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* Removed out-of-date Japanese translation (ja.po)
* Removed out-of-date Croatian translation (hr.po)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
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