-Changelog for Openbox:
-2.2.0
- * Bitmap buttons (Scott Moynes)
+3.5.0:
+ * New alt-tab dialog shows windows in a vertical list.
+ * Improved Xinerama support.
+ * Allow icons in menus.
+ * Theme options for prompt dialogs (osd.button.unpressed.*,
+ osd.button.pressed.*, osd.button.focused.*)
+ * Addresses bug #4877, #4596, #4617, #4752, #4663, #4662, #4586, #2319,
+ #4341, #4519, #4543, #4503, #4355, #4072, #3702, #4284
+ * Lots of additional bug fixes and performance improvements.
-2.1.1:
- * A build fix for xftlsfonts. (Scott Moynes)
+3.4.11.2:
+ * Updated Estonian and Portuguese translations.
+ * Fix a rare crash involving moving fullscreen windows to different monitors
+ * Fix a more common crash involving pressing right in a menu
- * Add a configuration menu for changing Xft font (Ben Jansens)
- options, when Xft is compiled in.
+3.4.11.1:
+ * Updated Polish translation.
+ * Fixed bug #4519 (Incorrect focus in reused windows).
+ * Lower the default submenu open/hide delay from 200ms to 100ms.
+ * Fix some more problems with gnome integration.
+ * Update Clearlooks theme.
+ * Some other small fixes.
-2.1.0:
- * Make alt-right-click resizing work on bottom window (Ben Jansens)
- handles.
+3.4.11:
+ * Update Hungarian, Japanese, and Latvian translations.
+ * Make xdg-autostart use the OPENBOX environment by default, so you can use
+ OnlyShowIn=OPENBOX in an autostart .desktop and it will work as expected.
+ * Don't close the menu when you hold control and execute something.
+ * Fix bug #4503 (Adjust who shows up in the Alt-Tab list using SKIP_TASKBAR).
+ * Fix flickering window when moving maximized window between monitors of
+ different sizes.
+ * Fix bug #4355 (Allow multiple escaped _'s in a menu label and allow
+ a menu shortcut to come after an escaped _).
+ * Remember the maximized state of a window when it goes fullscreen, and
+ restore it when leaving fullscreen state.
+ * Fix bug #4072 (Openbox is stopped by terminal applications writing to
+ stdout).
+ * Fix bug #4492 (Mistake in openbox-gnome-session check while setting up).
+ * Fix obxprop to make --root and --id work correctly.
+ * Add _OB_APP_ROLE/CLASS/NAME/TYPE properties (replaces _OB_ROLE/CLASS/NAME).
+ * Make the focus cycling popup dynamic when windows appear/disappear.
+ * Fix bug #4411 (Crash when window appears during focus cycling).
+ * Allow the user to specify which properties should be shown by obxprop.
+ * Fix tilde expansion in the Execute action
+ * Make Home and End keys move to the top/bottom of the active menu.
+ * Use the submenuShowDelay when navigating menus with the keyboard.
- * Drop shadows for fonts, optional. (dropShadowFonts (Ben Jansens)
- in the rc file).
+3.4.10:
+ * Improve keyboard navigation in Openbox menus.
+ * Add a --root option and a manpage for obxprop.
+ * Use a negative value for submenuShowDelay and submenuHideDelay to cause
+ an infinite delay. This means you have to click to show a submenu, rather
+ than just hover over it.
+ * Improved code for submenu show/hide delay. Added the submenuHideDelay
+ config file option, under the "menu" section.
+ * Fixed bug #4464 (Typo in openbox-gnome-session script).
+ * Fixed bug #4436 (Focusing a window used to stop focus cycling).
+ * Renamed obprop to obxprop due to collision with Open Babel (See bug #4419).
- * GNOME 2 Support. (Fixed problems with Gnome 2 (Ben Jansens)
- taskbar.
+3.4.9:
+ * Allow focus to move while inside an Openbox menu, or during an interactive
+ action such as window cycling.
