Having a keybinding to invoke arbitrary unicode characters is very
useful. It's often used as a method of last resort to communicate with
people outside of your main language. For example, if you want to type
the last letter of my real name, you can invoke the latin-1 character
0xe9 or unicode 0x00e9.
You can also use this to type special characters, for example, unicode
U+1F4A9 is of course, the infamous PILE OF POO, which is sure to
produce million laughs everywhere you go.
In foot, there's no keybinding by default to invoke the very useful
unicode-input command. There is no "standard" (as in "ISO") keybinding
this either. But there *is* a de-facto standard currently deployed
by *both* GTK and Qt (a rare feat) *and* Chrome OS (an even rarer
feat) and it's control-shift-u.
Alternatives include Control-x 8 (emacs), Control V u (vim),
Alt (Windows, LibreOffice), or Option (Mac). I doubt we want to adopt
any of those.
So let's use control-shift-u for this. Unfortunately, it's currently
assigned to show-urls-launch, which is unfortunate, but
insurmountable. We can reassign this keybinding elsewhere. I have
picked control-shift-o in my configuration, because "o" is a good
mnemonic for "open URLs". Others have suggested "m" instead.
Closes: #1183
When using muon[1] instead of meson, this was causing the following
error:
$ muon setup bld
.../meson_options.txt:26:124: error unterminated hex escape
.../meson_options.txt:26:223: error unterminated string
[1]: https://muon.build/
When compiling *without* cursor-shape-v1 support,
term_xcursor_update_for_seat() would incorrectly set
shape=CURSOR_SHAPE_CUSTOM, even though no custom cursor had been set
by the user.
This resulted in a crash in render_xcursor_set(), when trying to use a
NULL-string as custom cursor.
Using a lookup table, try to map the user-provided xcursor string to a
cursor-shape-v1 known shape.
If we succeed, set the user’s custom cursor using server side
cursors (i.e. using cursor-shape-v1).
If not, fallback to trying to load the image ourselves (using
wl_cursor_theme_get_cursor()), and set it using the legacy
wl_pointer_set_cursor().
This patch assumes a git snapshot of wayland-protocols are
installed.
We need to bump the version number as soon as the next version of
wayland-protocols have been released.
This implements support for the new cursor-shape-v1 protocol. When
available, we use it, instead of client-side cursor surfaces, to
select the xcursor shape.
Note that we still need to keep client side pointers, for:
* backward compatibility
* to be able to "hide" the cursor
Closes#1379
Before this patch, when the cell dimensions changed (i.e. when the
font size changes), sixel images were either removed (the new cell
dimensions are smaller than the old), or simply kept at their original
size (new cell dimensions are larger).
With this patch, sixels are instead resized. This means a
sixel *always* occupies the same number of rows and columns,
regardless of how much the font size is changed.
This is done by maintaining two sets of image data and pixman images,
as well as their dimensions. These two sets are the new ‘original’ and
‘scaled’ members of the sixel struct.
The "top-level" pixman image pointer, and the ‘width’ and ‘height’
members either point to the "original", or the "scaled" version.
They are invalidated as soon as the cell dimensions change. They, and
the ‘scaled’ image is updated on-demand (when we need to render a
sixel).
Note that the ‘scaled’ image is always NULL when the current cell
dimensions matches the ones used when emitting the sixel (to save
run-time memory).
Closes#1383
Images with an aspect ratio of 1:1 are by far the most common (though
not the default).
It makes a lot of sense, performance wise, to special case
them.
Specifically, the sixel_add() function benefits greatly from this, as
it is the inner most, most heavily executed function when parsing a
sixel image.
sixel_add_many() also benefits, since allows us to drop a
multiplication. Since sixel_add_many() always called first (no other
call sites call sixel_add() directly), this has a noticeable effect on
performance.
Another thing that helps (though not as much), and not specifically
with AR 1:1 images, is special casing DECGRI a bit.
Up until now, it simply updated the current sixel parameter value. The
problem is that the default parameter value is 0. But, a value of 0
should be treated as 1. By adding a special ‘repeat_count’ variable to
the sixel struct, we can initialize it to ‘1’ when we see DECGRI, and
then simply overwrite it as the parameter value gets updated. This
allows us to drop an if..else when emitting the sixel.
This way, the initial frame is more likely to get scaled correctly;
foot will guess the initial (integer) scale from the available
monitors, and use that. By using legacy scaling, we force the
compositor to down-scale the image to the correct scale factor.
If we use the new fraction scaling method with an integer scaling
factor, the initial frame gets rendered way too big.
We now default to scaling fonts using the scaling factor, not monitor
DPI.
The ‘auto’ value for dpi-aware has been removed.
Documentation (man pages and README) have been updated to reflect the
new default.
