187 lines
10 KiB
Groff
187 lines
10 KiB
Groff
|
||
┌──────────────────────────────┐
|
||
│ Release notes for i3 v4.3 │
|
||
└──────────────────────────────┘
|
||
|
||
This is the i3 v4.3. This version is considered stable. All users of i3 are
|
||
strongly encouraged to upgrade.
|
||
|
||
One rather visible change is that commands which could not be parsed properly
|
||
will now spawn i3-nagbar. In case you used "bindsym $mod+x firefox" (and
|
||
forgot the "exec" keyword) or you made a typo in your config, you will now
|
||
notice that :).
|
||
|
||
|
||
We also made the orientation (horizontal/vertical) part of the layout
|
||
mechanism: Before, we got the default layout and you could change
|
||
orientation. Now, there are two new layouts "splitv" and "splith", which
|
||
replace the default layout. The "split h" and "split v" commands continue to
|
||
work as before, they split the current container and you will end up in a
|
||
split container with layout splith (after "split h") or splitv (after
|
||
"split v").
|
||
|
||
To change a splith container into a splitv container, use either "layout
|
||
splitv" or "layout toggle split". The latter command is used in the
|
||
default config as mod+e (formerly "layout default"). In case you have
|
||
"layout default" in your config file, it is recommended to just replace
|
||
it by "layout toggle split", which will work as "layout default" did
|
||
before when pressing it once, but toggle between horizontal/vertical
|
||
when pressing it repeatedly.
|
||
|
||
The rationale behind this change is that it’s cleaner to have all
|
||
parameters that influence how windows are rendered in the layout itself
|
||
rather than having one special layout in combination with an additional
|
||
orientation. This enables us to change existing split containers in all
|
||
cases without breaking existing features (see ticket #464). Also, users
|
||
should feel more confident about whether they are actually splitting or
|
||
just changing an existing split container now.
|
||
|
||
As a nice side-effect, this commit brings back the "layout toggle"
|
||
feature we once had in i3 v3 (see the userguide).
|
||
|
||
|
||
Another very important change is that we now support pango for rendering text.
|
||
The default is still to use misc-fixed (X core fonts), but you can use a font
|
||
specification starting with "xft:" now, such as "xft:DejaVu Sans Mono 10" and
|
||
i3 will use pango. The sole motivation for this is NOT to have fancier window
|
||
decorations, but to support fonts which have more glyphs (think Japanese for
|
||
example) and to support right-to-left rendering (open http://www.ftpal.net/
|
||
for an example). Supporting users from all over the planet is important, and
|
||
as such I would strongly advise distribution packagers to leave pango support
|
||
enabled. In case you are working on a very low-spec embedded device, it is
|
||
easy enough to disable pango support, see common.mk.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Also, the 'layout' command now always works on the parent split container. This
|
||
allows you to do things like this:
|
||
|
||
for_window [class="XTerm"] layout tabbed
|
||
|
||
When you now open XTerm on an empty workspace, the whole workspace will be
|
||
set to tabbed. In case you want to open XTerm in its own tabbed split
|
||
container, you need to split before:
|
||
|
||
for_window [class="XTerm"] split v, layout tabbed
|
||
|
||
|
||
Furthermore, we decided to entirely ignore resize increment size hints for
|
||
tiling windows. These are set by terminal emulators (such as urxvt,
|
||
gnome-terminal, …) and specify that the window may only be resized in
|
||
multiples of the specified size. All terminal emulators cope with the window
|
||
manager ignoring these hints and by doing so, they can decide what to do with
|
||
the lost space (that is, pseudo-transparency now works without black bars in
|
||
urxvt).
|
||
|
||
┌────────────────────────────┐
|
||
│ Changes in v4.3 │
|
||
└────────────────────────────┘
|
||
|
||
• docs: there now is documentation about lib::i3test and lib::i3test::Test,
|
||
the main Perl modules used by our testsuite.
|
||
• docs/refcard: update for v4
|
||
• docs/userguide: clarify the default for focus_follows_mouse and new_window
|
||
• docs/userguide: add section about implicit containers
|
||
• docs/userguide: give 'move <container|workspace> to output' its own section
|
||
• docs/ipc: document the 'window' field in the GET_TREE reply
|
||
• docs/ipc: update links to ipc libraries
|
||
• docs/ipc: make the reply sections consistent
|
||
• docs/i3bar-protocol: add example (illustration-only!) shell script
|
||
• man/i3bar.man: reference i3bar-protocol
|
||
• IPC: Commands now lead to proper error messages in general. If we forgot
|
||
about a specific one, please open a ticket.
|
||
• IPC: implement GET_VERSION to find out the i3 version
|
||
• i3-dump-log now comes with a massively more helpful error message that
|
||
should cover all the use cases.
|
||
• 'workspace number <number>' now opens a new workspace
|
||
• 'workspace number <number>' now works with the back_and_forth option
|
||
• Allow focus with target (criteria) when in fullscreen mode in some cases
|
||
• Allow focus child/parent when in fullscreen mode
|
||
• Restrict directional focus when in fullscreen mode
|
||
• Prevent moving out of fullscreen containers
|
||
• Add 'move to workspace current' (useful when used with criteria)
|
||
• replace loglevels by a global debug logging
|
||
• make: new makefile layout
|
||
• make: canonicalize path when compiling. This leads to sth like
|
||
../i3-4.2/src/main.c in backtraces, clearly identifying i3 code.
