Problems found with existing distfiles:
distfiles/fvwm-1.24r.tar.gz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
* Bug fixes:
- fvwm-convert-2.6: Don't double-up comma separated options to
conditional commands if they're already delimited by commas.
- Correctly report a window's height and width if the window has
incomplete resize increment set.
- Maintain any State hints on a window when used with WindowStyle.
- FvwmIconMan now correctly handles sticky windows.
* Support libpng 1.4.0's slightly newer API.
* Don't lazy match AnyContext when printing out bindings and the contexts
they apply to with "PrintInfo Bindings".
* New features:
- New differentiated options for SnapAttraction when snapping
against screen edges:
"None", "ScreenWindows", "ScreenIcons", "ScreenAll"
- New option to the BugOpts command: TransliterateUtf8.
* Bug fixes:
- Fixed non-visible Qt windows after a Qt deferred map (e.g.
Skype profile windows).
- Fixed the use of the X-resource "fvwmstyle".
- Fixed segmentation fault in FvwmEvent when parsing an
undefined event name, or an undefined environment variable
to the RPlayHost option.
- Fixed the events startup, shutdown and unknown in FvwmEvent.
- Fvwm now retains utf8 window names when the WM_NAME changes,
and the utf8 name converted to the default charset match
the old WM_NAME.
- Fixed the options RPlayVolume and RPlayPriority in FvwmEvent.
- Fixed SnapAttraction: Option SameType/Icons/Windows did
falsely not affect conditions of option "Screen" and option
"SameType" snapped falsely icons and windows together.
- Fixed a problem where modules would get incorrect stacking
information if many windows were restacked at the same time.
- Fixed BugOpts parsing of more than one option at a time and
restoring of default value for the last option
in the command line when omitted.
- 64 bit fix for setting EWMH _NET_WM_ICON property on windows.
New features:
- New MenuStyle option VerticalMargins.
* New module features:
- FvwmButtons: New button alignment option: top.
* Bug fixes:
- Fixed crash in ARGB visual detection code.
- Fixed compilation without XRender support.
- Fixed drawing of background pictures in menu items and titles.
- Fixed hadling of shaped windows.
- Fixed a 64-bit bug in the EWMH code.
* 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.
* New features:
- Disabled paging during interactive resize operations by
default (see 2.5.20) as it is annoying to many people.
- New style command options:
EdgeMoveResistance
EdgeMoveDelay
EdgeResizeDelay
SnapGrid
SnapAttraction
that replace the now obsolete commands EdgeResistance,
SnapGrid and SnapAttraction. The EdgeResistance command has
a new syntax with only one argument.
- New command MenuCloseAndExec for menu bindinngs that can be
used to trigger certain commands from a menu without an
associated item. For example, with
Key F1 MTI[]-_ A MenuCloseAndExec Menu RootMenu
the RootMenu can be opened from any other menu by pressing
F1.
* Bug Fixes:
- Sometimes a window jumped by half the screen's size when
moving with the mouse and hitting the border of the desktop.
- Fixed the "screen w" argument of the Move and other commands.
- Clicking on a menu title did not close the menu by default.
- Temporary files in FvwmPerl overwrote each other.
* 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
Upgrading from earlier 2.5.x versions is strongly recommended.
This release is available at the home page: http://www.fvwm.org/.
* Bug Fixes:
- FvwmCommand now reports "end windowlist" and "end configinfo".
- FvwmCommand now prints config info split on lines.
- FvwmTaskBar no longer gets lost with trailing whitespace after
geometry specification.
- Fixed a window size problem if the aspect ratio is set (e.g.
mplayer).
- Decorations now update when unmanaged windows take focus, and
not FlickeringQtDialogsWorkaround is enabled.
- FvwmPager again allows movement of windows added before a
page change.
- fvwm no longer crashes on 1 and 4 bit displays. (#1677)
- EWMH desktops now correctly handles FPClickToFocus. (#1492)
- Security fix in fvwm-menu-directory. (CVE-2006-5969)
Fvwm is a powerful window manager. Version 2.5.18 is a bug fixing
release for 2.5.17. Please be aware that any features introduced
in the 2.5.x development versions may be renamed, changed or
removed without notice before 2.6.0.
Upgrading from earlier 2.5.x versions is recommended. Upgrading
from 2.5.17 is strongly recommended.
This release is available at the home page: http://www.fvwm.org/.
* Bug Fixes:
- If a window started fullscreen, leaving fullscreen state now
properly unmaximizes and resizes the window.
- Fixed the ForeColor/HilightFore styles that were broken in
2.5.17.
- FvwmPager can now move icons with the !IconTitle style.
- Fixed drawing of icons that are moved to a different desk.
- FvwmPager no longer tries to move non-movable windows.
- FvwmPager now moves all windows as user requests.
- FvwmPager no longer displaces windows with title and border
sizes on moves.
- TestRc now correctly matches Break, and $[cond.rc] is
expanded for Break.
