3.4.11:
* Update Hungarian, Japanese, and Latvian translations.
* Make xdg-autostart use the OPENBOX environment by default, so you can use
OnlyShowIn=OPENBOX in an autostart .desktop and it will work as expected.
* Don't close the menu when you hold control and execute something.
* Fix bug #4503 (Adjust who shows up in the Alt-Tab list using SKIP_TASKBAR).
* Fix flickering window when moving maximized window between monitors of
different sizes.
* Fix bug #4355 (Allow multiple escaped _'s in a menu label and allow
a menu shortcut to come after an escaped _).
* Remember the maximized state of a window when it goes fullscreen, and
restore it when leaving fullscreen state.
* Fix bug #4072 (Openbox is stopped by terminal applications writing to
stdout).
* Fix bug #4492 (Mistake in openbox-gnome-session check while setting up).
* Fix obxprop to make --root and --id work correctly.
* Add _OB_APP_ROLE/CLASS/NAME/TYPE properties (replaces _OB_ROLE/CLASS/NAME).
* Make the focus cycling popup dynamic when windows appear/disappear.
* Fix bug #4411 (Crash when window appears during focus cycling).
* Allow the user to specify which properties should be shown by obxprop.
* Fix tilde expansion in the Execute action
* Make Home and End keys move to the top/bottom of the active menu.
* Use the submenuShowDelay when navigating menus with the keyboard.
3.4.10:
* Improve keyboard navigation in Openbox menus.
* Add a --root option and a manpage for obxprop.
* Use a negative value for submenuShowDelay and submenuHideDelay to
cause an infinite delay. This means you have to click to show a
submenu, rather than just hover over it.
* Improved code for submenu show/hide delay. Added the submenuHideDelay
config file option, under the "menu" section.
* Fixed bug #4464 (Typo in openbox-gnome-session script).
* Fixed bug #4436 (Focusing a window used to stop focus cycling).
* Renamed obprop to obxprop due to collision with Open Babel (See bug
#4419).
3.4.9:
* Allow focus to move while inside an Openbox menu, or during an
interactive action such as window cycling.
* Fixed bug #3717 (Empty dock interfered with move/grow to edge actions).
* Fixed bug #4411 (Crash when switching desktops and window cycling).
* Fixed bug #4377 (Window resistance against struts).
* Fixed bug #4035 (Prevent focus from moving under the mouse after
activating a window with an Openbox menu.
* Correct the value provided by the _NET_WORKAREA hint, so desktop icons
will place across all monitors.
* Don't hide submenus immediately when moving through the parent menu.
(Resolves request #3762).
* Fix for showing Openbox menus with multiple monitors, don't restrict
them to the monitor where the mouse is.
* Fixed bug #4023 (Allow the user to have multiple keys which perform the
same function in Openbox menus/move/resize. E.g. two keys which are
both bound to Escape.
* Add a new obprop tool, which can be used to read the _OB_ROLE,
_OB_NAME, and _OB_CLASS (as well as any other UTF-8 window properties)
off of a window.
* Add _OB_ROLE, _OB_NAME, and _OB_CLASS hints on each window that show
the respective values for use in the rc.xml applications section, to
modify the window when it appears.
* Improve Openbox interoperability with gnome-session >= 2.24.
* Fixed bug #4040 (Remove desktop hints set by gdm in the openbox-session
scripts, so that Openbox can set the number of desktops (assuming
gnome-settings-daemon doesn't first)).
* Fix a bug in xdg-autostart preventing some .desktop files from working.
* Show the desktop pager popup on the primary monitor instead of on all
monitors.
* Add a new primaryMonitor config option, which is where Openbox popups
will appear. Defaults to a fixed monitor, but can be made to behave as
before with the "active" value for it.
* Correct edge detection for move/grow to edge to properly use monitor
edges for multi-monitor setups.
* Change default window placement policy to stay on the active monitor
for multi-monitor setups.
* Fixed bug #1149 (Crash with some window icon sizes).
* Respond to all strut changes, fixes moving/hiding panels.
* Fix internal code to focus windows on other desktops correctly (Fixes
bug #4413).
* Focus correctness fixups for switching desktops.
* Fixed bug #4373 (Decoration bug for shaded maximized windows).
* Fixed bug #4350 (Allow a window to be made skip_taskbar but still get
focused by the user's rc.xml).
* Fixed bug #4307 (Set a minimum time for screenEdgeWarpTime).
* Fixed bug #4253 (Support for Solaris in openbox-session scripts).
* Fixed bug #3851 (Allow transient windows to be above helper windows).
3.4.8:
* Updated translations: Slovak.
* Allow windows to change their decorations at any time (Fix for
Google Chrome).
* Make openbox-session to respect the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable.
* Fixed bug #4344 where borders were given to windows that should not have
them.
* Merge the SessionLogout and Exit actions. They now test if connected to a
session manager and ask it to exit if so, or simply kill Openbox if not.
* Further tweaks to the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message handling. Use the same
logic for focus-stealing as is used when mapping a new window.
