1 ChangeLog from Blackbox (this code's previous project):
3 Changes from 0.62.0 to 0.62.1:
4 - the lock modifier code handles user redefined modifiers better
5 - check if the locale actually needs multibyte support before using multibyte
7 - use srcdir in all of the makefiles
8 - added zh_CN (Chinese) nls support
11 Changes from 0.61.1 to 0.62.0:
13 - added the ja_JP nls directory and man pages
14 - general code touchups
15 - blackbox-nls.hh is always generated even if --disable-nls is used.
16 This allows us to not have all of those hideous #ifdef NLS chunks.
17 Nothing to worry about, if you do not want NLS this does not affect you
18 - Workspace::placeWindow() cleanups. Also a speed bump from reducing the
19 use of iterator->current() and changing the delta from 1 to 8
20 - cleanups to compile with g++ 3.0
21 - make distclean actually removes Translation.m and blackbox-nls.hh.
22 Also fixed Makefile.am to pass --foreign instead of --gnu when calling
24 - fixed a desciptor leak in BScreen::parseMenuFile, seems opendir
25 lacked a matching closedir.
26 - fix transient window handling code in Workspace::removeWindow() so
27 transients give focus back to their parents properly. The code originally
28 handled sloppy focus then transient windows, so we just flopped the
29 if/elsif. This is immediately noticable with web browsers and their open
31 - plugged a small leak in ~Toolbar
32 - fixed list::insert so you really can insert at item number 2. While there
33 I cleaned up the code a bit.
34 - added decoration to the atom state stored in a window
35 - fixed a typo in bsetroot.cc: 'on of' -> 'one of'.
36 - fixed the window menu gets left open when another window button is pressed
37 issue with a call to windowmenu->hide() in window->maximize()
38 - applied xOr's patch for decoration handling
39 - applied xOr's patch for the maximize, shade, unmaximize bug
40 - applied Kennis' patch for sending incorrect Slit configure notices
41 - BlackboxWindow's flags have been moved into a flags structure
42 - applied xOr's patch for border handling
43 - resizing a window turns off its maximized flag. Before a resized window
44 thought it was still maximized and maximizing a double action
45 - BlackboxWindow::withdraw no longet sets the state to Withdrawn.
46 This confused some X clients.
47 - updated the manpages and added Dutch NLS support (thanks Wilbert)
48 - added it_IT nls files, thanks Luca Marrazzo <marra.luca@libero.it>
49 - the menu file mentioned in the manpage is now based on DEFAULT_MENU
50 - configure script found basename in -lgen, but did not set HAVE_BASENAME
51 causing compilation problems on irix and possibly others. Added a call
52 to AC_DEFINE in AC_CHECK_LIB to fix this.
53 - menu is no longer installed, you need to copy it yourself
54 - cleaned up i18n code a little. Several member functions were declared
55 but never used and getMessage() had a default argument which was also
57 - i18n will now compile cleanly on machines without nl_types.h
58 - the lock modifiers no longer stop blackbox!
59 - maximize a window via bbkeys and the maximize button is not redrawn, fixed
60 - now exit with an error code if an unknown option is passed
61 - autoraise and multiple dialog windows yields segv bug fixed
62 also lengthened the default auto raise delay from 250 to 400
63 - another iteration of autoraise and dialog box handling, this time we
64 noticed that nothing ever reset blackbox.focused_window to 0 when a window
66 - check if the window is visible before changeBlackboxHints() calls maximize
67 - placeWindow no longer takes edgeSnapThreshhold into account
68 - ignore style files ending in ~
69 - support locale specifiers with @euro in them
70 - added Slovenian man pages and nls, thanks Ales Kosir
71 - Toolbar name editing buffer reduced to 128 chars, logic added to make sure
72 this buffer is not overrun
73 - added German nls files, thanks Jan Schaumann
74 - added my name to the code, updated the version output
77 Changes from 0.61.0 to 0.61.1:
78 - fixed some of the code to explicitly use colormaps so that when
79 blackbox decides to use a non-default visual everything will
80 still work (although it may look darn ugly)
81 - optimizations to the deiconify/raising code to (hopefully) deal
82 with a rather nasty bug, plus make things a little more efficient
83 - changed the code so that the close button is always redrawn on
84 button release events, just in case the client decides not to
85 close in response to the message (see Acroread)
86 - tinkered with the Makefiles again to make sure Blackbox
87 completely cleans up after itself during an uninstall
88 - fixed a glitch in window placement that was making Blackbox
89 place some larger windows at coordinates near 2**31
90 - merged in a patch from nyz which fixed a bug with not sending
91 configure events when a window is both moved and resized (eg
92 when the left resize grip is used) as well as optimized some
93 of the show/hide code to use the stacking order
94 - fixed a bug in blackbox's support of the X shape extension...
95 it wasn't correctly resetting the bounding region after a window
97 - fixed a glitch with the geometry window where it would persist
98 if the client was unmapped while in motion
99 - tweaked the code for decorating transient windows so that it
100 is possible to use MOD1+Mouse3 to resize transients as long as
101 there is not some other reason to disable functions.resize
104 Changes from 0.60.3 to 0.61.0:
105 - added slightly updated copies of the blackbox/bsetroot manpages.
106 - reworked the Windowmenu code so that using the second mouse
107 button on the Send To menu moves you along with the window
108 - merged in bsd-snprintf.(h|c) from openssh so that Blackbox can
109 compile on older boxes without (v)snprintf in their standard lib.
110 - fixed a pair of problems where blackbox was not returning icons
111 and slit apps to a useable state at shutdown
112 - fixed a problem with menus not getting layered correctly after
113 a reconfigure or menu reload
114 - changed the behavior of the various MOD1+ButtonPresses on windows...
115 they should now be more consistent with the button behavior on the
117 . MOD1+Button1 raises and moves the window (unchanged)
118 . MOD1+Button2 lowers the window (used to resize the window)
119 . MOD1+Button3 resizes the window (new button combo)
120 - fixed a small but _extremely_ annoying bug exposed by cvsup
121 - styled frames are now a thing of the past... the textures formerly
122 known as window.frame.(un)focus have been replaced by solid colors
123 window.frame.(un)focusColor... the thickness of the frame is now
124 determined by frameWidth, which will default to bevelWidth if not
126 - middle clicking on a window in a workspace's window list now moves
127 the window to the current workspace
128 - fixed a minor glitch with the appearance of window labels for
129 certain newly-started apps (i.e. rxvt)
130 - added a new configure option for both the toolbar and the slit --
131 autohide. Hopefully this should help quell the demands for the
132 removal of the toolbar...
133 - added code to better handle apps that change the window focus
134 - changed the command execution code (used to handle rootCommands
135 and executable menu items) to be more robust... compound commands
137 - a new-and-slightly-improved implementation of unstyled frames should
138 mean slightly better performance than previously
139 - fixed a couple of stupid bugs in the new code for handling
140 Solid Flat textures more efficiently
141 - fixed the nls makefiles so that they respect DESTDIR, behave better
142 if you reinstall over an existing installation, and actually remove
143 their files on a make uninstall
144 - added cthulhain's bsetbg script to the util directory... see the
145 file README.bsetbg for more information
146 - added Estonian, French and Danish translations
149 Changes from 0.60.2 to 0.60.3:
150 - put in a (temporary?) fix for a bug with the new way icons are
151 handled. Previously an icon was created only for non-transient
152 windows, which means that 1) minimized transient windows were
153 not getting cleaned up at shutdown, and that 2) one could
154 conceivably lose access to a minimized transient if there were
155 a break in the transient chain.
