Collection. It is the development version of Ion, a light window manager.
There are a lot of new features since the release of the last stable
version.
Ion is a window manager dividing the screen into frames rather than having
overlapping windows, much like the windows in Emacs. Navigation between
clients can be done solely using the keyboard without need for a mouse.
"Package Makefiles should refer to PKG_SYSCONFBASEDIR instead of
PKG_SYSCONFBASE when they want PKG_SYSCONFDIR stripped of
PKG_SYSCONFSUBDIR. This makes PKG_SYSCONFBASE=/etc work with pkgviews by
installing all config files into /etc/packages/<pkg> instead of
occasionally putting some directly into /etc."
Changes:
1.2.13: 2003-09-27
- build fixes
- only handle KDE tray protocol when icewmtray running
1.2.13pre3: 2003-09-14
- ShowDesktop button added (someone make a nice icon, please)
- fix defunct icewmbg processes on theme selection
- fix setting themes with a SPACE in the name
- KDE system tray support (experimental)
- support for scaled backgrounds (experimental)
- fix crash on option parsing in icesound
- remove "xftdummy" foundry from default fonts (Pavel Roskin)
- add reboot/shutdown to logout menu (Hanspeter Roth)
- sort theme menu by name
1.2.13pre2: 2003-09-05
- fix icewmbg not setting the background when started before icewm
1.2.13pre1: 2003-08-31
- fix ~/.icewm/theme file permissions
- fix drawing of checkboxes in menus
- fix display corruption in network status
- fix memory leak in icewmbg on workspace switches
- fix menu behavior with xinerama
- Italian translation updated
- new preference "DoubleBuffer" (default: 1)
- experimental: icewm-session (runs icewmbg. icewmtray, icewm
and restarts icewm on crash)
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.
* Improve window manager responsiveness
* Various bug fixes in file manager, window manager and panel
* More 64bit clean up
* New translation added: Azerbaijani
2.6.3
- fix to right, left, bottom onscreen resize constraints
- detect case where we fail to get a pointer grab when the mouse
is clicked, to avoid "this window is stuck to my mouse!"
- keep panels at the end of the focus MRU list so we don't
focus them all the time in annoying ways
2.6.2
- fix to repaint after resize always, so on maximize
and theme changes we get things drawn properly
- fix a compile issue on HPUX
- fix translations of metacity-message output
- fix to update window icons when they change
- put a limit on number of characters displayed in
window titles during Alt+tab
- fix configure check for Xrandr
- fix 64-bit bug in property reading that broke
things badly on 64-bit
- don't move focus when clicking close button on a window
- fix a crash in getting pixmap icons
- spawn dialogs and child processes on the proper
screen in multihead situations
- if the focus gets set to None, set it back to
something sane
- load accessibility modules and set accessibility roles
- fix hang after displaying warning dialogs
- fix a memory corruption when sticking/unsticking windows
that lead to a frequent crash and windows appearing
in Alt+tab improperly
- fix some handling of partial-width panel struts
- more translations
2.6.1
- rebuild with fixed glib-gettext.m4
2.6.0
- some additional translations
2.5.5
- fix aspect ratio handling
- fix "shake loose" functionality for maximized windows
- handle Xrandr size changes properly again
- fix fullscreen window detection
- fix workspace name handling
- don't steal button press events on root window
- nuke metacity.spec due to nonmaintenance
- allow too-large-for-screen windows to move their titlebar offscreen
- keep an MRU list of windows per-workspace and use it to focus
the next window when the focused window disappears
- fix cursor when moving
- improve appearance of opaque resize
- make BELOW window state work
- fix a crash when gdk_pixmap_foreign_new() returned NULL
2.5.3
- fixups to .desktop file
- activate window prior to grab end, avoiding
extra focus events
- add support for partial-width panels (fixes corner panel
and xinerama window position constraints)
- added keybinding to toggle window as "always on top"
- support --disable-schemas-install option to configure
- destroy support for legacy GNOME 1.x hints; metacity
no longer works with GNOME 1.x
- disable raise-on-click for mouse focus modes
- fix bug that broke many Javascript popup menus with mozilla
- allow "shaking loose" maximized windows, to move them
between Xinerama heads or whatever
- honor desktop-wide double click timeout
- handle window placement properly for windows that
start out maximized
- integrate Ximian patch to go ahead and log out after 4 minutes
even if a dialog is open
- fix a segfault
- fix bug where window groups weren't always kept up to date
- fix bug where focus got confused when switching workspaces
with mouse focus mode
- fix 64-bit crash on s390x
- chdir to user's homedir on startup
- keep window in fullscreen layer when its transients are focused
- fix keybindings bug when you had ScrollLock enabled
- many translation updates
2.5.2
- improved wording/UI for some dialogs
- while clicking a window button, if you move the mouse outside
the button such that releasing the mouse button won't activate
the window button, visually indicate by "popping out" the button.
