any use, here's my workspaces config in waybar:

    "hyprland/workspaces": {
        "active-only": false,
        "all-outputs": false,
        "on-click": "activate",
        "format": "{icon}",
        "format-icons": {
            "1": "",
            "2": "",
            "3": "",
            "4": "",
            "5": "",
            "6": "",
            "7": "",
            "8": "",
            "9": "",
            "urgent": "",
            "focused": "",
            "default": ""
        }
    },

However please note that if I strip the above workspaces config out entirely (but keep "modules-left": ["hyprland/workspaces"]) I still get the same error.

[amplexus]

Ok hang about. My hyprctl command doesn't support the activeworkspace option.

Digging deeper, I followed https://wiki.hyprland.org/Getting-Started/Installation/ which lead me to a gist for Ubuntu 23.X, which gave me a script to run, which, err, downloaded hyprland 0.24.1 (versus current release 0.34). I figure that's the problem.

[amplexus]

Can confirm that running current Hyprland (0.34.0) works fine - no errors or failing RPC calls... All that commotion for nothing :D

Thanks anyway @zjeffer !

[arnavgr]

@amplexus i have the same problem as you have but on the latest hyprland, is there any way you can help me?

[whoisYoges]

Make sure the following line exists in your /etc/hosts file and then restart NetworkManager and waybar:

127.0.0.1	localhost

[michalke-it]

Also make sure that you are REALLY on the latest version. I for example just learned that I had hyprland-nvidia installed, which was removed from the arch repos (or the AUR? don't remember) some time ago it seems and I was therefore still on 0.31.0-2 instead of the current 0.37.1-2.
Hope it helps!

[arnavgr]

Also make sure that you are REALLY on the latest version. I for example just learned that I had hyprland-nvidia installed, which was removed from the arch repos (or the AUR? don't remember) some time ago it seems and I was therefore still on 0.31.0-2 instead of the current 0.37.1-2. Hope it helps!

thats it

i was on nvidia and was using that package, switched to hyprland-git and it fixed it. Thank you

[unkindypie]

A bit off-topic but while trying to fix the problem from this issue using solution from @michalke-it and @arnavgr I've tried to install hyprland-git using yay to migrate from hyprland-nvidia 0.31.0-2 but got this error when installing hyprland-git:

Submodule 'subprojects/hyprland-protocols' (https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-protocols) registered for path 'subprojects/hyprland-protocols'
Submodule 'subprojects/tracy' (https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy) registered for path 'subprojects/tracy'
Submodule 'subprojects/udis86' (https://github.com/canihavesomecoffee/udis86) registered for path 'subprojects/udis86'
Submodule 'subprojects/wlroots-hyprland' (https://github.com/hyprwm/wlroots-hyprland) registered for path 'subprojects/wlroots-hyprland'
Cloning into '/home/maxb/.cache/yay/hyprland-git/src/Hyprland/subprojects/hyprland-protocols'...
done.
Cloning into '/home/maxb/.cache/yay/hyprland-git/src/Hyprland/subprojects/tracy'...
done.
Cloning into '/home/maxb/.cache/yay/hyprland-git/src/Hyprland/subprojects/udis86'...
done.
Cloning into '/home/maxb/.cache/yay/hyprland-git/src/Hyprland/subprojects/wlroots-hyprland'...
Submodule path 'subprojects/hyprland-protocols': checked out '0c2ce70625cb30aef199cb388f99e19a61a6ce03'
Submodule path 'subprojects/tracy': checked out '37aff70dfa50cf6307b3fee6074d627dc2929143'
Submodule path 'subprojects/udis86': checked out '5336633af70f3917760a6d441ff02d93477b0c86'
Submodule path 'subprojects/wlroots-hyprland': checked out '62eeffbe233d199f520a5755c344e85f8eab7940'
fatal: cannot change to 'subprojects/wlroots': No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: hyprland-git-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
hyprland-git - exit status 4

Can anyone help fixing it? I've tried cleanBuild option but it doesn't help

[zjeffer]

@unkindypie I assume you're maxbko on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hyprland-git?
It seems to be an issue with the hyprland-git AUR package. The person below you provided a patch.

And it seems the patch has been applied 10 minutes ago. Try to build again and it should work.

[unkindypie]

@zjeffer right you've found me 😁
Will try thank you for letting me know

[arnavgr]

try the official arch repo waybar package