* Don't go out of our way any more to prevent focus from moving while the
keyboard is grabbed.
* Fix openbox-gnome-session when using gnome-session > 2.22.
3.4.7.2:
* The system I used to generate the dist tarball didn't have the
docbook-to-man command so the manpages were empty.
3.4.7.1:
* Not to be outdone by the cairo team, I introduced a bug in the last release
which made resizing not give any feedback. This is now fixed.
3.4.7:
* Fully updated Czech, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German,
French, Hungarian, Norwegian, Vietnamese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish,
Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Portuguese translations
* Partially updated Spanish translation
* Add an example of the "force" option for the per-app placement options to
the default rc.xml file
* Add a new xdg-autostart script. This will eventually end up in the PyXDG
distribution hopefully, but it is included in Openbox for now. This script
runs things based on the freedesktop.org autostart specification. You can
have it run GNOME, KDE, ROX, or XFCE specific things if you want. The
new default system-wide autostart.sh script runs it automatically
* Update the default menu.xml to include a lot of common apps
* Fix white font shadows (negative shadowtint)
* Update the autostart.sh to find gnome-settings-daemon correctly, as the
GNOME people have moved it to libexec
* Fix focus possibly getting stolen when using the Focus action
* Drastically speed up rendering of Vertical and SplitVertical gradients
* Speed improvements also for Horizonal and Pyramid gradients
* Add new theme options, menu.overlap.x and menu.overlap.y options, that let
you independently control the horizontal and vertical position of submenus
* Change _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW messages to not change the current desktop, but
to bring the window to the current desktop instead. This is the industry
standard policy
* Use the pretty new openbox.png icon as the default window icon
* Allow matching per-application rules to windows by their window type
(normal, dialog, splash, etc). The default rc.xml has more details
* Add new Openbox-themed prompt windows. Use these prompt windows to ask
before killing off windows that aren't responding. This also means we
don't need to ping every window constantly forever
* Add a new <prompt> option to the Execute action. If this is set to a
string, a dialog will be shown with that string in it and "yes"/"no"
buttons. The command to be executed will only be run if the user selects
"yes" in the dialog
* Add a new <prompt> option to the Exit action, which is a boolean (not a
string). When true, Openbox will show a dialog confirming if you want to
exit. The default is to show the prompt
* Reduce Openbox's memory footprint and speed up rendering through the use
of a new icon cache, so that Openbox only needs to keep 1 copy of an icon
when 100 different windows share it
* Make Openbox menus have the "menu type" hint for compositors to see and use
* Fix the MoveResizeTo action for negative coords (opposite edges)
* Fix key bindings getting lost if multiple bindings at the same level could
not be translated (Fixes VMWare causing Openbox keybindings to stop
working)
* Fix the resize popup box for terminal windows with a base size of 0 (show
the right size values for urxvt terminals)
* Fix some off-by-one bugs with the edge growing/shrinking code
* Add new theme options for menu line separators: menu.separator.color,
menu.separator.width, menu.separator.padding.width,
menu.separator.padding.height
* Add xfce-mcs-manager to the default autostart.sh, and run it automatically
when gnome-settings-daemon is not present to have GTK apps inherit settings
from the XFCE configuration tools
* Make the send-to-desktop menu in the client-menu indicate which is the current
desktop for omnipresent windows, and don't close it if just toggling
omni-presence when ctrl-clicking
* Add a new SessionLogout action that logs out through the session manager,
when running Openbox within a session manager such as within an
GNOME/Openbox or KDE/Openbox session. The action includes a <prompt>
option which is similar to the Exit action's
* Add a new gdm-control command that lets you control gdm from within an X
session. The gdm-control lets you change GDM's behaviour for when you end
the current session. For instance, you can tell GDM to reboot, and
then immediately log out of the current session, and the computer will be
rebooted
* Show an information dialog when an error occurs for Openbox, such as when
the Execute action fails or when XML syntax errors are present in the
configuration files
* When making a window very narrow, don't draw buttons to the right of the title
on top of the ones on its left.
