diff --git a/home-manager/progs/eww/config/scripts/currentWorkspace.fish b/home-manager/progs/eww/config/scripts/currentWorkspace.fish
deleted file mode 100755
index 68f2fbf..0000000
--- a/home-manager/progs/eww/config/scripts/currentWorkspace.fish
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env fish
-
-niri msg workspaces | rg "^ \*" | sed -E 's/[[:space:]]+\* //g'
diff --git a/home-manager/progs/eww/config/scripts/currentWorkspace.sh b/home-manager/progs/eww/config/scripts/currentWorkspace.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2ceab6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home-manager/progs/eww/config/scripts/currentWorkspace.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env fish
+
+niri msg --json workspaces | jq -r '.[] | select(.is_focused == true) | .["id"]'
diff --git a/home-manager/progs/eww/config/statusbar.yuck b/home-manager/progs/eww/config/statusbar.yuck
index 96b90e6..dd8eb7b 100644
--- a/home-manager/progs/eww/config/statusbar.yuck
+++ b/home-manager/progs/eww/config/statusbar.yuck
@@ -128,5 +128,4 @@
   (label :text "${volumevalue.count}" :class {volumevalue.color})))
 
 
-(defpoll currentworkspace :interval "1s" `scripts/currentWorkspace.fish`)
-
+(defpoll currentworkspace :interval "1s" `scripts/currentWorkspace.sh`)