The holder of the Ion3(tm) trademark and copyright demands that
this package must be kept up-to-date at all times. We cannot comply
with such demands, especially considering that pkgsrc has
"stable branches".
(If anyone cares about this package, I suggest we maintain it in
pkgsrc-wip instead.)
News in 1.0.0:
* New default style: bloe
* New styles:
ostrich zimek_darkblue, zimek_green, zimek_bisque,
carp, arch, bora_black, bora_blue, bora_green, green_tea, bloe
* Fixed shape handling, now shaped corners have border.
* Allow negative numbers in command "Workspace"
* Added utility fluxbox-remote
* Allows script access to most fluxbox commands;
Support must be turned on in the init file with
session.screen.allowRemoteActions; the syntax is, e.g.,
fluxbox-remote "CustomMenu ~/.fluxbox/custommenu"
* Added keycommands :AddWorkspace and :RemoveLastWorkspace
* Added some missing Open Office entries and window managers,
plus some other minor changes in fluxbox-generate_menu
* Updated languages:
sv_SE, zh_CN, de_*, es_ES, es_AR, en_US, en_GB, pt_*
fi_FI, fr_FR, ru_RU
And a lot of bugfixes, please review the Changelog file for more info.
* configure.in: version 1.3.1 - This version is to let people know
that Sawfish is being revived by the community, and we are awaiting
patches to be submitted for incoming 1.3.2 release
* fixed possible buffer overflow in src/fonts.c (Yoshiaki Kasahara)
1.3.1 also has many updated translations and doc fixes.
<philip@freebsd.org>.
Release notes:
This release features a few minor fixes. If no major problems are
discovered, this is likely to be the last "rc" release before the
first and hopefully final "stable" release.
ChangeLog:
o Binding guards weren't being used
o Set 'target' to requested instead of None on refused
SelectionNotify too. This seems to fix Xterm's paste
slowness.
3.4.4:
* Updated Traditional Chinese translation
* Updated Norwegian translation
* Fix for MoveToEdge skipping edges sometimes
* Let you specify the vertical and horizontal padding independently in themes
* Fix so that if you select an omnipresent window on another desktop in the
client list menus, it will go to that desktop
* Make the GrowToEdge action shrink once there is no more room to grow,
similar to in 3.4.2, but shrinking to edges as well
* Move the Send To and Layers submenus to the top of the client menu
* Fix race causing omnipresent windows to lose focus when switching desktops
very quickly
* Don't focus new windows on other desktops if they aren't related to the
currently focused window
* Add corner resizing areas in the inner client border (Fixes themes such
as Onyx)
* New focus stealing prevention that is smart and not intrusive and not
annoying
* Revert a small change in 3.4.3 that caused windows to be placed funny in
Smart placement when there was a dock or something on the side of the
screen
* Show a notification when switching desktops
* Fix for delayed focus-follows-mouse interrupting move/resize or menus
* Make screen edge warp keep warping without having the move the mouse 1
pixel
* Fix for resizing terminals in the top/left sides getting a little confused
* Fix to keep oldschool (Non-EWMH) fullscreen windows from being moved and
resized inside of the struts (Fixes Acroread)
* Accept the <command> option for the Restart command, similar to the Execute
action
* Don't make clicking on dock apps sometimes act like clicking on the root
window (Don't propogate button events up)
* Fix a bug introduced in 3.4.3 which caused the Windows key as a modifier
for bindings to not work properly
* Let windows skip across monitors in a Xinerama setup when using MoveToEdge
or Shift-arrow in an interactive move
* Make move and resize take the dock into account for resistance
* Raise new windows when it makes sense, when they aren't being focused
* Change default config to use click events for mouse wheel bindings instead
of presses
* Cleanup opengl and render routine
* Switch to using a camera based view
* Add ablility to specify a background image
* Add transparency effect
* Add screen size options to conf
* Add ability to set custom keybindings and mousebindings
* Make autoacquire off by default
* Mirror current desktop to all desktops option [Mathias Weyland]
* Add man pages
* Fix imlib2-config detection in configure
ChangeLog:
o The dock uses WMPlex size policies now
o Added 'orientation' winprop
o Some REGION_SKIP_FOCUS flag management
o Oops, wrong return value test for XTextPropertyToStringList
While here, I've added my FreeBSD "local distfiles" to the MASTER_SITES to keep
the package fetchable when the distfile disappears upstream when a new version
is released and before I get a chance to update the package.
