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* better language support thru pango which is now mandatory
 
* better language support thru pango which is now mandatory
 
* support windows which use true transparency
 
* support windows which use true transparency
* (link RESIZE) resize grips for the top of the window frame -> need bindings in rc
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* (link RESIZE) resize grips for the top, left, and right of the window frame -> need bindings in rc
 
* smarter about keeping windows on the screen without invading user's capabilities
 
* 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.
 
* 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.

Revision as of 18:11, 19 May 2007

Contents

What's new in version 3.4 ?

The Openbox 3.4 release includes the following changes in addition to bug fixes:

Menus

  • (link STARTUP) add startup notification support to the menus <startupnotify> . mention how this helps with focus stealing prevention. default to disabled for old apps though. DONT set it for older terminal programs, it will mess up anything that you launch from them.
  • combined client menu
  • no menu titles - instead separators with labels.
  • improved client menu - placement, the options in it, icon in all desktops menu
  • keyboard shortcuts in menus, by highlighted letter or by the first letter
  • menus dont jump around, are always placed on screen. better placement
  • menus can be infinite size, openbox will always display them all, "More..." entry
  • disabled menu items can be selected now (not used tho)
  • ()'s instead of separator for client list menus


Usability

  • new Root context, for if you want something to only work if there is no desktop window (like nautilus or kdesktop or rox desktop) in the way. desktop context still applies to the root window too.
  • new "alt-tab" focus switching dialog
  • openbox-session command and log-in option which provides autostart capability.
  • SCIM support in the default Openbox session
  • faster, more reliable
  • handle X server's clock going backwards, without locking up. sometimes the server can still lock up though, not recommended to do this!
  • better handling of window types (click focus docks and stuff)
    • utility windows move with the main windows
  • faster.. so much faster
  • better language support thru pango which is now mandatory
  • support windows which use true transparency
  • (link RESIZE) resize grips for the top, left, and right of the window frame -> need bindings in rc
  • 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.
  • improved startup notification
  • (link STARTUP) add startup notification support to the menus <startupnotify> . mention how this helps with focus stealing prevention. default to disabled for old apps though. DONT set it for older terminal programs, it will mess up anything that you launch from them.
  • focus stealing prevention is the bomb
  • improve window placement across multiple monitors
  • more reliable focus handling? seems to lose it sometimes still/again..
  • 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) - focus handling
  • 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
  • show the hostname of clients running on remote computers in the titlebar
  • (link PANELS) add <panels> and <desktop> options to NextWindow PreviousWindow NextWindowNorth etc..
  • sync request resizing syncs with the application
  • smarter subdivision of windows into 9 sections for resizing
  • set default icon on windows
  • better support for programs that are on more than one desktop (multiple firefox windows for example)
  • (link CHROOT) chroots and quoting (vnc example)
  • 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
  • (link ALLDESK) 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 and tings.
  • support for legacy fullscreen applications 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/KDE session with Openbox.
  • (link BUTTONS) titlebar buttons autohide (removed the option from config file)
  • user time window, which is good for laptops. laptop-friendly yay.
  • legacy windows raise themselves - make it activate them - firefox
  • don't show handles on windows that cant resize. minimalism yay.
  • move maximized windows between xinerama screens
  • improve application awareness of focus, e.g. kopete and firefox

Themes

  • improvements in the distributed themes
  • add new Clearlooks and Clearlooks-Olive themes by John McKnight
  • (link FONTS) fonts no longer loaded from theme.. load from the rc.xml config file.
    • shadows are still loaded from the theme though
  • distributed theme names have been renamed with Capitalization
  • menu.items.activedisabled.text.color
  • menu.border.color
  • window.active.border.color
  • 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 xbms in /usr/share/doc/openbox

