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
meson only supports the top level (no subdirs), so this makes the transition
easier.
For this to work with autotools, we need to *disable* the subdir-objects option,
that autotools wants us to enable for forward-compatibility.
This results in a bunch of warnings at autoreconf-time, but we don’t care, given
that we intend to switch away from autotools. Both build systems working next to
each other (as best as they can) is more important.
related to #4086
Fixes#4039
Crash with docking clients where the floating field is set even though
floating_enable refuses to make them floating.
See issue for example with logs.
The default `tiling` and `floating` behavior is preserved and matches
both cases.
Adds a new handler to `remanage_window` on A_I3_FLOATING_WINDOW change.
Mainly in order to `run_assignments`, this makes `for_window [floating]`
directives to work for windows which where initially opened as tiling.
Now, when floating is enabled, `for_window` will trigger correctly. Same
applies to `for_window [tiling]`.
The obvious solution of `run_assignments` after
`floating_{enable,disable}` doesn't work because `run_assignments`
modifies the parser state in src/assignments.c:51.
Fixes#3588
Co-Authored-By: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Before this commit, large workspace numbers treated oddly:
$ i3-msg 'rename workspace to 1234567890'
# displayed in i3bar as `0`
$ i3-msg 'rename workspace to 4294967200'
$ i3-msg -t get_workspaces | jq '.[]|select(.focused).num'
-96 # int32_t overflow
$ i3-msg 'rename workspace to 99999999999999999999'
$ i3-msg -t get_workspaces | jq '.[]|select(.focused).num'
-1 # treated as unnumbered
This commit puts a consistent limit on workspace numbers. Now
workspaces with numbers beyond INT32_MAX are treated as unnumbered.
I had a dilemma about the behaviour here:
1. Prohibit focus leaving the workspace in any case unless if
get_tree_next's initial argument is a workspace. This is what this
commit does (also i3-cycle).
2. Leave the workspace if no warp is possible (eg workspace with single
container or `focus right` with `V[a b c*]`).
Fixes#2180
- Makes `tree_next` not recursive.
- Adds `focus next|prev [sibling]` command. See (1.) and (2.) in
https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/2587#issuecomment-378505551 (Issue also
requests move command, not implemented here).
- Directional focus command now supports command criteria.
Wrapping is not implemented inside a floating container. This was also
true before the refactor so I am not changing it here.
This commit should fix "move con to parent" trick (see below) in the
case when con->parent->parent is a workspace.
The trick:
mark _a, focus parent, focus parent, mark _b,
[con_mark=_a] move window to mark _b, [con_mark=_a] focus
The trick got broken in commit 626af81232
in order to fix an i3 crash (#2003). Reverting said commit fixes the
trick. The crash is caused by the fact that empty workspace isn't
considered a split (checked in src/con.c:1324), so the moved window ends
up as a sibling of the target workspace, not as its child.
This fixes the case where moving a container to a scratchpad hidden
container via a mark would cause the container to be tiling on the
__i3_scratch workspace. This still moves the container to the
__i3_scratch workspace, but properly adds it to the scratchpad so that
it becomes usable instead of requiring criteria to regain access to.
The testcase is changed because it was actually incorrect. Easy to
verify because:
> _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP
> …
> The index of the current desktop. This is always an integer between 0
> and _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS - 1.
Fixes#3696.
Also updates the viewports.
Finally, fixes an issue with _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP not being updated
after a workspace rename. Example:
- workspaces 1, 2, 3
- rename workspace 1 to 5
- All workspaces changed their index but _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP was not
updated
- Having both parse_configuration and parse_file is excessive now
- We detect if we are parsing only by checking if conn is NULL, not with
use_nagbar
- font.pattern needs to be set to NULL because it is freed in
free_font()
Fixes#3660