3.4.6.1:
* Updated Clearlooks theme
* Add the force="yes/no" option for the per-app settings' <position> tag
* Raise and focus modal children and their direct parents together, improved
usability with direct modal transient windows
* Fix crash when using <raise> for NextWindow and there are no windows
to move focus to
* Add the <manageDesktops> option in the rc.xml <menu> section, which toggles
the "Manage Desktops" section appearing in the combined-client-list-menu
* Fix for menu headers showing the wrong text
* Fix for the <focusLast> behavior
* Treat modal direct children as one window with their parent consistently
3.4.6:
* Added Basque translation
* Updated French, Vietnamese German, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese,
Brasilian Portuguese, Norwegian, and Finnish translations
* New Clearlooks theme, updated by David Barr
* Updated the previous Clearlooks theme, and renamed it to Clearlooks-3.4
* Allow dialog type windows to go fullscreen (Fixes Kpdf)
* Remove the extraneous top border for undecorated windows while maximized
* Fixes for keyboard modifiers (Alt-tab dialog getting stuck on screen for
some users)
* Automatically catch changes to the keyboard map and reconfigure the key
bindings on the fly
* Fix focus moving incorrectly sometimes with focus under mouse enabled
* Make default configuration focus the desktop when you right click
* Add the <bar> and <raise> options for all window cycling actions, allowing
you to have your target window temporarily raised above all others, and to
turn the focus target indicator bar off
* Improve the LastDesktop action to not remember desktops you skipped across
* Ignore mouse clicks that are made on override-redirect (unmanaged) windows
* When opening a menu with a key binding, don't use the key binding to run
something in the menu
* Add a <monitor> option for window placement, which gives you the option
to place new windows on the active monitor, or the monitor where the mouse
is, instead of on any monitor (for xinerama multihead setups)
* Add options for placing the window move/resize coordinate popup window in
a fixed position on screen, rather than relative to the window being
moved or resized
* Prevent the dock from auto-hiding completely offscreen if the theme has
no borders for it
* New icon
* Fix race condition when running things that want to grab the keyboard
(e.g. gnome-panel-control --main-menu)
* When dialog windows ask to not appear in the taskbar, still give them focus
in normal ways (fixes new GNOME session logout dialogs)
* Fix bug with resizing corners on certain parts of the window frame
* Ping applications to tell when they are running or have become frozen.
Show a [Not Responding] message in the title bar of windows which are
frozen.
* When closing a window which is [Not Responding], kill the window's process
if it is running on the same machine as Openbox. Otherwise, just
disconnect
the window from the X display. A second attempt to close a [Not
Responding]
window will kill it forcefully (kill -9).
* Fixes for internal timers
* Add a <wmclass> option for the execute action's startup-notification. This
lets you tell Openbox that the application will map a window with the
specified class - for applications that do not support startup-notification
natively.
* Fix for empty dock taking up space onscreen after a reconfigure
* Reduce Openbox's additional memory footprint per-window and per-menu
* Faster horizontal gradient rendering
* Don't deiconify windows that aren't allowed to be directly iconified on
restart (eg toolbars), as they can be iconified by other means
* Improve support for fullscreen windows in xinerama (TwinView) and
multiple-screen setups
* Add a --config-file command line option, to specify an alternate
configuration file path
3.4.5:
* Added Hungarian translation
* Updated Finnish, Russian, German and French translations
* Fixed some very minor memory leaks
* Hide the desktop popup when showing the focus popup
* Fix a crash when trying to access the More... menu of
client-list-combined-menu
* Fix the coordinate popup only showing up on the first monitor in xinerama
* Add --exit to exit the currently running openbox instance
3.4.2:
* Add ability to set the bevel strength in themes
* Fix for focusLast with omnipresent windows
* Cache pipe menus while the menus are open
* Allow non-interactive directional focus key bindings
* Change how nested interactive key bindings work (it stays in the key chain,
like chroot, until you end the interactive action)
* Fix for gtk apps trying to get focus - mostly nullify focus stealing
prevention (Fixes Tilda)
* Send ConfigureNotify always on ConfigureRequest (Previous emacs fix
makes this possible now)
* Fix RelativeResize action for right/bottom edges
* Remove SCIM from the default autostart.sh - it has caused problems with
some (buggy) panels, such as pypanel
* Fix the titlebar changing to non-focused when iconifying a window with
animation
* Use the new osd theme hints for the dock, rather than the titlebar hints
3.4.1:
* Add Vietnamese translation
* Add Japanese translation
* Keep new transient windows from not getting focus when any related window
has focus already
* Change behavior of underMouse option - make focus go under the mouse when
no window has focus anymore, rather than to the last used window
* Make on-screen display dialogs (such as the Alt-Tab dialog) appear on the
active monitor when using Xinerama (a.k.a. TwinView)
* Fix for window stacking - let you lower sibling transient windows behind
eachother
* Fix directional focus actions when used without a dialog
* Fix race that could prevent ObConf from setting the desktop names correctly
* Add new theme options:
- window.active.button.toggled.image.color has been split into:
- window.active.button.toggled.unpressed.image.color
- window.active.button.toggled.pressed.image.color
- window.active.button.toggled.hover.image.color
- window.inactive.button.toggled.image.color has been split into:
- window.inactive.button.toggled.unpressed.image.color
- window.inactive.button.toggled.pressed.image.color
- window.inactive.button.toggled.hover.image.color
- window.active.button.toggled.bg has been split into:
- window.active.button.toggled.unpressed.bg
- window.active.button.toggled.pressed.bg
- window.active.button.toggled.hover.bg
- window.inactive.button.toggled.bg has been split into:
- window.inactive.button.toggled.unpressed.bg
- window.inactive.button.toggled.pressed.bg
- window.inactive.button.toggled.hover.bg
* Add new Onyx and Onyx-Citrus themes
* Updated Mikachu theme using new theme options
* Improvements to splitvertical gradients - Add a small gradient in the
middle between the upper and lower gradients
* Fix another emacs event storm, don't configure the window when it sets its
WM_NORMAL_HINTS unless we have to
* Fix for focus cycling to helper windows - Don't count dialogs as a sibling,
so they don't stop you
* Allow the use of negative numbers in per-app settings position to place a
window relative to the right/bottom edges of your monitor (taking the
struts (panels) into account)
* Fix focus moving irrationally when focusLast was off
http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Upgrading_to_3.4
when upgrading.
