Wayfire 0.9.0

For human-readable release notes, see the blog post 🎉

Compatible with wlroots 0.17.x

What's Changed

• bump meson.build to 0.9.0 (development version) by @ammen99 in #1938
• Unbreak build on FreeBSD by @jbeich in #1939
• build: Tell meson to ignore the return value of git commands by @soreau in #1944
• meson: fix duplicate installation of manpage by @nekopsykose in #1943
• xdg-shell: handle changes in wm_geometry offset while not in a transaction by @ammen99 in #1947
• xdg-toplevel: update wm-offset before emitting signal by @ammen99 in #1950
• cube: make cube ipc-activatable by @ammen99 in #1952
• ipc-scripts: fix ipc-rules-demo by @ammen99 in #1964
• output-layout: use wlr_texture_from_buffer directly by @ammen99 in #1967
• xwayland: fix destruction sequence when there are pending transactions by @ammen99 in #1970
• Implement keyboard-shortcuts-inhibitor-v1 by @ammen99 in #1969
• support reposition popups by @lilydjwg in #1974
• fix some typos by @lilydjwg in #1975
• Fix #1960 by @ammen99 in #1976
• api: add collect_output_nodes() and use this in plugins by @ammen99 in #1978
• Add xkb_options to wayfire.ini by @Voklen in #1981
• Small fix to setting focus of on_demand layer shell surfaces by @mfxbe in #1986
• output-layout: add support for custom modes in wlr-output-management-v1 by @ammen99 in #1984
• xdg-popup: set keyboard focus surface to not null by @ammen99 in #1987
• simple-tile: connect to workarea changed when creating wset by @ammen99 in #1988
• wm-actions: fix toggle always on top with no focused views by @ammen99 in #1989
• core: add an option to accept or discard command output by @lilydjwg in #1993
• core: discard_command_output needs to be initialized before plugins by @lilydjwg in #1998
• workspace-impl: return output size directly if output is attached by @ammen99 in #1997
• xwayland: do not honor request_activate() if the view is not mapped yet by @ammen99 in #2002
• ipc plugins: Move list-views from stipc to ipc-rules by @soreau in #2011
• fix handling of focus of views with null keyboard focus view by @ammen99 in #2015
• Config backend fixups by @soreau in #2006
• ipc: add support for querying input devices and enabling/disabling them by @ammen99 in #2016
• Fix #2007 by @ammen99 in #2026
• Update to build against wlroots 0.17.x by @soreau in #2024
• ipc-rules: Include role in view list information by @soreau in #2027
• ipc-rules: change output from name to ID. by @lcolitti in #2028
• Add an example script to move all windows to another workspace by @lcolitti in #2029
• ipc-rules: Add list-outputs function by @soreau in #2031
• window-rules: allow setting alpha for non-toplevel windows by @ammen99 in #2032
• render-manager: add WAYFIRE_DISABLE_DIRECT_SCANOUT by @ammen99 in #2033
• Move ensure_pointer() call to oswitch by @soreau in #2035
• render-manager: Use correct captures for lambdas in swapchain damage manager by @soreau in #2037
• plugin-loader: Only load plugins once by @soreau in #2038
• support fractional scale by @lilydjwg in #2042
• wm-actions: Unminimize views in reverse to maintain stacking order by @soreau in #2044
• Add shortcuts inhibit to core.xml and wayfire.ini by @marcusbritanicus in #2049
• Deny shortcut inhibit by @soreau in #2051
• Advertise support for single-pixel-buffer-v1 by @soreau in #2052
• README: Update ubuntu installation instructions by @soreau in #2054
• Fix memory leak when activating cube plugin by @lcolitti in #2060
• ipc-scripts: fix wrong command name by @lcolitti in #2061
• Listen to tiled signal in deco plugin and emit view_tiled signal on core by @timgott in #2062
• add keybindings: prev_output, prev_output_with_win by @A7R7 in #2072
• output: Implement adaptive sync option by @soreau in #2058
• disable unity builds in one of the CIs by @ammen99 in #2081
• views: emit pre_unmap immediately when starting a transaction by @ammen99 in #2080
• Support for wlr_drm_lease_v1 by @CharlieQLe in #2083
• more complete input method support by @lilydjwg in #2053
• ipc-activator.hpp: use relative include path by @ammen99 in #2084
• idle-inhibit: Fix inversed condition for working client inhibit by @soreau in #2091
• idle: Fix stuck black screen after timeout with cube disabled by @soreau in #2092