157 For the time being, every iconified window gets an icon. In
158 order to make this a little nicer, if a window doesn't provide
159 an icon title, the window title is used in the icon menu, rather
161 - fixed a bug in handling the destruction of intermediate
162 transient windows. The code was leaving the transient of a
163 destroyed window with a reference to the now non-existent
164 window. This can lead to all sorts of problems.
165 - fixed a slight positioning error when the slit is on the right
167 - included a new style, Minimal, which is designed for use on 8-bit
168 displays. It tries to use a bare minimum of colors, and with the
169 new code regarding Flat Solid, should consume very little memory.
170 - made yet another alteration to the way focus changes after a window
171 closes under ClickToFocus. Blackbox now tracks the stacking order of
172 all windows and uses this information to give the focus to the topmost
174 - new configure option :
175 --enable-styled-frames include support for fully-styled window
176 frames -- these are the decorations which
177 are affected by the window.frame* theme
178 entries. This option is turned on by
181 Because of the way they are implemented,
182 these are typically the most memory and
183 render intensive of the various blackbox
184 decorations, even if they are typically
185 only a pixel or so wide. Disabling this
186 feature can result in a substantial
187 decrease in X memory usage, but it's
188 enabled by default to remain compatible
189 with previous versions.
191 - added a whole mess of logic so that blackbox will use
192 XSetWindowBackground for Flat Solid textures instead generating
193 a pixmap (which would be subsequently cached)... should help cut
194 down some on the X memory usage
195 - altered the behavior of the BImageControl timer... now it will
196 fire every cacheLife minutes, regardless of when anything has
197 been removed from the cache
198 - modified the NLS build code yet again... at this point we've
199 hopefully hit the least common denominator and it should work
201 - dealt with a possible problem in the BlackboxWindow constructor
202 where we referred to a member after deletion
203 - removed a last lingering bit of the allocate()/deallocate() code
204 - fixed a pair of string formatting problems
207 Changes from 0.60.1 to 0.60.2:
208 - updated README.bbtools, since bbpager and bbkeys were updated to work with
209 0.60.x (also removed the .diffs from the source tree)
210 - fix for compiling with NLS support on Solaris
211 - added Turkish, Russian and Swedish translations
212 - applied patch for more correct Spanish translations
213 - added completed pt_BR (Brazillian Porteguese) translation
214 - removed mem.h and the allocate()/deallocate() calls throughout blackbox
215 these have been unused for a long time, and needed to go away :)
216 - compile fixes for --enable-debug
217 - changed the font loading/drawing code... XFontSets are only used if
218 the locale is set properly. So you can still compile with nls support,
219 but do not set your LANG environment variable, and your fonts will be
220 loaded and drawn the old way
221 - smarter Basemenu::drawItem() code added, i noticed alot of flicker when
222 moving menus, because of code constantly redrawing menus items... this
223 has been significatly modified and sped up quite a bit
224 - fixed a bug where iconified windows wouldn't remove themselves from the
225 icon menu when they unmapped/closed themselves (which would result in a
226 crash if you selected this dead item)
227 - fixed a potential crash in Workspace::removeWindow() that had relation
228 to focus last window on workspace... one person experience gibberish being
229 displayed, another experienced a crash
230 - fixed a flicker problem when changing focus between windows rapidly
231 (the toolbar's window label was getting redrawn twice per focus, not
233 - fixed the infamous bsetroot segfault... this was quite a feat... took 3
234 people in excess of 8 hours to find... and it was a simple one line change
237 Changes from 0.51.3.1 to 0.60.1: (note: 0.60.1 is 0.60.0 non-alpha)
238 - changed licensing for Blackbox from GNU GPL to more open BSD license
240 - removed alot of empty files that did nothing but passify automake/autoconf
241 Blackbox now passes --foreign to automake to lessen the requirements for
242 files like NEWS,AUTHORS,COPYING,README,etc.
243 - new configure options:
244 --enable-ordered-pseudo this enables a new algorithm for dithering
245 on pseudocolor (8 bit) displays... a noticable
246 pattern is visible when using this. you may or
247 may not like it... just something different
248 if you want it, but is turned off by default.
250 --enable-debug turn on verbose debugging output... this
251 isn't very complete or really very helpful...
252 right now it just describes memory usage and
253 tracks a few X event handlers... this is turned
256 --enable-nls turn on natural language support... this option
257 will turn on the use of catgets(3) to read
258 native language text from any of the supported
259 locales (see the nls/ directory for current
262 This option also turns on the use of XFontSets,
263 which allows the display of multibyte
264 characters, like Japanese or Korean.
265 This option is turned on by default.
267 --enable-timed-cache turn on/off the new timed pixmap cache... this
268 differs from the old pixmap cache in that
269 instead of releasing unused pixmaps
270 immediately, it waits for <X> minutes, where
271 <X> is set with session.cacheLife in your
272 ~/.blackboxrc... this option is turned on
275 - changed the default menu to include a listing of workspaces (and their
276 window lists) and the new configuration menu (see below)
277 - included new default styles, contributed by regulars on
278 irc.openproject.net's #blackbox
279 - generated default "translation" catalog for the C/POSIX locale... the
280 same catalog is used for English (en_US for now, will add others
282 - included translation for Spanish (es_ES) and Brazilian
283 Portuguese (pt_BR)... if you are interested in doing a
284 translation, email me at blackbox@alug.org
285 - properties and hints added for communication with bbpager and bbkeys, the
286 two most common "blackbox addons"
287 - KDE 1.x support has been completely removed, pending approval of the new
288 window manager specification to be used by KDE2 and GNOME
289 - a (broken!) base for the new window manager spec was put in place, but
290 using --enable-newspec will result in code that will not compile
291 - added a timer class to handle internal timeouts without using
292 getitimer/setitimer/SIGARLM... this will enable other things to be done,
293 as any number of timers with any timeout can be used
294 - Blackbox will search for the highest depth supported by each visual on
295 each screen... basically this means that blackbox will try to use
296 TrueColor if a TrueColor visual exists (but it's not the default visual)
297 - menu hilite changed from being just a color to being a texture and new
298 window decoration layout... as a result the style file syntax has changed,
299 old styles for 0.5x.x will not work. See the included styles for examples,
300 and browse by http://bb.themes.org/
301 - added support for enabled/disabled and selectable menuitems, this is for
302 use in the configmenu mostly (but is used in the windowmenu)
303 - added the Configmenu, which is insertable into your menu by using:
305 [config] (Catchy Label)
307 changes made in the configmenu take effect immediately, and are saved in
308 your ~/.blackbxrc... current tunable settings:
316 Focus Last Window on Workspace
318 the window placement and focus model options will be discussed below
319 - added texture type "ParentRelative" which causes the decoration to display
320 the contents of it's parent... this is a sort of pseudo-transparent option
321 and doesn't work for all decorations... see the included style named
322 "Operation" for an example of ParentRelative
323 - added support for solid interlacing... for example:
325 toolbar: raised interlaced solid bevel1
327 toolbar.colorTo: darkgrey
329 will cause the toolbar base to be draw with solid lines, one line grey,
330 the next darkgrey, the next grey, the next darkgrey, ...