Changes:
3.4:
* Add Indian Bengali translation
* Updated Italian translation
* Small updates to Czech, Estonian, Norwegian, and German translations
* Removed out-of-date Japanese translation (ja.po)
* Removed out-of-date Croatian translation (hr.po)
* Allow parentrelative theme textures to have borders, bevels and interlacing
* Add new theme elements: window.active.title.separator.color and
window.inactive.title.separator.color (note that globbing might set these
properties when you didnt mean to)
* Add new theme elements: osd.border.width, osd.border.color, osd.bg,
osd.label.bg, osd.label.text.color, osd.label.text.font, osd.hilight.bg,
osd.unhilight.bg
* Add new underMouse focus option
* Rename new theme element menu.items.activedisabled to
menu.items.active.disabled for consistency with other elements
* Improvements to smart placement - especially with xinerama (Twinview)
* Fixes for focus with omnipresent windows - Allow focus to fallback to them
except during desktop switches (other mechanisms exist for that)
* Fix for putting child windows (transients) on all desktops
* Changes to how Shift/Control/CapsLock are used
* Fix focus fallback when windows are not visible (showing the desktop, or
iconic windows)
* Fix bug #3196 - Unable to alt-tab away from full-screen windows
* Fix crash in parsing empty xml fields
* Fix left and right contexts resizing the wrong way in the example mouse
focus config file
* Fix so dock doesn't auto-hide when the mouse is inside it (over top of a
dock app)
* Allow new utility windows to gain focus like normal windows
* Add workarounds for Java Swing applications (Extra ConfigureNotify events)
* More fixes for modal window usability (Deiconify the modal window when you
try to focus its parent)
* Fixes to focus tracking, especially with iconify animation
* Changes to libobrender's API for ObConf 2.0 (RrThemeNew)
* Check for libxml >= 2.6.0 when compiling
* Fix for Openoffice windows (Static window gravity)
* Fix for hovering over window buttons while a menu is open
* Make the Escape key close all levels of a menu, not just one
* Change default drag threshold to 8px (Same as in XSettings)
* Fixes for windows restacking with TopIf, BottomIf, or Opposite modes.
Only compare with valid windows
* Fix for actions which find other window edges. Find all windows, and only
windows which are on the right desktop
* Improve RaiseLower action (Not lower when it doesn't need to move the
window)
* Fix for the menu hideDelay (Don't hide immediately when you click to open
the menu), make it work reliably
* Make focusLast default to true when not present in the config file
3.3.995:
* Fix bug introduced in 3.3.993 that prevented you from raising focused
windows above fullscreen windows
* Fix bug introduced in 3.3.993 that made the desktop window keep focus
when changing desktops
* Add Arabic translations
* Added Control-Alt-Up/Down bindings to the mouse focus example rc.xml
* Don't raise on clients in the client context in the mouse focus example
rc.xml
* Fixes for when to focus new windows - improve keeping transient windows
from stealing focus, and allow new windows to get focus when any relative
window is focused
* Fixes for frame decorations layout
* Fixes for forcing window sizes to fit on the screen. Don't resize windows
if they are a user-specified size (USSize) or if they are non-normal
windows. (Fix Rox pinboard mapping across multiple monitors)
* Centre window icons when they are not square
* Fixes for Java windows behaving badly - Java makes all kinds of
non-standard-compliant assumptions which we are forced to meet
* Changed startup notification timeout from 30 to 20 seconds
* Fix possible crashes and misbehaviors with new focus cycling dialogs
* Recreate enter events when Press mouse actions move windows (e.g. Lower
action) for focus-follows-mouse
* Update Slovak translation
* Highlight the first menu entry when there is a separator/header at the top
* Only highlight the first menu entry when the menu is opened with a key
binding
* Fix crash when you press enter with nothing selected in the menu
* Fix for ignoring an unmap event after restart
* Fixes for setting the clients' colormaps
* Change focusLast option behavior to what it was in 3.3.1. It only affects
changing desktops.
* Add comments to the default rc.xml files about the various focus options
* Fix focus bug where a window had the keyboard grabbed when it unmapped
(Firefox gmarks extension)
* Update Catalan translation
* Fix alignment of the titlebar elements when the window icon is placed to
the right of the label
* Improve placement of child (transient) windows. When their parent is
omnipresent, open the child on the current desktop only.
* When a window has modal children on another desktop and you try to focus
it, bring the modal child to the current desktop to focus it instead
* Let you focus cycle to windows with a modal child on another desktop
* Fix for not seeing windows change their partial strut
* Give iconified windows a faded icon in the focus cycling (Alt-Tab) dialog,
and in the client list menus
* Make it more difficult to select items by accident in parent menus when it
changes direction. Moving the mouse only selects menu entries for a few
levels of open menus. Mouse clicks will select menu entries further down.