Config File

  • (link RESIZE) 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.
  • (link FONTS) fonts no longer loaded from theme.. load from the rc.xml config file.
    • activeiwndow inactivewindow, menuheader, menuitem, onscreendisplay
  • (link PANELS) add <panels> and <desktop> options to NextWindow PreviousWindow NextWindowNorth etc..
  • (link CHROOT) chrooting for key chains
    • new BreakChroot action to break out of the current chroot
  • W is no longer for Mod4.. it is for Super. which is usually bound to mod4. xmodmap for details.
  • (link ALLDESK) add <allDesktops> option to NextWindow and PreviousWindow. the desktop name will be shown in the focus cycling popup
  • the per-app setting <head> has been renamed to <monitor>
  • can use "default" for any thing in per-app settings
  • (link BUTTONS) titlebar buttons autohide (removed the option from config file)
  • removed "edges_hit_layers_below" option

Extra stuff

  • --reconfigure command line

3.3.1

  • Fix panels getting a border with keepBorder turned on
  • Fix a crash in mirrorhorizontal when drawing a surface with width 1

3.3

  • Add a showDelay option for the dock.
  • Fixed onscreen-keeping code which broke a bit in -rc2.
  • Fix incorrect handling of window properties on 64 bit arches.
  • Fix pixelsize being the same as size for pango, now it is correct.
  • Fix drawing of icons taller than wide, eg gimp.
  • Add a 'mirrorhorizontal' gradient, like horizontal but mirrored in the center and 'splitvertical' which is like vertical but nonlinear in a fancy way.
  • Translations for de, hr and zh_TW added.
  • Add initial per-app settings support.
  • Fix some outstanding issues with 64-bit support.
  • Add an optional delay for displaying submenus so you can move the mouse over some entries without flashing each submenu.
  • Plug some minor memleaks and fix minor bugs.
  • Changed algorithm for downscaling window icons.
  • New themes!
  • Disable support for libstartup-notification by default, it doesn't seem to work well.
  • Allow disabling of duplicate window numbering by option titleNumber in theme section.
  • Add moverelative and resizerelative actions.
  • Option middle for menus that make submenus be centered instead of aligned by the top edge to the parent entry.
  • Fix transient (ie dialog) windows being placed offscreen if the parent is close to the edge of the screen.

3.3-rc2

  • Fixed some typos and errors in rc.xsd
  • Add the noStrut option to the dock (to allow maximizing windows over it), useful when it is not in the above layer.
  • Fix transparent terminals not updating when using ToggleDecor.
  • Yet more poking at the onscreen-keeping code, should now do the right thing always.
  • Add an option to hide disabled buttons instead of showing them as disabled.
  • Hopefully fixed all the remaining pango issues. The new 1.10 release also fixes shadows again.
  • I think the lib linking in Makefile.am is right now, please tell me if it isn't.
  • Added a finnish translation and some minor updates to others.
  • Fixed configure.ac so --enable-pango doesn't disable pango support or the other way around, make enabled be default to get some extra testing.

3.3-rc1

  • Poked around a bit in the code that keeps windows onscreen, if you are using xinerama, please let me know if things are better/worse/same.
  • Add support for pango, disabled by default due to a bug in pango 1.8 that breaks shadows, it works fine with 1.6.x though. Poke the pango developers here http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169622 if you want this to be fixed.
  • Made edge resist and Send/MoveToEdge not hit windows at layers below the current one, add option to disable this behaviour.
  • Fixed directional focus not getting trapped in omnipresent windows
  • Fixed focus actions when bound to the mouse, normal focus cycle is always linear and directional focus is totally disabled, it makes no sense anyway, just move the mouse.
  • Added an option for the raise/lower/raiselower/unshaderaise/shadelower options called group that lets you bind stuff to raise/lower the whole window group. yes
  • Add various new actions. I haven't updated the web docs yet, but I think I managed to get all of them listed in rc.xsd.
  • Bugs 1783, 1812, 1863, 1905, 2005, 1957 fixed.
  • Some translations added. (ca, no, pl, ru, fr)

