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9	IPC

Hyprland exposes 2 UNIX Sockets, for controlling / getting info about Hyprland via code / bash utilities.

Hyprland Instance Signature (HIS)

echo $HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE

$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/[HIS]/.socket.sock

Used for hyprctl-like requests. See the Hyprctl page for commands.

basically, write [flag(s)]/command args.

$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/[HIS]/.socket2.sock

Used for events. Hyprland will write to each connected client live events like this:

EVENT>>DATA\n (\n is a linebreak)

e.g.: workspace>>2

Events list

name	description	data
workspace	emitted on workspace change. Is emitted ONLY when a user requests a workspace change, and is not emitted on mouse movements (see activemon)	WORKSPACENAME
workspacev2	emitted on workspace change. Is emitted ONLY when a user requests a workspace change, and is not emitted on mouse movements (see activemon)	WORKSPACEID,WORKSPACENAME
focusedmon	emitted on the active monitor being changed.	MONNAME,WORKSPACENAME
activewindow	emitted on the active window being changed.	WINDOWCLASS,WINDOWTITLE
activewindowv2	emitted on the active window being changed.	WINDOWADDRESS
fullscreen	emitted when a fullscreen status of a window changes.	0/1 (exit fullscreen / enter fullscreen)
monitorremoved	emitted when a monitor is removed (disconnected)	MONITORNAME
monitoradded	emitted when a monitor is added (connected)	MONITORNAME
monitoraddedv2	emitted when a monitor is added (connected)	MONITORID,MONITORNAME,MONITORDESCRIPTION
createworkspace	emitted when a workspace is created	WORKSPACENAME
createworkspacev2	emitted when a workspace is created	WORKSPACEID,WORKSPACENAME
destroyworkspace	emitted when a workspace is destroyed	WORKSPACENAME
destroyworkspacev2	emitted when a workspace is destroyed	WORKSPACEID,WORKSPACENAME
moveworkspace	emitted when a workspace is moved to a different monitor	WORKSPACENAME,MONNAME
moveworkspacev2	emitted when a workspace is moved to a different monitor	WORKSPACEID,WORKSPACENAME,MONNAME
renameworkspace	emitted when a workspace is renamed	WORKSPACEID,NEWNAME
activespecial	emitted when the special workspace opened in a monitor changes (closing results in an empty WORKSPACENAME)	WORKSPACENAME,MONNAME
activelayout	emitted on a layout change of the active keyboard	KEYBOARDNAME,LAYOUTNAME
openwindow	emitted when a window is opened	WINDOWADDRESS,WORKSPACENAME,WINDOWCLASS,WINDOWTITLE
closewindow	emitted when a window is closed	WINDOWADDRESS
movewindow	emitted when a window is moved to a workspace	WINDOWADDRESS,WORKSPACENAME
movewindowv2	emitted when a window is moved to a workspace	WINDOWADDRESS,WORKSPACEID,WORKSPACENAME
openlayer	emitted when a layerSurface is mapped	NAMESPACE
closelayer	emitted when a layerSurface is unmapped	NAMESPACE
submap	emitted when a keybind submap changes. Empty means default.	SUBMAPNAME
changefloatingmode	emitted when a window changes its floating mode. FLOATING is either 0 or 1.	WINDOWADDRESS,FLOATING
urgent	emitted when a window requests an urgent state	WINDOWADDRESS
minimize	emitted when a window requests a change to its minimized state. MINIMIZED is either 0 or 1.	WINDOWADDRESS,MINIMIZED
screencast	emitted when a screencopy state of a client changes. Keep in mind there might be multiple separate clients. State is 0/1, owner is 0 - monitor share, 1 - window share	STATE,OWNER
windowtitle	emitted when a window title changes.	WINDOWADDRESS
windowtitlev2	emitted when a window title changes.	WINDOWADDRESS,WINDOWTITLE
togglegroup	emitted when togglegroup command is used. returns state,handle where the state is a toggle status and the handle is one or more window addresses separated by a comma e.g. 0,0x64cea2525760,0x64cea2522380 where 0 means that a group has been destroyed and the rest informs which windows were part of it	0/1,WINDOWADDRESS(ES)
moveintogroup	emitted when the window is merged into a group. returns the address of a merged window	WINDOWADDRESS
moveoutofgroup	emitted when the window is removed from a group. returns the address of a removed window	WINDOWADDRESS
ignoregrouplock	emitted when ignoregrouplock is toggled.	0/1
lockgroups	emitted when lockgroups is toggled.	0/1
configreloaded	emitted when the config is done reloading	empty
pin	emitted when a window is pinned or unpinned	WINDOWADDRESS,PINSTATE

{{< callout type=warning >}}

A fullscreen event is not guaranteed to fire on/off once in succession. Some windows may fire multiple requests to be fullscreened, resulting in multiple fullscreen events.

{{< /callout >}}

How to use socket2 with bash

Example script using socket2 events with bash and socat:

#!/bin/sh

handle() {
  case $1 in
    monitoradded*) do_something ;;
    focusedmon*) do_something_else ;;
  esac
}

socat -U - UNIX-CONNECT:$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/.socket2.sock | while read -r line; do handle "$line"; done