* Add Simplified Chinese translation
* Set the current theme in the OB_THEME root property for other applications
* Notify ksplash when we have started up if dcop is installed
* Allow you to resize the window on the client padding as well as the outer
border
* Fix to show the focus cycle indicator when focus cycling and there is only
1 valid target
* Centre splash screens on one monitor
* Don't centre parent-less utility/menu/toolbar windows on the screen
* Remove the bottom decorations for fully maximized windows
* Fix crash when reconfiguring and no themes can be found
3.3.994:
* Fix a bug introduced in .993 that prevented you from switching desktops
and caused general mayhem
3.3.993:
* Update for Russian translation
* Added Dutch translation
* Fix for choosing badly sized icons from the window for the window cycling
dialog (and other things). (Fixes Pidgin icon)
* Open child (transient) windows on the current desktop if they don't have
a direct parent, or if the parents are not all on some other desktop.
(Fixes Pidgin and Gimp dialogs appearing on the wrong desktop)
* Make windows fit within the available space when they are first created,
if they are not user-positioned. (Fix xpdf making itself bigger than the
space inside the struts, and hiding behind them).
* Don't let child (transient) windows steal focus when the situation is
ambiguous
* Fix bevels and borders display in the titlebar
* Set the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW hint properly, when nothing is focused (This
is the proper fix for libwnck pagers.)
* Fallback focus immediately during iconify animation in all cases (was
missing RevertToParent case)
* Fix new frame elements being given 0 sizes for very small windows
* Send iconified windows to the bottom of the focus order so you can
Alt-Shift-Tab to get back what you just iconified. This makes things more
predictable.
* Show the hostname for remotely run programs in iconified titles
* Stop focus flicker when sending windows to a desktop and following them,
and when changing desktops with an omnipresent window focused
* Empty desktop names in the configuration file are not used, so you can set
a name on the second desktop without having to set one on the first
* Make control key work for menu accelerators like it does for mouse
clicking and hitting enter
* Add C-A-Up/Down mouse bindings to switch desktops, similar to the
C-A-Left/Right/Up/Down keyboard bindings
3.3.992:
* Don't move mouse focus when the mouse is over the focus cycling dialog
* Fixes for positioning of frame decoration elements
* Update for Brazilian Portuguese translation
* Improvements in how decorations respond for maximized windows. (If they
can't be resized don't "hide" the resizing contexts)
* Updated Italian translation
* Added Czech translation
* Fix for applications that do weird things with modal windows (Make sure
you can focus cycle to them)
* Updated Spanish translation
* Fix for programs using the old WM-spec, and not setting unused fields to
0 in _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW messages (Rox pinboard)
* Fixes for default rc.xml configuration file. Updated comments and comment
out the applications section in an xml compatible way.
* Update for Portuguese translation
* Fix support for window gravity (eg xterm -geometry -0+0)
* Fix for libwnck with iconify animation (Unmap the parent of the client's
window)
* Force the top left corner of new windows onto the screen area, if the
position wasn't requested by the user (Fix xpdf and others hiding their
titlebar under a panel)
* Fix for determining text geometry from Pango
* Save the desktop layout and names in the session, and restore them on next
log in.
* The <desktop> section from the configuration file is only used for
defaults, and so is only applied at the start of a new log-in. (Use ObConf
1.6.2 to change the config file for these options, and have them set
immediately, if you don't use a session manager to save them.)
* Fix updating and crashing in the old split client list menu
* Translate the default desktop names
* Update Taiwanese Chinese translation
* Less restrictions of behavior based on window type (Let you maximize
dialogs and utility windows)
* Fix for focus tracking when Press mouse actions are used
* Fix bug which let the openbox-*-session scripts take command-line arguments
* Better detection of legacy fullscreen windows vs. undercorated windows
that the user has maximized
3.3.991:
* Added Brazilian Portuguese translation
* Added a rough Italian translation
* Added Estonian translation
* Update Polish translation
* Make focus stealing prevention a little less intrusive, especially with
default config
* Updates for Swedish translation
* Fixes for decorations of maximized windows
* Fix so that clicking in the corner of a maximized window presses the button
* Don't reload the session and reapply it when restarting
* Fix for losing the original size of a window that mapped with maximized
state (or on restart)
* Let you move splash type windows
* Fix for window placement using wrong dimensions
* Stop xemacs ConfigureNotify storm
* Fix bug stopping panels from moving themselves off-screen to hide
themselves
* Fix for GNOME/Openbox and openbox-gnome-session to use a new session name,
because GNOME won't let you replace the window manager in the saved session
* Don't restore session state when multiple windows have the same
identifiers, because we can't tell them apart then (Firefox/Thunderbird)
* Small fixes to build system to make it more reliable
* Fix for what manpage files are distributed in the source code, so they
will not be pre-built with the wrong info
* Fix pkg-config files for compiling things against Openbox libraries
3.3.990:
* Wildcard matching for per-application (per-window) settings. Let you match
multiple rules for a window. (Props to Mark Pustjens for code to do this.)
