2 * The system I used to generate the dist tarball didn't have the
3 docbook-to-man command so the manpages were empty.
6 * Not to be outdone by the cairo team, I introduced a bug in the last release
7 which made resizing not give any feedback. This is now fixed.
10 * Fully updated Czech, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German,
11 French, Hungarian, Norwegian, Vietnamese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish,
12 Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Portuguese translations
13 * Partially updated Spanish translation
14 * Add an example of the "force" option for the per-app placement options to
15 the default rc.xml file
16 * Add a new xdg-autostart script. This will eventually end up in the PyXDG
17 distribution hopefully, but it is included in Openbox for now. This script
18 runs things based on the freedesktop.org autostart specification. You can
19 have it run GNOME, KDE, ROX, or XFCE specific things if you want. The
20 new default system-wide autostart.sh script runs it automatically
21 * Update the default menu.xml to include a lot of common apps
22 * Fix white font shadows (negative shadowtint)
23 * Update the autostart.sh to find gnome-settings-daemon correctly, as the
24 GNOME people have moved it to libexec
25 * Fix focus possibly getting stolen when using the Focus action
26 * Drastically speed up rendering of Vertical and SplitVertical gradients
27 * Speed improvements also for Horizonal and Pyramid gradients
28 * Add new theme options, menu.overlap.x and menu.overlap.y options, that let
29 you independently control the horizontal and vertical position of submenus
30 * Change _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW messages to not change the current desktop, but
31 to bring the window to the current desktop instead. This is the industry
33 * Use the pretty new openbox.png icon as the default window icon
34 * Allow matching per-application rules to windows by their window type
35 (normal, dialog, splash, etc). The default rc.xml has more details
36 * Add new Openbox-themed prompt windows. Use these prompt windows to ask
37 before killing off windows that aren't responding. This also means we
38 don't need to ping every window constantly forever
39 * Add a new <prompt> option to the Execute action. If this is set to a
40 string, a dialog will be shown with that string in it and "yes"/"no"
41 buttons. The command to be executed will only be run if the user selects
43 * Add a new <prompt> option to the Exit action, which is a boolean (not a
44 string). When true, Openbox will show a dialog confirming if you want to
45 exit. The default is to show the prompt
46 * Reduce Openbox's memory footprint and speed up rendering through the use
47 of a new icon cache, so that Openbox only needs to keep 1 copy of an icon
48 when 100 different windows share it
49 * Make Openbox menus have the "menu type" hint for compositors to see and use
50 * Fix the MoveResizeTo action for negative coords (opposite edges)
51 * Fix key bindings getting lost if multiple bindings at the same level could
52 not be translated (Fixes VMWare causing Openbox keybindings to stop
54 * Fix the resize popup box for terminal windows with a base size of 0 (show
55 the right size values for urxvt terminals)
56 * Fix some off-by-one bugs with the edge growing/shrinking code
57 * Add new theme options for menu line separators: menu.separator.color,
58 menu.separator.width, menu.separator.padding.width,
59 menu.separator.padding.height
60 * Add xfce-mcs-manager to the default autostart.sh, and run it automatically
61 when gnome-settings-daemon is not present to have GTK apps inherit settings
62 from the XFCE configuration tools
63 * Make the send-to-desktop menu in the client-menu indicate which is the current
64 desktop for omnipresent windows, and don't close it if just toggling
65 omni-presence when ctrl-clicking
66 * Add a new SessionLogout action that logs out through the session manager,
67 when running Openbox within a session manager such as within an
68 GNOME/Openbox or KDE/Openbox session. The action includes a <prompt>
69 option which is similar to the Exit action's
70 * Add a new gdm-control command that lets you control gdm from within an X
71 session. The gdm-control lets you change GDM's behaviour for when you end
72 the current session. For instance, you can tell GDM to reboot, and
73 then immediately log out of the current session, and the computer will be
75 * Show an information dialog when an error occurs for Openbox, such as when
76 the Execute action fails or when XML syntax errors are present in the
78 * When making a window very narrow, don't draw buttons to the right of the title
79 on top of the ones on its left.
82 * Updated Clearlooks theme
83 * Add the force="yes/no" option for the per-app settings' <position> tag
84 * Raise and focus modal children and their direct parents together, improved
85 usability with direct modal transient windows
86 * Fix crash when using <raise> for NextWindow and there are no windows
88 * Add the <manageDesktops> option in the rc.xml <menu> section, which toggles
89 the "Manage Desktops" section appearing in the combined-client-list-menu
90 * Fix for menu headers showing the wrong text
91 * Fix for the <focusLast> behavior
92 * Treat modal direct children as one window with their parent consistently
95 * Added Basque translation
96 * Updated French, Vietnamese German, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese,
97 Brasilian Portuguese, Norwegian, and Finnish translations
98 * New Clearlooks theme, updated by David Barr
99 * Updated the previous Clearlooks theme, and renamed it to Clearlooks-3.4
100 * Allow dialog type windows to go fullscreen (Fixes Kpdf)
101 * Remove the extraneous top border for undecorated windows while maximized
102 * Fixes for keyboard modifiers (Alt-tab dialog getting stuck on screen for
104 * Automatically catch changes to the keyboard map and reconfigure the key
106 * Fix focus moving incorrectly sometimes with focus under mouse enabled
107 * Make default configuration focus the desktop when you right click
108 * Add the <bar> and <raise> options for all window cycling actions, allowing
109 you to have your target window temporarily raised above all others, and to
110 turn the focus target indicator bar off
111 * Improve the LastDesktop action to not remember desktops you skipped across
112 * Ignore mouse clicks that are made on override-redirect (unmanaged) windows
113 * When opening a menu with a key binding, don't use the key binding to run
114 something in the menu
115 * Add a <monitor> option for window placement, which gives you the option
116 to place new windows on the active monitor, or the monitor where the mouse
117 is, instead of on any monitor (for xinerama multihead setups)
118 * Add options for placing the window move/resize coordinate popup window in
119 a fixed position on screen, rather than relative to the window being
121 * Prevent the dock from auto-hiding completely offscreen if the theme has
124 * Fix race condition when running things that want to grab the keyboard
125 (e.g. gnome-panel-control --main-menu)
126 * When dialog windows ask to not appear in the taskbar, still give them focus
127 in normal ways (fixes new GNOME session logout dialogs)
128 * Fix bug with resizing corners on certain parts of the window frame
129 * Ping applications to tell when they are running or have become frozen.
