How to get the active pane's ID?

[weiying-chen]

What Operating System(s) are you running on?

Linux Wayland

Which Wayland compositor or X11 Window manager(s) are you using?

Wayland/Mutter

WezTerm version

20240203-110809-5046fc22

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I thought $WEZTERM_PANE would get the activate pane (current pane's ID). But it gets the ID of the pane that is running the script (e.g. inside inotifywait).

How to get the active (focused) pane's ID?

[wez]

wezterm cli list-clients (or wezterm cli list-clients --format=json) will show you the focused pane for each client.

[weiying-chen]

I could find the is_active field with this: wezterm cli list --format=json. Thanks!

[dw72]

What when we have run ssh to other machine in that pane? How to identify it when there is no wezterm installed on the remote?