bug#38739: i3-gaps package is misbehaving

[Brett Gilio]

Dec 25, 2019 2:30:12 AM Sergiu Marton :

> I submitted a patch to add i3-gaps a couple days ago:
>
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38721
>
> After it got merged into master with the inheritance modification (see
> patch), 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 restart 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,

Thank you for opening a new bug report at my request. As best as I can tell, 
the inherited arguments and your proposed package arguments without inheritance 
match 1:1. Tomorrow when I am at my computer I will introspect this further 
using the REPL.

If somebody else beats me to this, great! Hopefully we can get this figured 
out, it is probably some silly issue I just overlooked.

Thanks!

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Brett M. Gilio
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