This is the third release of the new major version of i3, v4.3. It is
considered stable. All users of i3 are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
-One of the most visible changes is probably that commands which lead to an
- error will now spawn i3-nagbar. This will make you immediately aware of
- problems such as typos in your configuration file (such as "bindsym $mod+x exc
- firefox" instead of "exec"). This is not restricted to parser errors, but all
- errors (such as when trying to move a window to another workspace without
- actually having a window focused). If this is annoying to you for some specific
- key configuration, you can turn it off by replacing a binding like:
- bindsym $mod+x move absolute position center
- with something like this:
- bindsym $mod+x exec --no-startup-id i3-msg move absolute position center >/dev/null 2>&1
- (Yes, this is somewhat painful, but intended. You should not suppress errors in
- general, so we don’t want to make it too easy.)
-
+One rather visible change is that commands which could not be parsed properly
+ will now spawn i3-nagbar. In case you used "bindsym $mod+x firefox" (and
+ forgot the "exec" keyword) or you made a typo in your config, you will now
+ notice that :).
We also made the orientation (horizontal/vertical) part of the layout
mechanism: Before, we got the default layout and you could change