Plugin stops working after restart

[acrisci]

Upon the command i3-msg restart, the plugin stops working.

Right now, the i3ipc-glib connection object will not automatically reconnect when the ipc connection is lost, such as after a restart. You can listen for the ipc-shutdown signal and try to reconnect then.

[xuhdev]

I can confirm this. Restarting is often used to preserve current layout but reload config files, or load the upgraded i3.

[denesb]

Hello guys, I am asking for a little help here.
I have implemented the auto reconnect feature, by listening to the ipc-shutdown signal, as requested by acrisci. The problem is that the plugin still crashes with when I restart i3 because the ipc-shutdown signal is emitted twice and I expect it to be emitted once. Because of this, on the second emit I hit a SIGSEGV as my resources are freed already.
@acrisci : what am I doing wrong here? Did I not free the i3ipcConnection object apropriately? Could you please give me a hint, I spent many hours debugging and still can't wrap my head around this.

[acrisci]

I don't know if it is possible to fix this.

I think we should just deprecate the restart command instead. I've started this issue on i3 for that.

[Zauberfisch]

bump. I believe this is still an issue

[Zauberfisch]

ok, as a workaround I created /usr/local/bin/i3-restart

#!/bin/bash
i3-msg restart
ps aux | grep '[l]ibi3workspaces' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -n 1 kill