+ * Fixed bug #3717 (Empty dock interfered with move/grow to edge actions).
+ * Fixed bug #4411 (Crash when switching desktops and window cycling).
+ * Fixed bug #4377 (Window resistance against struts).
+ * Fixed bug #4035 (Prevent focus from moving under the mouse after
+ activating a window with an Openbox menu.
+ * Correct the value provided by the _NET_WORKAREA hint, so desktop icons
+ will place across all monitors.
+ * Don't hide submenus immediately when moving through the parent menu.
+ (Resolves request #3762).
+ * Fix for showing Openbox menus with multiple monitors, don't restrict them
+ to the monitor where the mouse is.
+ * Fixed bug #4023 (Allow the user to have multiple keys which perform the
+ same function in Openbox menus/move/resize. E.g. two keys which are
+ both bound to Escape.
+ * Add a new obprop tool, which can be used to read the _OB_ROLE, _OB_NAME,
+ and _OB_CLASS (as well as any other UTF-8 window properties) off of a
+ window.
+ * Add _OB_ROLE, _OB_NAME, and _OB_CLASS hints on each window that show the
+ respective values for use in the rc.xml applications section, to modify
+ the window when it appears.
+ * Improve Openbox interoperability with gnome-session >= 2.24.
+ * Fixed bug #4040 (Remove desktop hints set by gdm in the openbox-session
+ scripts, so that Openbox can set the number of desktops (assuming
+ gnome-settings-daemon doesn't first)).
+ * Fix a bug in xdg-autostart preventing some .desktop files from working.
+ * Show the desktop pager popup on the primary monitor instead of on all
+ monitors.
+ * Add a new primaryMonitor config option, which is where Openbox popups
+ will appear. Defaults to a fixed monitor, but can be made to behave as
+ before with the "active" value for it.
+ * Correct edge detection for move/grow to edge to properly use monitor edges
+ for multi-monitor setups.
+ * Change default window placement policy to stay on the active monitor for
+ multi-monitor setups.
+ * Fixed bug #1149 (Crash with some window icon sizes).
+ * Respond to all strut changes, fixes moving/hiding panels.
+ * Fix internal code to focus windows on other desktops correctly (Fixes
+ bug #4413).
+ * Focus correctness fixups for switching desktops.
+ * Fixed bug #4373 (Decoration bug for shaded maximized windows).
+ * Fixed bug #4350 (Allow a window to be made skip_taskbar but still get
+ focused by the user's rc.xml).
+ * Fixed bug #4307 (Set a minimum time for screenEdgeWarpTime).
+ * Fixed bug #4253 (Support for Solaris in openbox-session scripts).
+ * Fixed bug #3851 (Allow transient windows to be above helper windows).
- * Redo borders for styles. Any flat textured object (Ben Jansens)
- (solid or gradient) can add "border" to its texture
- and then its ".borderColor" resource will be used
- for a 1 pixel-wide border around the element.
+3.4.8:
+ * Updated translations: Slovak.
+ * Allow windows to change their decorations at any time (Fix for
+ Google Chrome).
+ * Make openbox-session to respect the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable.
+ * Fixed bug #4344 where borders were given to windows that should not have
+ them.
+ * Merge the SessionLogout and Exit actions. They now test if connected to a
+ session manager and ask it to exit if so, or simply kill Openbox if not.
+ * Further tweaks to the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message handling. Use the same
+ logic for focus-stealing as is used when mapping a new window.
+ * Don't go out of our way any more to prevent focus from moving while the
+ keyboard is grabbed.
+ * Fix openbox-gnome-session when using gnome-session > 2.22.
- * Add an optional Sticky button for window titlebars.
- It can be added by putting an 'S' in your
- titlebarLayout. (Scott Moynes)
+3.4.8-rc2:
+ * Updated translations: Italian, Croatian, Ukrainian.
+ * When resizing a window while focus cycling with bar=no, the bar no longer
+ reappears.
