hyprctl -j monitors doesn't always produce valid JSON when executed in bash

[apoptosis66]

Hyprland 0.50.1

To reproduce in Bash:

monitors=`hyprctl -j monitors`
echo $monitors | jq
jq: parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 584

The bad JSON is:

"availableModes": x

Where "x" should either be a string in quotes, or a numeric literal.

Please note that just running hyprctl -j monitors from command line produces good JSON with lots of values for availableModes. I suspect when in bash you can't access this information.

How I discovered this, is hyprshot is broken when you try to bind a window snapshot to a key:

bind = SHIFT, code:191, exec, hyprshot -m window

I have opened a bug with hyprshot too, but after thinking about it I think the expectation is that hyprctl -j should always return valid json.

Gustash/Hyprshot#118

[vaxerski]

can you post the output of the faulty command?

[apoptosis66]

[{ "id": 0, "name": "DP-3", "description": "Dell Inc. Dell AW3423DW #tBwzGDAYARAZ", "make": "Dell Inc.", "model": "Dell AW3423DW", "serial": "#tBwzGDAYARAZ", "width": 3440, "height": 1440, "refreshRate": 59.97300, "x": 0, "y": 0, "activeWorkspace": { "id": 1, "name": "1" }, "specialWorkspace": { "id": 0, "name": "" }, "reserved": [0, 26, 0, 0], "scale": 1.00, "transform": 0, "focused": true, "dpmsStatus": true, "vrr": false, "solitary": "0", "activelyTearing": false, "directScanoutTo": "0", "disabled": false, "currentFormat": "XRGB8888", "mirrorOf": "none", "availableModes": x }]

I tried to format it but its invalid json :)

[apoptosis66]

I have spent sometime reading the code around this, I have no clue how

"availableModes": x

Ever happens. I mean the output of avilableModes goes directly into a formatted string "[{}]" , so even if nothing is returned you should still see

"availableModes": []

I am afraid I am at the end of my usefulness I haven't programmed in cpp since the 90's and it hardly looks the same.