• oswitch: update cursor position after warping the mouse by @ammen99 in #2086
• main: ignore SIGPIPE globally. by @lcolitti in #2096
• decor: Don't put minimize buttons on child views by @soreau in #2057
• Add subsurfaces to the back that are meant to be below the parent surface by @soreau in #2099
• Modify blur defaults to avoid visual artifacts by @soreau in #2101
• Toggle menu by @soreau in #2097
• cursor: emit post event signals for tablet input by @ammen99 in #2102
• Fix wayfire AUR link by @trigg in #2110
• output: Add bit depth property by @soreau in #2112
• layer-shell: Refocus the keyboard focus view after arranging layers by @soreau in #2119
• Don't resize clients when output is resized by @marcusbritanicus in #2123
• pointer: mark updates caused by geometry change as real updates by @ammen99 in #2126
• keyboard: do not consume the release events from modifier bindings by @ammen99 in #2127
• ipc: add a method to list all available methods by @ammen99 in #2128
• ipc: make client interface really an interface by @ammen99 in #2130
• scale: Adapt to workarea changes by @soreau in #2133
• ipc-rules: Add get-view-pid to get the active view pid by @soreau in #2131
• optimize the GPU usage of workspace-wall by @ammen99 in #2132
• vswitch: add support for ipc by @ammen99 in #2135
• vswitch: remove "ghost window" on target workspace. by @lcolitti in #2106
• xwayland: fix a typo when setting dialog parents by @ammen99 in #2138
• toplevel-view: emit move_to_wset() when changing to a dialog by @ammen99 in #2140
• animate: lock views while cleaning up by @ammen99 in #2142
• ipc enhancements by @ammen99 in #2143
• api, ipc: add signal for when a plugin is activated or deactivated by @ammen99 in #2144
• wlroots: Bump subproject to 0.17.1 by @soreau in #2152
• a few fixes by @ammen99 in #2153
• ipc: add close-view by @CharlieQLe in #2158
• gl wrapper improvements by @ammen99 in #2161
• ipc: support workspace sets by @CharlieQLe in #2156
• ipc-rules: add output-added and output-removed signals by @CharlieQLe in #2163
• Some input method fixes (take 2) by @lilydjwg in #2113
• xdg-popup: include popup's own position in the calculation by @ammen99 in #2170
• hotspots: verify that the touch event belongs to finger id 0 by @ammen99 in #2187
• input-method-v1 by @ammen99 in #2172
• im-relay: fix text inputs created while a non-wlr node is focused by @ammen99 in #2188
• change overlay to workspace as default in scale plugin by @killown in #2192
• scale: fix moving view between different outputs by @ammen99 in #2165
• Add views to signals by @marcusbritanicus in #2196
• core: fix shutdown sequence by @ammen99 in #2197
• Set space between the edges by @killown in #2194
• core: do not resize view in move_view_to_output by @ammen99 in #2211
• use OpenMP for simplifying thread setup in fire particle animations (master branch) by @epsilon-0 in #1561
• Use the new animation option type by @ammen99 in #2202
• improve log on wfconfig error by @ammen99 in #2214
• add ipc-scripts/input.py by @ammen99 in #2216
• Copy config.h approach from wlroots-full.hpp to other public api headers by @parona-source in #2225
• conf: fix reloading on IN_CREATE by @atalii in #2215
• ipc: add get view alpha by @killown in #2221
• simple tile ipc by @ammen99 in #2219
• output-layout: select mode with closest matching refresh rate by @ammen99 in #2229
• ipc: add get active output by @killown in #2230
• Explicitly check wlroots features and fail if required ones are missing by @parona-source in #2226
• Implement the session lock protocol by @lcolitti in #2162
• Revert "Implement the session lock protocol (#2162)" by @ammen99 in #2233
• output-layout: fix null pointer caused by #2229 by @ammen99 in #2232
• move-drag-interface: do not reset the view until the end by @ammen99 in #2235
• meson.build: fix autodetection of xwayland support by @ammen99 in #2238
• fix 2236 by @ammen99 in #2240
• simple-tile: fix swapping of nodes with the same parent by @ammen99 in #2246
• ci: use alpine:latest instead of alpine:edge by @ammen99 in #2251
• transformer optimizations by @ammen99 in #2250
• Implement the session lock protocol, take 2 by @lcolitti in #2237
• surface-node: add support for surface transform by @ammen99 in #2254
