[Slackbuilds-users] i3 failing

[B. Watson]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2026, Antonio Leal via SlackBuilds-users wrote:

> 
> i3 is failing some tests, I've contacted emmanueln at gmail.com last week, maybe an admin can provide a temporary fix?

I just tried various things. It turns out that "make test" will
succeed if and only if it's actually run under i3, meaning it already
has to be installed. This is because it calls "i3 --get-socketpath",
which only works if called from within a running i3 session.

It isn't just that it can't get the socket path... it actually uses
the socket to communicate with a running instance of i3. If i3 isn't
running, there's no possible way for "make test" to work. So my
recommendation for the SlackBuild is to get rid of the 'make test'
entirely.

My recommendation is to just get rid of the "make test". On a clean
Slackware 15.0 VM, it always succeeds when run under i3, so we can
honestly say it's redundant to run it anyway. Unless you or someone
else objects, I will make this change and push it.

Probably the reason Emmanuel never noticed this is that he's never
tried to run it from within another window manager or desktop env.
Also, I notice the last git log activity from Emmanuel N. Millan was
almost 2 years ago...