331 - changed dithering algorithm for TrueColor displays from Floyd-Steinberg to
332 an ordered dither... dithering at 8bpp (Pseudocolor) can be either FS or
333 ordered, but must be selected at compile time...
335 NOTE: when using ordered pseudocolor (8bpp) dithering, your
336 session.colorsPerChannel ***MUST*** be 4, otherwise your display will
337 not display *any* correct colors
338 - fixed TrueColor rendering to do aligned writes (suppresses warnings on
339 Alpha Linux machines)
340 - added support for GrayScale/StaticGray displays (completely untested)
341 - made linked lists smarter, they can now have as many iterators assigned to
342 them as you want... no more FATAL errors
343 - added the Netizen class, which is a client that has
344 _BLACKBOX_STRUCTURE_MESSAGES listed in their WM_PROTOCOLS... these clients
345 get notified of window add, remove, focus, shade, iconify, maximize,
348 the two most common Netizens are bbpager and bbkeys
349 - when loading an incomplete style, blackbox now uses default colors to
350 draw decorations (instead of the annoying "see-through" effect)
351 - added menu tag [config]... which inserts the Configmenu into your rootmenu
352 - made [include] handling smarter, it will only read regular files (it
353 won't read a directory in case you ever accidentally put one there)
354 - the slit and toolbar menus now include a placement option, which will place
355 them in various positions on the screen
356 - included a slit menu option to choose it's direction (horizontal or
358 - added options to the slit and toolbar menus to have them always stacked
360 - right clicking on the workspace label no longer initiates a workspacename
361 edit... right clicking anywhere on the toolbar brings up the toolbar menu,
362 which has an entry that lets you change the workspace name
363 - iconified windows no longer show up in the window list for the current
364 workspace... just in the icon submenu
365 - ClickToFocus now works like one would think, clicking anywhere in a window
367 - overall... this version of blackbox has and does alot more than previously
368 just take it for a test drive and see how well you like it
371 Changes from 0.50.5 to 0.51.0:
372 - new default theme, shows off new gradients (see below)
373 - many themes updated to show off new menu bullet configuration
374 - added new source file Display.cc... it offers an easy way to connect to
375 an X display and setup screen info, this was done to make life easier
376 for John Kennis, the author of the bbtools. Image.cc and Image.hh have
377 been modified to use classes from this abstraction, so that drop in
378 replacements are all that is necessary to update the bbtools image code.
379 - configurable menu bullet... 2 new resources for in your style file:
381 menu.bulletStyle: (round|triangle|square|diamond|empty)
382 menu.bulletPosition: (left|right)
384 - new style resource for setting the borderWidth on menus, client windows and
385 the buttons/frame/handle/titlebar... the default theme uses a borderWidth
386 of zero... it's pretty neat
387 - udpated Image code... blackbox now supports 8 types of gradients (thanks
388 to mosfet@kde.org... in exchange for helping him get the diagonal gradient
389 code from blackbox into kde, kde gave me the source to their new gradients)
392 diagonal, vertical, horizontal, crossdiagonal, pipecross, elliptic,
395 use them just like you would normally (ie. raised elliptic gradient bevel1)
396 - merged John Kennis' patch for notifying KDE modules of windows that are
397 raised/lowered/activated(focused)
398 - new geometry window that is displayed when a window is moved/resized
399 - cleaned up code for detecting slit apps
400 - window stacking code changed to keep menus above windows, and to keep the
401 slit raised when the toolbar is raised
402 - fixed compiler error from gcc 2.95 about frame.frame in several places
403 - fixed some bugs with shaped windows that set decorations via MWM hints,
404 and also fixed bugs with such windows changing their shape
405 - more complete ICCCM compliance, default window gravity is now NorthWest
407 - focus code revamped... window focusing is alot faster and simpler, i
408 mimicked the way TWM does it's focusing... proved much faster
409 - the window menu always has "Kill Client" as an option now
410 - fixed window stacking for windows that have multiple transients (like
412 - smartplacement from 0.50.4 has been reinstated... i quickly grew tired of
413 waiting on windows to be placed with the old version (if you like the way
414 0.50.5 did it... send me an email and i'll consider making it an option)
415 - added some new signal handling code (using sigaction, if available on your
417 - fixed some bugs with KDE support... this makes bbpager behave properly
418 - workspace editing via the toolbar has been made a little nicer with the
419 new focus code... right clicking on the workspace label will put you into
420 edit mode, but no windows can be focused until you leave edit mode...
421 ALSO... the window that had focus when you entered edit mode will have the
422 focus returned to it after editing is finished
423 - added new option to blackbox... -rc <filename> will read <filename> instead
424 of .blackboxrc for it's base configuration
425 - the option for opaque window moves has been moved from the stylefile into
426 .blackboxrc... set the session.opaqueMove: resource to True or False,
427 depending on what you want
428 - general namespace cleanups... just stuff to make maintaining the code a
430 - any form of "beta" has been removed from the version number for 0.51.x
431 i am declaring this series as "stable" so that i can begin a major overhaul
432 of blackbox, which will be done with John Kennis and Jason Kasper, two
433 very sharp guys that think the same way i do ;)
436 Changes from 0.50.4. to 0.50.5:
437 - modified and merged some patches from several contributors. added their
439 - major documentation updates
440 - added a few more platform success reports. changed development platform
442 - added new texture option: Interlaced... it is an extension to the gradient
443 texture that looks really neat... it is compiled in by default but may
444 be removed with --disable-interlace
445 - let's see... where do i begin... the code for 0.51.x has been GREATLY
446 enhanced over 0.50.4 (and the stupid little compile error for KDE has been
447 fixed ;)) Blackbox has undergone major renovation... and i can proudly
448 say that this release is rock solid. Also, i reinstated ccmalloc's tour
449 of duty, and spent several days with it stomping memory leaks in blackbox.
450 i can proudly say that there are no major memory leaks present in 0.51.x
451 - the toolbar has changed it appearance a little bit... the menu button has
452 been removed and the labels and buttons are now symmetrically placed on the
453 toolbar... oh no!? how do you get to your icons/workspaces now? the
454 middle click patch from Greg Barlow has been modified, enhanced and merged
455 with 0.51.x... the workspace menu now behaves just like the root menu...
456 and it can be pinned to the root window (just move it)
457 - the image code has once again been worked over... this time a local LUG
458 friend and i have hashed it out many times and into the wee hours of the
459 morning... this stuff is FAST now... before i added interlacing... we
460 had doubled the speed of the dgradient function... yes... *doubled*
461 - the code to generate error tables, color tables and other tables that are
462 used in image dithering has been rewritten, which severs the last tie to
463 window maker's wrlib that blackbox had. i now understand why and how all
464 the code that i "borrowed" works... and it's been improved... because of
465 this change... dithering is a lot cleaner... and dithering on 8bpp displays
466 is less grainy and less obtrusive...
467 - the linked list code has also been rewritten... blackbox has been using
468 a doubly linked list, and not taking advantage of all the list's
469 capabilities (because it doesnt need them)... so the linked lists are now
470 single-link and much quicker at inserting, removing, searching...
471 - once again... the menu parsing code has been rewritten... this code is
472 very efficient and very extensible... so extensible infact that after
473 implementing the current menu syntax... i added a new tag! you can now
474 insert the workspaces list into your root menu with this:
476 [workspaces] (descriptive label)
478 - the slit menu is now spacially correct... if you want the slit in the top
479 right corner of the root menu... click the top right corner of the slit
480 menu... i think this is a little more user friendly
481 - window gravity should be better supported now... restarts and what not
482 shouldn't produce all those one pixel shifts or moves anymore...
