add release notes for v4.8
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┌──────────────────────────────┐
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│ Release notes for i3 v4.8 │
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└──────────────────────────────┘
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This is i3 v4.8. This version is considered stable. All users of i3 are
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strongly encouraged to upgrade.
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The biggest new feature certainly is layout saving/restoring. See
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http://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html for more details. tl;dr: export your
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current layout as JSON file, load it into new i3 sessions, get placeholder
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windows that will be replaced by the actual apps once you start them.
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Also very important for owners of HiDPI/“retina” displays is that i3 will now
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respect your configured DPI and scale up its UI elements accordingly. Use
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“xrandr --dpi 184” to set your dpi to 184, in case your setup does not figure
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it out automatically. To get properly scaling fonts, we also changed the
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default font from a bitmap font to a pango font (“DejaVu Sans Mono 8”).
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Multiple changes improve the compatibility of i3 with other software, e.g.
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java-based software (focus handling, once again) or external pagers (we now
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provide _NET_CLIENT_LIST and let pager applications change workspaces).
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For packagers, another change is that yajl ≥ 2.0 is now required for compiling
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i3. This should not be a problem for anyone, as that version is pretty old by
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now.
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┌────────────────────────────┐
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│ Changes in v4.8 │
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└────────────────────────────┘
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• docs/ipc: reformat/update list of ipc libraries
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• docs/ipc: fix current_workspace outputs reply member
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• docs/ipc: update ipc COMMAND reply docs
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• docs/userguide: fix multiple typos
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• docs/debugging: use bzip2
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• docs/debugging: explain how to enable logging on the fly
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• docs/debugging: merge the debug symbols/backtrace section
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• docs/debugging: recommend i3 --moreversion
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• man/i3-nagbar.man: update manpage to document all options
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• i3bar: Amend status line error 127 message
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• i3bar: don’t kill watcher on EOF, leads to better error messages
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• i3bar: send mouse wheel events to child too
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• i3bar: do click handling and tray padding retina-correctly
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• i3bar: render separators render-correctly
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• i3bar: reinit colors on barconfig update
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• i3bar: Don't start child unless status_command
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• i3bar: implement custom workspace numbers config
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• resize floating windows when right-clicking the decoration
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• enable shmlog when invoked as i3-with-shmlog
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• Disable pointer warps when focus_follows_mouse is disabled
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• Movement into a branch considers movement direction
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• set ewmh desktop properties on startup
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• handle ButtonPress events with child != XCB_NONE
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• implement layout restoring
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• only LOG() the DPI when it changes, DLOG() it otherwise
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• send IPC window events for focus and title changes
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• these types of windows are now floating by default:
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dialog, utility, toolbar and splash windows, modal windows, windows with an
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equal minimum and maximum size
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• send last event timestamp with WM_TAKE_FOCUS message
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• maintain the _NET_CLIENT_LIST property
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• don’t set input focus _and_ send WM_TAKE_FOCUS
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• respect CFLAGS in linking command
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• fix parallel make
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• reset SIGPIPE handler before executing a command
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• render default window border width retina-correctly
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• draw workspace buttons and padded text blocks retina-correctly
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• render resize windows retina-correctly
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• delegate click handling to dock clients
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• send complete config on barconfig_update
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• implement the window::fullscreen_mode ipc event
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• make all workspaces starting with "__" internal
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• improve error messages for i3-internal workspace names
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• allow _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW requests to switch workspaces if they indicate
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that they are a pager (following the spec)
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• workspace assignments by number
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• add configuration option for disabling mouse warping
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• set _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW to None when none has focus
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• set X-LightDM-DesktopName in i3.xsession.desktop to fix autostart on Ubuntu
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• don’t ELOG ipc EOF
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• replace all printf()s with D?LOG
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• delete ipc socket when exiting, cleanup tmpdir
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• default config: switch to DejaVu Sans Mono 8 as default font
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• cleanup tmpdir when restarting and not using XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
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• Snap pointer to resize bar on drag resize
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• Size resizebar according to container size
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• Fix clang -Wextra except -Wunused-parameter
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• Respect Motif hint for window decorations
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┌────────────────────────────┐
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│ Bugfixes │
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└────────────────────────────┘
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• create con pixmaps when not needed
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• i3bar: fix resource leak: statusline_ctx needs to be freed first
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• tree_split should not split floating cons
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• fix memory leak with ipc_receive_message
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• fix invalid reads by setting con->window to NULL in tree_close
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• fix memory leak when closing windows
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• fix memory leak when matching window by criteria
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• fix memory leak when matching window by con_id
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• ignore dock clients in the resize command
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• clear wm_size_hints if they are not set
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• resize window check should check for NULL
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• fix window event crash with no window
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• i3-dmenu-desktop: also quote the %c field code
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• new_window and new_float can now be used simultaneously with different
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border widths
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• fix crash when using multiple for_window statements that move windows
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• Set input focus with last timestamp
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• handle windows whose WM_TRANSIENT_FOR points to themselve
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• don’t overwrite the original size of floating windows when changing border
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• don’t errnously render floating fullscreen windows during restart
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• ensure floating windows don’t drop out of fullscreen when restarting
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• don’t overwrite the window’s geometry after restartingnext
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• i3bar: Set `mapped` flag on trayclient creation
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• i3bar: don't show "EOF" status line error
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┌────────────────────────────┐
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│ Thanks! │
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└────────────────────────────┘
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Thanks for testing, bugfixes, discussions and everything I forgot go out to:
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Aleksi Blinnikka, Alexander Berntsen, Alexander Kedrik, Antonio, Arun
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Persaud, Atte Peltomaki, bo, Campbell Barton, chris, David Coppa, eeemsi,
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Holger Langenau, Jean-Philippe Ouellet, Jens, jeroentbt, Jonas Maaskola,
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Julian Ospald, Kernc, Koston, lasers, lkraav, Marcin, Marco Hunsicker,
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Marcus Crestani, Matthias Thubauville, Maxime, Michael Stapelberg, Peter
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Boström, Petr Písař, Quentin Glidic, Steve Jones, TonyC, Tony Crisci,
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Vivien Didelot, Wieland Hoffmann, x33a, xeen
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-- Michael Stapelberg, 2014-06-15
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