1 ChangeLog from Blackbox (this code's previous project):
3 Changes from 0.62.1 to 0.65.0:
4 - added Taiwan Chinese (zh_TW), Hungarian (hu_HU), Latvian (lv_LV),
5 Korean (ko_KR), Norwegian (no_NO), Polish (pl_PL), Romanian (ro_RO) and
6 Ukrainian (uk_UA) nls files and updated most of the others.
7 - added French man pages
8 - remove slit and netwm as compile time options
9 - strip much of BaseDisplay's original functionality and move it to the
11 - huge amounts of internal cleanups
12 - added emacs local variables to each file that prevent the addition of tabs
13 - added a Util.cc file which contains useful functions with no obvious home.
14 - move code over to the STL
15 - removed several unused variables and otherwise reduced the memory usage
16 of the objects in Blackbox. For the record the binary is roughly 100k
17 larger than 0.62.0 and that is mostly due to the STL but there is also a
18 fair bit of new code. However for the most part blackbox runs faster and
19 is still one of the leanest window managers out there today.
20 - bsetroot now sets _XROOTPMAP_ID, so pseudo transparent apps will be happy
21 - beginnings of a strut implementation. toolbar and slit are removed from
22 the available screen area if 'full maximize' is not set
23 - XReparentWindow sends an UnmapNotify to the window manager however
24 in certain cases the window is already unmapped so the window manager
25 never gets the event and the unmapNotify event is where reparentNotify was
26 handled. Added a reparentNotifyEvent handler in the BlackboxWindow class
27 and a new case in the Blackbox class's process_event function.
28 - no more blackbox->grab/ungrab calls everywhere
29 - compression of motion and expose
30 - Now we have one function which turns ~/ into /home/user/. This is now
31 called everywhere this expansion should be done. Even added this to the
32 resource.menu_file so now the menu file may be specified as
34 - added a TimerQueue which is a priority_queue with the ability to release
35 items it contains before they reach the top of the queue. Also added a
36 TimerQueueManager protocol class which BaseDisplay now inherits from.
37 - BTimer now defaults to NOT recurring. Most of the timers in blackbox were
38 one shots so I saw little benefit in defaulting to repeating timers.
39 - update transient handling, should solve issues with apps like acroread.
40 added a getTransientInfo() method of the BlackboxWindow class which
41 handles checking the transient state in X and setting the appropriate
42 variables on the window. To attack the infinite loops this
43 function ensures that client.transient != this and we check for loops
44 of the form A -> B -> C -> A. The new transient code also allows for one
45 window to have multiple transients so applications like xmms and web
46 browsers are better behaved.
47 - even better ICCCM support and focus handling
49 - fix for clock clipping in the toolbar
50 - better support for non decorated windows and toggling decor
51 - the geometry window shown when moving or resizing a window now handles the
52 parentrelative setting better. parentrelative support has been improved
53 for all of the other widgets as well.
54 - better window group handling
55 - improved edge snap support (still no window to window snapping)
56 - changing preferences no longer leads to windows being raised
57 - the window's "send to" menu ignores the current workspace, which is a
59 - new placeWindow algorithm. Blows the old one out of the water. Not only
60 is it faster but it is also cleaner code too (-: Went from number 5 in
61 the profiling results to under 30. Image rendering is now the slowest
62 part of managing of new windows.
63 Because of the new code layout, support is now there for new and
64 different layout options but this will wait for after 0.65.0.
65 - smart window placement ignores shaded windows now
66 - new option in the Config menu which allows Scroll Lock to disable
67 Blackbox's keybindings.
69 Changes from 0.62.0 to 0.62.1:
70 - the lock modifier code handles user redefined modifiers better
71 - check if the locale actually needs multibyte support before using multibyte
73 - use srcdir in all of the makefiles
74 - added zh_CN (Chinese) nls support
77 Changes from 0.61.1 to 0.62.0:
79 - added the ja_JP nls directory and man pages
80 - general code touchups
81 - blackbox-nls.hh is always generated even if --disable-nls is used.
82 This allows us to not have all of those hideous #ifdef NLS chunks.
83 Nothing to worry about, if you do not want NLS this does not affect you
84 - Workspace::placeWindow() cleanups. Also a speed bump from reducing the
85 use of iterator->current() and changing the delta from 1 to 8
86 - cleanups to compile with g++ 3.0
87 - make distclean actually removes Translation.m and blackbox-nls.hh.
88 Also fixed Makefile.am to pass --foreign instead of --gnu when calling
90 - fixed a desciptor leak in BScreen::parseMenuFile, seems opendir
91 lacked a matching closedir.
92 - fix transient window handling code in Workspace::removeWindow() so
93 transients give focus back to their parents properly. The code originally
94 handled sloppy focus then transient windows, so we just flopped the
95 if/elsif. This is immediately noticable with web browsers and their open
97 - plugged a small leak in ~Toolbar
98 - fixed list::insert so you really can insert at item number 2. While there
99 I cleaned up the code a bit.
100 - added decoration to the atom state stored in a window
101 - fixed a typo in bsetroot.cc: 'on of' -> 'one of'.
102 - fixed the window menu gets left open when another window button is pressed
103 issue with a call to windowmenu->hide() in window->maximize()
104 - applied xOr's patch for decoration handling
105 - applied xOr's patch for the maximize, shade, unmaximize bug
106 - applied Kennis' patch for sending incorrect Slit configure notices
107 - BlackboxWindow's flags have been moved into a flags structure
108 - applied xOr's patch for border handling
109 - resizing a window turns off its maximized flag. Before a resized window
110 thought it was still maximized and maximizing a double action
111 - BlackboxWindow::withdraw no longet sets the state to Withdrawn.
