release notes: update and final touches
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│ Release notes for i3 v4.3 │
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└──────────────────────────────┘
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This is the third release of the new major version of i3, v4.3. It is
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considered stable. All users of i3 are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
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This is the i3 v4.3. This version is considered stable. All users of i3 are
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strongly encouraged to upgrade.
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One rather visible change is that commands which could not be parsed properly
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will now spawn i3-nagbar. In case you used "bindsym $mod+x firefox" (and
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forgot the "exec" keyword) or you made a typo in your config, you will now
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notice that :).
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We also made the orientation (horizontal/vertical) part of the layout
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mechanism: Before, we got the default layout and you could change
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orientation. Now, there are two new layouts "splitv" and "splith", which
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replace the default layout. The "split h" and "split v" commands continue to
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work as before, they split the current container and you will end up in a
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split container with layout splith (after "split h") or splitv (after "split
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v").
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split container with layout splith (after "split h") or splitv (after
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"split v").
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To change a splith container into a splitv container, use either "layout
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splitv" or "layout toggle split". The latter command is used in the
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default config as mod+l (previously "layout default"). In case you have
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default config as mod+l (formerly "layout default"). In case you have
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"layout default" in your config file, it is recommended to just replace
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it by "layout toggle split", which will work as "layout default" did
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before when pressing it once, but toggle between horizontal/vertical
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when pressing it repeatedly.
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The rationale behind this commit is that it’s cleaner to have all
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The rationale behind this change is that it’s cleaner to have all
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parameters that influence how windows are rendered in the layout itself
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rather than having a special parameter in combination with only one
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layout. This enables us to change existing split containers in all cases
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without breaking existing features (see ticket #464). Also, users should
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feel more confident about whether they are actually splitting or just
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changing an existing split container now.
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rather than having one special layout in combination with an additional
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orientation. This enables us to change existing split containers in all
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cases without breaking existing features (see ticket #464). Also, users
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should feel more confident about whether they are actually splitting or
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just changing an existing split container now.
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As a nice side-effect, this commit brings back the "layout toggle"
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feature we once had in i3 version 3 (see the userguide).
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feature we once had in i3 v3 (see the userguide).
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Another very important change is that we now support pango for rendering text.
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@ -47,8 +48,8 @@ Another very important change is that we now support pango for rendering text.
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example) and to support right-to-left rendering (open http://www.ftpal.net/
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for an example). Supporting users from all over the planet is important, and
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as such I would strongly advise distribution packagers to leave pango support
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in. In case you are working on a very low-spec embedded device, it is easy
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enough to disable pango support, see common.mk.
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enabled. In case you are working on a very low-spec embedded device, it is
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easy enough to disable pango support, see common.mk.
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Also, the 'layout' command now always works on the parent split container. This
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for_window [class="XTerm"] split v, layout tabbed
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Furthermore, we decided to entirely ignore resize increment size hints for
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tiling windows. These are set by terminal emulators (such as urxvt,
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gnome-terminal, …) and specify that the window may only be resized in
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multiples of the specified size. All terminal emulators cope with the window
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manager ignoring these hints and by doing so, they can decide what to do with
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the lost space (that is, pseudo-transparency now works without black bars in
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urxvt).
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┌────────────────────────────┐
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│ Changes in v4.3 │
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└────────────────────────────┘
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• docs: there now is documentation about lib::i3test and lib::i3test::Test,
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the main Perl modules used by our testsuite.
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• docs/refcard: update for v4
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• docs/userguide: clarify the default for focus_follows_mouse and new_window
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• docs/userguide: add section about implicit containers
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• docs/userguide: give 'move <container|workspace> to output' its own section
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• docs/ipc: document the 'window' field in the GET_TREE reply
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• docs/ipc: update links to ipc libraries
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• docs/ipc: make the reply sections consistent
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• 'move workspace number n' will now create the workspace if it doesn’t exist
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• Accept slashes in RandR output names
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• Keep startup-notification sequences around for 30s after completion
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• Introduce bindsym --release, which will trigger the binding not on the
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KeyPress event, but on the KeyRelease event (useful for import(1) or
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xdotool(1)).
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• The signalhandler does not offer you to exit i3 anymore. Instead, there is
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'b' for writing a backtrace to a file in /tmp (if gdb is installed)
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• Remove support for resize increment hints for tiling windows
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• Exit fullscreen mode when 'scratchpad show' is executed while in fullscreen
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┌────────────────────────────┐
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│ Bugfixes │
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issue with gnome-terminal and xfce’s terminal)
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• Fix flickering with 1pixel border tabbed layouts
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• Use _exit() instead of exit() when i3 utility programs cannot be executed
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• Don’t focus the wrong workspace when moving to scratchpad
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┌────────────────────────────┐
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│ Thanks! │
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Thanks for testing, bugfixes, discussions and everything I forgot go out to:
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aksr, Axel Wagner, darkraven, David Coppa, eeemsi, Felicitus, Fernando Tarlá
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Cardoso Lemos, Iakov Davydov, jh, Joel Stemmer, Julius Plenz, Marcel Hellwig,
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Marcus, mloskot, Moritz Bandemer, oblique, Ondrej Grover, Pavel Löbl, Philipp
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Middendorf, prg, Quentin Glidic, Sebastian Ullrich, somelauw, stfn, tucos,
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TunnelWicht, Valentin Haenel
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Cardoso Lemos, Iakov Davydov, jh, Joel Stemmer, Julius Plenz, loblik, Marcel
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Hellwig, Marcus, mloskot, Moritz Bandemer, oblique, Ondrej Grover, Pavel
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Löbl, Philipp Middendorf, prg, Quentin Glidic, Sebastian Ullrich, Simon
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Elsbrock, somelauw, stfn, tucos, TunnelWicht, Valentin Haenel
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-- Michael Stapelberg, 2012-09-06
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-- Michael Stapelberg, 2012-09-19
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