How to get current layout

[azizsayfiddin]

How to get layout currently active?

[yhay81]

Use Mango's IPC client, mmsg. The monitor JSON already contains layout_symbol and layout_index.

For the currently active monitor:

mmsg get all-monitors | jq -r '.monitors[] | select(.active) | .layout_symbol'

For a specific output:

mmsg get monitor eDP-1 | jq -r '.layout_symbol'

Run mmsg get all-monitors without jq first if you want to see all available fields/output names.

For a status bar that should update when the layout changes, use the watch form:

mmsg watch all-monitors |
  jq --unbuffered -r '.monitors[] | select(.active) | .layout_symbol'

At the moment IPC exposes the layout symbol/index, not the layout's textual config name. The built-in symbols map to layouts in src/layout/layout.h, while the monitor fields are populated in src/ipc/ipc.h. The supported get/watch commands are documented in IPC.