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┌──────────────────────────────┐
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│ Release notes for i3 v4.20 │
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└──────────────────────────────┘
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This is i3 v4.20. This version is considered stable. All users of i3 are
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strongly encouraged to upgrade.
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Two long-awaited features have been added:
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1. You can now use an “include” directive in your i3 config:
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https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#include
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2. You can now enable showing window icons in window titlebars:
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https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#title_window_icon
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In case you notice any issues regarding your background/wallpaper, note:
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Some login managers (e.g. gdm) start the X11 server with the -background none
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flag. When this flag is set, a background needs to be explicitly set later in
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the X11 session, otherwise stale copies of closed windows remain visible on
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the X11 root window (symptom looks like “my terminal window is not closing”).
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i3 works around this situation by setting a screenshot as background when
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starting. Any background you set before starting i3 (e.g. in your Xsession) or
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after starting i3 (e.g. via exec statements in the i3 config) will be visible.
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A downside of this workaround is that if you have any windows already open in
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your X11 session, those will be part of the screenshot.
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To fix this issue, starting in v4.20, i3 detects whether the -background none
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option is enabled and only then sets a screenshot as background.
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┌────────────────────────────┐
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│ Changes in i3 v4.20 │
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└────────────────────────────┘
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• default config: use dex for XDG autostart
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• docs/ipc: document scratchpad_state
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• ipc: the GET_CONFIG request now returns all included files and their details
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• i3-nagbar: position on focused monitor by default
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• i3-nagbar: add option to position on primary monitor
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• i3bar: use first bar config by default
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• i3-dmenu-desktop: ignore duplicate files and directories (fixes crash on NixOS)
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• i3-dump-log -f now uses UNIX sockets instead of pthreads. The UNIX socket approach
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should be more reliable and also more portable.
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• When clicking on a tab, focus its child (like when scrolling), or (if
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already focused), focus the tab container (alternatingly).
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• Implement the include config directive:
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https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#include
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• Implement optionally showing window icons in titlebar:
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https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#title_window_icon
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• Allow for_window to match against WM_CLIENT_MACHINE
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• Add %machine placeholder (WM_CLIENT_MACHINE) to title_format
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• 'move container|workspace to output': toggle a workspace (or container)
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between multiple outputs when multiple output names specified.
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• Add 'move container|workspace to output next'
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• Add 'all' window matching criterion
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• Acquire the WM_Sn selection when starting as required by ICCCM
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• Add --replace command line argument to replace an existing WM
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• Notify systemd when i3 is ready, allowing other services in a systemd user session
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to use i3 as a dependency
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┌────────────────────────────┐
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│ Bugfixes │
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└────────────────────────────┘
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• i3bar: properly close file descriptors
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• i3bar: properly restart status command after config change
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• i3bar: exit with 1 when a wrong command line argument is used
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• ipc: return proper signed int for container positions: negative values were
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returned as large 32 bits integers
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• when initializing new outputs, avoid duplicating workspace numbers
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• fix workspaces not moving to assigned output after output becomes available
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• fix duplicate bindcode after i3-config-wizard
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• fix commented-out rofi call in default i3 config
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• clear pixmap before drawing to prevent visual garbage
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• fix crash with "layout default"
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• send an "output" event on XRandR 1.5 monitor configuration change
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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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ajakk, Albert Safin, Anaël Beutot, Antoine Martin, Dmitri Goutnik, ekarpp,
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Imran Virani, Ingo Bürk, Isaac Garzon, Ivan Milov, Jay Khandkar, j-jzk, Ken
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Gilmer, Kjetil Torgrim Homme, lbonn, Michael Stapelberg, Orestis Floros, Ralph
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Gutkowski, Romuald Brunet, tomty89, Tristan Giles, Tudor Brindus, Uli
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Schlachter, Vincent Bernat, Vladimir Panteleev
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-- Michael Stapelberg, 2021-10-19
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