* Added startup notification support to the menus and key/mouse bindings
with <startupnotify>. It's an option for execute actions.
* New combined client menu, accessed with
<action name="ShowMenu"><menu>client-list-combined-menu</menu></action>
* No menu titles - instead added separators with labels to be used as menu
headers anywhere in menus
* Improved client menu - placement, the options in it, and added an icon for
"All Desktops"
* Keyboard shortcuts in menus, by highlighted letter or by the first letter
* Menus dont jump around, are always placed on screen
* Menus larger than can fit on the screen are broken into a submenu at the
bottom titled "More..."
* Disabled menu items can be selected now (not used though, of course)
* Using ()'s instead of a line separator to signify iconified windows in the
client list menus
* New Root context for mouse bindings
* New "alt-tab" focus switching dialog
* openbox-session command and log-in option which provides the autostart
capability.
* SCIM support in the default Openbox session launched by the
openbox-session command
* Many code paths made significantly faster
* Sections of code rewritten to be more reliable, such as session
save/restore and input focus handling
* Handle the X server's clock going backwards, without locking up. Sometimes
the server can still lock up though, it is not recommended to do this!
* Better handling of window types such as docks, utility windows, tool bar
windows. Clicking to focus these windows is done more intelligently. Dock
windows no longer get focus when you click them, so that you don't have
focus flickering when you use a dock window with a taskbar.
* Better language support through Pango, which is now mandatory, and the
code for Pango has been greatly improved and optimized.
* Support for windows that use true 32-bit transparency
* Resize grips (with mouse binding contexts) for the top, left, and right of
the window frame
* Smarter about keeping windows on the screen without invading user's
capabilities
* Add MoveFromEdge* actions corresponding to MoveToEdge* but aligns far
edges instead of near edges, so if you have two overlapping windows you
can easily put them side by side.
* Better choice of mouse cursors for startup notification
* Focus stealing prevention
* Improve window placement across multiple Xinerama monitors
* Support 8-bit truecolor visuals (such as in vncserver)
* Better, more friendly support for omnipresent windows
* Full support for EWMH 1.4-draft2
* Iconify/restore animation !
* Improved support for running openbox with multiple screens (non-xinerama)
- won't steal focus from other screens, and let you focus a screen by
clicking on the desktop (root window).
* Support for more cursors through XCursor, means that startup notification
can use a pointer+watch cursor if you are using an XCursor theme
* Fully maximize terminal windows (and any resized-by-increment window)
* Show the hostname of clients running on remote computers in the titlebar
* Add <panels> and <desktop> options to NextWindow, PreviousWindow,
DirectionalFocusNorth etc..
* Synchronize resizing with the application when possible
* Smarter subdivision of windows into 9 sections for resizing
* Set default icon on windows so applications can agree on an icon
* Better support for programs that are on more than one desktop
(multiple firefox windows for example) - move to the desktop when you're
using the application and it opens a window on another desktop.
* Chrooted key chains, and key quoting through chroots
* New BreakChroot action to break out of the current chroot
* New keychains popup, to show where you are in a keychain
* Improved show-desktop mode. When you open a new window, the old windows
are not all restored
* Add <allDesktops> option to NextWindow and PreviousWindow. The desktop
name will be shown in the focus cycling popup
* Dynamically size the window and desktop dialogs. Desktop layouts that
aren't horizontal look better in the desktop cycling dialog.
* Support for legacy fullscreen applications (that don't use EWMH) such as
VLC
* Session support for old clients that do not use the session management
protocol
* Desktop setup is only changed on startup, so as to not overwrite settings
from other apps like pagers
* Take advantage of ksmserver (KDE Session Manager) features
* KDE/Openbox and GNOME/Openbox options for display manager GDM/KDM. Use
openbox-gnome-session and openbox-kde-session to run a GNOME or KDE
session with Openbox as the window manager.
* Titlebar buttons autohide when hiding won't move other buttons (removed
the hideDisabled option from config file)
* Support user time window hint, which is good for laptops power usage
* When legacy windows raise themselves, interpreate as wanting to be
activated. Makes Firefox more pleasant.
* Don't show handles on windows that cant resize for more extreme visual
minimalism
* Let you move maximized windows between Xinerama monitors
* Improve application awareness of focus, e.g. Kopete and Firefox, so they
know when they are or aren't focused, and which window in their
application is focused
* Improvements in the distributed themes
* Add new Clearlooks and Clearlooks-Olive themes by John McKnight
* Fonts are no longer loaded from theme. They are loaded from the rc.xml
config file. Font shadow settings are still loaded from the theme though.
5 fonts to be set: ActiveWindow InactiveWindow, MenuHeader, MenuItem and
OnScreenDisplay
* Distributed theme names have been renamed with Capitalization
* menu.items.activedisabled.text.color
* menu.border.color (note that globbing might set these properties when
you didnt mean to)
* window.active.border.color (note that globbing might set these
properties when you didnt mean to)
* window.inactive.border.color (note that globbing might set these
properties when you didnt mean to)
* menu.border.width
* Guarantee that titlebar buttons are even sized, so even sized icons
(button masks) will be centered
* Default titlebar button icons (as xbms) installed to /usr/share/doc/openbox
* New mouse binding contexts Left, Right, TLCorner, TRCorner and Top. These
need bindings in config file to be useful. Also new context Bottom which
is synonym for Handle.