130 Show a [Not Responding] message in the title bar of windows which are
132 * When closing a window which is [Not Responding], kill the window's process
133 if it is running on the same machine as Openbox. Otherwise, just
135 the window from the X display. A second attempt to close a [Not
137 window will kill it forcefully (kill -9).
138 * Fixes for internal timers
139 * Add a <wmclass> option for the execute action's startup-notification. This
140 lets you tell Openbox that the application will map a window with the
141 specified class - for applications that do not support startup-notification
143 * Fix for empty dock taking up space onscreen after a reconfigure
144 * Reduce Openbox's additional memory footprint per-window and per-menu
145 * Faster horizontal gradient rendering
146 * Don't deiconify windows that aren't allowed to be directly iconified on
147 restart (eg toolbars), as they can be iconified by other means
148 * Improve support for fullscreen windows in xinerama (TwinView) and
149 multiple-screen setups
150 * Add a --config-file command line option, to specify an alternate
151 configuration file path
154 * Added Hungarian translation
155 * Updated Finnish, Russian, German and French translations
156 * Fixed some very minor memory leaks
157 * Hide the desktop popup when showing the focus popup
158 * Fix a crash when trying to access the More... menu of
159 client-list-combined-menu
160 * Fix the coordinate popup only showing up on the first monitor in xinerama
161 * Add --exit to exit the currently running openbox instance
164 * Updated Traditional Chinese translation
165 * Updated Norwegian translation
166 * Fix for MoveToEdge skipping edges sometimes
167 * Let you specify the vertical and horizontal padding independently in themes
168 * Fix so that if you select an omnipresent window on another desktop in the
169 client list menus, it will go to that desktop
170 * Make the GrowToEdge action shrink once there is no more room to grow,
171 similar to in 3.4.2, but shrinking to edges as well
172 * Move the Send To and Layers submenus to the top of the client menu
173 * Fix race causing omnipresent windows to lose focus when switching desktops
175 * Don't focus new windows on other desktops if they aren't related to the
176 currently focused window
177 * Add corner resizing areas in the inner client border (Fixes themes such
179 * New focus stealing prevention that is smart and not intrusive and not
181 * Revert a small change in 3.4.3 that caused windows to be placed funny in
182 Smart placement when there was a dock or something on the side of the
184 * Show a notification when switching desktops
185 * Fix for delayed focus-follows-mouse interrupting move/resize or menus
186 * Make screen edge warp keep warping without having the move the mouse 1
188 * Fix for resizing terminals in the top/left sides getting a little confused
189 * Fix to keep oldschool (Non-EWMH) fullscreen windows from being moved and
190 resized inside of the struts (Fixes Acroread)
191 * Accept the <command> option for the Restart command, similar to the Execute
193 * Don't make clicking on dock apps sometimes act like clicking on the root
194 window (Don't propogate button events up)
195 * Fix a bug introduced in 3.4.3 which caused the Windows key as a modifier
196 for bindings to not work properly
197 * Let windows skip across monitors in a Xinerama setup when using MoveToEdge
198 or Shift-arrow in an interactive move
199 * Make move and resize take the dock into account for resistance
200 * Raise new windows when it makes sense, when they aren't being focused
201 * Change default config to use click events for mouse wheel bindings instead
205 * Add Ukrainian translation
206 * Updated translations:
207 - Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Estonian, German, Portuguese,
208 Vietnamese, Finnish, Czech, Arabic, Spanish, Swedish, French
209 * Improve focus fallback - don't fallback to windows you can't focus cycle
211 * Don't show the client border for undecorated windows when keepBorder is on,
212 just the outer border
213 * Some improvements in the smart placement to help it find a place more
214 often. This needs more work still.
215 * Don't focus windows that appear under the mouse in mouse-focus mode unless
216 underMouse is enabled
217 * Don't move focus when the window under the pointer iconifies unless
218 underMouse is enabled
219 * Respect min/max window sizes when a window is fullscreened or maximized.
220 This fixes problems experienced with maximizing vnc windows
221 * Don't XUngrabKeyboard unless we need to
222 * Correct calculations for the menu header width, so that they are not
223 ellisized unnecessarily
224 * Advanced support for partial struts. When you maximize a window it will
225 now only use the struts it needs to. This can greatly improve
226 xinerama functionality.
227 * Fixes for how the dock is placed in certain positions on screen (off by 1
229 * New default bindings:
230 - don't unshade when clicking on the titlebar
231 - raise when unshading with the scrollwheel
232 - lower when shading with the scrollwheel
233 * Don't show the top resize area in the titlebar when a window is shaded
234 * Optimize rendering of window decorations
235 * Optimize splitvertical gradients - no more malloc/free during render
236 * Let the theme specify all colors for a splitvertical gradient with the new
237 .splitTo theme elements
238 * Improve decorations for maximized windows. Don't draw the side borders in
240 * Don't resist against desklet windows (below layer + skip taskbar)
241 * New actions for dynamically adjusting your desktop workspaces:
242 - AddDesktopLast, RemoveDesktopLast
243 - AddDesktopCurrent, RemoveDestopCurrent
244 * New <center> option for smart placement (default is on)
245 * Fix MoveToCenter in Xinerama (TwinView) setups
246 * Let you lower a window without lowering its children or siblings
247 * Don't set the default Openbox icon on child windows, let them inherit the
248 icon from their parents
249 * Fix Onyx themes - fade out disabled buttons
250 * Don't auto-resize windows to fit on screen if they are UserSpecified
252 * Don't activate windows which raise themselves anymore. It was a nice
253 thought, but it caused too much problems
254 * Rewrite of the actions subsystem
255 * Removed deprecated actions:
256 - ShowDesktop, UnshowDesktop (Use ToggleShowDesktop)
257 - ResizeRelativeVert, ResizeRelativeHorz (Use ResizeRelative)
258 * Combined the MoveFromEdge* actions with MoveToEdge* actions, and removed
259 the MoveFromEdge* action names.
260 * Switch desktops when moving a window and you drag it to the edge of the
261 screen (added the <screenEdgeWarpTime> option for this)
262 * Add actions to add/remove the last desktop in the client list menus
263 * Use startup notification when launching ObConf in the default root menu
264 * Remove the desktop switching dialog, as it confuses people and they don't
265 know how to turn it off to switch desktops instantly. Some other
266 incarnation may return in the future.