- Fixed several 64-bit architecture problems with
XGetWindowProperty(). Xine works much better on 64-bit
machines.
- Fixed handling of ClickToFocusPassesClick with the EWMH
desktop (e.g. using nautilus).
- Fixed handling of windows that are unmapped and mapped again
too fast (e.g. fpga_editor).
* New features:
- New MenuStyle options TitleFont, TitleColorset and
HilightTitleBack.
- New command PressButton in module FvwmButtons for being able
to emulate button press via other means than the mouse.
- New wrap options to EdgeScroll command for wrapping with pixel
distances.
- New Style option UnderMousePlacement.
- Unused arguments to Style options generate warnings.
- The name style names match against can be augmented by the
X-resource "fvwmstyle".
- New options, Reverse and UseStack, to All command.
- WindowShade can now reshade windows using the Last direction.
- Positional parameters to complex functions can now be expanded
using $[n], $[n-m], $[n-] and $[*] expressions.
- The width and height arguments of the Resize command now
accept the prefix 'w' to allow resizing relative to the
current window size.
- New command ModuleListenOnly.
- New "Periodic" option added to Schedule command.
* Bug Fixes:
- Fixed detection of running non-ICCCM2 wm (bug #3151).
- Fixed drawing of menus with the sidepic on the right.
- EdgeScroll no longer divides pixel distances >1000 by 1000.
(bug #3162).
- The configure script can now cope with four-part version
numbers when detecting some libraries.
- The WarpToWindow command followed by Move in a complex
function now uses the correct pointer position.
- The menu style TitleWarp does no longer warp the pointer for
root menus (as it is documented).
- Fixed detection of safe system version of mkstemp.
- Fixed the conditions Iconifiable, Fixed, FixedSize,
Maximizable and Closable.
- Fixed problem with window outline and placement position
running out of sync.
- FvwmConsole no longer conflicts with Cygwin stdio (bug #3772).
- FvwmGtk now configures correctly on Cygwin (bug #3772).
- Fixed tempfile vulnerabilities in FvwmCommand.
Changes in beta release 2.5.16 (20-Jan-2006)
* New features:
- If the pointer can not be grabbed in functions, a message is
printed to the console instead of beeping.
* Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a couple of build problems introduced in 2.5.15.
Changes in beta release 2.5.15 (14-Jan-2006)
* New features:
- Variables can be nested, like $[desk.name$[desk.n]].
- Obsolete one-letter variables work, but generate warnings now.
- Windows can be placed by any button (now also >3).
- It is now possible to redefine the buttons usable to finish
window movement and manual placement.
- New window condition PlacedByButton.
- MenuStyle pairs can be negated by prefixing '!'.
- New generic tabbing module - FvwmTabs.
- New Style option: EWMHIgnoreWindowType.
- New MenuStyle options: MouseWheel, ScrollOffPage and
TrianglesUseFore.
- To compile from CVS, autoconf-2.53 or above is now required.
This does not affect compiling the released tarballs.
- New option "screen" to Move and ResizeMove commands to allow
specifying the target Xinerama screen.
* Bug Fixes:
- Supported a new fribidi version 0.10.5 in addition to 0.10.4.
- Better look for windows with "BorderStyle TiledPixmap".
- Some EWMH-related 64-bit fixes.
- Fixed segmentation fault when replacing title of title only
menus (Bug #1121).
- Fixes for resizing of shaded windows and resizing/moving
windows with complex functions.
Changes in beta release 2.5.14 (24-Aug-2005)
* New features:
- Fvwm now officially supports 64-bit architertures.
- New Test conditions EnvIsSet, EnvMatch, EdgeHasPointer and
EdgeIsActive.
- New window condition FixedPosition.
* New module features:
- FvwmPerl module supports window context when preprocessing.
- FvwmPerl module accepts new --export option that by default
defines two fvwm functions "Eval" and ".", to be used like:
FvwmPerl -x
Eval $a = $[desk.n] - 2; cmd("GotoDesk 0 $a") if $a >= 0
. Exec xmessage %{2 + cos(0)}% # embedded calculator
- New FvwmProxy option ProxyIconified.
- New FvwmTaskBar option Pad to control the gap between
buttons.
* Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a Solaris compiler error introduced in 2.5.13.
- Fixed a hang with layers set by applications (e.g. AbiWord).
- GotoDesk with a relative page argument now wraps around at
the end of the given range as documented. (Bug #1396).
- PopupDelayed menu style option was not copied on
CopyMenuStyle.
- Transparent Animated menus with non-transparent popup were
not animated correctly.
- Supported euc-jp class of encodings.
- A window's default layer is no longer set to 0 durin a
restart.
- Fixed an annoying MouseFocus/SloppyFocus problem in
conjunction with EdgeResistance + EdgeScroll (sometimes a
window did noit get the focus as it should have). This
problem first occured in 2.5.11.
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Changes in beta release 2.5.13 (16-Jul-2005)
* Bug Fixes:
- The MoveToPage command did not work without arguments in
2.5.11 and 2.5.12.
