#5158 (6672e924) moved connectToSocket() off the constructing thread and
into the detached IPC worker's own try/catch, so a missing NIRI_SOCKET no
longer throws out of IPC::IPC(). That was needed to fix#5117 (the worker
should reconnect instead of dying when an established stream drops), but
it also meant the very first connection attempt can never fail anymore.
Factory::makeModule()/Bar::getModules() rely on that constructor throwing
to disable a module it can't construct. With niri/workspaces and
niri/window always constructing successfully now, they get added to every
bar regardless of which compositor is actually running, showing up as a
permanently-empty widget next to the real workspace modules under
Hyprland/Sway.
Restore the old semantics for the first connection: connectToSocket() runs
synchronously in IPC::IPC() again, so a missing socket still throws and
the module gets disabled as before. Only a drop *after* that succeeds
falls into the retrying reconnect loop, preserving the #5117 fix.
The niri IPC worker slept 1ms per event and never reconnected. Under an
event burst the per-event cap back-pressures the socket, niri fills its
send buffer and drops the stream; read_line then returns false, the
detached thread exits and the module freezes permanently.
Remove the per-event sleep so events drain as fast as they arrive, and
wrap the socket setup and read loop in a reconnect loop that backs off
and re-establishes the stream on drop. A running_ flag lets the thread
exit cleanly on teardown.
Fixes#5117.
niri v25.08 added window positions to IPC, so waybar actually has the
information stored in json around.
This handles the associated WindowLayoutsChanged IPC message to keep the
position up to date in memory, and adds a couple of format messages to
show the current column, so one can dislpay where we are in the
workspace (in the hope of improving this feeling of being lost...)
Ideally a visual representation of the workspace like the one
illustrated in the PR[1] would be even better but this will probably do
for now.
Link: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1265#issuecomment-2724621758 [1]
Austin Horstman