+ * Correctly handle shaped windows using the ShapeInput kind, this is used
+ by many composited apps to pass through clicks in their transparent areas.
+ * Fix the <monitor> per-app setting.
+ * Avoid using anonymous unions.
+ * Windows that had their decorations removed by per-app settings were still
+ placed as if they still had their decorations.
+ * Fix event handling not to ignore events on a window when they have an unmap
+ event in the queue, if that unmap event doesn't cause the window to be
+ unmanaged.
+ * Show the desktop switch on every monitor in xinerama.
+ * Fix interpretation of struts in xinerama where the screens have different
+ sizes.
+ * Add "next" and "prev" as possible <monitor> targets in the moveto and
+ resizeto actions.
+ * Allow escaping the _ used to mark the shortcut character in menu labels.
+ You can now change the (first) _ in a label to __, this will be displayed
+ as a single underscore. The rest of the _ in the string will be unaffected,
+ so only double the first one.
+ * Only replace ~ with the home directory when it is preceded by whitespace or
+ is at the start of the string, and when it is followed by a space, slash, or
+ the end of the string. This is implemented with GRegex, and so the required
+ glib version has been bumped to 2.14.
+ * Some other small fixes.
- * Fix SendTo menus. They would keep workspaces that
- had been deleted. (Ben Jansens)
+3.4.8-rc1:
+ * Updated translations: Basque, Catalan, Turkish, Italian, Spanish, Russian.
+ * New translations: Danish, Turkish, Lithuanian.
+ * Set the _MOTIF_WM_INFO atom so urxvt uses motif hints for borderless mode.
+ * Properly escape the xml used in session files.
+ * Correct a 64-bit issue related to comparing timestamps.
+ * There is a sneaky sentence right at the end of a big paragraph in the
+ wm-spec document that says windows mapping with _NET_WM_USER_TIME=0 should
+ not be focused initially, honor this request.
+ * When moving a window to another desktop with following on, bring the
+ window's helper windows (for example gimp image windows with the toolbox
+ set to utility window).
+ * Change the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW messages again, if they originate from the
+ app and the window is on another desktop, just set the demands_attention
+ flag. If the event came from the user (ie pager/panel), then the window
+ is still moved to the current desktop.
- * Fixes for workspace switching. Putting old code (Ben Jansens)
- back.
+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.
- * Fixes for workspace warping. Window and mouse would (Ben Jansens)
- move slightly out of sync, as one motion event would
- get dropped. Other windows could also be selected
- for moving during the warp. Now everything works as
- expected.
+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.
- * Better workspace changing for sticky windows, don't (Jason Kasper)
- unmap/remap them, causing them to flicker. But keep
- sloppy focus working right still.
+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.
- * Fixed Sloppy Focus-Auto Raise bug, as exibited by (Ben Jansens)
- fullscreen SDL applications. A frame window would
- be raised over the app.
+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
- * Enforce windows' functionality, so that windows that (Ben Jansens)
- aren't suppoosed to be able to perform actions, such
- as iconify, can't end up being iconified anyhow.
- (Fixes the "Desktop Access" feature in KDE.)
+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
- * Fix window gravity handling for an application
- resizing (ConfigureRequest event for resize only). (Ben Jansens)
+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
- * Fix support for the Shape extension. (Ben Jansens)
+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
- * Fix for recognizing kde systray windows unmapping. (Ben Jansens)
+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
-2.0.0:
- * Add an rc option (modiferMask) to allow changing (Ben Jansens)
- which modifier combo Openbox uses for mouse
- interation with windows.
+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
+ * Fix rare crash when menu is hidden while browsing it
+ * End move/resize more cleanly when focus moves during a move/resize
+ * Don't focus new windows when browsing a menu or moving/resizing a window,
+ just flash the window instead, so that the menu/move/resize doesn't have to
+ cancel.
- * Add an rc option (rootScrollDirection) to specify (Ben Jansens)
- the direction the workspaces scroll when using the
- mouse wheel on the root window.
