Escape spaces in background file path

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sway/commands/output/background.c b/sway/commands/output/background.c
index 8ab52a2e..2ff5f0d7 100644
--- a/sway/commands/output/background.c
+++ b/sway/commands/output/background.c
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ struct cmd_results *output_cmd_background(int argc, char **argv) {
 
                 wordexp_t p;
                 char *src = join_args(argv, j);
+                while (strstr(src, "  ")) {
+                        src = realloc(src, strlen(src) + 2);
+                        char *ptr = strstr(src, "  ") + 1;
+                        memmove(ptr + 1, ptr, strlen(ptr) + 1);
+                        *ptr = '\\';
+                }
                 if (wordexp(src, &p, 0) != 0 || p.we_wordv[0] == NULL) {
                         struct cmd_results *cmd_res = cmd_results_new(CMD_INVALID, "output",
                                 "Invalid syntax (%s)", src);