267 * Add optional <finalactions> option for NextWindow, PreviousWindow,
268 DirectionalFocus*, and DirectionalTarget* actions
269 * Don't focus new helper windows unless they are alone in their group. This
271 * Fancy keyboard window moving:
272 - Shift-arrow will move the window to the next edge
273 - Control-arrow will move the window by only 1 pixel
274 - Arrow will move the window by a larger number of pixels
275 * Fancy keyboard window resizing:
276 - The first arrow will choose an edge to resize (then you can grow or
277 shrink the window on that edge)
278 - Hitting an arrow perpendicular to your selected edge will choose a
279 different edge to resize
280 - Shift-arrow will grow/shrink the window to the next edge
281 - Control arrow will grow/shrink the window by only 1 pixel
282 - Arrow will grow/shrink the window by a larger number of pixel
283 * Timeout when synchronously resizing a window so you can still resize busy
284 or dead application windows
285 * Let you specify keyboard shortcuts in your root menus with _. Such as
286 label="XTe_rm" would make 'r' the shortcut key.
287 * Fixes for placing windows with per-app settings:
288 - you can now place windows relative to any edge of the screen instead of
289 only the top left. (-0 uses the far edge, +0 uses the near edge. You can
290 use --0 and +-0 to specify negative numbers.)
291 - fix bug with windows being placed far off-screen occasionally
292 - allow you to place windows partially outside of the screen
293 - let per-app settings override program-specified positions (but not if it
295 * Add user-specified margins to the configuration file
296 * Fix for transient windows in groups with transient windows of the group
297 transients. That wasn't supposed to be legible. i.e. 2 group transients
298 and 1 direct transient for one of the group transients.
299 * Don't include child/parent windows in tests for being occluded or occluding
300 other windows, since you can't raise/lower above/below them. This fixes
301 the raiselower action for windows which have children.
302 * Reduce the size of the middle gradient in splitvertical gradients. This
303 makes the split harder than it was in 3.4.2
304 * Don't include debian/ dir in releases
305 * Add resize bindings for the edges to the default hardcoded bindings
306 * Fix focus cycle indicator positioning for some windows (i.e. OpenOffice)
307 * Add the MoveResizeTo action. This is very xinerama aware! It also lets
308 you move a window to any edge of any screen.
309 * Make actions that look for edges include the dock's edges (e.g. MoveToEdge)
310 * New preferred option for the Execute action is <command> instead of
311 <execute> but the old one will still work.
312 * Fix for moving windows partially offsceen causing them to jump far away
313 * Fix for windows which are not on any monitor, to keep them on screen
315 * Require libstartupnotification 0.8 in configure (we use stuff that was not
316 around in some earlier versions)
317 * Grab the server when mapping windows to avoid race conditions in other
318 programs (getting MapNotify before you are visible)
319 * Handle case gracefully when ConfigureRequent for restacking specifies
320 a siblig which we aren't managing
321 * Use KeyRelease to run things from Openbox menus, so that the release
322 does not go to the focused window (causing the new window to not get
324 * Add new actions for controlling window decorations:
325 - Decorate, Undecorate
326 * Fix so that the values for per-app settings are not case sensitive
327 * Fix crash with very small windows
328 * Fix resize resistance for windows with aspect ratio limits
329 * Let you resize windows with aspect ratio limits in the vertical directions
332 * Add ability to set the bevel strength in themes
333 * Fix for focusLast with omnipresent windows
334 * Cache pipe menus while the menus are open
335 * Allow non-interactive directional focus key bindings
336 * Change how nested interactive key bindings work (it stays in the key chain,
337 like chroot, until you end the interactive action)
338 * Fix for gtk apps trying to get focus - mostly nullify focus stealing
339 prevention (Fixes Tilda)
340 * Send ConfigureNotify always on ConfigureRequest (Previous emacs fix
341 makes this possible now)
342 * Fix RelativeResize action for right/bottom edges
343 * Remove SCIM from the default autostart.sh - it has caused problems with
344 some (buggy) panels, such as pypanel
345 * Fix the titlebar changing to non-focused when iconifying a window with
347 * Use the new osd theme hints for the dock, rather than the titlebar hints
348 * Fix rare crash when menu is hidden while browsing it
349 * End move/resize more cleanly when focus moves during a move/resize
350 * Don't focus new windows when browsing a menu or moving/resizing a window,
351 just flash the window instead, so that the menu/move/resize doesn't have to
355 * Add Vietnamese translation
356 * Add Japanese translation
357 * Keep new transient windows from not getting focus when any related window
359 * Change behavior of underMouse option - make focus go under the mouse when
360 no window has focus anymore, rather than to the last used window
361 * Make on-screen display dialogs (such as the Alt-Tab dialog) appear on the
362 active monitor when using Xinerama (a.k.a. TwinView)
363 * Fix for window stacking - let you lower sibling transient windows behind
365 * Fix directional focus actions when used without a dialog
366 * Fix race that could prevent ObConf from setting the desktop names correctly
367 * Add new theme options:
368 - window.active.button.toggled.image.color has been split into:
369 - window.active.button.toggled.unpressed.image.color
370 - window.active.button.toggled.pressed.image.color
371 - window.active.button.toggled.hover.image.color
372 - window.inactive.button.toggled.image.color has been split into:
373 - window.inactive.button.toggled.unpressed.image.color
374 - window.inactive.button.toggled.pressed.image.color
375 - window.inactive.button.toggled.hover.image.color
376 - window.active.button.toggled.bg has been split into:
377 - window.active.button.toggled.unpressed.bg
378 - window.active.button.toggled.pressed.bg
379 - window.active.button.toggled.hover.bg
380 - window.inactive.button.toggled.bg has been split into:
381 - window.inactive.button.toggled.unpressed.bg
382 - window.inactive.button.toggled.pressed.bg
383 - window.inactive.button.toggled.hover.bg
384 * Add new Onyx and Onyx-Citrus themes
385 * Updated Mikachu theme using new theme options
386 * Improvements to splitvertical gradients - Add a small gradient in the
387 middle between the upper and lower gradients
388 * Fix another emacs event storm, don't configure the window when it sets its
389 WM_NORMAL_HINTS unless we have to
390 * Fix for focus cycling to helper windows - Don't count dialogs as a sibling,
391 so they don't stop you
392 * Allow the use of negative numbers in per-app settings position to place a
