Escape the command.
DISPLAY=:0.0 i3-msg '[class="Emacs23"] kill'
On 08.09.2014 19:37, Sargrad, Dave wrote:
> I think the following should kill all windows having class Emacs23. The error
> message is very confusing:
>
>
> ubuntu@example:~/.i3$ DISPLAY=:0.0 i3-msg [class="Emacs23"] kill
> ERROR: Your command: a kill
> ERROR: ^^^^^^
> ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: <end>, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit',
> 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout',
> 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split',
> 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad',
> 'mode', 'bar'
> [{"success":false,"parse_error":true,"error":"Expected one of these tokens:
> <end>, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog',
> 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus',
> 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark',
> 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode', 'bar'","input":"a
> kill","errorposition":"^^^^^^"}]
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