3.4.3:
* Add Ukrainian translation
* Updated translations:
- Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Estonian, German, Portuguese,
Vietnamese, Finnish, Czech, Arabic, Spanish, Swedish, French
* Improve focus fallback - don't fallback to windows you can't focus cycle
(Alt-Tab) to
* Don't show the client border for undecorated windows when keepBorder is on,
just the outer border
* Some improvements in the smart placement to help it find a place more
often. This needs more work still.
* Don't focus windows that appear under the mouse in mouse-focus mode unless
underMouse is enabled
* Don't move focus when the window under the pointer iconifies unless
underMouse is enabled
* Respect min/max window sizes when a window is fullscreened or maximized.
This fixes problems experienced with maximizing vnc windows
* Don't XUngrabKeyboard unless we need to
* Correct calculations for the menu header width, so that they are not
ellisized unnecessarily
* Advanced support for partial struts. When you maximize a window it will
now only use the struts it needs to. This can greatly improve
xinerama functionality.
* Fixes for how the dock is placed in certain positions on screen (off by 1
errors)
* New default bindings:
- don't unshade when clicking on the titlebar
- raise when unshading with the scrollwheel
- lower when shading with the scrollwheel
* Don't show the top resize area in the titlebar when a window is shaded
* Optimize rendering of window decorations
* Optimize splitvertical gradients - no more malloc/free during render
* Let the theme specify all colors for a splitvertical gradient with the new
.splitTo theme elements
* Improve decorations for maximized windows. Don't draw the side borders in
the titlebar.
* Don't resist against desklet windows (below layer + skip taskbar)
* New actions for dynamically adjusting your desktop workspaces:
- AddDesktopLast, RemoveDesktopLast
- AddDesktopCurrent, RemoveDestopCurrent
* New <center> option for smart placement (default is on)
* Fix MoveToCenter in Xinerama (TwinView) setups
* Let you lower a window without lowering its children or siblings
* Don't set the default Openbox icon on child windows, let them inherit the
icon from their parents
* Fix Onyx themes - fade out disabled buttons
* Don't auto-resize windows to fit on screen if they are UserSpecified
Size or Position
* Don't activate windows which raise themselves anymore. It was a nice
thought, but it caused too much problems
* Rewrite of the actions subsystem
* Removed deprecated actions:
- ShowDesktop, UnshowDesktop (Use ToggleShowDesktop)
- ResizeRelativeVert, ResizeRelativeHorz (Use ResizeRelative)
* Combined the MoveFromEdge* actions with MoveToEdge* actions, and removed
the MoveFromEdge* action names.
* Switch desktops when moving a window and you drag it to the edge of the
screen (added the <screenEdgeWarpTime> option for this)
* Add actions to add/remove the last desktop in the client list menus
* Use startup notification when launching ObConf in the default root menu
* Remove the desktop switching dialog, as it confuses people and they don't
know how to turn it off to switch desktops instantly. Some other
incarnation may return in the future.
* Add optional <finalactions> option for NextWindow, PreviousWindow,
DirectionalFocus*, and DirectionalTarget* actions
* Don't focus new helper windows unless they are alone in their group. This
fixes gucharmap
* Fancy keyboard window moving:
- Shift-arrow will move the window to the next edge
- Control-arrow will move the window by only 1 pixel
- Arrow will move the window by a larger number of pixels
* Fancy keyboard window resizing:
- The first arrow will choose an edge to resize (then you can grow or
shrink the window on that edge)
- Hitting an arrow perpendicular to your selected edge will choose a
different edge to resize
- Shift-arrow will grow/shrink the window to the next edge
- Control arrow will grow/shrink the window by only 1 pixel
- Arrow will grow/shrink the window by a larger number of pixel
* Timeout when synchronously resizing a window so you can still resize busy
or dead application windows
* Let you specify keyboard shortcuts in your root menus with _. Such as
label="XTe_rm" would make 'r' the shortcut key.
* Fixes for placing windows with per-app settings:
- you can now place windows relative to any edge of the screen instead of
only the top left. (-0 uses the far edge, +0 uses the near edge. You can
use --0 and +-0 to specify negative numbers.)
- fix bug with windows being placed far off-screen occasionally
- allow you to place windows partially outside of the screen
- let per-app settings override program-specified positions (but not if it
is user-specified)
* Add user-specified margins to the configuration file
* Fix for transient windows in groups with transient windows of the group
transients. That wasn't supposed to be legible. i.e. 2 group transients
and 1 direct transient for one of the group transients.