483 - the modifiers for the keygrabs in blackbox are now configurable...
484 the "keys" are still hard wired (left/right for workspace changing, tab
485 for window cycling)... but you may now configure which modifiers to use
486 with the key combos... this introduces two new resources into your
489 session.workspaceChangeModifier
493 session.windowCycleModifier
495 these resources may be set to any combination of the following:
497 Control Mod1 Mod2 Mod3 Mod4 Mod5 Lock Shift
499 also... for convenience... "Alt" is parsed as "Mod1"...
500 session.workspaceChangeModifier defaults to "Control" and
501 session.windowCycleModifier defaults to "Mod1"
502 - smart placement has been made smarter thanks to Dyon Balding's smarter
503 placement patch... this patch has been modified from the original slightly
504 (mostly speed concerns)
505 - signal handling has been made more robust... this allows it to compile on
506 more platforms and now prefers to use sigaction() over signal()
507 - over all... many code clean ups were made and old commented code was
508 purged... this is a very clean very stable release... enjoy people :)
511 Changes from 0.50.3 to 0.50.4:
512 - changed some Copyright information to include the current year
513 - added a number of platforms to the Supported Platforms section of the
515 - added the Slit... the Slit is a window maker dockapp util that lets users
516 use all of applications with Blackbox, and allows users to easily switch
517 between Window Maker and Blackbox more easily... it is included by default,
518 but you can remove it from the source with --disable-slit on your configure
520 - large Brueghel styles and images removed from the base distribution
521 - merged a patch from Benjamin Stewart for very robust menu parsing... this
522 patch allows for parenthesis in menu files, and works well for
523 automatically generating menus from shellscripts and programs... the menu
524 syntax has not changed... it just is understood better :)
525 - added shell style tilde-slash (~/) home directory expansion for the
526 [include] and [style] tags in menu files
527 - added some sanity to window position/gravity code to for GTK applications
528 - added Window Maker style Mod1+MouseButton1+Motion window moving (for those
529 few braindead apps that like to be positioned where no decorations are
531 - added a SIGCHLD handler to clean up processes started by a startup script
532 that then exec's blackbox (gets rid of all those zombie processes)
533 - added a new resource to .blackboxrc which tells Blackbox where to put the
534 Slit... editing your .blackboxrc to change this is discouraged and
535 discarded, as the Slit has a menu that lets you select where to put it
536 (click any mouse button on the slit and see for yourself)
537 - fixed a bug in the workspace renaming feature that ate all Shift keypresses
540 Changes from 0.50.2 to 0.50.3:
541 - few documentation updates
542 - fixes to let -lgen actually get linked with the executable (fixes compile
543 errors on some platforms, most notably, IRIX 6.5)
544 - a new series of styles has been added to the distribution (this accounts
545 for the increased size)
546 - fix to let 16 color servers run blackbox (colormap reduction)
547 - various bug fixes... numerous strncpy's changed to sprintfs...
548 - default font set internally to "fixed" (to let it run on servers that don't
549 have any fonts installed)
550 - fixed bug to let blackbox remove all but the last workspace (instead of the
552 - window gravity offset changes
553 - the default key grabs have changed... there are now 4: alt-tab,
554 shift-alt-tab, ctrl-alt-right, ctrl-alt-left... these keys perform
556 - fixed wire move bug for transient windows
557 - passified error handing for the main window class
558 - fixed gravity restore for restart/exit purposes
561 Changes from 0.50.1 to 0.50.2:
562 - minimal KDE integration (configure/compile time option, turned off by
563 default). This is unfinished and i can't really say if i ever will finish
564 it, but there is enough there to integrate the panel and other modules
566 - changed the regexp in building menus to use a comma (,) as the separator,
568 - various bug fixen (like the one where the window list would stay put after
569 the workspace menu went away)
570 - some hacks to improve speed in the LinkedList routines
571 - new stacking method (to better integrate with the KDE support)... windows
572 are no longer in different "levels", raising windows brings them ALL the
573 way to the front (so it's possible to obscure override redirect windows
574 like image splashes etc.) and lowering throws them ALL the way to the
575 back (even under kfm's icons)... however, the rootmenu and the toolbar
576 (if configured to be ontop) will be placed above raised windows
577 - sticky windows have changed due to the new stack implementation, they can
578 be anywhere in the stack (and not always ontop or onbottom)
579 - session.screenNUM.toolbarRaised resource has changed to
580 session.screenNum.toolbarOnTop
581 - the workspace label in the toolbar is sized a little more sanely now
582 (i found that it looks the best when the workspace label width == clock
584 - colormap focus now has it's own resource, session.colormapFocusModel, which
585 is set to "Click" by default, which means you have to click a window's
586 decorations or the root window to (un)install a colormap... setting this
587 resource to "FollowsMouse" will work just as it says... the window under
588 the pointer will have it's colormap installed
591 Changes from 0.50.0 to 0.50.1:
592 - eliminated the need for XConvertCase... workspace editing should now print
593 any and all characters correctly
594 - added check for libgen.h (which provides the prototype for basename() on
595 some systems, like OpenBSD)
596 - some code obfuscation (i've been removing comments, as some of them don't
597 relate to some of the code below them... i plan on recommenting the code
599 - clicking button 3 will hide ANY menu now, and in the case of the workspace
600 and or client menus, any other menus and/or buttons associated will be
602 - added a patch for multi-screen which sets the DISPLAY env variable so that
603 items selected from one screen don't show up on another... many thanks to
604 F Harvell <fharvell@fts.net> for this
605 - fixed a clock bug... again thanks to F Harvell for this one
606 - complete and proper window placement and window restore has been
607 implemented... windows that are partially off screen will be placed in the
608 center of the root window
609 - the toolbar's workspace label is now dynamically sized according to the
610 length of the workspace names
611 - as stated above... workspace name editing has been completely redone, i
612 discovered XLookupString() this weekend and have deemed it the function of
613 the week... any and all characters should be printed properly now
614 - window placement now has it's own resource...
615 session.screen<NUM>.windowPlacement which may be set to SmartPlacement
616 (which has been implemented) or anything else to default back to cascade
618 - a new resource, session.screen<NUM>.toolbarWidthPercent has been added, and
619 should be set to an integer representing what percentage of the root window
620 width the toolbar should occupy (default has been changed back to 67)
623 Changes from 0.40.14 to 0.50.0:
624 - added util/ subdirectory to place small, utility programs to use in
625 conjunction with blackbox.
626 - updated the README... it's still vague and useless, but gives a better
627 view of whats going on
628 - the configure script now checks for a few more headers, setlocale and
629 strftime in addition to basename functions to better include support for
630 multiple arch/langs/etc.
631 - updated default menu file... made it a little more general... and made
632 the default style menu [include]'d instead of explicitly included...
