A new bug fix release of Xfce 4.2 is available. This release is supposed to
be the last release for the 4.2 branch. It includes several fixes ported from
the current developpment branch. This release should not be confused with the
upcoming Xfce 4.4 release [1], it's a bug fix release of the previous stable
branch.
[1] Xfce 4.4.0 is already in pkgsrc-wip.
* New features:
- The command Scroll can now be used for interactive scrolling.
- New Style options: StippledIconTitle, !StickyStippledTitle,
and !StickyStippledIconTitle.
- Full support for menu context (M) key and mouse bindings. See
the section Menu Bindings in the man page for details.
- Hilighted menu backgrounds now use pixmaps gradients and
transparency from their related colorset.
- New window conditions: StickyIcon, StickyAcrossPagesIcon and
StickyAcrossDesksIcon.
* Changed features:
- "Mouse n M N" is no longer used to disable or remap the
builtin tear off menu button. See the section Tear Off Menus
for details on replacement commands.
* Bug Fixes
Apply a patch by Dan Bilik to remove optimisation flags that cause compiler to
fail
Changelog contains many bugfixes and improvements:
- New resource/command: session.modKey, command SetModKey
- More ewmh support: _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG and _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS
- External tabs are back
- Added support for net wm atoms
- Added new commands: ToggleCmd, CloseAllWindows
- Supports urgency hint ( flashing titlebar/iconbar )
- Pressing shift while pressing enter in menu item will fake a right mouse
button press.
- Better UTF-8 handling
- Added option to reverse desktop wheeling: session.screen0.reversewheeling
- Vertical toolbar is back
INSTALLATION_DIRS, as well as all occurrences of ${PREFIX}/man with
${PREFIX}/${PKGMANDIR}.
Fixes PR 35265, although I did not use the patch provided therein.
* Changes since 1.4.0
** set padding affects bar location
On OSX the bar and top of each window is hidden by the menu bar. set
padding corrects the window problem but not the bar problem. So this
change fixes that.
** new set variable framefmt
See docs for info.
** new commands swap, exchangeleft, exchangeright, exchangeup, exchangedown
See docs for info
** new commands execa and execf
See docs for info.
** default font change
It is now "-*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" which hopefully
fixes some i18n issues.
** new command set topkmap
See info manual.
** build date in ratpoison -v
** new command sfrestore
restores frame configurations for multiple screens.
** support for i18n fonts
* Fixes to the code to compile cleanly with the newest versions
of fltk1 and fltk2.0.
* Fltk1 version did not draw ampersands in the popup menu, and
Alt+Tab did not dismiss the menu when you released the Alt key.
# JWM v1.8rc2 <> 20061008
* Fixed a seg fault when tray buttons point to invalid root menus.
* Hide popups when the mouse moves over them.
* Fix alt+left click window moving so windows don't jump.
* Allow windows to be lowered with alt+right click.
* When maximizing, place the window on the screen of its center point.
* Unmaximize maximized windows that resize themselves.
* Add support for _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN.
* More warning messages about incorrectly configured root menus.
# JWM v1.8rc3 <> 20061022
* Fixed a bug that caused strange things to happen after a client was killed.
* Fixed a bug that caused windows to be mapped incorrectly when started at the same time as JWM.
* Fixed an issue with auto-hide trays hidding when they shouldn't.
# JWM v1.8rc4 <> 20061104
* Fixed some seg faults with invalid configuration files.
* Trim leading and trailing spaces from configuration options.
* Improved _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN support.
* Fixed StartupCommands and Swallow items.
# JWM v1.8 <> 20061223
* Fixed a bug when moving windows that could cause the window to jump to the upper left corner of the screen.
* Fixed a Dock issue when restarting.
* Fixed a Swallow issue on startup.
* Transient windows of active windows now get focus when they are first created.
* Submenus now appear on the left if there isn't enough room on the right (mdsama)
Based on patch provided by Brian de Alwis in PR 35355,
add missing manpage entry.