* Don't include child/parent windows in tests for being occluded or occluding
other windows, since you can't raise/lower above/below them. This fixes
the raiselower action for windows which have children.
* Reduce the size of the middle gradient in splitvertical gradients. This
makes the split harder than it was in 3.4.2
* Don't include debian/ dir in releases
* Add resize bindings for the edges to the default hardcoded bindings
* Fix focus cycle indicator positioning for some windows (i.e. OpenOffice)
* Add the MoveResizeTo action. This is very xinerama aware! It also lets
you move a window to any edge of any screen.
* Make actions that look for edges include the dock's edges (e.g. MoveToEdge)
* New preferred option for the Execute action is <command> instead of
<execute> but the old one will still work.
* Fix for moving windows partially offsceen causing them to jump far away
* Fix for windows which are not on any monitor, to keep them on screen
partically too
* Require libstartupnotification 0.8 in configure (we use stuff that was not
around in some earlier versions)
* Grab the server when mapping windows to avoid race conditions in other
programs (getting MapNotify before you are visible)
* Handle case gracefully when ConfigureRequent for restacking specifies
a siblig which we aren't managing
* Use KeyRelease to run things from Openbox menus, so that the release
does not go to the focused window (causing the new window to not get
focus)
* Add new actions for controlling window decorations:
- Decorate, Undecorate
* Fix so that the values for per-app settings are not case sensitive
* Fix crash with very small windows
* Fix resize resistance for windows with aspect ratio limits
* Let you resize windows with aspect ratio limits in the vertical directions
It does not use threads, but some dynamically loaded plugins link
against libraries which are linked against libpthread (for no good
technical reason either, but I don't like to maintain patches for all).
- Fix pagers when enabling after initially being disabled
- Remove unused backup-....cfg stuf
- Fix fallback textclass
- Don't crash if trying to start when no theme is found. Add missing
newline.
- Fix parsing title, name, and class matches in windowmatches.cfg
- Remove trailing dash in release version string
- Enable setting imlib2 image cache size
- Eliminate some remainders from Window re-wrapping done a while back
OBPager is a lightweight pager applet or dockapp. It requires a netwm
compatible window manager such as OpenBox. OBPager shows windows in active
virtual desktops and allows the user to switch desktops by clicking on the
pager dockapp.
Twm is the classic Tom's Window Manager for the X Window System. It
provides titlebars, shaped windows, several forms of icon management,
user-defined macro functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard
focus, and user-specified key and pointer button bindings.
2.0.1
* Make ObConf work when the .obt file has been renamed (e.g. by box-look.org)
* Update swedish translation
* Update to Openbox 3.4.2 libraries
2.0.0
* Add the ability to install .obt theme archives
* Add the ability to create .obt theme archives
* Double clicking a .obt file will launch it with ObConf, install
the theme, and select it for both KDE and GNOME desktops
* Fix for writing invalid font entries when none existed in the
config file already
* Add new dock options showDelay and noStrut
* Add mouse option for double click time and drag threshold
* Add option for animate iconify/restore
* Make Openbox reconfigure with communication through the X server
rather than by PID
1.6.3
* Add the ability to change your fonts
* Add the <focusLast> config option
* When changing the number of desktops, or their names, ObConf will
set them in the current session as well as saving them to the
Openbox config file.
* Improve how ObConf sets the desktop names. You can leave them
empty and it will use the default translated names from Openbox.
1.6.1
* Update to the Openbox 3.4 series libraries.
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
This release features both bug fixes and new features and should help to
calm you down a bit while waiting for pekwm 0.2.0 which you can track
at http://pekwm.org/trac/wiki/Dev-0.2.0
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
Metisse is an X-based window system designed with two goals in mind.
First, it should make it easy for HCI researchers to design and
implement innovative window management techniques Second, it should
conform to existing standards and be robust and efficient enough to be
used on a daily basis, making it a suitable platform for the
evaluation of the proposed techniques.
Metisse is not focused on a particular kind of interaction (e.g. 3D)
and should not be seen as a new desktop proposal. It is rather a tool
for creating new types of desktop environments.
pkgsrc, in preparation for gnome1-libs removal(*).
There was no feedback for keeping these packages after my
HEADS UP mail to pkgsrc-users a week ago.
(*) More to come before that can happen, though.
