Added various new abilities to If action, including the <query> tag,
matching class, name, role and window type.
Added ForEach action.
Restore the <center> option for window placement.
New GrowToFill action.
Updated Portuguese and Polish translations.
New Galician translation.
Added strict option to ToggleShowDesktop action.
Speed optimization in rendering code.
New <position> tag for ShowMenu action allows placing menus other than
at the mouse cursor.
Fix some corner cases of relative position to work correctly.
Allow specifying multiple mousebinds in one tag as we already do for keybinds
(separated by spaces, as W-Return M-S-F3 for example).
Added option rebindOnMappingNotify option, on by default, which
controls if we update binds when the keyboard layout changes at
runtime.
The resize action now only considers the part of the client that is
onscreen for purposes of picking an action to perform.
Make desktop actions non-interactive (means you can have more actions
bound to a key after them, and the dialog disappears on a timer
instead of when releasing the modifier keys).
obxprop is now not pathologically slow when printing very long arrays.
Fix menu accelerator underlines sometimes not showing up.
Fix so you can click menu entries before the menuHideDelay expires if
it's a new click.
Don't readd the X event fd to the poll set every time we reconfigure.
Fix some specialized button bitmaps not loading from the correct
files. (toggled + pressed or hover would just be the base toggled image).
SVG icon support. This is optional, depending on librsvg being installed.
Allow application rules to control window size with a new <size> tag.
Allow application rules to pick a monitor for new windows
without forcing a position.
Allow non-interactive focus cycling with a new <interactive> tag.
New LeastOverlap window placement policy replaces the old default behaviour.
It finds a place on a given monitor that overlaps as few windows as possible.
Contributed by Ian Zimmerman.
Improved Xinerama behaviour.
Correctly interface with latest gnome-session for Gnome/Openbox X
sessions.
Allow third-party control of window opacity in compositing managers.
Improved themeing options. Contributed by Dave Foster.
Add <monitor> and <activedesktop> options to If action.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 popu 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
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
ellipsized 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
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 ConfigureRequest for restacking specifies
a sibling 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
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
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) (similar syntax to X geometry options)
Fix focus moving irrationally when focusLast was off
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
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
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
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
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
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|Move}ToEdge 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.
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.
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.