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@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ v1.3.0: Dan vs. Greg: The never ending story. (unreleased) - Dynamically sizing window with content. - When placed at bottom of screen re-order screen to have entry at bottom. Improvements + - Improve resizing of window, don't make X whipe background. + - Improve close window (shift-delete) action, by sending NET_WM_CLOSE instead of destroying window. - Create cache and run directory on startup. (#497) - Fix uneeded redraws on cursor blinking. (#491) - Improve time till grabbing keyboard. (#494) diff --git a/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown b/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown index a80a1121..a0867c67 100644 --- a/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown +++ b/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown @@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ the `loading...` text. Async mode is not always possible, and will be disabled if not possible. +### Drawing improvements + +In this release rofi is more efficient in drawing its content to the X11 window. The basic redraw on expose has been +speedup by a factor 1000. This was obtained by using a server side copy of the internal surface, instead of painting it +with cairo each time. Especially for large (4k and higher) screens, in fullscreen mode, this reduces redrawing from +- +180ms to 0.1 ms. A second improvement was made by configuring X11 not repaint the window background when resized, this +caused some flickering (it was painted black before being drawn). It now keeps the old content and tells rofi to +repaint. This causes trailing, but overall looks nicer. + ## Removals We also removed a deprecated option, `-opacity`. Did option did full window opacity, basically it makes the whole window @@ -71,8 +80,10 @@ by making all colors transparent). ### Improvements +- Improve resizing of window, don't make X whipe background. +- Improve close window (shift-delete) action, by sending NET_WM_CLOSE instead of destroying window. - Create cache and run directory on startup. (#497) -- Fix uneeded redraws on cursor blinking. (#491) +- Fix unneeded redraws on cursor blinking. (#491) - Improve time till grabbing keyboard. (#494) - Better error message when failing to parse keybindings, also continue parsing on error. - Fix problem with custom layouts (#485) |