112 This confused some X clients.
113 - updated the manpages and added Dutch NLS support (thanks Wilbert)
114 - added it_IT nls files, thanks Luca Marrazzo <marra.luca@libero.it>
115 - the menu file mentioned in the manpage is now based on DEFAULT_MENU
116 - configure script found basename in -lgen, but did not set HAVE_BASENAME
117 causing compilation problems on irix and possibly others. Added a call
118 to AC_DEFINE in AC_CHECK_LIB to fix this.
119 - menu is no longer installed, you need to copy it yourself
120 - cleaned up i18n code a little. Several member functions were declared
121 but never used and getMessage() had a default argument which was also
123 - i18n will now compile cleanly on machines without nl_types.h
124 - the lock modifiers no longer stop blackbox!
125 - maximize a window via bbkeys and the maximize button is not redrawn, fixed
126 - now exit with an error code if an unknown option is passed
127 - autoraise and multiple dialog windows yields segv bug fixed
128 also lengthened the default auto raise delay from 250 to 400
129 - another iteration of autoraise and dialog box handling, this time we
130 noticed that nothing ever reset blackbox.focused_window to 0 when a window
132 - check if the window is visible before changeBlackboxHints() calls maximize
133 - placeWindow no longer takes edgeSnapThreshhold into account
134 - ignore style files ending in ~
135 - support locale specifiers with @euro in them
136 - added Slovenian man pages and nls, thanks Ales Kosir
137 - Toolbar name editing buffer reduced to 128 chars, logic added to make sure
138 this buffer is not overrun
139 - added German nls files, thanks Jan Schaumann
140 - added my name to the code, updated the version output
143 Changes from 0.61.0 to 0.61.1:
144 - fixed some of the code to explicitly use colormaps so that when
145 blackbox decides to use a non-default visual everything will
146 still work (although it may look darn ugly)
147 - optimizations to the deiconify/raising code to (hopefully) deal
148 with a rather nasty bug, plus make things a little more efficient
149 - changed the code so that the close button is always redrawn on
150 button release events, just in case the client decides not to
151 close in response to the message (see Acroread)
152 - tinkered with the Makefiles again to make sure Blackbox
153 completely cleans up after itself during an uninstall
154 - fixed a glitch in window placement that was making Blackbox
155 place some larger windows at coordinates near 2**31
156 - merged in a patch from nyz which fixed a bug with not sending
157 configure events when a window is both moved and resized (eg
158 when the left resize grip is used) as well as optimized some
159 of the show/hide code to use the stacking order
160 - fixed a bug in blackbox's support of the X shape extension...
161 it wasn't correctly resetting the bounding region after a window
163 - fixed a glitch with the geometry window where it would persist
164 if the client was unmapped while in motion
165 - tweaked the code for decorating transient windows so that it
166 is possible to use MOD1+Mouse3 to resize transients as long as
167 there is not some other reason to disable functions.resize
170 Changes from 0.60.3 to 0.61.0:
171 - added slightly updated copies of the blackbox/bsetroot manpages.
172 - reworked the Windowmenu code so that using the second mouse
173 button on the Send To menu moves you along with the window
174 - merged in bsd-snprintf.(h|c) from openssh so that Blackbox can
175 compile on older boxes without (v)snprintf in their standard lib.
176 - fixed a pair of problems where blackbox was not returning icons
177 and slit apps to a useable state at shutdown
178 - fixed a problem with menus not getting layered correctly after
179 a reconfigure or menu reload
180 - changed the behavior of the various MOD1+ButtonPresses on windows...
181 they should now be more consistent with the button behavior on the
183 . MOD1+Button1 raises and moves the window (unchanged)
184 . MOD1+Button2 lowers the window (used to resize the window)
185 . MOD1+Button3 resizes the window (new button combo)
186 - fixed a small but _extremely_ annoying bug exposed by cvsup
187 - styled frames are now a thing of the past... the textures formerly
188 known as window.frame.(un)focus have been replaced by solid colors
189 window.frame.(un)focusColor... the thickness of the frame is now
190 determined by frameWidth, which will default to bevelWidth if not
192 - middle clicking on a window in a workspace's window list now moves
193 the window to the current workspace
194 - fixed a minor glitch with the appearance of window labels for
195 certain newly-started apps (i.e. rxvt)
196 - added a new configure option for both the toolbar and the slit --
197 autohide. Hopefully this should help quell the demands for the
198 removal of the toolbar...
199 - added code to better handle apps that change the window focus
200 - changed the command execution code (used to handle rootCommands
201 and executable menu items) to be more robust... compound commands
203 - a new-and-slightly-improved implementation of unstyled frames should
204 mean slightly better performance than previously
205 - fixed a couple of stupid bugs in the new code for handling
206 Solid Flat textures more efficiently
207 - fixed the nls makefiles so that they respect DESTDIR, behave better
208 if you reinstall over an existing installation, and actually remove
209 their files on a make uninstall
210 - added cthulhain's bsetbg script to the util directory... see the
211 file README.bsetbg for more information
212 - added Estonian, French and Danish translations
215 Changes from 0.60.2 to 0.60.3:
216 - put in a (temporary?) fix for a bug with the new way icons are
217 handled. Previously an icon was created only for non-transient
218 windows, which means that 1) minimized transient windows were
219 not getting cleaned up at shutdown, and that 2) one could
220 conceivably lose access to a minimized transient if there were
221 a break in the transient chain.
