[i3get] title is not being printed if it contains ":"

[gmardom]

I recently watched your video on custom title module for polybar and when I run i3get -r t, it didn't work on the browser tab with your video, but worked on anything else.
I tried to investigate by testing i3get with bunch of random symbols but it seems that it only doesn't work with :.

[budRich]

thanks for the report i will look into it. just to be sure what is your output of: i3get -v

[budRich]

i managed to reproduce the issue and i think i have found a fix.
in the JSON the title is fetched from the name property and the raw json looks something like this:

"geometry":{"x":0,"y":0,"w":0,"h":0},"name":"cool title:with colon","title_format":"..."

I parse with AWK simply by splitting records on "," and fields on ":" and i always assume(d) the name of the property is the second to last field.. Usually that is the first field. But sometimes like with "geometry", the second to last field is "x".

"geometry":{"x":0
"y":0
"w":0
"h":0}
"name":"cool title:with colon"
"title_format":"..."

But if the title has a colon, "name" will not be the second to last key, and it was ignored. I fixed it now and applied the same fix to "title_format" (i3get -r o) which have the same issues.

[gmardom]

Sorry for the late response but I just woke up...

Here's an i3-get -v output (sorry for not including):

i3get - version: 0.8
updated: 2022-05-21 by budRich

I'm using the aur version of i3ass.

i managed to reproduce the issue and i think i have found a fix.

Glad to hear that :)