03 Jan 2005 Tomas Styblo <tripie@cpan.org>
* 1.07 released
03 Jan 2005 Christopher Chan-Nui <channui@tiny.org>
* fixed a formatting bug that made the window list
unintelligible for desktop_ids == -1 or desktop_ids > 9
03 Jan 2005 Tomas Styblo <tripie@cpan.org>
* 1.06 released
03 Jan 2005 Christian V. J. Brüssow <cvjb@cvjb.de>
* added support for WM_CLASS
03 Jan 2005 Jack Erwin <jerwin@jabber.com>
* added the ability to address the currently active window (:ACTIVE:)
03 Jan 2005 Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@suse.de>
* added support for 64-bit environments
03 Jan 2005 Shyamal Prasad <shyamalprasad@verizon.net>
* provided a wmctrl(1) manpage
or USE_X11BASE set, but don't include mk/x11.buildlink3.mk directly or
via buildlink3.mks
- introduce BUILDLINK_PREFIX.libXpm as alias for BUILDLINK_PREFIX.xpm
in the !modular case
- fix some cases where the check for libX11 couldn't work at all by using
C++ for compilation without including the proper headers
Verified using a full X11_TYPE=xorg bulk build without additional
breakage. Discussed with salo@, wiz@ and send to packages@ for feedback.
packages with the modular Xorg equivalent. Those are falling back
to the old location by default, so this commmit doesn't change
dependencies.
graphics/xpm ==> x11/libXpm
fonts/Xft2 ==> x11/libXft
x11/Xfixes ==> x11/libXfixes
x11/xcursor ==> x11/libXcursor
x11/Xrender ==> x11/libXrender
x11/Xrandr ==> libXrandr
Upgrading from earlier 2.5.x versions is strongly recommended.
This release is available at the home page: http://www.fvwm.org/.
* Bug Fixes:
- FvwmCommand now reports "end windowlist" and "end configinfo".
- FvwmCommand now prints config info split on lines.
- FvwmTaskBar no longer gets lost with trailing whitespace after
geometry specification.
- Fixed a window size problem if the aspect ratio is set (e.g.
mplayer).
- Decorations now update when unmanaged windows take focus, and
not FlickeringQtDialogsWorkaround is enabled.
- FvwmPager again allows movement of windows added before a
page change.
- fvwm no longer crashes on 1 and 4 bit displays. (#1677)
- EWMH desktops now correctly handles FPClickToFocus. (#1492)
- Security fix in fvwm-menu-directory. (CVE-2006-5969)
fvwm-2.4.20 maintenance release for all earlier 2.4.x versions.
It contains a number of minor fixes and one important security fix.
This release is available at the home page: http://www.fvwm.org/.
Who needs to upgrade?
---------------------
Because of the security issues with fvwm-2.3.4 to fvwm-2.4.19, it
is strongly recommended to upgrade to fvwm-2.4.19.
System administrators are encouraged to install this version to
grant their users access to the latest stable version.
Bug Fixes:
----------
* The configure script now correctly appends executable file
extensions to conditionally built binaries. Fixes building on
Cygwin.
* FvwmConsole no longer conflicts with getline of Cygwin's stdio.
* Fixed parsing of For loops in FvwmScript.
* Fixed a possible endless loop when de-iconifying a transient
window.
* Reject some invalid GNOME hints.
* Fixed a loop when xterm changes its "active icon" size.
* The configure script can now cope with four-part version numbers
when detecting some libraries.
* Security fixes in
fvwm-menu-directory. (CVE-2006-5969)
FvwmCommand
Patch provided by Martin Wilke via PR 34526.
- Changelog
Add support for decoration less application windows
Fix typo in non XRDB cmd line parser.
an alternate key shortcut config file.
Fix compiler warning when not building with alt input wins.
Fixes for better handling shifted key shortcuts.
Set the active app root prop *after* setting new list
props as to avoid sync issues in apps using this info.