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiling
and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically, optimizing
the environment for the application in use and the task performed. It
is the little brother of wmii.
dwm contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the
mode, the title of the focused window, and the text read from standard
input. The selected tags are highlighted with a different color, the
tags of the focused window are highlighted with a small point.
2.18.2
======
This release fixes a bug with missing pixels in themes with rounded
corners.
Translators
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Espen Stefansen (nb)
2.18.1
======
This release fixes a bug breaking some QT apps (thanks to Bradley
Hughes for a good test case and lots of patience) a hang with gtk
trunk (not that we expect many to use stable tarball releases of
metacity and bleeding edge versions of gtk together), and a couple
other odds and ends.
- prevent nasty metacity/gdk interactions causing hangs with gtk
trunk (Elijah) [offshoots of #354213]
- avoid some crashes when dragging windows partially offscreen
(Elijah) [#353513]
- avoid mousenav vs. keynav focus problems with the run application
dialog in mouse/sloppy focus modes (Elijah) [#374752]
- send synthetic configure notify events in response to appropriate
MapRequest events too (Elijah) [#322840]
Translators
Ihar Hrachyshka (be@latin), sonam pelden (dz), Jorge González (es), Ivar
Smolin (et), Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio (eu), Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl),
Gabor Kelemen (hu), Luca Ferretti (it)
2.18.0
======
Only change in this release was updated translations.
Translations
Jordi Mallach (ca), Ankit Patel (gu), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Luca
Ferretti (it), Takeshi AIHANA (ja), Erdal Ronahi (ku), Gintautas
Miliauskas (lt), Jovan Naumovski (mk), Reinout van Schouwen (nl), wadim
dziedzic (pl), raulpereira (pt_BR), Nickolay V. Shmyrev (ru), Горан
Ракић (sr)
2.17.8
======
Thanks to Jaap A. Haitsma, Linus Torvalds and Kjartan Maraas
for improvements in this release.
- Change icon in the "kill window" dialog because the old
one was removed from GNOME (Jaap)
- refactor the code which handles mouse events on the title
bar (Linus)
- Add MAINTAINERS to EXTRA_DIST (Kjartan)
Translations
Alexander Shopov (bg), Jakub Friedl (cs), Hendrik Richter (de),
Ivar Smolin (et), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Robert-André Mauchin (fr),
Changwoo Ryu (ko), Marek Stepien (pl), Duarte Loreto (pt),
Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
2.17.5
======
Thanks to Bruno Boaventura, Mad Alex, and Thomas Thurman for
improvements in this release.
- make window menu arrangement more sensible. (#382962, Bruno)
- unmaximise button keeps pressed appearance when moved off and
back. (#395560, Alex)
- fix a couple of compositor crashes (#387761, Thomas)
- new environment variables checked if the compositor is enabled;
see the new file doc/compositor-control.txt for details. (Thomas)
Translations
Djihed Afifi (ar), Ales Nyakhaychyk (be), Jordi Mallach (ca),
Jakub Friedl (cs), David Lodge (en_GB), Raivis Dejus (lv),
Kjartan Maraas (nb), Mugurel Tudor (ro), Daniel Nylander (sv),
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
2.17.3
======
Thanks to Christof Krüger, Federico Mena Quintero, Bruno Boaventura,
and Björn Lindqvist for improvements in this release.
- fix longstanding problem about windows flickering in and out of
maximised state when dragging between xineramas (#358715) (Christof)
- grab server when switching workspaces (#381127) (Federico)
- replace changing text on window menu with pairs of radio buttons
and checkboxes (#343108) (Bruno, Björn)
Translations
Kjartan Maraas (nb), Jakub Friedl (cs), Yuval Tanny (he), Ivar Smolin (et),
Duarte Loreto (pt), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
2.17.2
======
Thanks to Priit Laes, Bruno Boaventura, Kjartan Maraas, Justin Mason,
Elijah Newren and Dan Mick for improvements in this release.
- implement handle_move_to_{side|corner}_* to allow the user to flip a
window to the side or corner of the screen. (Justin) [#317884]
- fix strict focus mode by picking up on res_class (Dan) [#361054]
- remove deprecated gtk stuff (Priit, Bruno)
- string fixes (Kjartan) [#363354, #363355]
Translations
Jakub Friedl (cs), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Ilkka Tuohela (fi),
Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr), Kjartan Maraas (nb)
2.17.1
======
Thanks to Bruno Boaventura and Carlo Wood for improvements in this
release.
