[Bug] xworkspaces: label color does not change on urgent workspaces (i3)

[awsms]

Checklist

• I have read the appropriate section in the contributing guidelines
• I believe this issue is a problem with polybar itself and not a misconfiguration on my part
• I have searched for other open and closed issues that may have already reported this problem
• I have checked the known issues page for this problem.
• I have followed the debugging guide to narrow down the problem to a minimal config.

Steps to reproduce

1. open a window in another workspace

Minimal config

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;   go to https://github.com/polybar/polybar
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;   The README contains a lot of information
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[colors]
background = #282A2E
background-alt = #373B41
foreground = #C5C8C6
primary = #F0C674
secondary = #8ABEB7
alert = #A54242
disabled = #707880

[bar/example]
monitor = ${env:MONITOR:}

width = 100%
height = 24pt
radius = 5

; dpi = 96

background = ${colors.background}
foreground = ${colors.foreground}

line-size = 3pt

border-size = 3pt
border-color = #00000000

padding-left = 0
padding-right = 1

module-margin = 1

separator = |
separator-foreground = ${colors.disabled}

font-0 = monospace;2

modules-left = xworkspaces systray

cursor-click = pointer
cursor-scroll = ns-resize

bottom = true

enable-ipc = true

; tray-position = right

; wm-restack = generic
; wm-restack = bspwm
wm-restack = i3

; override-redirect = true

[module/systray]
type = internal/tray

format-margin = 4pt
tray-spacing = 6pt

[module/xworkspaces]
type = internal/xworkspaces

label-active = %name%
label-active-background = ${colors.background-alt}
label-active-underline= ${colors.primary}
label-active-padding = 1

label-occupied = %name%
label-occupied-padding = 1

label-urgent = %name%
label-urgent-background = ${colors.alert}
label-urgent-padding = 11

label-empty = %name%
label-empty-foreground = ${colors.disabled}
label-empty-padding = 1

Polybar log

No response

Expected behavior

I'm expecting the workspace, where a window was open/some program triggered, to have a different label color

Actual behavior

nothing

Window Manager and Version

i3 version 4.22 (2023-01-02)

Linux Distribution

EndeavourOS

Polybar version

polybar 3.6.3-216-g278584fa

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

Additional Context / Screenshots

confirmed by a dev, who suggested opening an issue (which nobody did despite a few more reponses on the thread)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Polybar/comments/urdy2h/workspace_urgency_not_working_what_am_i_missing/

[kronn]

If you are using i3, there is a dedicated module that should (to my understanding) communicate directly with the window manager. xworkspaces is mostly used as a generic fallback for all EWMH-compliant window managers. I can see that your polybar-version has the i3-module enabled, so this could be an option for you: https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Module:-i3

This might not solve the issue, but maybe help you at least?