Window Managers

v0.47.1 comes with, as usual, a few fixes backported from main. Some crashes, odd behavior, flickers, etc. Fixes backported:

• xwayland: send synthetic configure events (#9193)
• deps: add libinotify-kqueue on BSDs (#9197)
• xwayland: respect window size set by configure requests (#9190)
• ikeyboard: free xkbSymState in clearManuallyAllocd
• configmgr: properly free glob memory
• presentation: log a fixme when there is a feedback leak
• renderer: calculate UV using both pixel and monitor dimensions
• pass/rect: fix bounding / opaque regions
• config/hyprctl: fix keyword not updating autoreload
• monitor: round refresh rates in sorting modes
• popup: stop refocusing at unmap
• subsurface: fix invalid parent typo

Special Thanks

Special thanks as always to these chads for donating (full list from 0.47.0, as I forgot to include it in the beginning, sorry!)

• Xoores
• johndoe42
• yyyyyyan
• taigrr
• SomeMediocreGamer
• Azelphur
• alukortti
• Theory_Lukas
• MasterHowToLearn
• ari-cake
• AuHunter
• Amaan Q
• Jas Singh
• matipan
• SViN Drawing
• NextDreamJob.LIVE
• Plyply
• atomicptr
• Skidam
• Avid
• FUTO
• XoZu
• System64
• Pascal Nitsche
• JustOptimize
• billybo_o
• denast
• gorfxx
• LCLP
• Ben
• Dainatello
• Diego
• Riesi
• Xellor
• Daniel
• Abdulaziz Al-Khater
• Cassio Fernando
• Efo
• Adrian Dobkowski
• Ricardo C
• JanRi3D
• andmars
• SiliconVillager
• Frank Huurman
• Francois
• Fan2Shrek
• anna//bool

Release notes:

sway 1.10.1

Alexander Orzechowski (2): container: Properly constrain title bar padding swaybar: Handle opaque region properly

György Kurucz (1): input/libinput: fix builtin device detection logic

Hong Xu (1): Explain that the title bar always shows

Joan Bruguera Micó (1): swaybar: Emit property changes for SNI watcher

Kenny Levinsen (8): desktop/output: Store output config on request_state desktop/output: Add missing output config allocation checks config/output: Update output position in two passes desktop/output: Clean up output state if build_state fails desktop/output: Clear frame_pending even output is disabled config: Force modeset before running deferred configs ipc-server: Force modeset if needed after executing commands desktop/output: Clear repaint timer earlier in destroy

Manuel Stoeckl (1): swaynag: fix null dereference on scale change

Simon Ser (4): release.sh: read meson-rewrite output from stdout ipc-json: handle LIBINPUT_CONFIG_DRAG_LOCK_ENABLED_STICKY config/output: don't hardcode DMA-BUF in search_render_format() build: bump version to 1.10.1

llyyr (2): layer_shell: cleanup new_popup listener when destroying node config/output: don't leak background_fallback

mtvare6 (2): desktop/transaction: clamp vertical border length to 0 config/output: skip format checks if all are supported

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