3.2

  • Added spanish and swedish translations
  • Changed "Unnamed Desktop" to "Desktop n" where n is the actual number of the desktop
  • Hopefully no more of the hanging X totally bug
  • the fullscreen property now overrides aspect hints, all programs i've tried that use it (mplayer and tvtime) handle the aspect internally anyway, this just makes sure you have black borders all the way to the edge. If this breaks anything for you, let me know.
  • Added M as an alias for Mod3 in the same manner that W is an alias for Mod4
  • Added probably too many options and actions
  • ToggleDockAutohide to toggle the autohide option at runtime, doesn't save it to the config
  • keepBorder option to set if you want the 1-pixel border when you toggleDecorations
  • added popupShow and popupPosition to control where and when the move/resize-popup is shown, these go in the resize section of the config popupPosition can be Top or Center, popupShow can be Always, Never or Nonpixel (this is the default).
  • Added the xorStyle option to change the behaviour of menus along the bottom edge, note that the default is true
  • warpPointer option in the menu section to control if the mouse cursor is to be warped by openbox when the menu moves to keep on screen to keep the cursor in the same place relative to the menu. (I think i got that right)
  • Added back the focusLast option (this controls what happens when you change desktops and have followMouse on)
  • Added an option to set which desktop to start on when you start openbox, firstdesk, for example you might like to set it to 5 if you have a 3x3 grid to start in the middle.
  • I think that was everything, have fun

3.1

  • Added japanese translation (bug #1029)
  • Closed bug #1060 (modal unfocused window should be placed above focused parent)
  • Closed bug #1012 (Openbox stalls gnome session startup after --replace)
  • Closed bug #1073 (The Desktop action doesn't work)
  • Closed bug #1023 (config_focus_raise declared as guint)
  • Closed bug #1019 (Strange behavior with focus:followMouse and RaiseLower action)
  • Closed bug #1007 (use g_snprintf in openbox/session.c instead of sprintf)
  • Closed bug #1001 (gimp crashes openbox)
  • Closed bug #1005 (import -frame leaves windows in a temporary "on top" state)
  • Closed bug #881 (Programs started with X become zombies upon shutdown.)
  • Closed bug #1025 (desktopnext/previous and desktopleft/right dont quite get along)

3.0

  • Closed bug #908 (sometimes some weird grab is left)
  • Closed bug #945 (xawtv overlay visible on every desktop)
  • Closed bug #944 (remove restarting/reconfiguring messages from openbox.c)
  • Closed bug #946 (use g_strsplit in parse.c:split_paths())
  • Closed bug #943 (consistent glib type (gint, gchar, etc.) usage)
  • Closed bug #951 (stale openbox session files)
  • Closed bug #947 (Sloppyfocus can yield two windows at the same time with focus (!))
  • Closed bug #948 (Gets stuck in 'move' mode if mouse is let up while dragged away from title bar)
  • Closed bug #949 (dock above gnome panel behaviour)
  • Closed bug #902 (Openbox raises gDesklets when clicked)
  • Closed bug #904 (ToggleMaximizeHorz & Vert dont always toggle)
  • Closed bug #907 (window focus is not properly indicated)
  • Closed bug #919 (Temporary raise window when alt tabbing)
  • Closed bug #921 (focus rectangle stays on the screen after modifier release)
  • Closed bug #925 (Invalid option: '--sm-save' & '--sm-disable')
  • Closed bug #926 (problem with client-list-menu, destkop switching, and sticky client)
  • Closed bug #927 (disappearing windows, crash with I-merry theme)
  • Closed bug #929 (crash (signal 11) when activating Reconfigure)
  • Closed bug #940 (actions dont work on desktops with no client windows)
  • Closed bug #943 (consistent glib type (gint, gchar, etc.) usage)
  • Closed bug #957 (openbox crashes when exiting out of OpenOffice Impress)
  • Closed bug #960 (look for dupes in xdg paths when setting up slists?)
  • Closed bug #961 (Menu causes core dump)
  • Closed bug #963 (wrapper for mkdir() in parse.c)
  • Closed bug #964 (free GErrors in action.c, openbox.c)
  • Closed bug #965 (add message for chdir() failure in openbox.c)
  • Closed bug #966 (list->next/prev to g_[s]list_next/previous, list != NULL to list
  • Closed bug #971 (typo in code)
  • Closed bug #974 (use g_getenv() in parser/parse.c)
  • Closed bug #975 (void -> gpointer)
  • Closed bug #976 (use g_strerror() in openbox/session.c)
  • Closed bug #978 (disable entry to go to desktop if it is the current)
  • Closed bug #979 (request for version check in ob libraries)
  • Closed bug #944 (remove restarting/reconfiguring messages from openbox.c)
  • Closed bug #968 (rc.xml refers to a non-existant "debian" menu file)