223 For the time being, every iconified window gets an icon. In
224 order to make this a little nicer, if a window doesn't provide
225 an icon title, the window title is used in the icon menu, rather
227 - fixed a bug in handling the destruction of intermediate
228 transient windows. The code was leaving the transient of a
229 destroyed window with a reference to the now non-existent
230 window. This can lead to all sorts of problems.
231 - fixed a slight positioning error when the slit is on the right
233 - included a new style, Minimal, which is designed for use on 8-bit
234 displays. It tries to use a bare minimum of colors, and with the
235 new code regarding Flat Solid, should consume very little memory.
236 - made yet another alteration to the way focus changes after a window
237 closes under ClickToFocus. Blackbox now tracks the stacking order of
238 all windows and uses this information to give the focus to the topmost
240 - new configure option :
241 --enable-styled-frames include support for fully-styled window
242 frames -- these are the decorations which
243 are affected by the window.frame* theme
244 entries. This option is turned on by
247 Because of the way they are implemented,
248 these are typically the most memory and
249 render intensive of the various blackbox
250 decorations, even if they are typically
251 only a pixel or so wide. Disabling this
252 feature can result in a substantial
253 decrease in X memory usage, but it's
254 enabled by default to remain compatible
255 with previous versions.
257 - added a whole mess of logic so that blackbox will use
258 XSetWindowBackground for Flat Solid textures instead generating
259 a pixmap (which would be subsequently cached)... should help cut
260 down some on the X memory usage
261 - altered the behavior of the BImageControl timer... now it will
262 fire every cacheLife minutes, regardless of when anything has
263 been removed from the cache
264 - modified the NLS build code yet again... at this point we've
265 hopefully hit the least common denominator and it should work
267 - dealt with a possible problem in the BlackboxWindow constructor
268 where we referred to a member after deletion
269 - removed a last lingering bit of the allocate()/deallocate() code
270 - fixed a pair of string formatting problems
273 Changes from 0.60.1 to 0.60.2:
274 - updated README.bbtools, since bbpager and bbkeys were updated to work with
275 0.60.x (also removed the .diffs from the source tree)
276 - fix for compiling with NLS support on Solaris
277 - added Turkish, Russian and Swedish translations
278 - applied patch for more correct Spanish translations
279 - added completed pt_BR (Brazillian Porteguese) translation
280 - removed mem.h and the allocate()/deallocate() calls throughout blackbox
281 these have been unused for a long time, and needed to go away :)
282 - compile fixes for --enable-debug
283 - changed the font loading/drawing code... XFontSets are only used if
284 the locale is set properly. So you can still compile with nls support,
285 but do not set your LANG environment variable, and your fonts will be
286 loaded and drawn the old way
287 - smarter Basemenu::drawItem() code added, i noticed alot of flicker when
288 moving menus, because of code constantly redrawing menus items... this
289 has been significatly modified and sped up quite a bit
290 - fixed a bug where iconified windows wouldn't remove themselves from the
291 icon menu when they unmapped/closed themselves (which would result in a
292 crash if you selected this dead item)
293 - fixed a potential crash in Workspace::removeWindow() that had relation
294 to focus last window on workspace... one person experience gibberish being
295 displayed, another experienced a crash
296 - fixed a flicker problem when changing focus between windows rapidly
297 (the toolbar's window label was getting redrawn twice per focus, not
299 - fixed the infamous bsetroot segfault... this was quite a feat... took 3
300 people in excess of 8 hours to find... and it was a simple one line change
303 Changes from 0.51.3.1 to 0.60.1: (note: 0.60.1 is 0.60.0 non-alpha)
304 - changed licensing for Blackbox from GNU GPL to more open BSD license
306 - removed alot of empty files that did nothing but passify automake/autoconf
307 Blackbox now passes --foreign to automake to lessen the requirements for
308 files like NEWS,AUTHORS,COPYING,README,etc.
309 - new configure options:
310 --enable-ordered-pseudo this enables a new algorithm for dithering
311 on pseudocolor (8 bit) displays... a noticable
312 pattern is visible when using this. you may or
313 may not like it... just something different
314 if you want it, but is turned off by default.
316 --enable-debug turn on verbose debugging output... this
317 isn't very complete or really very helpful...
318 right now it just describes memory usage and
319 tracks a few X event handlers... this is turned
322 --enable-nls turn on natural language support... this option
323 will turn on the use of catgets(3) to read
324 native language text from any of the supported
325 locales (see the nls/ directory for current
328 This option also turns on the use of XFontSets,
329 which allows the display of multibyte
330 characters, like Japanese or Korean.