- Mouse/Key command no args possible core dump.
- Direction with no args possible core dump.
- FvwmScript periodic tasks run too often.
- Perl modules did not work on 64 machines.
- FvwmDebug did not report any extended messages.
- fvwm-menu-desktop supports mandriva.
- fvwm-menu-desktop when verifying executable, allow full path.
* New module features:
- FvwmIconMan: MaxButtonWidth and MaxButtonWidthByColumns
options.
- FvwmIconMan: added tool tips with Tips, TipsDelays, TipsFont,
TipsColorset, TipsFormat, TipsBorderWidth, TipsPlacement,
TipsJustification and TipsOffsets options.
- FvwmButtons: PressColorset & ActiveColorset options for
_individual_ buttons.
pkgsrc changes:
- Support pkgviews
- Disable ancient GTK+ module
Changes in alpha release 2.5.12 (6-Oct-2004)
* New commands:
- EdgeLeaveCommand
* New module features:
- FvwmIconMan: ShowOnlyFocused option.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Changes in alpha release 2.5.11 (30-Sep-2004)
* Multiple window names can be specified in conditions.
* Window-specific key/mouse bindings. (Bindings no longer have to
be global.)
* The default fvwm configuration files are now: ~/.fvwm/config and
$FVWM_DATADIR/config. Five previously used config file locations
are still searched as usual for backward compatibility.
* New extended variables $[w.desk] and $[w.layer].
* New options GrowOnWindowLayer and GrowOnlayers to the Maximize
command.
* New Style option "State".
* New Style option "CenterPlacement".
* New option to FvwmIconMan: ShowNoIcons.
* New WindowList tracker and other enhancements in Perl library.
* New option to fvwm-menu-directory: --func-name.
* Improved FvwmWindowMenu module.
* Fluxbox-like Alt-Button3 resizing with the new Resize options
Direction, WarpToBorder and FixedDirection
* Enhanced "Test (Version >= x.y.z)" option to allow version
comparisons.
* New FvwmButtons options: ActiveColorset, ActiveIcon, ActiveTitle,
PressColorset, PressIcon and PressTitle.
* New FvwmButtons swallow option: SwallowNew.
* The option CurrentGlobalPageAnyDesk was accidentally named
CurrentGlobbalPageAnyDesk before.
* New conditions AnyScreen and Overlapped.
* The Read and PipeRead commands return 1 if the file or command
could be read or executed and -1 otherwise.
* New menu option TearOffImmediately.
* Added support for Solaris' Xinerama.
* New option MailDir in FvwmTaskBar.
* MoveToPage command:
New options wrapx, wrapy, nodesklimitx and nodesklimity.
New suffix 'w' to allow for window relative movement.
Changes in alpha release 2.5.10 (19-Mar-2004)
* New command FakeKeyPress.
* New BugOpts option ExplainWindowPlacement.
* Inverted button reliefs in FvwmIconMan.
* Security patch in fvwm-bug.
See http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Jan/1008781.html
* Security fixes in
fvwm-menu-directory (BugTraq id 9161)
fvwm_make_directory_menu.sh
fvwm_make_browse_menu.sh
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Changes in alpha release 2.5.9 (2-Mar-2004)
* New MenuStyle options PopupIgnore and PopupClose.
* New configure option --disable-iconv to disable iconv support.
* New extended variables $[w.iconfile] and $[w.miniiconfile].
* New Style option Unmanaged. Such windows are not managed by
fvwm.
* New binding context 'U' for unmanaged windows, similar to 'R'oot.
* New option DisplayNewWindowNames to the BugOpts command.
* Security fix for fvwm-menu-directory.
Se BugTraq id 9161.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Changes in development release 2.5.8 (31-Oct-2003)
* New prefix command KeepRc.
* Renamed the Cond command to TestRc, and the On command to Test.
Removed the CondCase command. Use "KeepRc TestRc" instead.
* The Break command can be told the number of nested function
levels to break out of. Break now has a return code of -2
("Break").
* Directions can be abbreviated with -, _, [, ], <, >, v or ^ like
in key or mouse bindings.
* New extended variable $[func.context].
* New Style option MoveByProgramMethod. Tries to autodetect
whether application windows are moved honouring the ICCCM or not
(default). The method can be overridden manually if the
detection does not work.
* fvwm supports tear off menus. See the "Tear Off Menus" section
in the man page or press Backspace on any menu to try them out.
* fvwm now handles what Unicode calls "combining characters" (i.e.
marks drawn on top of other characters).
* New commands WindowStyle and DestroyWindowStyle for individual
(per window) styles.
* The conditions !Current... and !Layer now work as expected.
* Added a nice autohide script to the FAQ.
* FvwmAnimate now supports dynamical commands "pause", "play",
"push", "pop" and "reset" to manipulate the playing state.
This package is based on the unstable 2.5.x series of fvwm. Do
not use it unless comfortable running beta software.
Thanks to Stoned Elipot, Martti Kuparinen, and Curt Sampson for
review.
