diff --git a/i3bar/src/xcb.c b/i3bar/src/xcb.c
index 81f0bb4a..d0bc3d6c 100644
--- a/i3bar/src/xcb.c
+++ b/i3bar/src/xcb.c
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ void handle_button(xcb_button_press_event_t *event) {
     size_t namelen = 0;
     const char *utf8_name = cur_ws->canonical_name;
     for (const char *walk = utf8_name; *walk != '\0'; walk++) {
-        if (*walk == '"')
+        if (*walk == '"' || *walk == '\\')
             num_quotes++;
         /* While we’re looping through the name anyway, we can save one
          * strlen(). */
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ void handle_button(xcb_button_press_event_t *event) {
     for (inpos = 0, outpos = strlen("workspace \"");
          inpos < namelen;
          inpos++, outpos++) {
-        if (utf8_name[inpos] == '"') {
+        if (utf8_name[inpos] == '"' || utf8_name[inpos] == '\\') {
             buffer[outpos] = '\\';
             outpos++;
         }
diff --git a/src/commands_parser.c b/src/commands_parser.c
index f325a048..fa4c2360 100644
--- a/src/commands_parser.c
+++ b/src/commands_parser.c
@@ -216,8 +216,9 @@ char *parse_string(const char **walk, bool as_word) {
     if (**walk == '"') {
         beginning++;
         (*walk)++;
-        while (**walk != '\0' && (**walk != '"' || *(*walk - 1) == '\\'))
-            (*walk)++;
+        for (; **walk != '\0' && **walk != '"'; (*walk)++)
+            if (**walk == '\\' && *(*walk + 1) != '\0')
+                (*walk)++;
     } else {
         if (!as_word) {
             /* For a string (starting with 's'), the delimiters are
@@ -248,10 +249,10 @@ char *parse_string(const char **walk, bool as_word) {
     for (inpos = 0, outpos = 0;
          inpos < (*walk - beginning);
          inpos++, outpos++) {
-        /* We only handle escaped double quotes to not break
-         * backwards compatibility with people using \w in
-         * regular expressions etc. */
-        if (beginning[inpos] == '\\' && beginning[inpos + 1] == '"')
+        /* We only handle escaped double quotes and backslashes to not break
+         * backwards compatibility with people using \w in regular expressions
+         * etc. */
+        if (beginning[inpos] == '\\' && (beginning[inpos + 1] == '"' || beginning[inpos + 1] == '\\'))
             inpos++;
         str[outpos] = beginning[inpos];
     }
diff --git a/testcases/t/187-commands-parser.t b/testcases/t/187-commands-parser.t
index 5ee94f87..6d67731a 100644
--- a/testcases/t/187-commands-parser.t
+++ b/testcases/t/187-commands-parser.t
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ is(parser_calls('move something to somewhere'),
    'error for unknown literal ok');
 
 ################################################################################
-# 3: Verify that escaping of double quotes works correctly
+# 3: Verify that escaping works correctly
 ################################################################################
 
 is(parser_calls('workspace "foo"'),
@@ -171,6 +171,18 @@ is(parser_calls('workspace "foo \"bar"'),
    'cmd_workspace_name(foo "bar)',
    'Command with escaped double quotes ok');
 
+is(parser_calls('workspace "foo \\'),
+   'cmd_workspace_name(foo \\)',
+   'Command with single backslash in the end ok');
+
+is(parser_calls('workspace "foo\\\\bar"'),
+   'cmd_workspace_name(foo\\bar)',
+   'Command with escaped backslashes ok');
+
+is(parser_calls('workspace "foo\\\\\\"bar"'),
+   'cmd_workspace_name(foo\\"bar)',
+   'Command with escaped double quotes after escaped backslashes ok');
+
 ################################################################################
 # 4: Verify that resize commands with a "px or ppt"-construction are parsed
 # correctly