This feature defaults to off, and can be turned on for individual windows,
or (with for_window) for all new windows. See the userguide change.
This commit is partially based on work by:
• Marius Muja
• mickael9
• Esteve Varela Colominas
• Bernardo Menicagli
"Set" the wallpaper during startup only sometimes
Since commit 4f5e0e7, i3 would take a screenshot and set that as the
background pixmap of the root window during startup. This is the easy
part of setting a proper X11 wallpaper.
The code in question was added because something either set the
background pixmap of the root window to NONE or the X11 server was
started with "-background none". This is apparently done by default by
e.g. gdm to avoid some flickering while the X11 server starts up.
This commit makes this code conditional: Only when no wallpaper is
detected is a screenshot taken.
Since I could not find any way to query the background of a window, a
more direct approach is taken to detect this situation: First, we find
some part of the root window that is not currently covered. Then we open
a white window there, close it again and grab a screenshot. If a
wallpaper is set, the X11 server will draw this wallpaper after the
window is closed and something else will be visible in the screenshot.
However, the wallpaper could have a white pixel at the tested position.
Thus, this procedure is repeated with a black window.
Only when this procedure produces two different pixel values is a
screenshot taken and set as the wallpaper.
Fixes: https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/4371
Fixes: https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/2869
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Motivation:
• faster builds (on an Intel Core i9-9900K):
( ../configure --disable-sanitizers && make -j8; )
19,47s user 2,78s system 395% cpu 5,632 total
( meson .. -Dmans=true -Ddocs=true -Dprefix=/usr && ninja; )
38,67s user 3,73s system 1095% cpu 3,871 total
• more approachable build system configuration in the
python-esque meson domain specific language instead of
the autotools m4 macro language
• built-in language server support thanks to ninja:
the required compile_commands.json is built automatically
and only needs to be linked from the source dir, e.g.:
ln -s build/compile_commands.json .
Changes:
• the embedded vcs version info format changed from e.g.
4.18-282-gabe46f69 (2020-05-16, branch "next")
to:
4.18-282-gabe46f69
I think it’s better to lose a little bit of detail for
the gained cleanliness of using meson’s vcs_tag()
• Drop unused xcb-event dependency.
• We can no longer enable sanitizers and debug options
based on whether we are in a release or non-release build,
because our new version logic runs at ninja build time,
not at meson configure time.
The new behavior is probably for the better in terms of
what people expect, and we can make the CI use address sanitizer
explicitly to ensure it is still exercised.
• We lose the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR behavior, i.e. including the
path component of the parent of the source dir in all paths.
This was a trick we used for easier debugging, so that stack
traces would contain e.g. ../i3-4.18.1/src/main.c, instead of
just src/main.c.
The other mechanism (_i3_version symbol) that we have for including
the version number in the “backtrace full” (but not merely
“backtrace”) output of gdb still works.
• Release tarballs now use tar.xz. Why not.
Migration plan
This commit adds the meson build files to the tree, but does not remove
autotools yet. For the development phase, we will keep both build systems
functional (and built on travis).
Then, just before the i3 v4.19 release, we will remove autotools from the tree
and the release tarball will require meson to compile.
This way, we incentivize maintainers to change, while also offering them an easy
way out (if desired) by reverting the most recent commit. In practice, switching
a distribution package from autotools to meson should only be a few line change,
easier than applying the provided patch :). Take a look at the debian/ changes
in this commit for an example.
meson is broadly available everywhere that i3 is available: Both xorg-server and
systemd gained meson build files in 2017, so we can follow suit:
https://anholt.livejournal.com/52574.htmlhttps://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/blog/systemd-meson.html
How do I?
For producing a coverage report, enable the b_coverage meson base option
and run ninja coverage-html:
% cd build
% meson .. -Db_coverage=true
% ninja
% ninja test
% ninja coverage-html
See also https://mesonbuild.com/howtox.html#producing-a-coverage-report
For using the address sanitizer, memory sanitizer or undefined behavior
sanitizer, use the b_sanitize meson base option:
% cd build
% meson .. -Db_sanitize=address
% ninja
See also https://mesonbuild.com/Builtin-options.html#base-options
related to #4086