• ipc: add more ipc events by @CharlieQLe in #2252
• simple-tile: unregister methods on unloading by @ammen99 in #2255
• output-layout: fix mode selection with no configured rr by @ammen99 in #2256
• imv1: fix null text_input crash by clearing it later by @lilydjwg in #2261
• xdg-shell: unset priv->wsurface on destroy by @ammen99 in #2258
• scale: auto-close scale when a new view opens by @CharlieQLe in #2265
• Update to wlroots 0.17.2 by @marcusbritanicus in #2270
• simple-tile: make sure to not stop controller twice by @ammen99 in #2268
• ipc: do not be strict about utf8 when encoding json data by @ammen99 in #2272
• ipc-rules: add mechanism to connect signals only when a subscriber is really there by @ammen99 in #2267
• Improvements to surface and node handling by @ammen99 in #2275
• meson.build: add json as wayfire dependency by @ammen99 in #2259
• protocols: add support for text-input-v1 by @ammen99 in #2263
• fix 1779 by @ammen99 in #2277
• fix 1601 by @ammen99 in #2247
• fix killown crashes by @ammen99 in #2283
• Session lock plugin fixes by @lcolitti in #2304
• api add min max size by @ammen99 in #2306
• layer-shell: first handle all exclusive zones and then pin views by @ammen99 in #2311
• xwayland: check icccm input model when mapping by @ammen99 in #2310
• switcher: fix handling when workspace becomes empty by @ammen99 in #2309
• fix more crashes by @ammen99 in #2312
• toplevel-views: fix memory leak by @ammen99 in #2313
• session-lock: refocus after lock destroyed. by @lcolitti in #2320
• even more fixes by @ammen99 in #2314
• Remove comment that says wf-dock started with autostart_wf_shell by @tyressk in #2329
• xwayland: add lazy start config option by @dep4 in #2330
• Add more IPC commands by @ammen99 in #2332
• multioutput fuzzing fixes by @ammen99 in #2325
• another round of fuzz testing by @ammen99 in #2334
• more fixes by @ammen99 in #2335
• fix yet more crashes by @ammen99 in #2337
• valgrind fixes by @ammen99 in #2338
• bump wf-config submodule by @kode54 in #2352
• bump wlroots subproject to 0.17.3 by @kode54 in #2353
• core: emit view decoration updated signal even for unmapped views by @ammen99 in #2350
• Link session-lock.so to pangocairo by @marcusbritanicus in #2372
• send preferred_buffer_scale event after entering an output by @lilydjwg in #2331
• Support output-id and view-id names in ipc-activator by @marcusbritanicus in #2371
• wrot: use coordinates relative to the output when calculating rotation by @ammen99 in #2375
• final fixes for 09 by @ammen99 in #2380
• Provide "natural scrolling" option for mice. by @mgriego in #2370
• core: add a reason hint for keyboard focus change by @ammen99 in #2382
• output-layout: mark custom modes explicitly by @ammen99 in #2383
• Bump wf-config version by @NamorNiradnug in #2390
• toplevel-views: be more careful when mapping views by @ammen99 in #2393
• bump wlroots version to 0.17.4 by @ammen99 in #2394
• archlinux ci: use clang17 repository by @ammen99 in #2409
• Set default decoration mode when it is adjusted at runtime by @wb9688 in #2400
• move: Check if grid is enabled before activating edges on drag by @soreau in #2404
• workarounds: Clean up metadata by @soreau in #2410
• Prepare for a release by @ammen99 in #2413
• Add wlroots to DesktopNames by @Vladimir-csp in #2432
• fix a crash with dnd icons by @ammen99 in #2442
• Add missing include for gcc-15 by @ceamac in #2441
• remove ipc scripts which were moved to the pywayfire repository by @ammen99 in #2440

New Contributors

• @nekopsykose made their first contribution in #1943
• @Voklen made their first contribution in #1981
• @lcolitti made their first contribution in #2028
• @A7R7 made their first contribution in #2072
• @CharlieQLe made their first contribution in #2083
• @killown made their first contribution in #2192
• @parona-source made their first contribution in #2225
• @atalii made their first contribution in #2215
• @tyressk made their first contribution in #2329
• @dep4 made their first contribution in #2330
• @mgriego made their first contribution in #2370
• @Vladimir-csp made their first contribution in #2432
• @ceamac made their first contribution in #2441

Full Changelog: v0.8.1...v0.9.0