393 window relative to the right/bottom edges of your monitor (taking the
394 struts (panels) into account)
395 * Fix focus moving irrationally when focusLast was off
398 * Add Indian Bengali translation
399 * Updated Italian translation
400 * Small updates to Czech, Estonian, Norwegian, and German translations
401 * Removed out-of-date Japanese translation (ja.po)
402 * Removed out-of-date Croatian translation (hr.po)
403 * Allow parentrelative theme textures to have borders, bevels and interlacing
404 * Add new theme elements: window.active.title.separator.color and
405 window.inactive.title.separator.color (note that globbing might set these
406 properties when you didnt mean to)
407 * Add new theme elements: osd.border.width, osd.border.color, osd.bg,
408 osd.label.bg, osd.label.text.color, osd.label.text.font, osd.hilight.bg,
410 * Add new underMouse focus option
411 * Rename new theme element menu.items.activedisabled to
412 menu.items.active.disabled for consistency with other elements
413 * Improvements to smart placement - especially with xinerama (Twinview)
414 * Fixes for focus with omnipresent windows - Allow focus to fallback to them
415 except during desktop switches (other mechanisms exist for that)
416 * Fix for putting child windows (transients) on all desktops
417 * Changes to how Shift/Control/CapsLock are used
418 * Fix focus fallback when windows are not visible (showing the desktop, or
420 * Fix bug #3196 - Unable to alt-tab away from full-screen windows
421 * Fix crash in parsing empty xml fields
422 * Fix left and right contexts resizing the wrong way in the example mouse
424 * Fix so dock doesn't auto-hide when the mouse is inside it (over top of a
426 * Allow new utility windows to gain focus like normal windows
427 * Add workarounds for Java Swing applications (Extra ConfigureNotify events)
428 * More fixes for modal window usability (Deiconify the modal window when you
429 try to focus its parent)
430 * Fixes to focus tracking, especially with iconify animation
431 * Changes to libobrender's API for ObConf 2.0 (RrThemeNew)
432 * Check for libxml >= 2.6.0 when compiling
433 * Fix for Openoffice windows (Static window gravity)
434 * Fix for hovering over window buttons while a menu is open
435 * Make the Escape key close all levels of a menu, not just one
436 * Change default drag threshold to 8px (Same as in XSettings)
437 * Fixes for windows restacking with TopIf, BottomIf, or Opposite modes.
438 Only compare with valid windows
439 * Fix for actions which find other window edges. Find all windows, and only
440 windows which are on the right desktop
441 * Improve RaiseLower action (Not lower when it doesn't need to move the
443 * Fix for the menu hideDelay (Don't hide immediately when you click to open
444 the menu), make it work reliably
445 * Make focusLast default to true when not present in the config file
448 * Fix bug introduced in 3.3.993 that prevented you from raising focused
449 windows above fullscreen windows
450 * Fix bug introduced in 3.3.993 that made the desktop window keep focus
451 when changing desktops
452 * Add Arabic translations
453 * Added Control-Alt-Up/Down bindings to the mouse focus example rc.xml
454 * Don't raise on clients in the client context in the mouse focus example
456 * Fixes for when to focus new windows - improve keeping transient windows
457 from stealing focus, and allow new windows to get focus when any relative
459 * Fixes for frame decorations layout
460 * Fixes for forcing window sizes to fit on the screen. Don't resize windows
461 if they are a user-specified size (USSize) or if they are non-normal
462 windows. (Fix Rox pinboard mapping across multiple monitors)
463 * Centre window icons when they are not square
464 * Fixes for Java windows behaving badly - Java makes all kinds of
465 non-standard-compliant assumptions which we are forced to meet
466 * Changed startup notification timeout from 30 to 20 seconds
467 * Fix possible crashes and misbehaviors with new focus cycling dialogs
468 * Recreate enter events when Press mouse actions move windows (e.g. Lower
469 action) for focus-follows-mouse
470 * Update Slovak translation
471 * Highlight the first menu entry when there is a separator/header at the top
472 * Only highlight the first menu entry when the menu is opened with a key
474 * Fix crash when you press enter with nothing selected in the menu
475 * Fix for ignoring an unmap event after restart
476 * Fixes for setting the clients' colormaps
477 * Change focusLast option behavior to what it was in 3.3.1. It only affects
479 * Add comments to the default rc.xml files about the various focus options
480 * Fix focus bug where a window had the keyboard grabbed when it unmapped
481 (Firefox gmarks extension)
482 * Update Catalan translation
483 * Fix alignment of the titlebar elements when the window icon is placed to
484 the right of the label
485 * Improve placement of child (transient) windows. When their parent is
486 omnipresent, open the child on the current desktop only.
487 * When a window has modal children on another desktop and you try to focus
488 it, bring the modal child to the current desktop to focus it instead
489 * Let you focus cycle to windows with a modal child on another desktop
490 * Fix for not seeing windows change their partial strut
491 * Give iconified windows a faded icon in the focus cycling (Alt-Tab) dialog,
492 and in the client list menus
493 * Make it more difficult to select items by accident in parent menus when it
494 changes direction. Moving the mouse only selects menu entries for a few
495 levels of open menus. Mouse clicks will select menu entries further down.
496 * Add Simplified Chinese translation
497 * Set the current theme in the OB_THEME root property for other applications
498 * Notify ksplash when we have started up if dcop is installed
499 * Allow you to resize the window on the client padding as well as the outer
501 * Fix to show the focus cycle indicator when focus cycling and there is only
503 * Centre splash screens on one monitor
504 * Don't centre parent-less utility/menu/toolbar windows on the screen
505 * Remove the bottom decorations for fully maximized windows
506 * Fix crash when reconfiguring and no themes can be found
509 * Fix a bug introduced in .993 that prevented you from switching desktops
510 and caused general mayhem
513 * Update for Russian translation
514 * Added Dutch translation
515 * Fix for choosing badly sized icons from the window for the window cycling
516 dialog (and other things). (Fixes Pidgin icon)
517 * Open child (transient) windows on the current desktop if they don't have
518 a direct parent, or if the parents are not all on some other desktop.
519 (Fixes Pidgin and Gimp dialogs appearing on the wrong desktop)
520 * Make windows fit within the available space when they are first created,
521 if they are not user-positioned. (Fix xpdf making itself bigger than the
522 space inside the struts, and hiding behind them).
