4.9:
This release contains the ability to freely define various geometries
for the built-in layout algorithms in the config.h file. It also
contains some bugfixes and a polished code base.
4.8:
This version contains two new layouts, the horizontal tile layout
and the monocle layout. It also allows you more fine-grained control
of the bar position and layout areas due to the introduction of
several new variables that can be changed during runtime (if a
related function is implemented).
Add patch-ac to fall back to "fixed" font instead of exiting.
I submitted to upstream developers a couple weeks ago.
I was told that WeeWM is no longer maintained.
(If you use this window manager, please let me know.)
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.
version 2.2
The final version 2.2 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page.
This release fixes some bugs, add some features. You can see some changes from 2.2-rc4.
* Add a manpage for awesome-message
* Add more documentation into awesomerc(5)
* Fix segmentation fault if no layout are available
* Check for EWMH hints after reloading clients props on restart
* Fix transparency property on focus (bug #93)
* Fix a bug with delay inside awesome-message
* Stop adding useless spaces at endline on default created .awesomerc
* Fix a bug in uicb_spawn when using a DISPLAY envvar with IP address
Thanks to the awesome contributors we had on this release.
(Fabienne Ducroquet, Hans Ulrich Niedermann, MATSUU Takuto, Matthieu Pasini, Michael Kaminsky, Nathan LaFreniere, Nikos Ntarmos, Thomas Janu and last but not least, Marco Candrian).
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome BTS.
Have fun and be awesome!
Posted Sun Mar 23 10:54:53 2008
version 2.2-rc4
The new version 2.2-rc4 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page. This is the fourth release candidate version of the upcoming 2.2 version.
You can see all changes on git.
Here's a changes summary.
* Keep floating windows on top of the stack
* Simplify grabkeys() function
* Verify user input for tag values (mwfact, nmaster and ncol) (bug #91)
* Fix some problem with include() in configuration file (bug #99)
* Add make targets replacing the running awesome
* Bugfix in client_toggletag and checking if no tag selected
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome bug tracking system or awesome list.
Have fun!
Posted Thu Mar 13 11:05:20 2008
version 2.2-rc3
The new version 2.2-rc3 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page. This is the third release candidate version of the upcoming 2.2 version.
You can see all changes on git.
Here's a changes summary.
* Fix segfault after viewing same tag twice and doing a tagprevselected (bug #76)
* Client_moveresize fix
* Check widget position (bug #68)
* Change awesomerc manpage to section 5 (bug #79)
* Support for include() in configuration file
* New system to drop EnterWindow events
* Textbox can be flex-aligned
* Add widget names in warnings
* Fix multi-monitor mode with Zaphod and xrandr (bug #73)
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome bug tracking system or awesome list.
Have fun!
Posted Tue Mar 4 14:34:52 2008
version 2.2-rc2
The new version 2.2-rc2 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page. This is the second release candidate version of the upcoming 2.2 version.
You can see all changes on git.
Here's a changes summary.
* Fix CPU usage (bug #68);
* Fix regression with Zaphod mode (bug #73).
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome bug tracking system or awesome list.
Have fun!
Posted Mon Feb 25 17:14:22 2008
version 2.2-rc1
The new version 2.2-rc1 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page. This is the first release candidate version of the upcoming 2.2 version.
You can see all changes on git.
Here's a changes summary.
* Graph widgets works with floats;
* Add tileup and tilebottom layouts;
* Fix statusbar recovering each others (bug #37);
* Fix sloppy focus problems;
* Optimize arrangement and statusbar refreshing with a cache system;
* Add support for keycode in keys bindings (bug #40);
* New awesome-message program (xmessage-like);
* Fix various problems with widget drawing;
* Print more warnings on various errors;
* Fix issues with padding;
* Enable tiled windows moving/switching;
* Add sloppyfocusraise option (bug #47);
* Add --check option to awesome to verify configuration file syntax;
* Convert statusbar text to UTF-8 before drawing (bug #39);
* Add scratch window support;
* Remove focustitle widget: tasklist can do the same now;
* Rename netwmicon widget to focusicon;
* Add align options to widgets;
* Add smart placement algorithm for floating (bug #50);
* Fix raise problem with focus_history (bug #49);
* Fix tag_viewprev (bug #60);
* Add master property to rule (bug #6);
* Fix XRandR clone mode issues (bug #42);
* Fix windows hiding issue when launching another wm (bug #53);
* Add opacity as rule attribute (bug #54);
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome bug tracking system or awesome list.
Have fun!
Posted Wed Feb 13 17:43:41 2008
version 2.1
The final version 2.1 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page.
This release fixes some bugs, add some features. You can see some changes from 2.0.
* Fix crashing bug triggered through awesome-client
* Do not die anymore on bad config file, use a default internal one
* Add uicbscreenfocus to switch to a specified screen.
* Add a focus history.
* Accept --version option.
* Add spiral and dwindle layouts.
* Widget-ise the statusbar.
