Brief Abstract

The org roam persistent buffer does not really support a workflow that makes use of frames.

Long Description

Currently the org-roam buffers visibility is defined as follows:

(define-inline org-roam-buffer--visibility ()
  "Return the current visibility state of the persistent `org-roam-buffer'.
Valid states are 'visible, 'exists and 'none."
  (declare (side-effect-free t))
  (inline-quote
   (cond
    ((get-buffer-window org-roam-buffer) 'visible)
    ((get-buffer org-roam-buffer) 'exists)
    (t 'none))))

This makes the assumption that if the org-roam buffer is not part of the active frame that it is not visible and therefore should not be updated. It should be possible to do better than this, but it may require some platform specific things and external tools.

Proposed Implementation (if any)

In my package frame-mode, I have a function that relies on xwinfo to determine if a frame is viewable:

https://github.com/IvanMalison/frame-mode/blob/ae2366969927c9f89ea07c999bef382b0b47cac1/frame-mode.el#L83

This is obvious not only platform, but display server (XOrg vs Wayland etc.) specific, which is not ideal. Still, I think that maybe the move here is to allow the user to specify a visibility function and default to the current behavior.

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