633 this break off of the style menu allows for custom menus to include the
634 default style menu for a create selection of styles
635 - changed all the default styles to use bsetroot instead of xsetroot
636 - menu handling has been improved... no more than one menu at a time may be
637 visible on the desktop (save for the root menu and it's tear off menus)
638 this means that you can't have multiple window menus and the workspace menu
639 open all at once... which saves screen space and reduces clutter
640 - much of the code has been reorganzied and reformatted for better
641 readability... this consists of function name changes and function
642 "ownership" (which basically means workspaces aren't managed by the toolbar
643 itself anymore, but by a general screen class on which the toolbar can
645 - the workspacemenu now autohides when selecting a window from one of the
647 - removed many empty destructors for Basemenu subclasses to improve code
649 - two new files, Screen.cc and Screen.hh, have been added to the distribution
650 they add the new class BScreen which was needed for the biggest change of
651 the Blackbox code base, the addition of multiple screen (i.e. multihead)
652 support. A separate BScreen is created for each screen, and all screens
653 work inconjunction with the other... windows can't be passed between
654 screens, because the X server doesn't allow this (more investigation on
656 - the toolbar's clock format is now controlled by the strftime() function...
657 if configure can't find this function on your system, the old date/time
658 format is used... with strftime, clicking on the clock doesn't display the
659 date... as the date may now be part of the clock display... read the man
660 page for the strftime function to write a format string for your clock,
661 and place it in .blackboxrc (i.e.
662 session.strftimeFormat: %I:%M %p on %a, %b %d is my strftime format
664 - the toolbar has been stripped of it's workspace responsibilities, but this
665 change has no effect on the end user.
666 - common code interspersed through out the code has been consolodated into
667 small functions and called multiple times instead of having the same or
668 similar code repeated in the same class
669 - the window startup code has been improved upon again so that shaded windows
670 are restored between restarts
671 - some ICCCM code has been updated to properly reflect the state of windows
672 while shaded or on different workspaces... this state code change should
673 also fix the JX toolkit problem of deiconifying and nothing being redrawn
674 - the main Blackbox class has been changed to purely handle X events... it
675 doesn't manage resources (save for those necessary for proper event
676 handling, like the focus model for each screen)
677 - the format of .blackboxrc has changed slightly, the session.menuFile,
678 session.doubleClickInterval, session.imageDither, session.styleFile,
679 and session.colorsPerChannel resources are unchanged. However, the
680 following resources are screen dependant:
682 session.screen<num>.strftimeFormat
683 session.screen<num>.workspaces
684 session.screen<num>.workspaceNames
685 session.screen<num>.toolbarRaised
686 session.screen<num>.focusModel
688 where <num> is the screen number (zero being default and all that would be
689 present on a single screen/monitor setup).
690 - a utility named bsetroot (mentioned above) has been included in the
691 blackbox distribution, to aid in setting root window patterns (ala
692 xsetroot). the only different between xsetroot and bsetroot is that
693 bsetroot doesn't redefine cursors, and doesn't restore defaults if no
694 arguments are given. bsetroot does support multiple screens, and is ideal
695 for those setups (instead of running xsetroot for each screen)
698 Changes from 0.40.12 to 0.40.13:
699 - added some compile time parameters to allow for clean compiling
700 - added support for vertical/horizontal maximization (i did this by
701 hand, but kudos to John Martin for the idea ;)
702 - added basename() to the distribution... it will only be compiled in
703 if basename is not present in standard libraries
704 - window focus code has changed yet again... i've decided to completely
705 rewrite the focus handling code, instead of trying to fix it... let
706 me know how this does
707 - a new resource has been added to the style loader... a resource of
708 the form: rootCommand: <shell command string> will execute this
709 command when the style is loaded, suitable for setting the root
710 window background to an image/pattern/color... this should make
711 style integration more seamless
714 Changes from 0.40.11 to 0.40.12:
715 - more migration to autoconf/automake/autoheader etc.
716 - changed the default installation prefix... /usr/local is now the
717 default... all default config files will be stored in
718 ${prefix}/share/Blackbox... any old files will not be used, and
720 - a small internal rework has made the "Inverted" option for
721 pressed button textures obsolete... please update your configs
722 - Makefile.generic has been removed
723 - Laurie's tear off menu patch has been adapted into the source tree...
724 sorry Laurie, but i had to rework your patch to make it completely
726 - rework of Image code... resizes and maximizations should be much
728 - existance of XConvertCase is checked by configure... if it is NOT
729 found, then when editing the workspace name, pressing shift will
730 not print capital letters... sorry... get an uptodate X distribution
731 (R6.3 or higher) so that XConvertCase exists...
732 - the date format on the clock is controlled by a new .blackboxrc
733 resource... session.dateFormat... accepted values are:
734 American ( mm/dd/yy ) and
735 European ( dd.mm.yy )
736 the default is american... if any other string is entered for the
737 resource, blackbox defaults again to american...
738 - changed some window positioning code so that windows aren't thrown
739 to the middle of the screen unless they are completely hidden when
741 - time bugs have been fixed... this is too detailed to go into... so
742 read the source if you are curious, otherwise just hit Reconfigure
743 when ever you change the system time, and blackbox will update and
744 continue to monitor/display the correct time (also... wrt y2k...
745 blackbox is y2k compliant is your libc's localtime() is y2k
747 - this release has a major internals rework... let me know of any
748 problems... i would also love to hear about improved/degraded
749 performance... enjoy people...
752 Changes from 0.40.10 to 0.40.11:
753 - changed the blackbox distribution to use autoconf instead of
754 imake... let me know how this works
755 - removed all the Imakefiles and Imakeconfig in favor of autoconf...
756 - added necessary files for automake and autoconf
757 - fixed a bug that would automatically shift focus to the workspace
758 label after switching to an empty workspace which would edit the
759 workspace name if pressing ctrl-arrow...
760 - fixed a bug that wouldn't focus any windows with alt-tab after
762 - new feature: click button 1 on the clock to display today's date
763 releasing the mouse button redraws the current time
764 - implemented double-click window shading by adapting David Edwards'
765 <david@dt031n1a.tampabay.rr.com> shade patch
766 - added new .blackboxrc resource - session.doubleClickInterval - which
767 controls the time between double clicks... used by the double-click
768 shade feature... defaults to 250ms is not specified
771 Changes from 0.40.9 to 0.40.10:
772 - fixed the broken menu highlights - they are now a dot in front of
774 - enhanced the image rendering code to prebuild dithering lookup
775 tables... this saves some multiply and divide instructions during the
776 rendering loop... it makes a noticable difference on my lowly p133 ;)
777 - just for completeness... i've added some error output for various
778 things that could (but rarely do) go awry
779 - the focus code has been updated yet again... but this time it's for
780 the better ;) the ctrl arrow keys continue working after a window
781 has been closed etc. etc... this should be the final change... unless
782 i find more bugs in it
785 Changes from 0.40.8 to 0.40.9:
786 - fixed a menu bug to keep as much of the menu on screen as possible
787 - added a patch from Peter Kovacs <kovacsp@egr.uri.edu> to raise the
788 current focused window when the user clicks on the window label on
790 - changed some window gravity defaults... nothing major here
791 - focus handling code has been spruced up... and majorly tested...
792 0.40.8's focus code was about as good as a full tank of gas but
793 no corvette... let me know how the focus handles in 0.40.9
796 Changes from 0.40.7 to 0.40.8:
797 - more menu fixes... highlights are handled as normal... constant
798 highlights are draw differently... the rounded edges minus the
800 - hand strength reduction in the BImage::renderXImage() method...