- fix some valgrind errors
- change "show desktop mode" to convert to "everything is minimized
mode" if you open a new window while showing desktop, rather
than previous behavior of simply leaving show desktop mode.
- fix a trivial memory leak
- change "move to workspace N" so it doesn't switch workspaces,
just moves the window.
- translation updates
2.5.1
- fix bug where fullscreen windows were below top panels
- build fix for Solaris
- support diagonal window movement with numeric keypad
- multihead fix
- build fix for Cygwin
- place on xinerama containing the pointer
- fix totally hosed window placement/movement for frameless
windows
- improvement to smoothness of window move/resize
2.5.0
- many new translations
- fix an infinite loop while holding a server grab triggered by
some recent Qt versions doing weird stuff
- fix bug where Alt+rightclick repeatedly on titlebar resulted
in zillions of menus
- fix Alt+Tab to *actually* put minimized windows at the end,
though this was always intended
- rewrite size/positions constraint code (currently known
to be quite buggy, e.g. xmms is hosed)
- enforce size of at least 1x1 on windows
- reduce latency of managing new windows still further
by using async properties code in more places
- don't grab keybindings on docks, so gnome-panel
can handle them
- suck in the panel's screenshot and run dialog global
bindings
- lots of improvements to window placement
- sync max number of workspaces with pager applet
- fix to keep focus when inside window frame in
strict mouse focus mode
- make it possible to start a reverse tab with
shift+alt+tab (vs. alt+tab then shift)
- fix a multihead issue with constraints between two
windows on different heads
- require GTK+ 2.2.0 and fontconfig
- default theme is now Simple
- add visual bell feature
- incorporate many fixes from 2.4.34
- other stuff
ObConf is a graphical configuration tool for the Openbox window manager.
It allows one to change Openbox's configuration in real-time.
One can change options such as the theme, desktop names, and focus settings.
Openbox is a standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window
manager.
Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to
manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite
of what seems to be the general case for window managers. Openbox was
written first to comply with standards and to work properly. Only when
that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface.
2003-07-23
Dave Holland sent a patch to fix some Alt+Tab misbehaviour.
2003-09-18
Fixed "losing control of windows" problem when switching desktops
rapidly on slow machines.
Released 0.99.16.
2003-09-25
Hopefully *really* fix that bug. Testers suggest to me that it is
now really gone.
2003-10-15
Integrated a patch from Neil Drumm to implement snap-to-border.
Run evilwm with -snap num to enable the behaviour (num specifies
the proximity in pixels to snap to - 10 is quite nice).
It's worth noting that Per Weijnitz sent a similar patch a while
ago, but I never got around to using it :(
Released 0.99.17.
* Fixed panel crash with corrupted config file
* Window management improvement
* Improved handling of multiple selections in the file manager
* French translations for the documentation
* Translation updates
* A new Gtk2 theme called "Xfce-winter"
