exwm layer does not allow mouse clicks and (exwm-randr-enable) is not a function

[KhalfaniW]

I setup a new emacs home dir, setup spacemacs, and only added the exwm layer. Then i ran it in a vritual virtual console tty2 Ctrl+Alt+f2

The first error I encountered is (exwm-randr-enable) is not a function. There is no (exwm-randr-enable) function in the exwm library

So I replaced (exwm-randr-enable) with (exwm-randr-mode 1) as I inferred from the wiki .

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The second problem the mouse not working in applications.

When I click in a window like Xterm or firefox i get the error message mouse-drag-region must be bound to an event with parameters and no click is registered.

When I change the value below to false in packages.el

broken: (exwm-input-line-mode-passthrough t "Pass all keypresses to emacs in line mode.")
working (exwm-input-line-mode-passthrough nil "Pass all keypresses to emacs in line mode.")

then it works

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version info:

• Spacemacs v.0.999.0
• "GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.41, cairo version 1.18.0) of 2024-07-01, modified by Debian"
• Ubuntu 24.10

[smile13241324]

Hmpf exwm is difficult, the interface is changing all the time and it requires X to be even tested.

I think we need someone using it on a regular basis to ensure its working. If we don't I am inclined to remove support for it until the package becomes more stable.

@bcc32 @fnussbaum

[fnussbaum]

I can try to get the layer into an acceptable state (see also #16642), but I won't get to it until mid-February.