- sync metacity workspace previous with libwnck (Bruno) [#341893]
- fix cases when titlebar is allowed offscreen and shouldn't be, and
vice-versa (Carlo) [#333995]
Translations
Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
2.17.0
======
Thanks to Elijah Newren, Jens Granseuer, Bruno Boaventura, Carlo Wood,
and Thomas Thurman for changes in this release.
- version 2 of theme format: stick, shade and above buttons on titlebar,
variable rounding on corners, variable transparency on window
backgrounds, stock icons in themes, can remove all titlebar buttons
from certain classes of window, and more (Thomas) [#102547 and
dependencies]
- improve "Force Quit" dialog (Bruno) [#121936]
- ignore edge resistance when resizing with keyboard (Elijah) [#346782]
- maintain window size and placement across restarts (Carlo) [#358042]
- prevent crash when closing certain remote apps (Elijah) [#358514]
- longstanding mouse-focus bug fixed which affected firefox's
autocompletion (Elijah) [#357695]
- ignore maximum size constraints when maximising (Elijah) [#327543]
- warn translators to keep translations in sync with libwnck (Bruno)
[#355620]
- fixes for compilation warnings, etc (Elijah, Jens) [#348067, #356631]
Translators
Ivar Smolin (et), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Luca Ferretti (it),
Runa Bhattacharjee (bn_IN)
notes:
-yes, there is beryl... it is too complex for the pre-freeze rush
-Mesa-6.5.2 is needed (not at build time, but to run). See pkgsrc-wip.
-the "Composite" extension needs to be anabled in the X server
-at least for intel, Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" is needed, otherwise
some UIs look crippled
go away -- I have real doubts that a version 1.1 jdk and the accompanying
swing are any use to anyone, but am not sure the newer stuff we have
supports all ports which are supported by lang/jdk.
Patch provided by maintainer, Rhialto in PR 35637.
Changes from version 3.7 to 3.8
-------------------------------
1 - Global cleanup
There were some variables shadowing others, things not being
safely initialized, that sort of thing.
[Richard Levitte]
2 - Fixed several memory leaks found by
"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
3 - Merged in the f.movetitlebar command. By default this is bound to
alt-left-click in the titlebar.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
4 - Fixed the following issues:
Poking at the code, it looks like InitVirtualScreens() is called
before the configuration file is parsed which would explain what
I see since there's no attempt to create them after the config
file read.
Moving the call after the config parsing causes things to work.
I've run into a few other issues that I fixed with the attached
patch:
- shadow menus on the right screen open the shadow on
the left screen
- shadow menus on the left screen open on top of the
window
- windows on the right screen disappear after startup
[Todd Kover]
5 - Adjustments to ctwm.man:
I noticed a couple of small errors.
One is that the window list arguments for the opaque
keywords are now optional, are listed with square brackets
in the man page. The other is that the two Threshold
keywords are shown in the man page as requiring curly-
brackets, but they are not required or accepted in
configuration files.
[Ross Combs]
6 - improve algoritm to deal with mismatched geometry of virtual
screens
- allow windows to be dragged from one virtual screen to another and
have them switch workspaces appropriately
- handle restarts properly with virtual screens, including preserving
where windows were placed within workspaces regardless of which
virtual screen a window was on; preserve across restarts
[Todd Kover]
7 - WMapCreateCurrentBackGround() and WMapCreateDefaultBackGround()
would skip remaining virtual screens if not all parameters are present.
- small type errors. [Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert].
8 - There were some directives in the config file that wanted to set some
setting for all virtual screens. However since that list is (now) only
set up after parsing the config file, they failed to work. Moreover,
these settings were basically meant to be global to all virtual
screens, so a better place for them is somewhere in *Scr. They all
related to the Workspace Manager, so I moved them from struct
WorkSpaceWindow to struct WorkSpaceMgr.
The affected directives are StartInMapState, WMgrVertButtonIndent,
WMgrHorizButtonIndent, MapWindowCurrentWorkSpace,
MapWindowDefaultWorkSpace. The window and icon_name, even though not
user-settable, were also moved.
This is basically change #7 above done right.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
9 - Re-introduced TwmWindow.oldvs, used to avoid calling
XReparentWindow() when possibe (it messed up the stacking order
of windows). However, maybe the use of .vs should be rethought a
bit: in Vanish() it is now set to NULL with the old value kept
in .oldvs. However the window is still a child of the same vs.