* Add new widgets: textbox, graph, progress bar, taglist, focustitle, tasklist, iconbox, layoutinfo, netwmicon.
* We can now have several statusbar.
* New uicb: focusclientbyname.
* Partial EWMH support.
* Switch to autotools based build system.
Thanks to the awesome contributors we had on this release.
(Julien Danjou, Aldo Cortesi, Nikos Ntarmos, marco candrian, Hans Ulrich Niedermann, Thomas Guebels, Robert Millar, Rico Schiekel, Laurent Fousse, Fabienne Ducroquet, Arnaud Fontaine)
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome BTS.
Have fun!
Posted Mon Jan 21 16:06:20 2008
version 2.1-rc2
Version 2.1-rc2 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page. This is the second release candidate version of the upcoming 2.2 version.
This release fixes some minor bugs.
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome bug tracking system or awesome list.
Have fun!
Posted Sat Jan 12 14:20:15 2008
version 2.1-rc1
Version 2.1-rc1 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page. This is the first release candidate version of the upcoming 2.1 version.
This release fixes bugs, adds a lot of new features and brings a new widget system for the statusbar.
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome bug tracking system or awesome list.
Have fun!
Posted Wed Jan 9 10:27:50 2008
version 2.0
The final version 2.0 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page.
This release fixes some bugs, add some features. You can see changes.
* Include missing manpage
* Fix typo in URL in manpage
* Add manpage for awesome-client
* Bug fix for GTK+ combo box
* Fix memory allocation in awesome-client
* Bug fix: check for value in tag_toggleview
* Add a default configuration for running awesome without configuration file
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome list.
Have fun!
Posted Tue Dec 11 14:37:43 2007
version 2.0-rc2
Version 2.0-rc2 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page. This is the second release candidate version of the upcoming 2.0 version.
This release fixes some bugs, add some features. You can see changes.
* Bug fix: bug with arg is NULL in client_tag
* Bug fix: check for value in tag_toggleview
* Bug fix: handle client_toggletag with no arg or with arg > ntags
* Bug fix: awesome-client exits with a meaningfull value
* Bug fix: fix compilation for GNU/Hurd
* Bug fix: changing screen focus restore last focused client
* Bug fix: fix segmentation fault with configuration parser
* Bug fix: fix rules handling in some corner cases
* New feature: client_zoom on master window swap with next window
* New feature: add a screen padding feature
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome list.
Have fun!
Posted Thu Nov 29 17:56:53 2007
version 2.0-rc1
Version 2.0-rc1 of awesome is available. To download it, see the download page. This is the first release candidate version of the upcoming 2.0 version.
This release fixes a lot of bugs, add a lot of new features and a bring a better Xinerama support. You can see changes.
* New config file format (libconfig replaced by libconfuse)
* Bug fix: fix resize_hint
* Bug fix: reset correctly default bar position on toggle
* Bug fix: wrong column in multi column tiled layout
* Bug fix: fix a bunch of bugs with mplayer in Xinerama mode
* Bug fix: better computation for moving windows
* New feature: option to center pointer on focused client
* New feature: nmaster/ncol/mwfact and layout can be specified by tags at config and run time
* New feature: use Cairo to render status bar
* New feature: status bar can now be placed on right or left of the screen
* New feature: each physical screen can now be configured independently for colors, statusbar, font, etc
* New feature: click-to-raise in floating mode
* New feature: draw circle instead of square for some client flags in status bar
* New feature: remember focused window on each tag
* New feature: don't read on stdin any-more, introduce awesome-client to control everything via socket
* New feature: rules can now set default screen where displays windows in Xinerama mode
* New feature: mouse bindings are now configurable
* New feature: map new clients on the screen where the mouse pointer is
* New feature: mouse moving/resizing are now uicb
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on awesome list.
Have fun!
Posted Fri Nov 16 19:34:16 2007
Release 0.6.2 (2007-10-18 Danny Baumann <dannybaumann@web.de>)
==============================================================
Stable release.
Support for automatically starting one decorator per screen.
Various stacking problem fixes.
Fixes for various focus issues.
Minor other bug fixes.
Release 0.6.0 (2007-10-01 Danny Baumann <dannybaumann@web.de>)
==============================================================
Third stable release of Compiz.
Improved focus stealing prevention.
Improved dynamic desktop resizing support.
Added button action configuration options to gtk-window-decorator.
Added UTF-8 window title support to kde-window-decorator.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
... and more, check the NEWS file.
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
* Changes since 1.4.2
** key event handling
top level key bindings are grabbed "asynchronously" instead of
"synchronously." This should eliminate the freezes some people have
experienced in previous versions.
strategy is to leave alone the install targets sprinkled all over
the Makefiles and instead to two thigns:
(1) Define new INST_* variants of BINDIR, ETCDIR, MODULEDIR, etc.
that are the "final" installation locations, and thus may be
hardcoded into the program.
(2) Modify the definitions of BINDIR, ETCDIR, MODULEDIR, etc. to
point to $(DESTDIR)$(INST_*). These variables can be used in
the _install targets without any changes.