523 * Don't let child (transient) windows steal focus when the situation is
525 * Fix bevels and borders display in the titlebar
526 * Set the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW hint properly, when nothing is focused (This
527 is the proper fix for libwnck pagers.)
528 * Fallback focus immediately during iconify animation in all cases (was
529 missing RevertToParent case)
530 * Fix new frame elements being given 0 sizes for very small windows
531 * Send iconified windows to the bottom of the focus order so you can
532 Alt-Shift-Tab to get back what you just iconified. This makes things more
534 * Show the hostname for remotely run programs in iconified titles
535 * Stop focus flicker when sending windows to a desktop and following them,
536 and when changing desktops with an omnipresent window focused
537 * Empty desktop names in the configuration file are not used, so you can set
538 a name on the second desktop without having to set one on the first
539 * Make control key work for menu accelerators like it does for mouse
540 clicking and hitting enter
541 * Add C-A-Up/Down mouse bindings to switch desktops, similar to the
542 C-A-Left/Right/Up/Down keyboard bindings
545 * Don't move mouse focus when the mouse is over the focus cycling dialog
546 * Fixes for positioning of frame decoration elements
547 * Update for Brazilian Portuguese translation
548 * Improvements in how decorations respond for maximized windows. (If they
549 can't be resized don't "hide" the resizing contexts)
550 * Updated Italian translation
551 * Added Czech translation
552 * Fix for applications that do weird things with modal windows (Make sure
553 you can focus cycle to them)
554 * Updated Spanish translation
555 * Fix for programs using the old WM-spec, and not setting unused fields to
556 0 in _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW messages (Rox pinboard)
557 * Fixes for default rc.xml configuration file. Updated comments and comment
558 out the applications section in an xml compatible way.
559 * Update for Portuguese translation
560 * Fix support for window gravity (eg xterm -geometry -0+0)
561 * Fix for libwnck with iconify animation (Unmap the parent of the client's
563 * Force the top left corner of new windows onto the screen area, if the
564 position wasn't requested by the user (Fix xpdf and others hiding their
565 titlebar under a panel)
566 * Fix for determining text geometry from Pango
567 * Save the desktop layout and names in the session, and restore them on next
569 * The <desktop> section from the configuration file is only used for
570 defaults, and so is only applied at the start of a new log-in. (Use ObConf
571 1.6.2 to change the config file for these options, and have them set
572 immediately, if you don't use a session manager to save them.)
573 * Fix updating and crashing in the old split client list menu
574 * Translate the default desktop names
575 * Update Taiwanese Chinese translation
576 * Less restrictions of behavior based on window type (Let you maximize
577 dialogs and utility windows)
578 * Fix for focus tracking when Press mouse actions are used
579 * Fix bug which let the openbox-*-session scripts take command-line arguments
580 * Better detection of legacy fullscreen windows vs. undercorated windows
581 that the user has maximized
584 * Added Brazilian Portuguese translation
585 * Added a rough Italian translation
586 * Added Estonian translation
587 * Update Polish translation
588 * Make focus stealing prevention a little less intrusive, especially with
590 * Updates for Swedish translation
591 * Fixes for decorations of maximized windows
592 * Fix so that clicking in the corner of a maximized window presses the button
593 * Don't reload the session and reapply it when restarting
594 * Fix for losing the original size of a window that mapped with maximized
595 state (or on restart)
596 * Let you move splash type windows
597 * Fix for window placement using wrong dimensions
598 * Stop xemacs ConfigureNotify storm
599 * Fix bug stopping panels from moving themselves off-screen to hide
601 * Fix for GNOME/Openbox and openbox-gnome-session to use a new session name,
602 because GNOME won't let you replace the window manager in the saved session
603 * Don't restore session state when multiple windows have the same
604 identifiers, because we can't tell them apart then (Firefox/Thunderbird)
605 * Small fixes to build system to make it more reliable
606 * Fix for what manpage files are distributed in the source code, so they
607 will not be pre-built with the wrong info
608 * Fix pkg-config files for compiling things against Openbox libraries
611 * Wildcard matching for per-application (per-window) settings. Let you match
612 multiple rules for a window. (Props to Mark Pustjens for code to do this.)
613 * Added startup notification support to the menus and key/mouse bindings
614 with <startupnotify>. It's an option for execute actions.
615 * New combined client menu, accessed with
616 <action name="ShowMenu"><menu>client-list-combined-menu</menu></action>
617 * No menu titles - instead added separators with labels to be used as menu
618 headers anywhere in menus
619 * Improved client menu - placement, the options in it, and added an icon for
621 * Keyboard shortcuts in menus, by highlighted letter or by the first letter
622 * Menus dont jump around, are always placed on screen
623 * Menus larger than can fit on the screen are broken into a submenu at the
624 bottom titled "More..."
625 * Disabled menu items can be selected now (not used though, of course)
626 * Using ()'s instead of a line separator to signify iconified windows in the
628 * New Root context for mouse bindings
629 * New "alt-tab" focus switching dialog
630 * openbox-session command and log-in option which provides the autostart
632 * SCIM support in the default Openbox session launched by the
633 openbox-session command
634 * Many code paths made significantly faster
635 * Sections of code rewritten to be more reliable, such as session
636 save/restore and input focus handling
637 * Handle the X server's clock going backwards, without locking up. Sometimes
638 the server can still lock up though, it is not recommended to do this!
639 * Better handling of window types such as docks, utility windows, tool bar
640 windows. Clicking to focus these windows is done more intelligently. Dock
641 windows no longer get focus when you click them, so that you don't have
642 focus flickering when you use a dock window with a taskbar.
643 * Better language support through Pango, which is now mandatory, and the
644 code for Pango has been greatly improved and optimized.
645 * Support for windows that use true 32-bit transparency
646 * Resize grips (with mouse binding contexts) for the top, left, and right of
648 * Smarter about keeping windows on the screen without invading user's
650 * Add MoveFromEdge* actions corresponding to MoveToEdge* but aligns far
651 edges instead of near edges, so if you have two overlapping windows you
652 can easily put them side by side.