Maybe it is better not to set it to NULL and then, when *really*
changing the virtual screen, .vs can be used instead of .oldvs.
This whole "virtual screen" thing is unexplained in the manual,
which even uses it as a synonym for "workspace" already in the
introduction paragraph. (There also does not seem to be a way
now to test virtual screens in captive windows) I suspect that
all this causes lots of confusion, and when cleared up, can
simplify the code a lot.
I also fixed up the horrible indentation in the functions
where I changed something.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
10 - Fixed interaction between "inner" and "outer" workspace
selection with "captive" windows. This was because the Gnome
"_WIN_WORKSPACE" property is used in 2 conflicting ways: for
client windows it indicates which workspace they are in, for
root windows it indicates which workspace they show. Captive
windows are both. Also, the initially selected inner workspace
is now the first, not the same as the outer workspace (this had
a different cause).
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
11 - Introduce Scr->XineramaRoot to store the root window that
encompasses all virtual screen rootwindows. This further reduces
any need to use RealRoot and/or CaptiveRoot.
Add a schematic drawing that clarifies the relation between the
various root-type windows.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
12 - Get rid of all non-locale code and make I18N the silent default
(doesn't have to be mentioned any more).
THIS WILL BREAK CTWM ON OLDER (PRE-LOCALE) ENVIRONMENTS.
I strongly recommend an upgrade to "post-locale" standards.
[Richard Levitte]
13 - Enhance RandomPlacement with a displacement argument, so the
pseudo-radomness can be of displacements other than +30+30.
Here's an example for a pretty funky displacement:
RandomPlacement "on" "-30-100"
[Richard Levitte]
14 - Extend the Info window with the geometry seen from the lower
right corner as well.
[Richard Levitte]
15 - Extend the pointer button specification for title buttons
to take modifiers.
As part of this change, the following title pointer button
specification is deprecated:
Button {j} : {function}
in favor of the following, for consistency:
Button {j} = {function}
The old way still works, but is considered bad form and will
be removed in ctwm 4.0.
[Richard Levitte]
16 - Fix position of buttons in Occupy window, to make them centered.
(and spread the remaining space evenly in 4).
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
17 - "TwmWindow.group" was once apparently set to 0 when a window had
no group leader but this was changed to pointing to its own
window. This resulted however in many places checking for both
conditions, and several checking only for 0 which could not
occur anymore. Changed it back to 0 (so we can now distinguish
again windows that really indicate themselves as group leader,
if we wish) and this gave rise to some simplifications.
Also, there were various loops through all TwmWindows looking
for a group leader (or a transientfor), I replaced them with
GetTwmWindow() which uses the Xlib function XFindContext() which
uses a hash table lookup. This should be more efficient.
When you change the occupation of a group member window, it is
now applied to the group leader (which in turn affects all
members).
I tried this with ExMH, the only program that uses a real group
leader that I could find. Iconifying the leader unmaps the
members. What should "squeezing" do? ExMH also has an icon
window (see ICCCM 4.1.9, 3rd option) which behaves weirdly; this
may be a bug in ExMH (see exmh-2.7.2/exmh.BUGS) even though fvwm
somehow handles it better.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
18 - When Squeezing a window group leader, unmap the member windows,
just like happens with iconification.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
19 - Simplifications c.q. de-duplications of code regarding the
WorkSpaceManager and Occupation windows. This includes coding
the layout of these windows only once instead of twice (at
initialisation and when resizing). If it's wrong now at least it
should be consistent.
When changing occupation via functions like
f.movetonextworkspace, also move complete window groups (just
like when you do it via the Occupation window).
Also fixed changing the occupation of the Occupation window.
Documented (so far) undocumented possibility to edit the labels
of workspaces on the fly (what use this is, I'm not sure).
Removed some unused variables.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
20 - Get rid of the USE_SESSION and X11R6 macros and make them the
silent default. Also cleaned out a few references to the macro
X11R4, which hasn't been used for ages.
THIS WILL BREAK CTWM ON OLDER (PRE-X11R6) ENVIRONMENTS.
I strongly recommend an upgrade to a newer X11 release.
[Richard Levitte]
21 - Modified the random placement so a negative X displacement has
the first "random" window start near the right edge instead of
the right and a negative Y displacement has the first "random"
window start near the bottom edge instead of the top.
[Richard Levitte]
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