331 This option is turned on by default.
333 --enable-timed-cache turn on/off the new timed pixmap cache... this
334 differs from the old pixmap cache in that
335 instead of releasing unused pixmaps
336 immediately, it waits for <X> minutes, where
337 <X> is set with session.cacheLife in your
338 ~/.blackboxrc... this option is turned on
341 - changed the default menu to include a listing of workspaces (and their
342 window lists) and the new configuration menu (see below)
343 - included new default styles, contributed by regulars on
344 irc.openproject.net's #blackbox
345 - generated default "translation" catalog for the C/POSIX locale... the
346 same catalog is used for English (en_US for now, will add others
348 - included translation for Spanish (es_ES) and Brazilian
349 Portuguese (pt_BR)... if you are interested in doing a
350 translation, email me at blackbox@alug.org
351 - properties and hints added for communication with bbpager and bbkeys, the
352 two most common "blackbox addons"
353 - KDE 1.x support has been completely removed, pending approval of the new
354 window manager specification to be used by KDE2 and GNOME
355 - a (broken!) base for the new window manager spec was put in place, but
356 using --enable-newspec will result in code that will not compile
357 - added a timer class to handle internal timeouts without using
358 getitimer/setitimer/SIGARLM... this will enable other things to be done,
359 as any number of timers with any timeout can be used
360 - Blackbox will search for the highest depth supported by each visual on
361 each screen... basically this means that blackbox will try to use
362 TrueColor if a TrueColor visual exists (but it's not the default visual)
363 - menu hilite changed from being just a color to being a texture and new
364 window decoration layout... as a result the style file syntax has changed,
365 old styles for 0.5x.x will not work. See the included styles for examples,
366 and browse by http://bb.themes.org/
367 - added support for enabled/disabled and selectable menuitems, this is for
368 use in the configmenu mostly (but is used in the windowmenu)
369 - added the Configmenu, which is insertable into your menu by using:
371 [config] (Catchy Label)
373 changes made in the configmenu take effect immediately, and are saved in
374 your ~/.blackbxrc... current tunable settings:
382 Focus Last Window on Workspace
384 the window placement and focus model options will be discussed below
385 - added texture type "ParentRelative" which causes the decoration to display
386 the contents of it's parent... this is a sort of pseudo-transparent option
387 and doesn't work for all decorations... see the included style named
388 "Operation" for an example of ParentRelative
389 - added support for solid interlacing... for example:
391 toolbar: raised interlaced solid bevel1
393 toolbar.colorTo: darkgrey
395 will cause the toolbar base to be draw with solid lines, one line grey,
396 the next darkgrey, the next grey, the next darkgrey, ...
397 - changed dithering algorithm for TrueColor displays from Floyd-Steinberg to
398 an ordered dither... dithering at 8bpp (Pseudocolor) can be either FS or
399 ordered, but must be selected at compile time...
401 NOTE: when using ordered pseudocolor (8bpp) dithering, your
402 session.colorsPerChannel ***MUST*** be 4, otherwise your display will
403 not display *any* correct colors
404 - fixed TrueColor rendering to do aligned writes (suppresses warnings on
405 Alpha Linux machines)
406 - added support for GrayScale/StaticGray displays (completely untested)
407 - made linked lists smarter, they can now have as many iterators assigned to
408 them as you want... no more FATAL errors
409 - added the Netizen class, which is a client that has
410 _BLACKBOX_STRUCTURE_MESSAGES listed in their WM_PROTOCOLS... these clients
411 get notified of window add, remove, focus, shade, iconify, maximize,
414 the two most common Netizens are bbpager and bbkeys
415 - when loading an incomplete style, blackbox now uses default colors to
416 draw decorations (instead of the annoying "see-through" effect)
417 - added menu tag [config]... which inserts the Configmenu into your rootmenu
418 - made [include] handling smarter, it will only read regular files (it
419 won't read a directory in case you ever accidentally put one there)
420 - the slit and toolbar menus now include a placement option, which will place
421 them in various positions on the screen
422 - included a slit menu option to choose it's direction (horizontal or
424 - added options to the slit and toolbar menus to have them always stacked
426 - right clicking on the workspace label no longer initiates a workspacename
427 edit... right clicking anywhere on the toolbar brings up the toolbar menu,
428 which has an entry that lets you change the workspace name
429 - iconified windows no longer show up in the window list for the current
430 workspace... just in the icon submenu
431 - ClickToFocus now works like one would think, clicking anywhere in a window
433 - overall... this version of blackbox has and does alot more than previously
434 just take it for a test drive and see how well you like it
437 Changes from 0.50.5 to 0.51.0:
438 - new default theme, shows off new gradients (see below)
439 - many themes updated to show off new menu bullet configuration
440 - added new source file Display.cc... it offers an easy way to connect to
441 an X display and setup screen info, this was done to make life easier
442 for John Kennis, the author of the bbtools. Image.cc and Image.hh have
443 been modified to use classes from this abstraction, so that drop in
444 replacements are all that is necessary to update the bbtools image code.
445 - configurable menu bullet... 2 new resources for in your style file:
447 menu.bulletStyle: (round|triangle|square|diamond|empty)
448 menu.bulletPosition: (left|right)
450 - new style resource for setting the borderWidth on menus, client windows and
451 the buttons/frame/handle/titlebar... the default theme uses a borderWidth
452 of zero... it's pretty neat
453 - udpated Image code... blackbox now supports 8 types of gradients (thanks
454 to mosfet@kde.org... in exchange for helping him get the diagonal gradient
455 code from blackbox into kde, kde gave me the source to their new gradients)
458 diagonal, vertical, horizontal, crossdiagonal, pipecross, elliptic,
461 use them just like you would normally (ie. raised elliptic gradient bevel1)
462 - merged John Kennis' patch for notifying KDE modules of windows that are
463 raised/lowered/activated(focused)
464 - new geometry window that is displayed when a window is moved/resized
465 - cleaned up code for detecting slit apps
466 - window stacking code changed to keep menus above windows, and to keep the
467 slit raised when the toolbar is raised
468 - fixed compiler error from gcc 2.95 about frame.frame in several places
469 - fixed some bugs with shaped windows that set decorations via MWM hints,
470 and also fixed bugs with such windows changing their shape
471 - more complete ICCCM compliance, default window gravity is now NorthWest
473 - focus code revamped... window focusing is alot faster and simpler, i
474 mimicked the way TWM does it's focusing... proved much faster
475 - the window menu always has "Kill Client" as an option now
476 - fixed window stacking for windows that have multiple transients (like
478 - smartplacement from 0.50.4 has been reinstated... i quickly grew tired of
479 waiting on windows to be placed with the old version (if you like the way
480 0.50.5 did it... send me an email and i'll consider making it an option)
481 - added some new signal handling code (using sigaction, if available on your
483 - fixed some bugs with KDE support... this makes bbpager behave properly
484 - workspace editing via the toolbar has been made a little nicer with the
485 new focus code... right clicking on the workspace label will put you into
486 edit mode, but no windows can be focused until you leave edit mode...
