Unable to restore windows with layouts

[RidaAyed]

Description

I'm unable to restore windows with layouts

Reproduction guide 🪲

Save layout:

• Start Emacs
• SPC l 2
• Input foo. Hit Enter to create another layout named foo
• SPC w v to split-window-right
• SPC l S to save the layout foo

Restore layout:

• Restart emacs (optional)
• SPC l L to load layout from file
• Select foo
• SPC l foo to load layout

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔
SPC l L foo leads to nothing

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄
SPC l L foo foo restores the vertically windows layout

System Info 💻

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 29.4
• Spacemacs: 0.999.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 2984892)
• Graphic display: t
• Running in daemon: nil
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(git helm)

• Possibly important!

dotspacemacs-additional-packages '(exwm)

• System configuration features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB

Backtrace 🐾

No error is shown with enabled debugging

[fnussbaum]

I can't reproduce this exactly, though I have only tried without exwm.

• SPC w v to split-window-right

• SPC l S to save the layout foo

If I switch these two steps, then there is also a problem for me. Before Bad-ptr/persp-mode.el@0f8db62, saving layouts to files would set their persp-file perspective parameter and auto-save to that file later (when persp-auto-save-persps-to-their-file was t). Now the persp-file parameter is no longer set when saving or loading layouts from files. However, this is a change of behaviour (or bug) in persp-mode upstream.

Personally, I have moved away from persp-mode and am currently writing an alternative to the spacemacs-layouts layer built on more solid foundations. However I am not yet sure if this will be suitable for inclusion into Spacemacs.