swaymsg debugging and inspection commands.

Inspect

• List all inputs (keyboards, mice, touchpad, wacom): swaymsg -t get_inputs

• List all outputs (monitors): swaymsg -t get_outputs

• Full window tree (find app_id, titles): swaymsg -t get_tree

• Find app_id of a specific window: swaymsg -t get_tree | grep -i app_id -A2 -B2

• Find a specific window (e.g. pavucontrol): swaymsg -t get_tree | grep -A10 "pavucontrol"

• Get current config: swaymsg -t get_config

• Find swayidle in config: swaymsg -t get_config | grep swayidle -n

• Check scroll_factor: swaymsg -t get_inputs | grep scroll_factor

Control

• Reload sway config + restart waybar: swaymsg reload (or $mod+Shift+c)

• Kill focused window: swaymsg -t command kill

• Move workspace to output: swaymsg workspace 2 output "Lenovo Group Limited P24h-10 VTN45266"

• Toggle DPMS (display on/off): swaymsg output eDP-1 dpms off swaymsg output eDP-1 dpms on

Debugging window rules

To check what app_id/title a window has (for for_window rules):

swaymsg -t get_tree | grep -i app_id -A2 -B2

Or use xprop for XWayland windows (reports WM_CLASS instead):

xprop | grep WM_CLASS   # click the window