Reloaded i3, i3xrocks broke

[yapishu]

• [ x] I've run a search on the existing bug reports to make sure I'm not filing a duplicate (you can use the search box at the top left corner)
• [ x] I've read the Regolith documentation and didn't find any relevant topic
• [x ] I tried asking on Slack (especially for configuration related issues) (slack heroku link was broken when I tried)

Describe the bug

I reloaded my i3 session (mod+r) and my i3rocks broke. I now see markup in the status bar rather than theming; additionally other parts of my theme seem to have broken, like my window settings (hidden title bars etc), and I can no longer use some (but not all) key combinations using my mod key (eg launching drun). It is a confusing set of things to suddenly break and I'm not sure how to safely un-break it.

I do not know what changed, besides suspecting an update that went bad. My configuration files are all still in place. reinstalling regolith-desktop and regolith-i3xrocks-config does not change anything.

To Reproduce

Unclear

Expected behavior

Upon reloading, i3 continues showing my i3xrocks configuration; rofi launcher continues working

Screenshots

Configuration file(s)

i3 config:

https://pastebin.com/XEdcmXeR

Installation Details

• Regolith Install Type: PPA
• Regolith Version: Current (unsure how to tell)
• PPA url: https://regolith-desktop.org/release-ubuntu-jammy-amd64
• Host OS (for PPA): e.g. Ubuntu 22.04

[codigo47]

Workaround: add "pango" before the font name in .config/regolith2/i3/config

bar {
  position $i3-wm.bar.position
  mode $i3-wm.bar.mode
  #font $i3-wm.bar.font
  font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono 10
  ...

[yapishu]

@codigo47 Hm, I think my issues might stem from differences between 1.6 and 2, because I don't have a regolith2 dir. Is there a simple way to uhh, just reinstall?

[kgilmer]

Hi @yapishu , hmm, not sure about the root cause given the info. To know what version of Regolith is installed: cat /etc/regolith/version. I'm guessing you have some user configuration that might be part of the issue. You can disable any local state with mv ~/.config/regolith2 ~/.config/regolith2-disabled or something like that. Log back in and the Regolith config should be back to default.

[ForwardFeed]

I got the same issue (i3-rocks total dysfunction) but it appears to me out of thin air. I was playing a game, got logged out from my desktop session. I then proceeded to re-login, only to see in total confusion the total loss of my task bar and to the application launcher dialog window. I tried anything i read here and just ended up reinstalling.

[yapishu]

I never fixed this but eventually i edited the scripts in /usr/share/i3xrocks/scripts to remove the HTML formatting from the output and now it's fine