i3bar is displayed twice after regolith packages update

[mwmdev]

I just updated these packages :

2023-08-04 17:46:53 install i3-swap-focus:amd64 0.4.3-1regolith
2023-08-04 17:47:13 install regolith-look-default-loader:amd64 0.7.5-1regolith
2023-08-04 17:47:14 install regolith-i3-control-center-regolith:amd64 3.8.1-2-1regolith-jammy
2023-08-04 17:47:14 install regolith-i3-gaps-partial:amd64 3.8.1-2-1regolith-jammy
2023-08-04 17:47:15 install regolith-i3-i3xrocks:amd64 3.8.1-2-1regolith-jammy
2023-08-04 17:47:15 install regolith-i3-ilia:amd64 3.8.1-2-1regolith-jammy
2023-08-04 17:47:15 install regolith-i3-rofication-ilia:amd64 3.8.1-2-1regolith-jammy
2023-08-04 17:47:15 install regolith-i3-swap-focus:amd64 3.8.1-2-1regolith-jammy

and now my i3bar is displayed twice one under the other :

I see two i3bar processes running :

$ps aux | grep i3bar
mike      141331  0.1  0.0 273264 13896 ?        S    21:28   0:01 i3bar --bar_id=bar-0 --socket=/run/user/1000/i3/ipc-socket.2637
mike      141333  0.0  0.0 271940 11876 ?        S    21:28   0:01 i3bar --bar_id=bar-1 --socket=/run/user/1000/i3/ipc-socket.2637

Can't figure out where the duplicate is called from.

[kgilmer]

Hi @mwmdev , which version of Regolith are you running? Are you getting packages from unstable by chance? (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/regolith.list might have "release" "testing" or "unstable" in the URL path)

To answer your question, the package that provides the bar stanza is regolith-i3-i3xrocks. You could determine where the dupe is by first finding all files that i3 is loading:

$ i3 --moreversion

This will show each file and directory. then you can grep through what those are looking for bar { in the files. Ex:

$ find /usr/share/regolith/i3/config.d/ | xargs grep -HsF "bar {"
/usr/share/regolith/i3/config.d/70_bar:bar {

Unfortunately this doesn't tell you which deb package is supplying the file. To do that you can then ask dpkg:

$ dpkg -S 70_bar
regolith-i3-i3xrocks: /usr/share/regolith/i3/config.d/70_bar
regolith-sway-i3status-rs: /usr/share/regolith/sway/config.d/70_bar_i3status-rs

In the case that you don't find a package corresponding to a file, it means that the file was probably supplied by you or was deprecated from a previous release but not removed. HTH

[mwmdev]

Hi, thanks for the thorough reply. It was a simple mistake, I had custom configs in .config/ and forgot to delete the one in /usr/share, so the bar was loaded twice.