i3.command restart

[unmanifest]

I'm trying to issue a i3.command('restart') and that basically kills my i3ipc client object. I then try to re-create the i3ipc client object. That doesn't seem to work? I get this error:

"Uncaught Error: connect ENOENT", source: events.js (82)

Any thoughts or suggestions on how to make it happen? Thanks for your package and help so far.

[sidorares]

You'll need to wait until it's restarted. This works for me:

var i3 = require('../index.js').createClient();
i3.command('restart');
setTimeout(function() {
    var i4 = require('../index.js').createClient();
    i3.command('focus left', function() { console.log(arguments) });
}, 100);

Not sure if there is better way apart from checking for errors and retrying

What needs to be fixed is when there is error and commands in the queue - broadcast error to them. Right now you can attach error handler to client itself, but command callback is not called with error response

[unmanifest]

That seems to do the trick! It occasionally seems to crash though. Not sure yet why it does that. But thanks. Also, your example above re-inits as i4, then calls i3, typo perhaps?

[sidorares]

typo, I intended to call method on new instance "i4". Is crash the same? (timeout too small?)

[unmanifest]

I tried increasing the timeout to 200ms - seems to still crash occasionally as I rapidly resize my X display (see below for what I'm trying to achieve).

If it helps, I'm using i3 as a WM under Xephyr. As I resize my main Xephyr window, I am 'restarting' i3 so that my applications resize themselves correctly. I have a node-webkit app running inside i3, through which, I'm using the i3ipc to control i3. The errors I see are as follows (can't copy paste for some reason!) - so typed verbatim:

Uncaught node.js Error

Error: connect ENOENT
   at exports._errnoException (util.js:742:11)
   at Object.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:995:19)

[sidorares]

Not quite understand why you need to restart i3. It seems that it tracks randr events correctly (I'm using it inside virtualbox and also resize window from time to time)

[unmanifest]

Hmm...wonder if virtualbox (Xorg Xserver derivative?) behaves differently from Xephyr? Without a restart, as I expand my 'container app' (aka Xephyr), I see empty space around my node-webkit application, until I restart i3. But you are right, as I resize Xephyr, i3 does log a message like: "root geometry size....", as the X server size is changing. But my nw app (or say xterm or other X application) does not resize itself till I restart i3.

[sidorares]

Check that you have randr enabled in Xephyr ( post your xdpyinfo | head -n 50 )
my virtualbox server is running mint linux, so it's full Xorg (just video device happens to be virtulized)

[unmanifest]

Here you go. I do see RANDR.

name of display: :1
version number: 11.0
vendor string: Fedora Project
vendor release number: 11404000
maximum request size: 16777212 bytes
motion buffer size: 256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order: LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 7
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 4, bits_per_pixel 4, scanline_pad 32
depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 255
focus: window 0xc00022, revert to PointerRoot
number of extensions: 21
BIG-REQUESTS
Composite
DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
Generic Event Extension
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SHAPE
SYNC
X-Resource
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XINERAMA
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1

screen #0:
dimensions: 1091x822 pixels (347x260 millimeters)
resolution: 80x80 dots per inch
depths (7): 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 24, 32
root window id: 0x53
depth of root window: 24 planes