i3 compatibility with Emacs 30

i3 compatibility with Emacs 30

[Nathaniel Nicandro]

Hello,

I use Sway (https://swaywm.org/) as a window manager in combination with
the i3-emacs package (https://github.com/vava/i3-emacs) which has been
working well for me.  i3-emacs has a feature where it will only use the
frames on the current workspace to open new Emacs windows.  Now after
switching to Emacs 30, some windows will pop-up on a frame in a
different workspace which means that I now have the extra burden of
switching to a different workspace to view the window.

I've found that in my version of Emacs I don't have an outer-window-id
frame property for some reason, just window-id, which seems extremely
odd.  i3-emacs depends on the outer-window-id to filter all the frames
to only those on the current workspace.

How could it possibly be that I'm missing the outer-window-id frame
property?

My Emacs configuration:

Emacs version:

    GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.30, cairo version 1.16.0)

Configuration Features:

    ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER XIM XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB

Configuration options:

    CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/…-bash-minimal-5.1.8/bin/bash SHELL=/gnu/store/…-bash-minimal-5.1.8/bin/bash --prefix=/gnu/store/…-emacs-next-pgtk-29.0.60-0.ac7ec87 --enable-fast-install --with-pgtk --with-xwidgets --with-modules --with-cairo --with-native-compilation --disable-build-details


-- 
Nathaniel

Re: i3 compatibility with Emacs 30

[Po Lu]

Nathaniel Nicandro <nathanielnicandro@gmail.com> writes:

> My Emacs configuration:
>
> Emacs version:
>
>     GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.30, cairo version 1.16.0)
>
> Configuration Features:
>
>     ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ
> JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES
> NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3
> THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER XIM XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB
>
> Configuration options:
>
>     CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/…-bash-minimal-5.1.8/bin/bash
> SHELL=/gnu/store/…-bash-minimal-5.1.8/bin/bash
> --prefix=/gnu/store/…-emacs-next-pgtk-29.0.60-0.ac7ec87
> --enable-fast-install --with-pgtk --with-xwidgets --with-modules
> --with-cairo --with-native-compilation --disable-build-details

You're using PGTK.  We do not support using such a configuration on X,
and that's also why `outer-window-id' isn't working as expected.

Re: i3 compatibility with Emacs 30

[Björn Bidar]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> You're using PGTK.  We do not support using such a configuration on X,
> and that's also why `outer-window-id' isn't working as expected.

Sway isn't running on X.

Re: i3 compatibility with Emacs 30

[Po Lu]

Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:

> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> You're using PGTK.  We do not support using such a configuration on X,
>> and that's also why `outer-window-id' isn't working as expected.
>
> Sway isn't running on X.

Ah.  Wayland has no replacement for `outer-window-id'.  Previously, you
were using the window ID Emacs allocated from the Xwayland compatibility
layer.