487 ALSO... the window that had focus when you entered edit mode will have the
488 focus returned to it after editing is finished
489 - added new option to blackbox... -rc <filename> will read <filename> instead
490 of .blackboxrc for it's base configuration
491 - the option for opaque window moves has been moved from the stylefile into
492 .blackboxrc... set the session.opaqueMove: resource to True or False,
493 depending on what you want
494 - general namespace cleanups... just stuff to make maintaining the code a
496 - any form of "beta" has been removed from the version number for 0.51.x
497 i am declaring this series as "stable" so that i can begin a major overhaul
498 of blackbox, which will be done with John Kennis and Jason Kasper, two
499 very sharp guys that think the same way i do ;)
502 Changes from 0.50.4. to 0.50.5:
503 - modified and merged some patches from several contributors. added their
505 - major documentation updates
506 - added a few more platform success reports. changed development platform
508 - added new texture option: Interlaced... it is an extension to the gradient
509 texture that looks really neat... it is compiled in by default but may
510 be removed with --disable-interlace
511 - let's see... where do i begin... the code for 0.51.x has been GREATLY
512 enhanced over 0.50.4 (and the stupid little compile error for KDE has been
513 fixed ;)) Blackbox has undergone major renovation... and i can proudly
514 say that this release is rock solid. Also, i reinstated ccmalloc's tour
515 of duty, and spent several days with it stomping memory leaks in blackbox.
516 i can proudly say that there are no major memory leaks present in 0.51.x
517 - the toolbar has changed it appearance a little bit... the menu button has
518 been removed and the labels and buttons are now symmetrically placed on the
519 toolbar... oh no!? how do you get to your icons/workspaces now? the
520 middle click patch from Greg Barlow has been modified, enhanced and merged
521 with 0.51.x... the workspace menu now behaves just like the root menu...
522 and it can be pinned to the root window (just move it)
523 - the image code has once again been worked over... this time a local LUG
524 friend and i have hashed it out many times and into the wee hours of the
525 morning... this stuff is FAST now... before i added interlacing... we
526 had doubled the speed of the dgradient function... yes... *doubled*
527 - the code to generate error tables, color tables and other tables that are
528 used in image dithering has been rewritten, which severs the last tie to
529 window maker's wrlib that blackbox had. i now understand why and how all
530 the code that i "borrowed" works... and it's been improved... because of
531 this change... dithering is a lot cleaner... and dithering on 8bpp displays
532 is less grainy and less obtrusive...
533 - the linked list code has also been rewritten... blackbox has been using
534 a doubly linked list, and not taking advantage of all the list's
535 capabilities (because it doesnt need them)... so the linked lists are now
536 single-link and much quicker at inserting, removing, searching...
537 - once again... the menu parsing code has been rewritten... this code is
538 very efficient and very extensible... so extensible infact that after
539 implementing the current menu syntax... i added a new tag! you can now
540 insert the workspaces list into your root menu with this:
542 [workspaces] (descriptive label)
544 - the slit menu is now spacially correct... if you want the slit in the top
545 right corner of the root menu... click the top right corner of the slit
546 menu... i think this is a little more user friendly
547 - window gravity should be better supported now... restarts and what not
548 shouldn't produce all those one pixel shifts or moves anymore...
549 - the modifiers for the keygrabs in blackbox are now configurable...
550 the "keys" are still hard wired (left/right for workspace changing, tab
551 for window cycling)... but you may now configure which modifiers to use
552 with the key combos... this introduces two new resources into your
555 session.workspaceChangeModifier
559 session.windowCycleModifier
561 these resources may be set to any combination of the following:
563 Control Mod1 Mod2 Mod3 Mod4 Mod5 Lock Shift
565 also... for convenience... "Alt" is parsed as "Mod1"...