* W is no longer hard coded to Mod4. It is now a shortcut for Super, which
is usually bound to Mod4. xmodmap will show your mapping.
* The per-app setting <head> has been renamed to <monitor>
* Can use "default" for anything in per-app settings
* Removed <edges_hit_layers_below> option from config file
* --reconfigure command line option
* --restart command line option
* Closed bug #886 - Reference point for client-menu
* Closed bug #898 - Add option for OB2 style menu behaviour
* Closed bug #952 - Focus sometimes gets lost when closing windows
* Closed bug #1006 - duplicate window title numbering is so-so
* Closed bug #1080 - menus dont update when using ctrl to keep them open
* Closed bug #1082 - doing window stuff while changing focus is mad slow
* Closed bug #1106 - Openbox resize problems with Beep Media Player and some
websites using Mozilla
* Closed bug #1146 - minimized windows dont unminimize from fspanel if ob
restarted
* Closed bug #1409 - Window stacking is messed up when dealing with multiple
nested dialog boxes
* Closed bug #1526 - Incorrect handling of utility windows
* Closed bug #1846 - Patch for theme overrides
* Closed bug #1974 - Limit the number of resizes per second to make window
resizing smoother
* Closed bug #2060 - Apps disappear when using composite extension
* Closed bug #2221 - _NET_WM_STATE_(ABOVE|BELOW) is being inherited
* Closed bug #2250 - openbox ignores size request ?
* Closed bug #2251 - support for legacy ""fullscreen""
* Closed bug #2254 - segfault in render/render.c on sendtodesktop [endian?]
* Closed bug #2255 - segmentation fault on 8-bit truecolor visual
* Closed bug #2258 - long menus truncated
* Closed bug #2311 - Does not display the pressed state while a button in the
frame is toggled
* Closed bug #2321 - ResizeRelative -up and -left makes window move when at
min_size
* Closed bug #2483 - Pinned windows raise to top on all desktops when they
become focused on just one desktop
* Closed bug #2491 - Client List by App instead of by Desktop
* Closed bug #2551 - Request to be able to cycle docks (e.g.
* Closed bug #2659 - Menu header display should be configurable
* Closed bug #2769 - temporarily chroot the keychain tree
* Closed bug #2841 - Changes to the keepborder option aren't applied when
reconfiguring
* Closed bug #2850 - Openbox gives black backgrounds to windows using the
new 'rgba' or 'argb' visual
* Closed bug #2865 - openbox 3.3 is not C89 compatible
* Closed bug #2872 - Focus issues with Eclipse and Firefox
* Closed bug #2878 - Openbox crash when used with vncserver
* Closed bug #2897 - Openbox shouldn't redraw the whole screen everytime
when minimizing windows.
* Closed bug #2898 - Patch adding advanced keyboard support in popup menus.
* Closed bug #2982 - tilda doesn't work propertly
* Closed bug #3034 - themeupdate.py seems to bee broken
* Closed bug #3045 - RrPaint in obrender should be split for easier use by
external apps
* Closed bug #3050 - 'syscrash' theme update
* Closed bug #3051 - When closing windows
* Closed bug #3053 - Updates de.po for German Localisation
* Closed bug #3059 - Feature Request: NextWindowForAllWorkspaces
* Closed bug #3063 - extensions_xinerama_screens() leaks memory if Xinerama
is enabled
* Closed bug #3064 - slist_path_add() might leak memory
* Closed bug #3068 - Multimonitor focus problems
* Closed bug #3081 - window doesn't appear
* Closed bug #3092 - Config parser expects wrong values of "layer" in
per-application settings
* Closed bug #3094 - smart placement should Ignore maximized windows
* Closed bug #3100 - Netwmpager is configured with layer = "below" but OB
is ignoring it
* Closed bug #3101 - Openbox won't compile on CentOS 4.4
* Closed bug #3102 - svn-6175 windows come not back in the foregroud
* Closed bug #3106 - Fullscreened mplayer loses focus when switching to
another desktop and back
* Closed bug #3108 - After revision 6437 the desktop dialog window stays on
screen
3.3:
* Add a showDelay option for the dock.
* Fixed onscreen-keeping code which broke a bit in -rc2.
* Fix incorrect handling of window properties on 64 bit arches.
* Fix pixelsize being the same as size for pango, now it is correct.
* Fix drawing of icons taller than wide, eg gimp.
* Add a 'mirrorhorizontal' gradient, like horizontal but mirrored in the
center and 'splitvertical' which is like vertical but nonlinear in a fancy
way.
* Translations for de, hr and zh_TW added.
* Add initial per-app settings support.
* Fix some outstanding issues with 64-bit support.
* Add an optional delay for displaying submenus so you can move the mouse
over some entries without flashing each submenu.
* Plug some minor memleaks and fix minor bugs.
