Issue getting item highlighting on my Aerospace Sketchybar setup

[JChrisDesigns]

I've created a setup where I can see the names of all Aerospace windows in my Sketchybar. It shows me the name of the app in each workspace, and defaults to the actual workspace name if there's not an app there.

My sketchybarrc is as follows:

sketchybarrc

PLUGIN_DIR="$CONFIG_DIR/plugins"

##### Bar Appearance #####
sketchybar --bar              \
        position=top          \
        height=28             \
        blur_radius=15        \
        color=0x40000000      \
        margin=4              \
        y_offset=4            \
        corner_radius=8       \

##### Changing Defaults #####
default=(
  padding_left=4
  padding_right=4
  icon.font="Hack Nerd Font:Bold:17.0"
  label.font="Hack Nerd Font:Bold:14.0"
  label.color=0xffffffff
  label.padding_left=4
  label.padding_right=4
)
sketchybar --default "${default[@]}"

##### Events #####
sketchybar --add event aerospace_workspace_change

##### Workspace Items #####
# Just create the items — we update their labels via plugin
for sid in $(/opt/homebrew/bin/aerospace list-workspaces --all); do
    sketchybar --add item space.$sid left \
        --subscribe space.$sid aerospace_workspace_change \
        --set space.$sid \
        background.color=0x44ffffff \
        background.corner_radius=5 \
        background.height=20 \
        background.drawing=off  \
        script="$PLUGIN_DIR/update_workspaces.sh $sid"
done

##### Trigger Workspace Updates on Event #####
sketchybar --add item refresh_workspaces left \
           --subscribe refresh_workspaces aerospace_workspace_change \
           --set refresh_workspaces script="$PLUGIN_DIR/update_workspaces.sh" \
                                     drawing=off

##### Force all scripts to run initially #####
sketchybar --update

update_workspaces.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Update all workspace labels based on current window info

# Set full paths in case environment is limited
AERO="/opt/homebrew/bin/aerospace"
SKETCHYBAR="/opt/homebrew/bin/sketchybar"

# Get app names and workspaces
tmpfile=$(mktemp)
"$AERO" list-windows --all --format "%{app-name} | %{workspace}" > "$tmpfile"

# Get all workspace IDs
for sid in $("$AERO" list-workspaces --all); do
    label=$(awk -F '|' -v sid="$sid" '
        {
            gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", $1);  # trim app
            gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", $2);  # trim workspace
            if ($2 == sid) {
                # Avoid duplicate apps
                if (!seen[$1]++) apps = (apps ? apps ", " : "") $1
            }
        }
        END {
            print (apps ? apps : sid)
        }
    ' "$tmpfile")

    "$SKETCHYBAR" --set space.$sid label="[  $label  ]"
done

rm -f "$tmpfile"

aerospace.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# make sure it's executable with:
# chmod +x ~/.config/sketchybar/plugins/aerospace.sh

if [ "$NAME" = "$FOCUSED_WORKSPACE" ]; then
    sketchybar --set $NAME background.drawing=on
else
    sketchybar --set $NAME background.drawing=off
fi

and in my aerospace.toml file

exec-on-workspace-change = ['/bin/bash', '-c',
	'exec-and-forget borders active_color=0xffe1e3e4 inactive_color=0xff494d64 width=5.0',
  'sketchybar --trigger aerospace_workspace_change FOCUSED_WORKSPACE=$AEROSPACE_FOCUSED_WORKSPACE'
]

on-focus-changed = ['exec-and-forget /Users/jordanb/.config/sketchybar/plugins/update_workspaces.sh']

It seems like the problem is that FOCUSED_WORKSPACE isn't being passed into the aerospace.sh script.

Please help, as I'd love to post this to the "setups" page for anybody who wants to use my setup! Thanks.

[L-chaCon]

I don't know if this helps, but I don't think you are not calling the aerospace.sh script. I think in this line:

script="$PLUGIN_DIR/update_workspaces.sh $sid"

You actually want to call:

script="$PLUGIN_DIR/aerospace.sh $sid"

Let me know if this helps :)

[JChrisDesigns]

This is correct! Thank you. However, from there, I can't seem to access the $FOCUSED_WORKSPACE variable. It seems like that just isn't getting passed into the script for some reason.

[L-chaCon]

I don't know specifically, but I have the feeling that is here:

exec-on-workspace-change = ['/bin/bash', '-c',
	'exec-and-forget borders active_color=0xffe1e3e4 inactive_color=0xff494d64 width=5.0',
  'sketchybar --trigger aerospace_workspace_change FOCUSED_WORKSPACE=$AEROSPACE_FOCUSED_WORKSPACE'
]

Personally I have this:

exec-on-workspace-change = ['/bin/bash', '-c',
  'sketchybar --trigger aerospace_workspace_change FOCUSED_WORKSPACE=$AEROSPACE_FOCUSED_WORKSPACE'
]

I would recommend to try running echo $FOCUSED_WORKSPACE in your terminal to see if the variable is getting set up. If you dont have anything prbably is that the -c flag only acts in one sting, so maybe trying

exec-on-workspace-change = ['/bin/bash', '-c',
	'exec-and-forget borders active_color=0xffe1e3e4 inactive_color=0xff494d64 width=5.0 && sketchybar --trigger aerospace_workspace_change FOCUSED_WORKSPACE=$AEROSPACE_FOCUSED_WORKSPACE'
]

should solve your problem