566 session.workspaceChangeModifier defaults to "Control" and
567 session.windowCycleModifier defaults to "Mod1"
568 - smart placement has been made smarter thanks to Dyon Balding's smarter
569 placement patch... this patch has been modified from the original slightly
570 (mostly speed concerns)
571 - signal handling has been made more robust... this allows it to compile on
572 more platforms and now prefers to use sigaction() over signal()
573 - over all... many code clean ups were made and old commented code was
574 purged... this is a very clean very stable release... enjoy people :)
577 Changes from 0.50.3 to 0.50.4:
578 - changed some Copyright information to include the current year
579 - added a number of platforms to the Supported Platforms section of the
581 - added the Slit... the Slit is a window maker dockapp util that lets users
582 use all of applications with Blackbox, and allows users to easily switch
583 between Window Maker and Blackbox more easily... it is included by default,
584 but you can remove it from the source with --disable-slit on your configure
586 - large Brueghel styles and images removed from the base distribution
587 - merged a patch from Benjamin Stewart for very robust menu parsing... this
588 patch allows for parenthesis in menu files, and works well for
589 automatically generating menus from shellscripts and programs... the menu
590 syntax has not changed... it just is understood better :)
591 - added shell style tilde-slash (~/) home directory expansion for the
592 [include] and [style] tags in menu files
593 - added some sanity to window position/gravity code to for GTK applications
594 - added Window Maker style Mod1+MouseButton1+Motion window moving (for those
595 few braindead apps that like to be positioned where no decorations are
597 - added a SIGCHLD handler to clean up processes started by a startup script
598 that then exec's blackbox (gets rid of all those zombie processes)
599 - added a new resource to .blackboxrc which tells Blackbox where to put the
600 Slit... editing your .blackboxrc to change this is discouraged and
601 discarded, as the Slit has a menu that lets you select where to put it
602 (click any mouse button on the slit and see for yourself)
603 - fixed a bug in the workspace renaming feature that ate all Shift keypresses
606 Changes from 0.50.2 to 0.50.3:
607 - few documentation updates
608 - fixes to let -lgen actually get linked with the executable (fixes compile
609 errors on some platforms, most notably, IRIX 6.5)
610 - a new series of styles has been added to the distribution (this accounts
611 for the increased size)
612 - fix to let 16 color servers run blackbox (colormap reduction)
613 - various bug fixes... numerous strncpy's changed to sprintfs...
614 - default font set internally to "fixed" (to let it run on servers that don't
615 have any fonts installed)
616 - fixed bug to let blackbox remove all but the last workspace (instead of the
618 - window gravity offset changes
619 - the default key grabs have changed... there are now 4: alt-tab,
620 shift-alt-tab, ctrl-alt-right, ctrl-alt-left... these keys perform
622 - fixed wire move bug for transient windows
623 - passified error handing for the main window class
624 - fixed gravity restore for restart/exit purposes
627 Changes from 0.50.1 to 0.50.2:
628 - minimal KDE integration (configure/compile time option, turned off by
629 default). This is unfinished and i can't really say if i ever will finish
630 it, but there is enough there to integrate the panel and other modules
632 - changed the regexp in building menus to use a comma (,) as the separator,
634 - various bug fixen (like the one where the window list would stay put after
635 the workspace menu went away)
636 - some hacks to improve speed in the LinkedList routines
637 - new stacking method (to better integrate with the KDE support)... windows
638 are no longer in different "levels", raising windows brings them ALL the
639 way to the front (so it's possible to obscure override redirect windows
640 like image splashes etc.) and lowering throws them ALL the way to the
641 back (even under kfm's icons)... however, the rootmenu and the toolbar
642 (if configured to be ontop) will be placed above raised windows
643 - sticky windows have changed due to the new stack implementation, they can
644 be anywhere in the stack (and not always ontop or onbottom)
645 - session.screenNUM.toolbarRaised resource has changed to
646 session.screenNum.toolbarOnTop
647 - the workspace label in the toolbar is sized a little more sanely now
648 (i found that it looks the best when the workspace label width == clock
650 - colormap focus now has it's own resource, session.colormapFocusModel, which
651 is set to "Click" by default, which means you have to click a window's
652 decorations or the root window to (un)install a colormap... setting this
653 resource to "FollowsMouse" will work just as it says... the window under
654 the pointer will have it's colormap installed
657 Changes from 0.50.0 to 0.50.1:
658 - eliminated the need for XConvertCase... workspace editing should now print
659 any and all characters correctly
660 - added check for libgen.h (which provides the prototype for basename() on
661 some systems, like OpenBSD)
662 - some code obfuscation (i've been removing comments, as some of them don't
663 relate to some of the code below them... i plan on recommenting the code
665 - clicking button 3 will hide ANY menu now, and in the case of the workspace
666 and or client menus, any other menus and/or buttons associated will be
668 - added a patch for multi-screen which sets the DISPLAY env variable so that
669 items selected from one screen don't show up on another... many thanks to
670 F Harvell <fharvell@fts.net> for this
671 - fixed a clock bug... again thanks to F Harvell for this one
672 - complete and proper window placement and window restore has been
673 implemented... windows that are partially off screen will be placed in the
674 center of the root window
675 - the toolbar's workspace label is now dynamically sized according to the
676 length of the workspace names
677 - as stated above... workspace name editing has been completely redone, i
678 discovered XLookupString() this weekend and have deemed it the function of
679 the week... any and all characters should be printed properly now
680 - window placement now has it's own resource...
681 session.screen<NUM>.windowPlacement which may be set to SmartPlacement
682 (which has been implemented) or anything else to default back to cascade
684 - a new resource, session.screen<NUM>.toolbarWidthPercent has been added, and
685 should be set to an integer representing what percentage of the root window
686 width the toolbar should occupy (default has been changed back to 67)
689 Changes from 0.40.14 to 0.50.0:
690 - added util/ subdirectory to place small, utility programs to use in
691 conjunction with blackbox.
692 - updated the README... it's still vague and useless, but gives a better
693 view of whats going on
694 - the configure script now checks for a few more headers, setlocale and
695 strftime in addition to basename functions to better include support for
696 multiple arch/langs/etc.
