i3-input -F "<command>" fails to run when "<command>" contains a comma

[Myrdden]

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Current Behavior

This is possibly related to/the same as #4694, when using i3-input -F "<command>", no prompt is shown and no replacement of %s occurs if the command has a comma or a semicolon.

Reproduction Instructions

Here's the specific one I tried:

exec --no-startup-id i3-input -F "floating enable, resize set width %s ppt height %s ppt, move position center"

Although in the case of the above I could take the two non-interpolated commands out, for whatever reason when I do so the move position center simply fails to run.

Environment

Output of i3 --moreversion 2>&-:

Binary i3 version:  4.20.1 (2021-11-03) © 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors
Running i3 version: 4.20.1 (2021-11-03) (pid 517)

Here's the error I get when running the above:

ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: 'height', 'width', <number>
ERROR: Your command: exec --no-startup-id i3-input -F "floating enable, resize set width %s ppt height %s ppt"; mode "default"

- Linux Distribution & Version: Arch 5.16.5 (I think, that's the kernel version, anyways?)
- Are you using a compositor (e.g., xcompmgr or compton): Yes, xcompmgr, because apparently mode-setting sucks without it.

[i3bot]

I don’t see a link to logs.i3wm.org. Did you follow https://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html? (In case you actually provided a link to a logfile, please ignore me.)

[stapelberg]

I think the problem is with your i3 configuration file, not with i3-input.

When I run i3-input -F 'floating enable, resize set width %s ppt height %s ppt' in a terminal, it works as expected, i.e. in i3-dump-log -f, I see: 2022-09-05 18:00:00 - ../src/commands_parser.c:parse_command:241 - COMMAND: *floating enable, resize set width 80 ppt height 80 ppt*

Can you try quoting the command for i3’s exec directive, so that i3 doesn’t interpret the comma as a command separator?

An easier approach might be to move your i3-input command into a shell script and just specify a path to that in your exec directive.