|
||
• automatically hide i3bar when it’s unneeded (after urgency hints)
|
||
• i3-config-wizard: use the level 0 keysym whenever it’s unambiguous
|
||
• i3-nagbar: use custom scripts to work around different terminal emulators
|
||
using different ways of interpreting the arguments to -e
|
||
• i3-sensible-terminal: add xfce4-terminal
|
||
• default config: require confirmation when exiting i3
|
||
• Display i3-nagbar when a command leads to an error.
|
||
• testcases: complete-run now supports --xtrace
|
||
• testcases: handle EAGAIN (fixes hangs)
|
||
• testcases: handle test bailouts
|
||
• Introduce splith/splitv layouts, remove orientation
|
||
• Implement hide_edge_borders option
|
||
• Support _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW ClientMessages
|
||
• Set I3_PID atom on the X11 root window
|
||
• Implement i3 --moreversion, handy for figuring out whether you run the
|
||
latest binary which is installed.
|
||
• i3bar: be less strict about the {"version":1} JSON header
|
||
• shm-logging: implement i3-dump-log -f (follow)
|
||
• Implement pango support
|
||
• 'move workspace number n' will now create the workspace if it doesn’t exist
|
||
• Accept slashes in RandR output names
|
||
• Keep startup-notification sequences around for 30s after completion
|
||
• Introduce bindsym --release, which will trigger the binding not on the
|
||
KeyPress event, but on the KeyRelease event (useful for import(1) or
|
||
xdotool(1)).
|
||
• The signalhandler does not offer you to exit i3 anymore. Instead, there is
|
||
'b' for writing a backtrace to a file in /tmp (if gdb is installed)
|
||
• Remove support for resize increment hints for tiling windows
|
||
• Exit fullscreen mode when 'scratchpad show' is executed while in fullscreen
|
||
|
||
┌────────────────────────────┐
|
||
│ Bugfixes │
|
||
└────────────────────────────┘
|
||
|
||
• Fix floating precision bug when floating windows are moved between outputs.
|
||
• i3bar won’t crash when full_text is missing or null in the JSON input
|
||
• When having "workspace number 1" in your config, there will no longer be a
|
||
stray workspace "number 1".
|
||
• i3.config.keycodes used bindsym instead of bindcode for the arrow key
|
||
resizing bindings by mistake
|
||
• Fix 'move to workspace' when used with criteria
|
||
• Handle clicks to the very left edge of i3bar
|
||
• When using i3 -C, don’t send remaining arguments as an IPC command
|
||
• Fix reload crashes in rare cases
|
||
• i3bar: inform all clients of new tray selection owner (fixes tray problems
|
||
with X-Chat and possibly others)
|
||
• resizing: traverse containers up properly (fixes non-working resizing when
|
||
having a h-split within a h-split for example)
|
||
• Fix floating coordinates when moving assigned workspaces
|
||
• Properly fix floating coordinates when disabling outputs
|
||
• floating_fix_coordinates: properly deal with negative positions
|
||
• floating windows: add deco_height only when in normal border mode (fixes
|
||
initial floating window position/size when using a different default border
|
||
setting).
|
||
• Fix moving scratchpad window
|
||
• Cleanup zero-byte logfile on immediate exit (they are created by i3
|
||
--get-socketpath for example).
|
||
• Fix resizing floating windows by height
|
||
• Fix back_and_forth in 'workspace number' for named workspaces
|
||
• Grab server and process pending events before managing existing windows
|
||
(fixes problems with GIMP windows not being managed after an in-place
|
||
restart)
|
||
• Don’t allow ConfigureRequests while in fullscreen (fixes a compatibility
|
||
issue with gnome-terminal and xfce’s terminal)
|
||
• Fix flickering with 1pixel border tabbed layouts
|
||
• Use _exit() instead of exit() when i3 utility programs cannot be executed
|
||
• Don’t focus the wrong workspace when moving to scratchpad
|
||
|
||
┌────────────────────────────┐
|
||
│ Thanks! │
|
||
└────────────────────────────┘
|
||
|
||
Thanks for testing, bugfixes, discussions and everything I forgot go out to:
|
||
|
||
aksr, Axel Wagner, darkraven, David Coppa, eeemsi, Felicitus, Fernando Tarlá
|
||
Cardoso Lemos, Iakov Davydov, jh, Joel Stemmer, Julius Plenz, loblik, Marcel
|
||
Hellwig, Marcus, mloskot, Moritz Bandemer, oblique, Ondrej Grover, Pavel
|
||
Löbl, Philipp Middendorf, prg, Quentin Glidic, Sebastian Ullrich, Simon
|
||
Elsbrock, somelauw, stfn, tucos, TunnelWicht, Valentin Haenel
|
||
|
||
-- Michael Stapelberg, 2012-09-19
|