From i3 --help:
If you pass plain text arguments, i3 will interpret them as a command
to send to a currently running i3 (like i3-msg). This allows you to
use nice and logical commands, such as:
i3 border none
i3 floating toggle
i3 kill window
In order to not depend on X11 just for getting the socket paths, scripts or
other programs can now use i3 --get-socketpath. Since i3 must be present on the
computer anyways, this saves one dependency :).
We also don’t bother with timeouts anymore. It’s expected to run the tests with
a sufficiently recent version of i3. The tests will just hang if it doesn’t
work.
The former two provide fallbacks in case $PAGER or $EDITOR is not set (which
might be more common than you think, because they have to be set in
~/.xsession, not in the shell configuration!) while the latter tries to launch
a terminal emulator. The scripts are most prominently used in i3-nagbar, which
alerts the user when the configuration is broken for some reason. Also,
i3-sensible-terminal is used in the default configuration.
This commit does not rely on the shell supporting ${PAGER:-less} anymore, which
is not the case for 'fish'.
open_window has a better API than open_standard_window. It uses named
parameters and supplies default values for everything you don’t specify. This
way, you can use every feature which X11::XCB::Window supports.
This saves about 0.5s wallclock time due to not starting up Moose/Mouse.
This is worthwhile when you develop a new feature and you are often invoking
complete_run for one specific test.
This is mainly useful for the testsuite. The tests can wait until i3 processed
all X11 events and then continue. This eliminates sleep() calls which leads to
a more robust and faster testsuite.