3.0-rc4

  • Closed bug #921 (focus rectangle stays on the screen after modifier release)
  • Closed bug #927 (disappearing windows, crash with I-merry theme)
  • Fix crash when restoring a session with a maximized window
  • Fix leak of RrColors in menus
  • Closed bug #929 (crash (signal 11) when activating Reconfigure)
  • Allow focus to be moved around by clients (for WM_TAKE_FOCUS to work as it is meant to). This means fullscreen apps like wine and bzflag work now
  • Reversed the default directions for the mouse wheel desktop switching actions
  • Don't wrap around in the default keyboard desktop switching bindings
  • Place parentless dialogs so they avoid always-on-top windows
  • Ignore fullscreen windows in placing new ones
  • Closed bug #940 (actions dont work on desktops with no client windows)

3.0-rc3

  • Closed bug #904 (ToggleMaximizeHorz & Vert dont always toggle)
  • Allow resizing of windows in only vertical/horizontal directions (via Alt-MiddleClick-Drag with the default bindings)
  • Added intelligence to window cycling and raise/lowering based on window types
  • Closed bug #902 (Openbox raises gDesklets when clicked). This has the side effect that panels which do not set the ABOVE state (most panels curerntly around) will no longer be kept always on top. You can set the ABOVE state yourself by using the client menu (Alt-RightClick in the default bindings) and selecting the Always on top Layer
  • Closed bug #907 (window focus is not properly indicated)
  • Added a focus indicator during focus cycling that is always visible instead of just moving the focus hilight around.

3.0-rc2

  • Closed bug #885 (raiseOnFocus is flawed)
  • Closed bug #887 (Mouse-wheel scrolling only changes 1 desktop when using "dialog" option)
  • Closed bug #888 (some random coredump)
  • Closed bug #889 (focus follow mouse not following)
  • Closed bug #892 (client_under_pointer() doesn't check DESKTOP_ALL)
  • Avoid the focus flicker when switching desktops
  • Free the XML DOM trees properly, fixes mem leak

3.0-rc1

  • Closed bug #875 (RaiseLower fails to funtion on windows with dialogs)
  • Added the option for moving dock apps around inside the dock. (Closes bug #798)
  • Made the "Desktop" action show the pager/desktop dialog
  • Add the option to the Desktop and Focus switching actions
  • No longer iconify fullscreen windows when they lose focus (Closes bug #876)
  • When not using focusLast, when a focused transient is closed, focus will still fallback to its parent or transient siblings
  • Improved intelligence for focus cycling with modal transients
  • Removed the focusLast option
  • Added the placement-policy option to select if windows are placed under the mouse pointer
  • Children inherit their window icon from their parent
  • Closed bug #878 (minimal resizing of mplayer makes openbox crash)
  • Fix case where opening a menu would leave Openbox in a locked state
  • Upstream updates for TheBear theme

3.0-beta6

  • Added _OB_WM_STATE_UNDECORATED hint, which can be read and controlled by external applications
  • Closed bug #874 (libtool won't install libobrender.la)
  • Launch ObConf when selecting GNOME's Desktop Preferences for Windows
  • Focus new children always if their direct parent is focused

3.0-beta5

  • Initial release
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