653 * Better choice of mouse cursors for startup notification
654 * Focus stealing prevention
655 * Improve window placement across multiple Xinerama monitors
656 * Support 8-bit truecolor visuals (such as in vncserver)
657 * Better, more friendly support for omnipresent windows
658 * Full support for EWMH 1.4-draft2
659 * Iconify/restore animation !
660 * Improved support for running openbox with multiple screens (non-xinerama)
661 - won't steal focus from other screens, and let you focus a screen by
662 clicking on the desktop (root window).
663 * Support for more cursors through XCursor, means that startup notification
664 can use a pointer+watch cursor if you are using an XCursor theme
665 * Fully maximize terminal windows (and any resized-by-increment window)
666 * Show the hostname of clients running on remote computers in the titlebar
667 * Add <panels> and <desktop> options to NextWindow, PreviousWindow,
668 DirectionalFocusNorth etc..
669 * Synchronize resizing with the application when possible
670 * Smarter subdivision of windows into 9 sections for resizing
671 * Set default icon on windows so applications can agree on an icon
672 * Better support for programs that are on more than one desktop
673 (multiple firefox windows for example) - move to the desktop when you're
674 using the application and it opens a window on another desktop.
675 * Chrooted key chains, and key quoting through chroots
676 * New BreakChroot action to break out of the current chroot
677 * New keychains popup, to show where you are in a keychain
678 * Improved show-desktop mode. When you open a new window, the old windows
680 * Add <allDesktops> option to NextWindow and PreviousWindow. The desktop
681 name will be shown in the focus cycling popup
682 * Dynamically size the window and desktop dialogs. Desktop layouts that
683 aren't horizontal look better in the desktop cycling dialog.
684 * Support for legacy fullscreen applications (that don't use EWMH) such as
686 * Session support for old clients that do not use the session management
688 * Desktop setup is only changed on startup, so as to not overwrite settings
689 from other apps like pagers
690 * Take advantage of ksmserver (KDE Session Manager) features
691 * KDE/Openbox and GNOME/Openbox options for display manager GDM/KDM. Use
692 openbox-gnome-session and openbox-kde-session to run a GNOME or KDE
693 session with Openbox as the window manager.
694 * Titlebar buttons autohide when hiding won't move other buttons (removed
695 the hideDisabled option from config file)
696 * Support user time window hint, which is good for laptops power usage
697 * When legacy windows raise themselves, interpreate as wanting to be
698 activated. Makes Firefox more pleasant.
699 * Don't show handles on windows that cant resize for more extreme visual
701 * Let you move maximized windows between Xinerama monitors
702 * Improve application awareness of focus, e.g. Kopete and Firefox, so they
703 know when they are or aren't focused, and which window in their
704 application is focused
705 * Improvements in the distributed themes
706 * Add new Clearlooks and Clearlooks-Olive themes by John McKnight
707 * Fonts are no longer loaded from theme. They are loaded from the rc.xml
708 config file. Font shadow settings are still loaded from the theme though.
709 5 fonts to be set: ActiveWindow InactiveWindow, MenuHeader, MenuItem and
711 * Distributed theme names have been renamed with Capitalization
712 * menu.items.activedisabled.text.color
713 * menu.border.color (note that globbing might set these properties when
715 * window.active.border.color (note that globbing might set these
716 properties when you didnt mean to)
717 * window.inactive.border.color (note that globbing might set these
718 properties when you didnt mean to)
720 * Guarantee that titlebar buttons are even sized, so even sized icons
721 (button masks) will be centered
722 * Default titlebar button icons (as xbms) installed to /usr/share/doc/openbox
723 * New mouse binding contexts Left, Right, TLCorner, TRCorner and Top. These
724 need bindings in config file to be useful. Also new context Bottom which
725 is synonym for Handle.
726 * W is no longer hard coded to Mod4. It is now a shortcut for Super, which
727 is usually bound to Mod4. xmodmap will show your mapping.
728 * The per-app setting <head> has been renamed to <monitor>
729 * Can use "default" for anything in per-app settings
730 * Removed <edges_hit_layers_below> option from config file
731 * --reconfigure command line option
732 * --restart command line option
733 * Closed bug #886 - Reference point for client-menu
734 * Closed bug #898 - Add option for OB2 style menu behaviour
735 * Closed bug #952 - Focus sometimes gets lost when closing windows
736 * Closed bug #1006 - duplicate window title numbering is so-so
737 * Closed bug #1080 - menus dont update when using ctrl to keep them open
738 * Closed bug #1082 - doing window stuff while changing focus is mad slow
739 * Closed bug #1106 - Openbox resize problems with Beep Media Player and some
740 websites using Mozilla
741 * Closed bug #1146 - minimized windows dont unminimize from fspanel if ob
743 * Closed bug #1409 - Window stacking is messed up when dealing with multiple
745 * Closed bug #1526 - Incorrect handling of utility windows
746 * Closed bug #1846 - Patch for theme overrides
747 * Closed bug #1974 - Limit the number of resizes per second to make window
749 * Closed bug #2060 - Apps disappear when using composite extension
750 * Closed bug #2221 - _NET_WM_STATE_(ABOVE|BELOW) is being inherited
751 * Closed bug #2250 - openbox ignores size request ?
752 * Closed bug #2251 - support for legacy ""fullscreen""
753 * Closed bug #2254 - segfault in render/render.c on sendtodesktop [endian?]
754 * Closed bug #2255 - segmentation fault on 8-bit truecolor visual
755 * Closed bug #2258 - long menus truncated
756 * Closed bug #2311 - Does not display the pressed state while a button in the
758 * Closed bug #2321 - ResizeRelative -up and -left makes window move when at
760 * Closed bug #2483 - Pinned windows raise to top on all desktops when they
761 become focused on just one desktop
762 * Closed bug #2491 - Client List by App instead of by Desktop
763 * Closed bug #2551 - Request to be able to cycle docks (e.g.
764 * Closed bug #2659 - Menu header display should be configurable
765 * Closed bug #2769 - temporarily chroot the keychain tree
766 * Closed bug #2841 - Changes to the keepborder option aren't applied when
768 * Closed bug #2850 - Openbox gives black backgrounds to windows using the
769 new 'rgba' or 'argb' visual
770 * Closed bug #2865 - openbox 3.3 is not C89 compatible
771 * Closed bug #2872 - Focus issues with Eclipse and Firefox
772 * Closed bug #2878 - Openbox crash when used with vncserver
773 * Closed bug #2897 - Openbox shouldn't redraw the whole screen everytime
774 when minimizing windows.