+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
- * Add a new checkmark pixmap in the menus to denote (Ben Jansens)
- selected items, instead of the old colored box.
+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
- * Add "workspace warping" while moving a window. (Grab (Ben Jansens)
- a window and move it past the edge of the screen, so
- that your mouse pointer hits the edge, and you'll
- flip to the next workspace.
+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
- * Add options intheconfig menu for ignoring shaded and (Ben Jansens)
- full-maximized windows when placing new windows.
+3.3.994:
+ * Fix a bug introduced in .993 that prevented you from switching desktops
+ and caused general mayhem
- * Style extension for flatborder texture type. (Ben Jansens)
+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
- * Add a window-snapping offset (edgeSnapOffset in the (Ben Jansens)
- rc file).
+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
- * Window resistance snapping (specified with (Ben Jansens)
- windowToWindowSnap and windowToEdgeSnap in the rc
- file).
+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
- * Sticky windows appear in the workspace menus (Ben Jansens)
- for all workspaces, and generally behave like
- a normal window, except appearing on all
- workspaces.
+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
- * Xft font support for styles. (Ben Jansens)
+3.3.1:
+ * Fix panels getting a border with keepBorder turned on.
+ * Fix a crash in mirrorhorizontal when drawing a surface with width 1.
- * Xinerama support for window placement, maximization, (Ben Jansens)
- and snapping.
+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.
- * NETWM/EWMH Support. (Scott Moynes and
- Ben Jansens)
+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.
- * KDE 3 Support. (Scott Moynes and
- Ben Jansens)
+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. <action name="raise"><group>yes</group></action>
+ * 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)
- * window zone resizing (specified by resizeZones in (Ben Jansens)
- the rc file). Allows you to resize a window in 2
- halves or 4 quarters.
+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
- * Allow any style settings to be placed in the rc (Ben Jansens)
- file, where they will override all styles
- (especially useful for the rootCommand or fonts).
+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)
- * Makes the ~/.openbox dir for you if it doesn't (Ben Jansens)
- exist.
+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)
- * Window-to-window snapping (including corner (Ben Jansens)
- snapping!).
+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)
- * Properly save/restore your menu position when (Ben Jansens)
- Openbox reconfigures (e.g. when changing
- styles).
+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.
- * Disable the current workspace in the send-to menu. (Ben Jansens)
+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
- * Added UnderMouse window placement algorithm/type. (Ben Jansens)
+3.0-rc1:
+ * Closed bug #875 (RaiseLower fails to funtion on windows with dialogs)
+ * Added the <moveButton> option for moving dock apps around inside the
+ dock. (Closes bug #798)
+ * Made the "Desktop" action show the pager/desktop dialog
+ * Add the <dialog> 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
- * Added ClickMouse window placement algorithm/type. (Ben Jansens)
+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
- * Added a runtime option for hiding the toolbar. (Ben Jansens)
-
- * Custom ordering of windows' titlebar elements with (Ben Jansens)
- a titlebarLayout option added to the rc file.
-
- * Rolling the mouse wheel on a window's title bar will (Ben Jansens)
- shade/unshade the window. rolling the mouse wheel on
- the root window will change workspaces.
-
- * Better handling of the rc file and its configuration (Ben Jansens)
- options. The file is written each time an option in
- the file is changed, instead of being written at
- shutdown. This means that you can edit the file by
- hand while in Openbox, and then choose reconfig or
- restart to have it use the new rc file.
-
- * Changed the default configuration file from (Ben Jansens)
- ~/.blackboxrc to ~/.openbox/rc.
-
- * Changed the menu from an rcfile option to a (Ben Jansens)
- command-line option. use 'openbox -menu ' to select
- an alternate menu. The default menu used is
- ~/.openbox/menu. If the default, or the file you
- specify does not exist, the global menu is tried.
- And if the global menu also does not exist, a
- simple, internal menu is used instead.
+3.0-beta5:
+ * Initial release.