697 - updated default menu file... made it a little more general... and made
698 the default style menu [include]'d instead of explicitly included...
699 this break off of the style menu allows for custom menus to include the
700 default style menu for a create selection of styles
701 - changed all the default styles to use bsetroot instead of xsetroot
702 - menu handling has been improved... no more than one menu at a time may be
703 visible on the desktop (save for the root menu and it's tear off menus)
704 this means that you can't have multiple window menus and the workspace menu
705 open all at once... which saves screen space and reduces clutter
706 - much of the code has been reorganzied and reformatted for better
707 readability... this consists of function name changes and function
708 "ownership" (which basically means workspaces aren't managed by the toolbar
709 itself anymore, but by a general screen class on which the toolbar can
711 - the workspacemenu now autohides when selecting a window from one of the
713 - removed many empty destructors for Basemenu subclasses to improve code
715 - two new files, Screen.cc and Screen.hh, have been added to the distribution
716 they add the new class BScreen which was needed for the biggest change of
717 the Blackbox code base, the addition of multiple screen (i.e. multihead)
718 support. A separate BScreen is created for each screen, and all screens
719 work inconjunction with the other... windows can't be passed between
720 screens, because the X server doesn't allow this (more investigation on
722 - the toolbar's clock format is now controlled by the strftime() function...
723 if configure can't find this function on your system, the old date/time
724 format is used... with strftime, clicking on the clock doesn't display the
725 date... as the date may now be part of the clock display... read the man
726 page for the strftime function to write a format string for your clock,
727 and place it in .blackboxrc (i.e.
728 session.strftimeFormat: %I:%M %p on %a, %b %d is my strftime format
730 - the toolbar has been stripped of it's workspace responsibilities, but this
731 change has no effect on the end user.
732 - common code interspersed through out the code has been consolodated into
733 small functions and called multiple times instead of having the same or
734 similar code repeated in the same class
735 - the window startup code has been improved upon again so that shaded windows
736 are restored between restarts
737 - some ICCCM code has been updated to properly reflect the state of windows
738 while shaded or on different workspaces... this state code change should
739 also fix the JX toolkit problem of deiconifying and nothing being redrawn
740 - the main Blackbox class has been changed to purely handle X events... it
741 doesn't manage resources (save for those necessary for proper event
742 handling, like the focus model for each screen)
743 - the format of .blackboxrc has changed slightly, the session.menuFile,
744 session.doubleClickInterval, session.imageDither, session.styleFile,
745 and session.colorsPerChannel resources are unchanged. However, the
746 following resources are screen dependant:
748 session.screen<num>.strftimeFormat
749 session.screen<num>.workspaces
750 session.screen<num>.workspaceNames
751 session.screen<num>.toolbarRaised
752 session.screen<num>.focusModel
754 where <num> is the screen number (zero being default and all that would be
755 present on a single screen/monitor setup).
756 - a utility named bsetroot (mentioned above) has been included in the
757 blackbox distribution, to aid in setting root window patterns (ala
758 xsetroot). the only different between xsetroot and bsetroot is that
759 bsetroot doesn't redefine cursors, and doesn't restore defaults if no
760 arguments are given. bsetroot does support multiple screens, and is ideal
761 for those setups (instead of running xsetroot for each screen)
764 Changes from 0.40.12 to 0.40.13:
765 - added some compile time parameters to allow for clean compiling
766 - added support for vertical/horizontal maximization (i did this by
767 hand, but kudos to John Martin for the idea ;)
768 - added basename() to the distribution... it will only be compiled in
769 if basename is not present in standard libraries
770 - window focus code has changed yet again... i've decided to completely
771 rewrite the focus handling code, instead of trying to fix it... let
772 me know how this does
773 - a new resource has been added to the style loader... a resource of
774 the form: rootCommand: <shell command string> will execute this
775 command when the style is loaded, suitable for setting the root
776 window background to an image/pattern/color... this should make
777 style integration more seamless
780 Changes from 0.40.11 to 0.40.12:
781 - more migration to autoconf/automake/autoheader etc.
782 - changed the default installation prefix... /usr/local is now the
783 default... all default config files will be stored in
784 ${prefix}/share/Blackbox... any old files will not be used, and
786 - a small internal rework has made the "Inverted" option for
787 pressed button textures obsolete... please update your configs
788 - Makefile.generic has been removed
789 - Laurie's tear off menu patch has been adapted into the source tree...
790 sorry Laurie, but i had to rework your patch to make it completely
792 - rework of Image code... resizes and maximizations should be much
794 - existance of XConvertCase is checked by configure... if it is NOT
795 found, then when editing the workspace name, pressing shift will
796 not print capital letters... sorry... get an uptodate X distribution
797 (R6.3 or higher) so that XConvertCase exists...
798 - the date format on the clock is controlled by a new .blackboxrc
799 resource... session.dateFormat... accepted values are:
800 American ( mm/dd/yy ) and
801 European ( dd.mm.yy )
802 the default is american... if any other string is entered for the
803 resource, blackbox defaults again to american...
804 - changed some window positioning code so that windows aren't thrown
805 to the middle of the screen unless they are completely hidden when
807 - time bugs have been fixed... this is too detailed to go into... so
808 read the source if you are curious, otherwise just hit Reconfigure
809 when ever you change the system time, and blackbox will update and
810 continue to monitor/display the correct time (also... wrt y2k...
811 blackbox is y2k compliant is your libc's localtime() is y2k
813 - this release has a major internals rework... let me know of any
814 problems... i would also love to hear about improved/degraded
815 performance... enjoy people...