801 this doesn't offer much of a speed up... but every little bit
803 - stuck clients that open transients now have their transients stuck
805 - changed some input focus code to better handle the sloppy focus
806 model... the little annoyances like two focused windows should now
808 - removed gcc specific code... changed use of strsep to strtok (which
809 is defined by ANSI C)
810 - this is strictly a maintainence release... no new features have
814 Changes from 0.40.6 to 0.40.7:
815 - changed bhughes@arn.net to bhughes@tcac.net throughout the source
817 - menu sanity fixes... like unmapping a submenu when an item is removed
818 - image code fixes... no memory is allocated during the rendering...
819 only when the BImage is created... thanks to lee.salzman@lvdi.net for
820 the frame work for these changes
821 - fewer floating point division in gradient rendering routines... again
822 thanks to lee.salzman@lvdi.net for the basis of these changes
823 - reading workspace names is now a little more robust, but probably not
824 bullet proof... events are handled normally while reading the
825 workspace name... instead of blocking them all... the label changes
826 color... and reverts back to normal when enter is pressed (which
827 applies the new workspace name)
828 - the window geometry label drawn during window resizing has moved to
829 inside the window frame, this allows us to see what size windows are
830 being resized to when the right edge is close to the edge of root
831 - a lock system has been implemented for the blackbox objects... this
832 fixes a nasty little problem of stale windows (decorations with no
833 client window) because of on object grabbing the server and another
834 unlocking it... the current system works similar to XLockDisplay
835 (which is used in threaded X programs).
836 - icccm code enhancements for XWMHints and NormalHints
837 - window maximizing now properly returns the maximized client to its
838 previous location (this is a bug fix... maximize netscape, then
839 maximize an xterm... unmaximizing netscape will put it where the
840 xterm was previously)
843 Changes from 0.40.5 to 0.40.6:
844 - the workspace and client menus now keep the current workspace and
845 focus window highlighted so that we know which window is in focus
846 (especially useful with multiple xterms in the same workspace)
847 - image dithering code has been updated slightly to hopefully squeeze
848 every last drop of performance out of it
849 - pixel computation has been simplified
850 - gradient code has been changed to use less floating point division
851 this breaks Jon Denardis' gradient hack, but the option has been
852 left in place in case Jon wants to re-implement it :)
853 - more ICCCM compliance code added... window colormap focus has a
854 click-to-focus policy... any window that wants to use it's own
855 colormap (i.e. netscape -install) will have it's colormap installed
856 when button1 is pressed anywhere on the decorations (like when
857 raising) the default root colormap is reinstalled when pressing
858 button1 on the root window
859 - workspace names can now be changed on the fly... they are stored in
860 the users ~/.blackboxrc file, and may be edited from there, although
861 any changes made to the file will be over written when blackbox is
862 shutdown or restarted...
863 - workspace names can be edited *while blackbox is running* by pressing
864 button3 on the workspace label on the toolbar... pressing enter ends
865 the edit and normal event processing resumes... these names are saved
866 on exit/restart for convienence
867 - support for window gravity has been added... this is addition is
868 another step closer to complete ICCCM compliance
869 - window resizing is a bit more sane now... a bug once pointed out long
870 ago that i never noticed plagued me the other day... when resizing a
871 window to a large size... blackbox can delay a bit while it renders
872 the new decorations... if the user tries to move the window before
873 these decorations are finished... the window is resized again... this
877 Changes from 0.40.4 to 0.40.5:
878 - updated the default style to reflect the button resource change in
880 - added internal menu alignment
881 - added internal linked list insertion at a certain point, used in
883 - submenus now update their parent menu to reflect that the submenu
885 - right clicking anywhere on the rootmenu or window menus will now
886 unmap them... NOTE: this doesn't work on submenus or the rootmenu
887 or on the SendToWorkspaceMenu
888 - cleaned up some of the image rendering code to use less comparisons
889 while rendering an image... also removed alot of
890 multiplication/division use in beveling loops to increase speed
891 - changed dithering error distribution to make images smoother at
892 15 and 8bpp (8bpp got the most benefit from this change)
893 - changed the toolbar appearance... removed the raise/lower button,
894 changing the level of the toolbar isn't possible as of yet... a new
895 button has been added on the left of the toolbar, pressing it will
896 map the workspace menu, which has a few changes
897 - the workspace menu now conatins submenus of all the window lists of
898 all workspaces... it is now possible to see which window is on which
899 workspace... also... the icon button has been removed from the
900 toolbar and the iconmenu is now a submenu of the workspace menu
901 - window placement has been slightly modified... if clients request a
902 certain position, the request is honored, otherwise the client is
903 cascaded... if either the cascade or requested position obscures part
904 of the window when the window is created, the window is centered in
906 - window state updated... when blackbox is restarted, all client
907 windows are placed on the workspace they were previously occupying...
908 this is only between restarts... not when X is restarted...
909 however... applications may be coded specifically for blackbox to
910 start on a certain workspace... for more information on this, email
912 - window menu placement has been made a little more sane
915 Changes from 0.40.3 to 0.40.4:
916 - removed the window.handle{.color,.colorTo} resources... the handle
917 is now treated as a button, and uses the button resources
918 - added window.focus.button and window.unfocus.button resources to the
919 style file... this allows colors to be set different from the
920 titlebar... the colors are controlled with window.focus.button.color,
921 window.focus.button.colorTo, window.unfocus.button.color and
922 window.unfocus.button.colorTo
923 - transient focus policy has changed... if any window has an open
924 transient window... focus is awarded to the trasient instead of the
925 parent window, even if the mouse doesn't occupy the trasient window
926 - cleaned up some namespace in Basemenu.cc and Basemenu.hh
927 - changed dithering error diffusion
928 - fixed Bevel2 so that it doesn't sig11 anymore
929 - changed stacking code slightly... "stuck" windows now are placed
930 in relation to the toolbar... i.e. if the toolbar is on top... stuck
931 windows are on top of any other client windows... if the toolbar
932 is underneath client windows... stuck windows are also stacked
933 underneath the client windows
934 - major reworking of Window.cc and Window.hh to fully support the
935 _MOTIF_WM_HINTS on client windows... if this hint is present... then
936 the window is decorated according to those hints... all the move/
937 resize/configure code had to be updated because of this... one step
938 closer to gnome compliance
939 - window menus now contain different items based on the functions
940 available to the client window... if a window cannot be maximized...
941 then no maximize item is present in the window menu... also, "Close"
942 and "Kill Client" are no longer present at the same time... if the
943 client supports the WM_DELETE_WINDOW Protocol, then "Close" is
944 present, "Kill Client" is only present for clients that do not
946 - windows may now be moved by the titlebar, handle or thin border
947 around the window... window menus are also accessible by pressing
948 button 3 on any of these 3 windows
949 - a new focus model has been added... it works... but is mostly
950 untested... session.focusModel: AutoRaiseSloppyFocus in .blackboxrc
951 will retain the sloppy focus model... but raise windows to the
955 Changes from 0.40.2 to 0.40.3:
956 - fixed a bug in Blackbox::nextFocus that would put blackbox into an
957 infinite loop when 2 windows where open, window 0 was iconified and
958 window 1 had focus and pressing alt-tab or the next window button
960 - completely recoded all the graphics stuffs to support all visual
961 classes and color depths, also the image code is more compact and
962 faster than previous releases
963 - removed graphics.cc and graphics.hh from the distribution and added
964 Image.cc and Image.hh for the new graphics implementation. a new
965 class called BImageControl is now in charge of all pixmap caching
966 and color allocation on displays that don't run/support TrueColor...