* Changed algorithm for downscaling window icons.
* New themes!
* Disable support for libstartup-notification by default, it doesn't seem
to work well.
* Allow disabling of duplicate window numbering by option titleNumber in
theme section.
* Add moverelative and resizerelative actions.
* Option middle for menus that make submenus be centered instead of aligned
by the top edge to the parent entry.
* Fix transient (ie dialog) windows being placed offscreen if the parent
is close to the edge of the screen.
3.3-rc2:
* Fixed some typos and errors in rc.xsd
* Add the noStrut option to the dock (to allow maximizing windows over it),
useful when it is not in the above layer.
* Fix transparent terminals not updating when using ToggleDecor.
* Yet more poking at the onscreen-keeping code, should now do the right
thing always.
* Add an option to hide disabled buttons instead of showing them as disabled.
* Hopefully fixed all the remaining pango issues. The new 1.10 release also
fixes shadows again.
* I think the lib linking in Makefile.am is right now, please tell me if it
isn't.
* Added a finnish translation and some minor updates to others.
* Fixed configure.ac so --enable-pango doesn't disable pango support or the
other way around, make enabled be default to get some extra testing.
3.3-rc1:
* Poked around a bit in the code that keeps windows onscreen, if you
are using xinerama, please let me know if things are better/worse/same.
* Add support for pango, disabled by default due to a bug in pango 1.8 that
breaks shadows, it works fine with 1.6.x though. Poke the pango developers
here http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169622 if you want this
to be fixed.
* Made edge resist and Send/MoveToEdge not hit windows at layers below
the current one, add option to disable this behaviour.
* Fixed directional focus not getting trapped in omnipresent windows
* Fixed focus actions when bound to the mouse, normal focus cycle is always
linear and directional focus is totally disabled, it makes no sense
anyway, just move the mouse.
* Added an option for the raise/lower/raiselower/unshaderaise/shadelower
options called group that lets you bind stuff to raise/lower the whole
window group. <action name="raise"><group>yes</group></action>
* Add various new actions. I haven't updated the web docs yet, but I think
I managed to get all of them listed in rc.xsd.
* Bugs 1783, 1812, 1863, 1905, 2005, 1957 fixed.
* Some translations added. (ca, no, pl, ru, fr)
PKGLOCALEDIR and which install their locale files directly under
${PREFIX}/${PKGLOCALEDIR} and sort the PLIST file entries. From now
on, pkgsrc/mk/plist/plist-locale.awk will automatically handle
transforming the PLIST to refer to the correct locale directory.
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
* Added spanish and swedish translations
* Changed "Unnamed Desktop" to "Desktop n" where n is the actual number of
the desktop
* Hopefully no more of the hanging X totally bug
* The fullscreen property now overrides aspect hints
* Added M as an alias for Mod3 in the same manner that W is an alias for
Mod4
* Added probably too many options and actions
* ToggleDockAutohide to toggle the autohide option at runtime, doesn't
save it to the config
* keepBorder option to set if you want the 1-pixel border when you
toggleDecorations
* added popupShow and popupPosition to control where and when the
move/resize-popup is shown, these go in the resize section of the config
popup. Position can be Top or Center, popupShow can be Always, Never or
Nonpixel (this is the default).
* Added the xorStyle option to change the behaviour of menus along the
bottom edge, note that the default is true
* warpPointer option in the menu section to control if the mouse cursor is
to be warped by openbox when the menu moves to keep on screen to keep
the cursor in the same place relative to the menu.
* Added back the focusLast option (this controls what happens when you
change desktops and have followMouse on)
* Added an option to set which desktop to start on when you start openbox,
firstdesk. For example, you might like to set it to 5 if you have a 3x3
grid to start in the middle.
Note that this won't build until a buildlink3 bug is fixed. This is not a
regression, as it was already in a non-building state. Please do not file
any PRs regarding this issue.
Changes since 3.0:
* Added japanese translation.
* config_focus_raise declared as guint.
* Strange behavior with focus:followMouse and RaiseLower action fixed.
* use g_snprintf in openbox/session.c instead of sprintf.
* gimp crashes openbox.
* import -frame leaves windows in a temporary "on top" state.
* Programs started with X become zombies upon shutdown.
* desktopnext/previous and desktopleft/right dont quite get along.
* Add an option to disable the window raise on (Scott Moynes)
mouse clicks with the modifierMask.
* Make configure look for Xft version 2 libraries and (Ben Jansens)
use them if they are available.
* Add bitmap button support to all the default styles. (Ben Jansens)
* Change the default premax values to be larger than 0 (Ben Jansens)
for clients that map in a maximized state. (avoid a
mozilla crash.)
and some bug fixes, as well as a polish translation.
(Juan at xtraeme dot dyndns dot org) in PR pkg/19107. Minor modifications
by me.
Openbox is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. It currently
runs on a large list of platforms. It was originally based on Blackbox
and currently remains very similar, even using Blackbox styles (with
available extensions) for its themeing and is written entirely in C++
and maintains no dependencies on any libraries other than X11.
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