🐛 manjaro-sway-settings post update instructions break waybar and gtk theme

[heapifyman]

branch

testing

Architecture

x86_64

Description

The following instructions are displayed after updating manjaro-sway-settings:

in order to update your user configuration, run: skel
in order to apply your user configuration, run: swaymsg reload

After I do that the theme seems to be broken. This is most visible in the waybar, but apps like firefox are also affected.

Strangely, I have to reboot the machine to "fix" the theme. It is not enough to just logout and login again.

This also happens in the current live image manjaro-sway-22.1.2-240114-linux61.iso

Reproduction steps

1. Start live image [manjaro-sway-22.1.2-240114-linux61.iso](https://manjaro-sway.download/download?file=manjaro-sway-22.1.2-240114-linux61.iso)
2. Open foot
3. Run `skel`
4. Run `swaymsg reload`

Screenshots

Some screenshots after running swaymsg reload

waybar:

timeshift:

remmina:

Logs

No response

[boredland]

I can reproduce this, but I don't fully understand why that happens. Perhaps something is still in exec not exec_always, but on first sight, it looks fine. Does the same happen for you if you use the theme-switcher (manjaro-sway-theme)?

That being said: you don't have to always do this all the time. I try to keep changes that require skel to a minimum.

[heapifyman]

Does the same happen for you if you use the theme-switcher (manjaro-sway-theme)?

No. Running manjaro-sway-theme and selecting a different theme does not seem to break anything. Waybar and other apps still look good.

[boredland]

Funny enough: running manjaro-sway-theme after skel && swaymsg reload seems to fix it again. So we probably should take at look at what the theme-script does that swaymsg reload alone doesn't.

[heapifyman]

Funny enough: running manjaro-sway-theme after skel && swaymsg reload seems to fix it again.

Only if you select a different theme than was previously active.

With matcha-green as the active theme, run skel && swaymsg reload and then manjaro-sway-theme. Select matcha-green again and waybar theme will be broken.

But if you select matcha-blue instead waybar theme is updated correctly. Then running manjaro-sway-theme again, and selecting matcha-green will restore the original theme without problems.

[l-j-g]

usually i can fix this by reloading the sway configuration a few times and after a few minutes... it get fixed.. agree it is a mystery