775 * Closed bug #2898 - Patch adding advanced keyboard support in popup menus.
776 * Closed bug #2982 - tilda doesn't work propertly
777 * Closed bug #3034 - themeupdate.py seems to bee broken
778 * Closed bug #3045 - RrPaint in obrender should be split for easier use by
780 * Closed bug #3050 - 'syscrash' theme update
781 * Closed bug #3051 - When closing windows
782 * Closed bug #3053 - Updates de.po for German Localisation
783 * Closed bug #3059 - Feature Request: NextWindowForAllWorkspaces
784 * Closed bug #3063 - extensions_xinerama_screens() leaks memory if Xinerama
786 * Closed bug #3064 - slist_path_add() might leak memory
787 * Closed bug #3068 - Multimonitor focus problems
788 * Closed bug #3081 - window doesn't appear
789 * Closed bug #3092 - Config parser expects wrong values of "layer" in
790 per-application settings
791 * Closed bug #3094 - smart placement should Ignore maximized windows
792 * Closed bug #3100 - Netwmpager is configured with layer = "below" but OB
794 * Closed bug #3101 - Openbox won't compile on CentOS 4.4
795 * Closed bug #3102 - svn-6175 windows come not back in the foregroud
796 * Closed bug #3106 - Fullscreened mplayer loses focus when switching to
797 another desktop and back
798 * Closed bug #3108 - After revision 6437 the desktop dialog window stays on
802 * Fix panels getting a border with keepBorder turned on.
803 * Fix a crash in mirrorhorizontal when drawing a surface with width 1.
806 * Add a showDelay option for the dock.
807 * Fixed onscreen-keeping code which broke a bit in -rc2.
808 * Fix incorrect handling of window properties on 64 bit arches.
809 * Fix pixelsize being the same as size for pango, now it is correct.
810 * Fix drawing of icons taller than wide, eg gimp.
811 * Add a 'mirrorhorizontal' gradient, like horizontal but mirrored in the
812 center and 'splitvertical' which is like vertical but nonlinear in a fancy
814 * Translations for de, hr and zh_TW added.
815 * Add initial per-app settings support.
816 * Fix some outstanding issues with 64-bit support.
817 * Add an optional delay for displaying submenus so you can move the mouse
818 over some entries without flashing each submenu.
819 * Plug some minor memleaks and fix minor bugs.
820 * Changed algorithm for downscaling window icons.
822 * Disable support for libstartup-notification by default, it doesn't seem
824 * Allow disabling of duplicate window numbering by option titleNumber in
826 * Add moverelative and resizerelative actions.
827 * Option middle for menus that make submenus be centered instead of aligned
828 by the top edge to the parent entry.
829 * Fix transient (ie dialog) windows being placed offscreen if the parent
830 is close to the edge of the screen.
833 * Fixed some typos and errors in rc.xsd
834 * Add the noStrut option to the dock (to allow maximizing windows over it),
835 useful when it is not in the above layer.
836 * Fix transparent terminals not updating when using ToggleDecor.
837 * Yet more poking at the onscreen-keeping code, should now do the right
839 * Add an option to hide disabled buttons instead of showing them as disabled.
840 * Hopefully fixed all the remaining pango issues. The new 1.10 release also
842 * I think the lib linking in Makefile.am is right now, please tell me if it
844 * Added a finnish translation and some minor updates to others.
845 * Fixed configure.ac so --enable-pango doesn't disable pango support or the
846 other way around, make enabled be default to get some extra testing.
849 * Poked around a bit in the code that keeps windows onscreen, if you
850 are using xinerama, please let me know if things are better/worse/same.
851 * Add support for pango, disabled by default due to a bug in pango 1.8 that
852 breaks shadows, it works fine with 1.6.x though. Poke the pango developers
853 here http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169622 if you want this
855 * Made edge resist and Send/MoveToEdge not hit windows at layers below
856 the current one, add option to disable this behaviour.
857 * Fixed directional focus not getting trapped in omnipresent windows
858 * Fixed focus actions when bound to the mouse, normal focus cycle is always
859 linear and directional focus is totally disabled, it makes no sense
860 anyway, just move the mouse.
861 * Added an option for the raise/lower/raiselower/unshaderaise/shadelower
862 options called group that lets you bind stuff to raise/lower the whole
863 window group. <action name="raise"><group>yes</group></action>
864 * Add various new actions. I haven't updated the web docs yet, but I think
865 I managed to get all of them listed in rc.xsd.
866 * Bugs 1783, 1812, 1863, 1905, 2005, 1957 fixed.
867 * Some translations added. (ca, no, pl, ru, fr)
870 * Added spanish and swedish translations
871 * Changed "Unnamed Desktop" to "Desktop n" where n is the actual
872 number of the desktop
873 * Hopefully no more of the hanging X totally bug
874 * the fullscreen property now overrides aspect hints, all programs i've
875 tried that use it (mplayer and tvtime) handle the aspect internally
876 anyway, this just makes sure you have black borders all the way to the
877 edge. If this breaks anything for you, let me know.
878 * Added M as an alias for Mod3 in the same manner that W is an alias for Mod4
879 * Added probably too many options and actions
880 * ToggleDockAutohide to toggle the autohide option at runtime,
881 doesn't save it to the config
882 * keepBorder option to set if you want the 1-pixel border when you
884 * added popupShow and popupPosition to control where and when the
885 move/resize-popup is shown, these go in the resize section of the config
886 popupPosition can be Top or Center, popupShow can be Always, Never or
887 Nonpixel (this is the default).
888 * Added the xorStyle option to change the behaviour of menus along the bottom
889 edge, note that the default is true
890 * warpPointer option in the menu section to control if the mouse cursor is
891 to be warped by openbox when the menu moves to keep on screen to keep the
892 cursor in the same place relative to the menu. (I think i got that right)
893 * Added back the focusLast option (this controls what happens when you
894 change desktops and have followMouse on)
895 * Added an option to set which desktop to start on when you start openbox,
896 firstdesk, for example you might like to set it to 5 if you have a 3x3
897 grid to start in the middle.