Dont start pinging an app if requests to be activated
but is already activated, ( maemo #32483 )
Be more careful removing alt ( maemo ) input methods
when transient to removed dialog / application.
Call XSync() so ping is sent immediatly to be double safe.
correctly honur PING_INTERVAL, not PING_INTERVAL+1
Fix for iconizing toolbar windows and there position.
Fixes MB bug #95
Add repaint to removal also.
Force a dialog repaint on IM dialog resize for safety.
Fix typo snafu with previous commit.
Just change affected dialog height back to original
size. Dont try and do anything clever with positioning.
Make aggresive pinging a little less aggressive;
- No pinging on fullscreen toggles.
- Only ping on NET_ACTIVE message.
Only remember size of affected dialogs for reseting, not position.
Honour client_flags in initial loop. should fix maemo #25281
Send state message before configure when toggleing
fullscreen.
Fix dialog gravity in presence of panels
Dont attempt to paint 0 width decorations.
Correct some debug info.
Focus tracking fix moving between dialogs and trans for
root dialog. fixs maemo #26095
Add basic support for window gravity on dialogs.
Make sure window names changes can end up NULL.
blocker window in place ( When in super modal mode ).
Focus fixes for case of multiple trans for root dialogs.
1.0
Attempted fix for grouped dialog stacking.
Implement alternate optional more aggesive pinging policy needed
for maemo.
Add support for optional alternate custom themeing for border only
( no title bar ) dialogs.
avoid freeing non existant font color on theme switch.
Add support for cache attribute in <theme> tags.
MB_THEME_ALWAYS_CACHE env var overides.
setting MB_NO_THEME_CACHE env var turns off internal pixbuf
cacheing ( very experimental )
dd support for _MB_APP_WINDOW_LIST_STACKING root win prop
Add basic support for window grouping.
Fix 'flash' when non top apps map dialogs.
Fix issues with minimised dialogs not remapping.
Stacking fixes for multiple groups of transient for transient dialogs.
XRestackWindows didn't include count of blocker wins in total
window count.
Fix preivous blocker win borkage
Dont map the blocker wins on reparenting, wait for show()
Add extra debug info for blocker wins
Fix potential XGetWMHints leak
Small fix for east panels to get correctly positioned after
theme switch.
Fix GCC 4 warnings.
Fix issues with modal blocker wins breaking stack count.
Move previous fix to safer place in code.
Make sure ewmh lists get updated when closing a window.
Fix re-enabling of help/accept/custom buttons
Add support for help/accept/custom buttons being toggled on the fly
Add a little more debug.
Fix for making sure alt input windows get resized correctly when
transient for a transient for root window and switching from/to
a fullscreen to a non fullscreen app win.
Dont try and manage new clients if no memory available.
unmap before reparent to root in effort to avoid potential
flash.
Add new -use_super_modal switch to enable previously default
maemo 'aggresive' modal handling - blocking wins etc
Reparent hidden toolbar wins to current position rather than 0,0
reparent 'removed' win to current pos on root rather than 0,0
Really clear NET_WM_STATE if no states set.
Send PING even when close button is 'blocked' by modal dialog
print debug warning if client sets tranciency to itself
Add some more X error traps very early on in new client creation.
Include iconized clients in select menu sizing.
Avoid potential recursive for self tranciency changes.
Fix compiler warning.
If set, use env 'MB_HUNG_APP_HANDLER' pointing at executable
to handle hung applications rather than default killer.
Make sure de iconizing a client de-iconizes transients too.
Less aggresive root window property updating.
Clean up ping code a little. Adding new define for frequency
of hung app check.
Simplify switching code a little.
Remove old attempted transient infinite loop fix ( 2005-06-02 )
Handle windows hiding but not always unmapping there windows.
Fixes 'ghost' windows when quicking hiding/showing a GTK win.
Dont let windows change transiency to themselves.
avoid potential infinite loop from transiant race?
