Polybar Doesn't Always Show All Tags
Checklist
- [x] I have read the appropriate section in the contributing guidelines
- [x] I believe this issue is a problem with polybar itself and not a misconfiguration on my part.
- [x] I have searched for other open and closed issues that may have already reported this problem.
- [x] I have checked the known issues page for this problem.
Describe the bug
I will apologize in advance as I am working off of a VM and not very familiar with polybar. I am having two issues, the first is that at random times polybar will stop showing all active dwm tags. Lets say I have one window on tag 1 and one window on tag 3, when this issue occurs if I open a window on tag 2 polybar will not update and show that tag 2 now has a window on it nor will it update to show the active tag when switching tags. The second issue is that, at random, polybar will simply go black. I don't have any logs nor do I know what if any logs I could provide. I am working in a Virtualbox VM at the moment, and using the latest release of master. If there is anything more I can provide please feel to ask, I apologise for me my ignorance here.
Expected behavior:
Not applicable
Actual behavior:
Not applicable
Was it working before?
- Did you also experience this bug in an earlier version of polybar (yes/no/don't know)? Unsure, just starting using it
- If no, what was the last version where this worked correctly? Not applicable
To Reproduce
Unsure if any special configuration is needed, but here is my minimal config.
Polybar Log
Screenshots
Environment:
- WM: dwm
- Distro: ubuntu 20.04
- Output of
polybar -vvv:
polybar 3.5.2-100-g0c3e139
Features: +alsa +curl +dwm +i3 +mpd +network(wireless-tools) +pulseaudio +xkeyboard
X extensions: +xrandr (+monitors) +composite +xkb +xrm -xcursor
Build type: Release
Compiler: /usr/bin/g++
Compiler flags: -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -03 -DNDEBUG
Linker flags:
Additional context
I just started using this very recently, about a day ago. I have tried the upstream example configuration provided when building polybar and a minimal configuration. Both have this issue.