Change focus after creating new space

[amlanjlahkar]

I'm trying to make yabai focus the new space after its creation.

In my config I've this:

yabai -m signal --add event=space_created \
    action="focus_space $YABAI_SPACE_ID"

focus_space script

#!/bin/sh

space_index=$(yabai -m query --spaces | jq ".[] | select(.id == $1) | .index")

yabai -m space --focus $space_index

I checked the error log and apparently $YABAI_SPACE_ID is being passed as null

[koekeishiya]

You need to escape the variable so that it is passed along as part of the script instead of being evaluated in the .yabairc script.

yabai -m signal --add event=space_created action="focus_space \$YABAI_SPACE_ID"

You may also need to include the full path to the focus_space script, unless it is located somewhere in your $PATH.