From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34714) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ik20V-0002dm-G7 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Dec 2019 03:27:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ik20U-0002aC-Dy for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Dec 2019 03:27:03 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47287) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ik20U-0002a6-BK for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Dec 2019 03:27:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ik20U-0006kA-7t for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Dec 2019 03:27:02 -0500 Subject: [bug#38721] [PATCH] gnu: Add i3-gaps Resent-Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 08:26:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Brett Gilio Message-ID: <75440f2b-aeae-4ee3-b2f6-35529af83124@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: <20191223085157.26468-1-brown121407@member.fsf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Sergiu Marton Cc: 38721@debbugs.gnu.org Dec 25, 2019 2:16:09 AM Sergiu Marton : > After it got merged into master with the inheritance modification, I > installed it over the one I had installed from my original script and > it seemed to work fine. But I think that's just because I didn't > reboot to reload the i3 executable. > > Now that I shutdown and opened my machine again, i3-gaps specific > commands don't work. To test this, write `i3-msg gaps` in a shell. If > it does NOT work, it will output something like: > > brown@121407 ~$ i3-msg gaps > ERROR: Your command: gaps > ERROR: ^^^^ > ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: > represent valid commands> > > However, it seems that gaps work if I remove the package, install it > from the original package definition (without Brett's (inherit i3-wm)) > and reboot. The following output means that i3-gaps has been correctly > installed: > > brown@121407 ~$ i3-msg gaps > ERROR: Your command: gaps > ERROR: > ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: 'inner', 'outer', 'horizontal', > 'vertical', 'top', 'right', 'bottom', 'left' > > This is strange. I still don't know enough about the packaging API to > troubleshoot this all just by having a quick look at i3-gaps' > definition. I'll try to investigate this issue but I encourage someone > more knowledgeable than me too look into this too. > Hi Sergiu. Since this is closed and an issue for adding a new package, and your issue is about the new package will you open a new bug report at bug-guix@gnu.org? You can basically reuse your statement and link to this closed issue . Thanks! -- Brett M. Gilio GNU Guix, Contributor | GNU Project, Webmaster [DFC0 C7F7 9EE6 0CA7 AE55 5E19 6722 43C4 A03F 0EEE] < brettg@gnu.org [mailto:brettg@gnu.org] > < brettg@posteo.net [mailto:brettg@posteo.net] >