Window_title keeps displaying window title after workspace change (i3 wm) about candybar HOT 9 CLOSED

As far as I understand, this is due to the differences in the way X and i3 handle focused windows. I could throw together a window_title i3 replacement if you'd like, though I feel like that may be overkill.

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That would be great. However, why do you think it may be overkill?

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At first I thought requiring an alternative plugin to fix a minor bug seemed a bit much for the average user, though on second thought that should be irrelevant as long as it's optional. So never mind.

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This is most likely due to i3's lack of EWMH support, but they're working on it. Both the default desktops list and window title widgets depend on EWMH properties and X events sent by the window manager, but i3 doesn't support desktop change notifications so candybar has no way of knowing if the desktops have been changed, this is why the window title fails to update when changing desktops, but works otherwise.

I personally don't think this is an issue that requires a separate widget as it's a minor bug that's being worked on by the i3 devs, but I'll merge a separate window_title_i3 widget if anyone wants to implement it.

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I think this should be moved to the i3wm bug tracker because it is definitely an i3 issue.

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I'm fixing this now in i3

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Excellent, let me know when it's ready in i3 and I'll update the docs regarding the i3 widgets.

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Fixed in the development version of i3

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i3 4.8.1 stable was pushed to arch's repos and the issue is fixed. Closing.

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