967 this takes the job away from the Blackbox class... whose job is now
968 to manage all it's children and disperse events read from the display
969 - fixed bug that didn't handle windows created before blackbox is
973 Changes from 0.40.1 to 0.40.2:
974 - added a variable initialize line of code to keep blackbox from
975 splattering from a sigsegv on startup
978 Changes from 0.35.0 to 0.40.1:
979 - cosmetic menu rendering fixes, changed the way the submenu dot is
980 sized; changed an off by one error in drawing the rounded edges;
981 fixed the text to be draw in the center of the item instead of at the
983 - major changes to the toolbar (formerly the workspace manager) to
984 change the way it looks and works. The large blank space is gone,
985 and the toolbar is now half the height it used to be (roughly). the
986 workspace label displays the current workspace, with the workspace
987 menu accessible by clicking button 1 on the label. the two buttons
988 directly to the right of the workspace label change the workspace
989 when pressed. the window label displays the current focused window,
990 which makes it easier to identify which window has input focus (for
991 some people like me that have very dark or very closely colored
992 decorations). the window menu is accessible by pressing button
993 one on the window label, and selecting an item from the window menu
994 will set input focus to that window (if it can receive focus). the
995 two buttons to the right of the window label circulate focus (up and
996 down, respectively) through the window list, skipping windows that
997 cannot receive focus. the icon button displays a menu of all
998 iconified applications. both the icon menu and the window menu will
999 not become visible if they are empty. the next button on the toolbar
1000 is a raise/lower button for the workspace manager. the toolbar is
1001 stacked on startup according to the resource set in ~/.blackboxrc,
1002 but this button will raise and lower the workspace to the users
1003 desire, saving the stack order when blackbox is exited or restarted.
1004 the clock is still the same, but editing the session.clockFormat
1005 will change it from normal time (session.clockFormat: 12) to 24hour
1006 format (session.clockFormat: 24)
1007 - a pixmap cache has been implemented. a linked list stores all images
1008 rendered, removing them from the list and freeing them with the X
1009 server when all applications have removed references to them. for
1010 those who start man instances of the same applications will benefit
1011 greatly from this, as the same decorations are not redraw for each
1012 and every window. this greatly reduces the load on the X server
1013 (my X server went from taking 20-28mb of memory to 8-11mb, a dramatic
1014 improvement, especially on this 32mb machine). as a result of this,
1015 reconfiguring is faster, as is startup and restarting.
1016 - click to focus has been implemented, with some restrictions. other
1017 window managers allow the user to click anywhere on the decorations
1018 OR the client itself to set focus. i have not found an elegant way
1019 to do this yet, so focus can only be set by pressing button 1 on
1020 the decorations (like the titlebar, handle, buttons, border, etc.)
1021 just not on the client itself. i am looking more into this, but
1022 don't expect anymore than what is in place now. to use
1023 click-to-focus, put session.focusModel: ClickToFocus in ~/.blackboxrc
1024 - 2 new commands have been added to the menu syntax, [include] and
1025 [style]... the [reconfig] command still has the option to reconfigure
1026 after a command has been run, but probably will be faded out...
1027 [include] (/path/to/file) includes the file inline with the current
1028 menu, meaning that a submenu isnot created for the separate file,
1029 if a submenu is desired, the file should include the [submenu] and
1030 [end] tags explicitly.
1031 [style] is a new addition for the style file support. syntax is:
1032 [style] (label here) {/path/to/style/file} which will read the new
1033 style file and reconfigure when selected.
1034 - style files have been added to allow for easier switching between
1035 configurations. the style file resources are dramtically different
1036 from those in 0.3x.x, see app-defaults/Blackbox-style.ad for an
1038 - with the addition of style files, menus have been given their own
1039 justification resource, allowing (for example) menus to be left
1040 justified while titles are center or right justified.
1041 - please read the sample configuration files in app-defaults/ for the
1042 new and improved configuration system. NOTE: Blackbox.ad is a
1043 sample ~/.blackboxrc, but you shouldn't copy this file to
1044 ~/.blackboxrc, as Blackbox will store the resources it needs
1046 - an unofficial release numbered 0.40.0 was given out to some
1047 testers, and even this release needs the same treatment as 0.35.0
1048 with respect to the new config system (0.40.0 only implemented the
1049 pixmap cache, the new toolbar and *part* of the new config system,
1050 but not the style files or automatic generation of ~/.blackboxrc)
1053 Changes from 0.34.5 to 0.35.0:
1054 - changed the way menus are draw to round both end of the highlight...
1055 - cosmetic enhancements for the various justifications...
1056 - this is the first stable release of blackbox
1059 Changes from 0.34.4 to 0.34.5:
1060 - hopefully... this will be the last bug fix... so i can begin working
1061 on new features... i fixed event mask selection on client windows
1062 after reparenting them to the decoration frame... this should get
1064 - changed the signal hander to core on sigsegv and sigfpe... sigint and
1065 sigterm will just exit blackbox cleanly... sighup will cause blackbox
1066 to reconfigure itself
1067 - changed the way the version string is printed...
1070 Changes from 0.34.3 to 0.34.4:
1071 - changed the window stacking code to stack windows and their menus
1072 more sanely... window menus are stacked directly ontop of the client
1073 windows... instead of on top of every other client window... the
1074 workspace manager is now by default stacked above client windows...
1075 - reworked alot of code in Window.cc, blackbox.cc, Workspace.cc and
1076 WorkspaceManager.cc to properly handle ICCCM state hints... the
1077 startup and shutdown code has been completely reworked as a result of
1080 Changes from 0.34.2 to 0.34.3:
1081 - this was a small change in the code... but a BIG change for the user
1082 base... the X error handler is now non fatal... yes... this means if
1083 blackbox encounters an X error (like a bad window or a bad match) it
1084 will fprintf() the error and continue running... the quick window bug
1085 has been mostly fixed... i have a small app that i wrote that quickly
1086 maps a window, calls XSync()... then destroys the window and exits...
1087 the first time i ran this little beauty... blackbox died a horrible
1088 death... blackbox now handles this app nicely... but does
1089 occasionally report an error (during the decoration creation... which
1090 is promptly destroyed from the destroy notify event placed in the
1091 queue by the X server... thus... no memory leaks... no memory
1092 corruption... blackbox just keeps chugging along nicely
1095 Changes from 0.34.1 to 0.34.2 (unreleased):
1096 - fixed MSBFirst byte order image rendering at 32bpp (24bpp pending)
1097 (for machines better than this intel machine of mine)
1098 - changed BImage to allocate dithering space when the image is created
1099 and to delete it when the image is destroyed... instead of allocating
1100 the space and deleting the space each time the image is rendered to
1101 an XImage... hopefully this will provide a speed increase (albeit a
1103 - changed blackbox to call XListPixmapFormats once at startup...
1104 instead of each time an image is rendered... this should afford some
1105 speed increase (a small one at best :)
1106 - fixed a bug in Window.cc that re-reads the window name...
1107 Jon Denardis discovered this bug while playing with netscape 4.5...
1108 the validation call is now directly before the XFetchName call...
1109 instead of before an if() { } block that calls strcmp and XFree()
1110 - edit Window.cc to change the way buttons are decorated and sized
1111 the associatedWindow.button.color(To) resources have been removed,
1112 but the associatedWindow.button texture resource is still there
1115 Changes from 0.34.0 to 0.34.1:
1116 - fixed the unmanaged rxvt/xconsole/whatever problem that didn't
1117 decorate windows at start up... just a little logic error that was
1118 fixed with a few braces
1119 - fixed the shutdown code so that X and blackbox don't die a gruesome
1120 death while reparenting the small applets on the workspace manager
1121 toolbar... the above bug fixed also fixed a bug that didn't reparent
1122 any existing app windows...
