On-click not working for workspaces in hyprland

[Kommynct]

	"hyprland/workspaces": {
		"enable-bar-scroll": true,
		"disable-scroll-wraparound": true,
		"all-outputs": false,
		"show-special": true,
		"format": "{name}",
		"smooth-scrolling-threshold": "4",
		"on-click": "activate && hyprctl monitors -j | jaq -r '.[] | select(.focused == true) | .specialWorkspace.name' | sd 'special:' '' | xargs -I [] hyprctl dispatch togglespecialworkspace []",
		"format-icons": {
			"1": "1",
			"2": "2",
			"3": "3",
			"4": "4",
			"5": "5",
			"6": "6",
			"7": "7",
			"8": "8",
			"9": "9",
			"10": "10",
		}
	},

the on-click here should close the special workspace if it's open and another workspace has been clicked on, it however, does nothing, i've tried it with also replacing the activate && with just the part after, and that also just normally activates on-click.

[zjeffer]

I'm not sure on-click works in hyprland/workspaces. Click events are handled by each individual workspace button:

Waybar/src/modules/hyprland/workspaces.cpp

Lines 866 to 867 in e627879

	m_button.signal_button_press_event().connect(sigc::mem_fun(*this, &Workspace::handleClicked),
	false);

[Kommynct]

https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Workspaces#example-for-hyprland

It's in the examples

[zjeffer]

Ah I see. I think on-click maybe doesn't allow you to execute commands as if it's a shell? "activate" isn't a shell command, but seems to be a built-in module command.

[Kommynct]

It definitely seems that way, but that doesn't seem to be how on-click works elsewhere, should definitely be fixed

[Alexays]

This is expected behaviour rather than a config error. In hyprland/workspaces the workspace buttons have hard-coded click handling (switch to / toggle that workspace — see Workspace::handleClicked in src/modules/hyprland/workspace.cpp); they do not run your on-click value. The module-level on-click only fires when you click empty space in the module, and it's executed as a shell command — which is why a value like activate just yields activate: command not found (activate is a Hyprland dispatcher keyword, not a shell command).

So there's currently no supported way to bind an arbitrary shell command to clicking a specific workspace button. If you need extra side-effects on workspace switch, hook it on the Hyprland side instead (a workspace bind, or a socket2 listener on workspace>>). The old wiki "on-click": "activate" example is outdated for current builds. Reopen if you'd like to discuss further! 🙏