pin-workspaces not working with i3-gaps

[marcospb19]

Description

I have a 2-monitor setup
pin-workspaces isn't hiding workspaces at the other monitor from the bar.

Expected behavior:
Workspaces at monitor 1 only appear to the bar 1
Workspaces at monitor 2 only appear to the bar 2

Actual behavior:
All workspaces appear in all bars

Was it working before?
pin-workspaces never worked to me

To Reproduce

pin-workspaces = true

Having a 2-monitor setup, open a workspace at each monitor

Polybar Log

error: tray: Failed to put tray above 0x0a00001 in the stack (XCB_MATCH (8))                                               
error: tray: Failed to put tray above 0x1000001 in the stack (XCB_MATCH (8))
warn: Systray selection already managed (window=0x0a00005)                                                                          

Screenshots

Workspaces 1 and 2 are located on the left monitor
Workspaces 3 and 4 are located on the right monitor
This is how the bar looks on each monitor:
"3412"

It should only show 1,2 and 3,4 for each one
(for some reason the workspaces at the left monitor appear at the right, it's flipped)

Environment:

• WM: i3-Gaps
• Distro: Arch Linux
• Output of polybar -vvv:

polybar 3.4.0-29-g6849b8a5

Features: +alsa +curl +i3 +mpd +network(libnl) +pulseaudio +xkeyboard

X extensions: +randr (+monitors) +composite +xkb +xrm +xcursor

Build type: Release
Compiler: /usr/bin/c++
Compiler flags: -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -O3 -DNDEBUG
Linker flags: -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now 

Additional context

I already tried to compile Polybar

[Lomadriel]

Can you post your config.

[ronniedroid]

@marcospb19 you have a mistake in your comment

Workspaces 1 and 2 are located on the left monitor
Workspaces 3 and 4 are located on the left monitor

it should be left and right.

best

[patrick96]

I think this might be related to #1849

[marcospb19]

@marcospb19 you have a mistake in your comment

Thanks for pointing that out, now it is correct, and I added more explanation. Please read it again

[marcospb19]

I removed unnecessary stuff from my configuration file to ease our debugging process, here are my configuration files.

---

~/.config/polybar/config

[bar/eDP]
inherit = bar/main
monitor = eDP
pin-workspaces = true

[bar/HDMI]
inherit = bar/main
monitor = HDMI-A-0
pin-workspaces = true

[bar/main]
modules-center = i3

enable-ipc = true
pin-workspaces = true

font-0 = Noto Sans Mono:style=bold:pixelsize=11.4
background = #2d2b2b
foreground = #bbc2cf

height = 26
line-size = 4
line-color = #f00

[module/i3]
type = internal/i3
enable-click = true

label-focused = %index%
label-focused-foreground = #eee
label-focused-background = #444
label-focused-underline = #34d8d3
label-focused-padding = 2

label-unfocused = %index%
label-unfocused-foreground = #a9a9a9
label-unfocused-underline = #454443
label-unfocused-padding = 2

label-visible = %index%
label-visible-underline = #454443
label-visible-padding = 2

---

~/.config/polybar/launch.sh

#!/bin/bash

killall -q polybar
while pgrep -u $UID -x polybar > /dev/null; do sleep 0.2; done

polybar HDMI &
sleep 0.15 # Making sure that the first run first
polybar eDP &

Running the launch script with this configuration gives no warnings.

[patrick96]

Could you please try the fix in #1929

[marcospb19]

Could you please try the fix in #1929

Didn't work

Compiled from your branch, (commit 7bb3529), then I replaced /usr/bin/polybar and /usr/bin/polybar-msg with the new objects from build/bin/, killed the polybar process and ran it again. The problem persists.

[patrick96]

Hmm, seems I missed something along the way. Thanks for testing

[patrick96]

Oh wow, I didn't read your post thoroughly enough, I though you were using the xworkspaces module.

pin-workspaces is a property of the i3 module, setting in the bar section doesn't do anything.

[marcospb19]

Thanks for all the help 👍 , and sorry for the dumb confusion here 😞.