1123 - updated libBox code to allow for flaws in it's design (forgotten from
1125 - removed #include <sys/select.h> from blackbox.cc so that it compiles
1126 on any platform (since select is supposed to be defined in unistd.h)
1127 - removed the NEED_STRNCASECMP block in blackbox.cc until i can get
1128 a working posix like routine to work (needed for OS2 platforms)
1129 - edited the Imakefile scheme to have the the toplevel Imakefile and
1130 Imakefiles in app-defaults/ lib/ and src/... there now is Imakeconfig
1131 which includes all the options in one file... so that editing all
1132 the Imakefiles is no longer necessary
1135 Changes from 0.33.6 to 0.34.0:
1136 - edited some Imakefiles so that rpm creaters have an easier time
1137 - added stuff to lib/ which contains a small (VERY small) library for
1138 letting applications open a window on the workspace manager toolbar
1139 this is very very new... restarting will cause the app to crash
1140 (at best) or take X with it (the worst)... play with it an let me
1142 - further revised window.cc and blackbox.cc to provide better error
1143 checking... window.cc received the most updates... validating a
1144 window is now done in the statement before the window is used... not
1145 at the beginning of the function the window is used in...
1146 - fixed the stacking order bug when changing workspaces... the windows
1147 will now be restored in the order that you left them... not in the
1148 order they were created in...
1149 - updated the README... a little bit anyway :)
1150 - updated BlackboxWindow::maximizeWindow() in window.cc to properly
1151 maximize windows that have specified size increments
1152 - fixed BlackboxWindow::configureWindow so that shaded windows that re
1153 size themselves only resize the titlebar
1154 - added ccmalloc 0.2.3 to the main source tree to aid in debugging...
1155 this is NOT maintained by myself, see the source tree for details
1156 - eliminated a double delete call with the aid of ccmalloc!@#!
1159 Changes from 0.33.5 to 0.33.6:
1160 - added Makefile.generic for those of you with foobared imake configs.
1161 the use of xmkmf -a (i.e. imake) is still prefered... but this should
1162 work on any system... with a little editing
1163 - added static int handleXErrors(Display *, XErrorEvent *) in
1164 blackbox.cc to handle any and all X lib errors while blackbox is
1165 running... this should produce a coredump and thus the -moron
1166 community should be able to flood my inbox with stack trace upon
1168 - added some sub directories and moved the sources around, this allows
1169 for easier inclusion of the library for blackbox specific programs
1170 (which will run in the dock)
1171 - hopefully fixed the "disappearing-rxvt-trick"... since i can't
1172 reproduce it i don't know for sure
1173 - removed the use of alloca in graphics.cc... i was noticing very odd
1174 behaviour from malloc() and free()... where blackbox would sig11
1175 when exiting because of XCloseDisplay doing something naughty...
1176 and this seems to have done the trick... no more sig11's from malloc
1177 or new... everything i've thrown at blackbox is gently but firmly
1178 beaten into submission...
1179 - added docboy's curved gradient hack as a compile time option... see
1180 src/Imakefile and src/graphics.cc
1183 Changes from 0.33.4 to 0.33.5:
1184 - added a small test to cascade windows that start out partially hidden
1185 (like netscape, Xnest, xv, etc.)
1186 - changed icon handling to include a menu of icons accessible from the
1187 workspace manager toolbar
1188 - deiconifying a window now takes it to the top of the stack
1189 - clicking on a menuitem that has a submenu no longer hides the submenu
1190 - added resource "workspaceManager.24hourClock", a value of True turns
1191 on the 24hour clock on the toolbar
1192 - removed icon pixmap/window/mask support/handling from window.cc and
1193 window.hh... since icons are now handled in a menu, this is no
1195 - added session.handleWidth and session.bevelWidth
1196 to control window sizes (instead of hardcoded defaults)
1197 - changed parts of Basemenu.cc and WorkspaceManager.cc to follow the
1198 sizes set by session.bevelWidth
1199 - fixed Alt-Tab window switching... also fixed some focus handling bugs
1200 which let two windows become focused at the same time (which is bad
1204 Changes from 0.33.3 to 0.33.4:
1205 - corrected a typo in the sample Blackbox.ad file to correctly show
1206 which resource to set for the menu file
1207 - added moderate window group support for programs like netscape and
1208 other motif applications... modified window stacking code and
1209 internal list code to support window groups (this makes transients
1210 behave properly... another step towards more complete ICCCM
1212 - modified focus event handlers to stop applications from focusing out
1213 when pressing menubars... also window focus is returned to root if
1214 the focus window is closed... if another window is under the focus
1215 window when it is closed... that window is awarded input focus
1216 - fixed tiny little bug that didn't move the close button when resizing
1220 Changes from 0.33.2 to 0.33.3:
1221 - changed some of the menu code ("updated" in 0.33.1) back to the
1222 original 0.33.0, which seems to perform better. Reason behind it? -
1223 blackbox died too often with 0.33.1/2
1224 - added "Kill Client" option to window menus... for those applications
1225 that don't accept the WM_DELETE_WINDOW atom
1226 - menus that are not partially moved off the root window are shifted to
1227 a visible position when the pointer enters the frame... it is also
1228 shifted back to it's original position when left (this is new... let
1229 me know how it works)
1232 Changes from 0.33.1 to 0.33.2: (unreleased)
1233 - changed BlackboxIcon to not try and read its config when it was
1234 created. This was forgotten from the 0.31.0 -> 0.33.0 move :/
1237 Changes from 0.33.0 to 0.33.1: (unreleased)
1238 - improved menu handling, less possibilty for SIGSEGV
1239 - menus now make copies of all label, exec strings and titles, to
1240 make less loose pointers
1241 - fixed typo to allow submenus of submenus of submenus (...)
1242 - fixed workspace menu and window list menu placements
1245 Changes from 0.31.0 to 0.33.0:
1246 - added #ifdef statements so the C preprocessor doesn't complain about
1247 _GNU_SOURCE being redefined.
1248 - changed internal resource data structures
1249 - added Sticky windows functionality
1250 - remove old animation code bound with #ifdef ANIMATIONS
1251 - fixed a silly little bug that sometimes mapped a submenu when its
1252 parent was unmapping itself
1253 - added ExecReconfigure option to execute a shell statement before
1254 performing reconfiguration
1255 - rearranged window config code to reduce wait time while resizing
1256 - added internal macro BImageNoDitherSolid to make window frame
1257 rendering faster (dithering a solid image is silly anyway)
1258 - added new menu file format
1259 - added Blackbox::validateWindow to provide a stabler environment for
1260 Blackbox. This gives blackbox more error checking and greater
1261 stability. For me, random crashes have (nearly) disappeared.
1262 - removed window name/class dependant frame texture/color
1263 - with 0.31.0, each entity read it's configuration from the rc database
1264 loaded at start. this has changed back to the old behaviour of
1265 reading all configuration parameters at start, no database reads are
1266 performed after the initial setup (save for reconfiguring).
1267 - configuration has changed to be a little cleaner, and a little more
1268 thorough. See the Blackbox.ad and BlackboxMenu.ad for exmaples.