Actually, commit 1c5adc6c35 commented out code
without ever fixing it. I think this was responsible for the 'workspace
switching sometimes does not work' bug. My observations:
Had it again today and analyzed a log of it. Looks like after unmapping the
windows on one workspace (in my case: chromium, eclipse, urxvt, focus on
eclipse) we get UnmapNotify events for chromium and eclipse, but then we get an
EnterNotify for the terminal (due to unmapping the other windows and therefore
mapping the terminal under the cursor), only afterwards the UnmapNotify
follows.
So, there are two things wrong with that:
• We handle EnterNotifys for unmapped windows
• Unmapping windows sometimes works in a sequence, sometimes the sequence gets
split. Not sure why (if unmapping can take longer for some windows or if our
syncing is wrong -- but i checked the latter briefly and it looks correct).
Maybe GrabServer helps?
• We don’t ignore EnterNotify events caused by UnmapNotifies. We used to, but
then there was a different problem and we decided to solve the EnterNotify
problem in another way, which actually never happened (commit
1c5adc6c35).
The case of an X11 server having multiple displays is handled correctly by the
code in src/mainx.c. However, due to some functions not being correctly
refactored and still getting the first screen (and also the first root window)
from the XCB connection, i3 was operating on the wrong root window.
This fixes a bug where opening the Xpdf find dialog when Xpdf is in fullscreen
mode would crash Xpdf due to a zero-width and zero-height ConfigureNotify rect.
This fixes ticket #173, at least for the rendering errors.
I don’t really know why I implemented predict_text_width like it
was before (querying the whole table and pulling out information
one by one). Maybe I have overlooked xcb_query_text_extents. In
any case, it works better now.
Thus, no more flickering because the window was first mapped and then
moved. Especially users of multiple monitors should be happy now ;-).
Rather radical change, though, so be prepared for problems.
Details which are missing: A command to hide/show all floating clients,
moving/resizing clients with your mouse holding Mod1 (click anywhere
in the client, not just on its borders), resize/move by keyboard, select
next/previous client by keyboard
Michael Stapelberg