NAME

       spatialmsg - Send messages to a running instance of Spatial Shell over
       the IPC socket.

SYNOPSIS

       spatialmsg [options...] [message]

OPTIONS

       --quiet
           Sends the IPC message, but does not print the response from Spatial
           Shell.

       --json
           Prints the response from Spatial Shell as received, that is in
           JSON.
       --type, -t <type>
           Specify the type of the IPC message. See below.

IPC MESSAGE TYPES

       <command>
           The message is a Spatial Shell command. See spatial(5) for a list
           of available commands.

       get_workspace_config
           Gets the current workspace configuration: its layout, and the
           maximum number of columns displayed at once when in the column
           layout.

       get_workspaces
           Gets the list of the workspaces currently in used.

       get_windows
           Gets the list of the windows for the current workspace.

       See spatial-ipc(7) for a description of the JSON objects returned for
       each IPC message.

RETURN CODE

       0
           Success

       1
           Invalid command line arguments

       2
           Spatial Shell returned an error when

AUTHOR

       Developed by Thomas Letan <lthms@soap.coffee>. Fore more information
       about Spatial Shell development, see <https://github.com/lthms/spatial-
       shell>.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

       Spatial Shell could not have been possible without sway, which remains
       a reference and a significant source of inspiration for the software
       architecture of this project, including for the wording of several man
       pages.



                                  2023-04-23                     spatialmsg(1)