Do not canonicalize special output names

[i3/i3] / src / ipc.c

diff --git a/src/ipc.c b/src/ipc.c
index dc953adcf341fb838fb9bdbbecb2b4de47cd986d..759665fe91b76341e74128807ce830c39e0ef63e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/ipc.c
+++ b/src/ipc.c
@@ -580,6 +580,10 @@ static void dump_bar_bindings(yajl_gen gen, Barconfig *config) {
 }
 
 static char *canonicalize_output_name(char *name) {
+    /* Do not canonicalize special output names. */
+    if (strcasecmp(name, "primary") == 0) {
+        return name;
+    }
     Output *output = get_output_by_name(name, false);
     return output ? output_primary_name(output) : name;
 }