898 * I think that was everything, have fun
901 * Added japanese translation (bug #1029)
902 * Closed bug #1060 (modal unfocused window should be placed above
904 * Closed bug #1012 (Openbox stalls gnome session startup after
906 * Closed bug #1073 (The Desktop action doesn't work)
907 * Closed bug #1023 (config_focus_raise declared as guint)
908 * Closed bug #1019 (Strange behavior with focus:followMouse and
910 * Closed bug #1007 (use g_snprintf in openbox/session.c instead of
912 * Closed bug #1001 (gimp crashes openbox)
913 * Closed bug #1005 (import -frame leaves windows in a temporary
915 * Closed bug #881 (Programs started with X become zombies upon
917 * Closed bug #1025 (desktopnext/previous and desktopleft/right dont
921 * Closed bug #908 (sometimes some weird grab is left)
922 * Closed bug #945 (xawtv overlay visible on every desktop)
923 * Closed bug #944 (remove restarting/reconfiguring messages from
925 * Closed bug #946 (use g_strsplit in parse.c:split_paths())
926 * Closed bug #943 (consistent glib type (gint, gchar, etc.) usage)
927 * Closed bug #951 (stale openbox session files)
928 * Closed bug #947 (Sloppyfocus can yield two windows at the same time
930 * Closed bug #948 (Gets stuck in 'move' mode if mouse is let up while
931 dragged away from title bar)
932 * Closed bug #949 (dock above gnome panel behaviour)
933 * Closed bug #902 (Openbox raises gDesklets when clicked)
934 * Closed bug #904 (ToggleMaximizeHorz & Vert dont always toggle)
935 * Closed bug #907 (window focus is not properly indicated)
936 * Closed bug #919 (Temporary raise window when alt tabbing)
937 * Closed bug #921 (focus rectangle stays on the screen after modifier
939 * Closed bug #925 (Invalid option: '--sm-save' & '--sm-disable')
940 * Closed bug #926 (problem with client-list-menu, destkop switching,
942 * Closed bug #927 (disappearing windows, crash with I-merry theme)
943 * Closed bug #929 (crash (signal 11) when activating Reconfigure)
944 * Closed bug #940 (actions dont work on desktops with no client
946 * Closed bug #943 (consistent glib type (gint, gchar, etc.) usage)
947 * Closed bug #957 (openbox crashes when exiting out of OpenOffice
949 * Closed bug #960 (look for dupes in xdg paths when setting up slists?)
950 * Closed bug #961 (Menu causes core dump)
951 * Closed bug #963 (wrapper for mkdir() in parse.c)
952 * Closed bug #964 (free GErrors in action.c, openbox.c)
953 * Closed bug #965 (add message for chdir() failure in openbox.c)
954 * Closed bug #966 (list->next/prev to g_[s]list_next/previous, list !=
956 * Closed bug #971 (typo in code)
957 * Closed bug #974 (use g_getenv() in parser/parse.c)
958 * Closed bug #975 (void * -> gpointer)
959 * Closed bug #976 (use g_strerror() in openbox/session.c)
960 * Closed bug #978 (disable entry to go to desktop if it is the current)
961 * Closed bug #979 (request for version check in ob libraries)
962 * Closed bug #944 (remove restarting/reconfiguring messages from
964 * Closed bug #968 (rc.xml refers to a non-existant "debian" menu file)
967 * Closed bug #921 (focus rectangle stays on the screen after modifier
969 * Closed bug #927 (disappearing windows, crash with I-merry theme)
970 * Fix crash when restoring a session with a maximized window
971 * Fix leak of RrColors in menus
972 * Closed bug #929 (crash (signal 11) when activating Reconfigure)
973 * Allow focus to be moved around by clients (for WM_TAKE_FOCUS to
974 work as it is meant to). This means fullscreen apps like wine and
976 * Reversed the default directions for the mouse wheel desktop
978 * Don't wrap around in the default keyboard desktop switching bindings
979 * Place parentless dialogs so they avoid always-on-top windows
980 * Ignore fullscreen windows in placing new ones
981 * Closed bug #940 (actions dont work on desktops with no client
985 * Closed bug #904 (ToggleMaximizeHorz & Vert dont always toggle)
986 * Allow resizing of windows in only vertical/horizontal directions
987 (via Alt-MiddleClick-Drag with the default bindings)
988 * Added intelligence to window cycling and raise/lowering based on
990 * Closed bug #902 (Openbox raises gDesklets when clicked). This has the
991 side effect that panels which do not set the ABOVE state (most panels
992 curerntly around) will no longer be kept always on top. You can set the
993 ABOVE state yourself by using the client menu (Alt-RightClick in the
994 default bindings) and selecting the Always on top Layer
995 * Closed bug #907 (window focus is not properly indicated)
996 * Added a focus indicator during focus cycling that is always visible
997 instead of just moving the focus hilight around.
1000 * Closed bug #885 (raiseOnFocus is flawed)
1001 * Closed bug #887 (Mouse-wheel scrolling only changes 1 desktop when
1002 using "dialog" option)
1003 * Closed bug #888 (some random coredump)
1004 * Closed bug #889 (focus follow mouse not following)
1005 * Closed bug #892 (client_under_pointer() doesn't check DESKTOP_ALL)
1006 * Avoid the focus flicker when switching desktops
1007 * Free the XML DOM trees properly, fixes mem leak
1010 * Closed bug #875 (RaiseLower fails to funtion on windows with dialogs)
1011 * Added the <moveButton> option for moving dock apps around inside the
1012 dock. (Closes bug #798)
1013 * Made the "Desktop" action show the pager/desktop dialog
1014 * Add the <dialog> option to the Desktop and Focus switching actions
1015 * No longer iconify fullscreen windows when they lose focus (Closes
1017 * When not using focusLast, when a focused transient is closed, focus
1018 will still fallback to its parent or transient siblings
1019 * Improved intelligence for focus cycling with modal transients
1020 * Removed the focusLast option
1021 * Added the placement-policy option to select if windows are placed
1022 under the mouse pointer
1023 * Children inherit their window icon from their parent
1024 * Closed bug #878 (minimal resizing of mplayer makes openbox crash)
1025 * Fix case where opening a menu would leave Openbox in a locked state
1026 * Upstream updates for TheBear theme
1029 * Added _OB_WM_STATE_UNDECORATED hint, which can be read and controlled
1030 by external applications
1031 * Closed bug #874 (libtool won't install libobrender.la)
1032 * Launch ObConf when selecting GNOME's Desktop Preferences for Windows
1033 * Focus new children always if their direct parent is focused