[Slackbuilds-users] i3 failing

[Emmanuel]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:

>
>
> 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...
>

Hi, I'm here. I've been active recently; I sent several commits about two
weeks ago.

We can remove the `make test` from the Slackbuild if you'd like.

Best regards

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