Is there a way to achieve this programmatically? about spaces-renamer HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks Alex! See, I've come across a similar command to this, but both retrieve the leftmost desktop of the display, not the one that's currently being used (active desktop).

My use case is that if I create a new desktop, which by default is named Desktop #, I'd like to rename this new desktop, and to do that I need to get the UUID for that active desktop, not the leftmost one.

And I agree, if I can identify the current active desktop, then I could tell Alfred what to name it and work around using AppleScript.

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Ah, Spaces Renamer actually keeps track of it properly in the currentspaces.plist, which is how it knows which one to select when you open the window. You can get at it with a slightly modified command as long as Spaces Renamer is installed: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print :Monitors:0:Current\ Space:uuid" ~/Library/Containers/com.alexbeals.spacesrenamer/com.alexbeals.spacesrenamer.currentspaces.plist

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Uh-oh, looks like it's working... thank you! I will write a quick script tonight or this week and re-open if there are any issues. But this looks very promising. Thank you! 👊

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In addition to that, any way I can trigger the window with a keyboard shortcut?

I've tried using AppleScript, but for whatever reason this clicks on the menu bar icon, but does not open the window.

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "SpacesRenamer"
        click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
    end tell
end tell

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From the command line, this command will give you the current space's UUID (in the first monitor, not sure how this plays with multiple monitor setups).

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print :SpacesDisplayConfiguration:Management\ Data:Monitors:0:Current\ Space:uuid" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist

If you're trying to programmatically do this, you're probably better off writing to the raw plist file than opening the window. Not sure how to open the window with AppleScript 😕, but if you point me to an open source project that has support, I can see what I'm doing differently.

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