Escaping colon in config file

[CryVeck]

Version : Hyprland 0.52.1 built from branch v0.52.1 at commit 967c3c7404d4fa00234e29c70df3e263386d2597 clean (version: bump to 0.52.1).

Issue

How to escape : special character in the hyprland config file ?

The case

I was trying to set AQ_DRM_DEVICES using
env = AQ_DRM_DEVICES,/dev/dri/by-path/pci-xxxx:xx:xx.x-card
But the config slice it and failed to start, stating /dev/dri/by-path/pci-xxxx:, xx or xx.x-card are not GPU.

So the line is split on :, but in this case this is part of the file name, not to separate two files.

Tried env = AQ_DRM_DEVICES,"/dev/dri/by-path/pci-xxxx:xx:xx.x-card"
Then : "/dev/dri/by-path/pci-xxxx:, xx or xx.x-card" are not GPU.

Tried \ or \\ but didn't worked.
Didn't find any information about how to escape :.

If there is, could it be added explicitly in the hyprland configuration ?
If there isn't, could a way to escape such config special character ?

[tekstryder]

I believe that's already addressed by hyprwm/hyprutils#84.

[vaxerski]

only partially as it needs the components to actually use varlist2

[Dregu]

Anyway the tried and true method for AQ_DRM_DEVICES is simply making colonless symlinks with udev rules like the wiki describes, or just manually symlink the coloned symlinks again...

[CryVeck]

Right I was doing that before experimenting with the semicolon path as I was trying to figure out the issue between Hyprland and my GPU. And by doing so figured that issue with colon
And posted it because environment variable in general could have colon (e.g. PATH), and looks like an unintentional oversight
I hope this could be useful in other cases!