* New features:
- Handle the STATE_ADD command of the EWMH _NET_WM_STATE
message from version 1.3 of the EWMH spec.
- Support transparency in ARGB windows
* Bug Fixes:
- Fixed problem with windows disappearing when created
unless the style Unmanaged was used.
- Edge move delay was used as resistance for the top edge.
- Fixed a parsing problem of the screen argument of the
SnapAttraction style.
- Some html documentation files were not installed.
- Fixed a memory leak in internationalized font handling.
- Fixed a bug in MinOverlap placement.
- Fixed the StickyAcrossPages style in the FvwmPager.
- Fixed the determination of the X charset on UTF-8 systems.
- Fixed a crash when certain EWMH messages were sent to
unmanaged windows.
- Fixed a memory leak in multibyte codepage code.
- Ignore the EWMH staysontop and staysonbottom hints if the
EWMHIgnoreStackingOrderHints style is used.
- Fixed a sporadic crash when the root background set by gnome,
fvwm-root, esetroot etc. changes and a root transparent
colour set is used.
- Fixed spradic crash in modules with root transparent
background from colour sets.
- Fixed a possible crash if the last active module fails.
* Strings are re-encoded in UTF-8. Window titles will be set correctly
regardless of title encoding
* updated documentation to v0.12
* added Occitan Lanaguage
* Bug fixes:
- Nautilus desktop window can now restore its size properly
- Sawfish.desktop file now complies with freedesktop.org standard
- Fix select workspace to make sure it calls with right arguments
- Fix 64 bit client messages
- Don't display unneeded blank lines when window is opened by
prompt function
- KDE system tray no longer fighs with sawfish to reparent a tray icon
- Add bounds checking on _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP requests
- QT applications no longer lose focus when menu is active
- Corrected window placement in xinerama/dualhead when using
centered/centered-on-parent
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
dependencies. Changes not explicitly listed, but the config file format
changed again. :-( NOTES mentions: the semantics of WMII_MENU, WMII_9MENU and
WMII_TERM have changed. If you're using them in custom scripts you'll need to
change them to "eval $WMII_MENU" instead of just "$WMII_MENU"
*** Changes between 0.99.25 and 1.0.0:
Mon Jun 11 14:26:33 BST 2007 Ciaran Anscomb <evilwm@6809.org.uk>
* Add basic Xrandr support
Thanks to Yura Semashko for this patch.
Thu May 17 15:48:31 BST 2007 Ciaran Anscomb <evilwm@6809.org.uk>
* When snapping, prefer screen edge to other windows
Wed May 3 16:53:01 BST 2006 Ciaran Anscomb <evilwm@6809.org.uk>
* Don't account for width_inc and height_inc when maximising
Wed May 3 15:38:08 BST 2006 Ciaran Anscomb <evilwm@6809.org.uk>
* Ignore borders when snapping maximised client to screen edge
While here, marked as DESTDIR ready.
Changes for version 1.04:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/94378
Succinctly, the #define for EXTRA in parse.c needs to be (at least) 12,
Changes for version 1.03:
Botched some prototypes. 1.02 wouldn't compile.
Changes:
* src/main.c (xvsprintf): limit memory allocation
to 200K when vsnprintf return -1. (i.e. on pre-1999
systems not distinguising fatal errors and too small
buffer).
* src/manage.c (get_res_name, get_res_class): remove
(update_window_name): call get_class_hints directly to avoid it
being called two times.
* src/manage.c (get_wmname): always try XmbTextPropertyToTextList
first to also support UTF-8 window titles when encoded as XA_STRING
* src/main.c (clean_up): call free_user_commands, free_groups only
after free_window_stuff
* src/window.c (free_window_stuff): remove windows from group lists
* src/action.h (free_user_commands): new prototype
* src/action.c (set_var_free,user_command_free,free_user_commands):
new functions
* src/manage.c (get_wmname): free buffer to close memory hole
* src/actions.c (cmd_windows): free buffer to close memory hole
* src/main.c (init_defaults): only load the backup font when the
default font fails.
* src/main.c (init_defaults): if the default font fails, use the
backup font.
* src/conf.h (BACKUP_FONT): new define
* src/input.c (update_modifier_map): don't map both super and
hyper to the same modifier slot.
* src/split.c (set_active_frame): call switch_frame hook
(show_frame_indicator): only show frame indicator
(set_active_frame): new arg force_indicator. all callers updated.
(show_frame_indicator): new arg force. all callers updated.
* src/main.c (init_defaults): init bar_in_padding
* src/globals.c (rp_switch_screen_hook): new hook
* src/data.h (struct rp_defaults): new slot, bar_in_padding
* src/bar.c (bar_x): honour bar_in_padding setting
(bar_y): likewise
* src/actions.c (init_set_vars): add barinpadding
(set_barinpadding): new function
* src/globals.h: new global rp_switch_screen_hook
* src/frame.c (frame_read): fix bug to never set dedicated