818 Changes from 0.40.10 to 0.40.11:
819 - changed the blackbox distribution to use autoconf instead of
820 imake... let me know how this works
821 - removed all the Imakefiles and Imakeconfig in favor of autoconf...
822 - added necessary files for automake and autoconf
823 - fixed a bug that would automatically shift focus to the workspace
824 label after switching to an empty workspace which would edit the
825 workspace name if pressing ctrl-arrow...
826 - fixed a bug that wouldn't focus any windows with alt-tab after
828 - new feature: click button 1 on the clock to display today's date
829 releasing the mouse button redraws the current time
830 - implemented double-click window shading by adapting David Edwards'
831 <david@dt031n1a.tampabay.rr.com> shade patch
832 - added new .blackboxrc resource - session.doubleClickInterval - which
833 controls the time between double clicks... used by the double-click
834 shade feature... defaults to 250ms is not specified
837 Changes from 0.40.9 to 0.40.10:
838 - fixed the broken menu highlights - they are now a dot in front of
840 - enhanced the image rendering code to prebuild dithering lookup
841 tables... this saves some multiply and divide instructions during the
842 rendering loop... it makes a noticable difference on my lowly p133 ;)
843 - just for completeness... i've added some error output for various
844 things that could (but rarely do) go awry
845 - the focus code has been updated yet again... but this time it's for
846 the better ;) the ctrl arrow keys continue working after a window
847 has been closed etc. etc... this should be the final change... unless
848 i find more bugs in it
851 Changes from 0.40.8 to 0.40.9:
852 - fixed a menu bug to keep as much of the menu on screen as possible
853 - added a patch from Peter Kovacs <kovacsp@egr.uri.edu> to raise the
854 current focused window when the user clicks on the window label on
856 - changed some window gravity defaults... nothing major here
857 - focus handling code has been spruced up... and majorly tested...
858 0.40.8's focus code was about as good as a full tank of gas but
859 no corvette... let me know how the focus handles in 0.40.9
862 Changes from 0.40.7 to 0.40.8:
863 - more menu fixes... highlights are handled as normal... constant
864 highlights are draw differently... the rounded edges minus the
866 - hand strength reduction in the BImage::renderXImage() method...
867 this doesn't offer much of a speed up... but every little bit
869 - stuck clients that open transients now have their transients stuck
871 - changed some input focus code to better handle the sloppy focus
872 model... the little annoyances like two focused windows should now
874 - removed gcc specific code... changed use of strsep to strtok (which
875 is defined by ANSI C)
876 - this is strictly a maintainence release... no new features have
880 Changes from 0.40.6 to 0.40.7:
881 - changed bhughes@arn.net to bhughes@tcac.net throughout the source
883 - menu sanity fixes... like unmapping a submenu when an item is removed
884 - image code fixes... no memory is allocated during the rendering...
885 only when the BImage is created... thanks to lee.salzman@lvdi.net for
886 the frame work for these changes
887 - fewer floating point division in gradient rendering routines... again
888 thanks to lee.salzman@lvdi.net for the basis of these changes
889 - reading workspace names is now a little more robust, but probably not
890 bullet proof... events are handled normally while reading the
891 workspace name... instead of blocking them all... the label changes
892 color... and reverts back to normal when enter is pressed (which
893 applies the new workspace name)
894 - the window geometry label drawn during window resizing has moved to
895 inside the window frame, this allows us to see what size windows are
896 being resized to when the right edge is close to the edge of root
897 - a lock system has been implemented for the blackbox objects... this
898 fixes a nasty little problem of stale windows (decorations with no
899 client window) because of on object grabbing the server and another
900 unlocking it... the current system works similar to XLockDisplay
901 (which is used in threaded X programs).
902 - icccm code enhancements for XWMHints and NormalHints
903 - window maximizing now properly returns the maximized client to its
904 previous location (this is a bug fix... maximize netscape, then
905 maximize an xterm... unmaximizing netscape will put it where the
906 xterm was previously)
909 Changes from 0.40.5 to 0.40.6:
910 - the workspace and client menus now keep the current workspace and
911 focus window highlighted so that we know which window is in focus
912 (especially useful with multiple xterms in the same workspace)
913 - image dithering code has been updated slightly to hopefully squeeze
914 every last drop of performance out of it
915 - pixel computation has been simplified
916 - gradient code has been changed to use less floating point division
917 this breaks Jon Denardis' gradient hack, but the option has been
918 left in place in case Jon wants to re-implement it :)
919 - more ICCCM compliance code added... window colormap focus has a
920 click-to-focus policy... any window that wants to use it's own
921 colormap (i.e. netscape -install) will have it's colormap installed
922 when button1 is pressed anywhere on the decorations (like when
923 raising) the default root colormap is reinstalled when pressing
924 button1 on the root window
925 - workspace names can now be changed on the fly... they are stored in
926 the users ~/.blackboxrc file, and may be edited from there, although
927 any changes made to the file will be over written when blackbox is
928 shutdown or restarted...
929 - workspace names can be edited *while blackbox is running* by pressing
930 button3 on the workspace label on the toolbar... pressing enter ends
931 the edit and normal event processing resumes... these names are saved
932 on exit/restart for convienence
933 - support for window gravity has been added... this is addition is
934 another step closer to complete ICCCM compliance
935 - window resizing is a bit more sane now... a bug once pointed out long
936 ago that i never noticed plagued me the other day... when resizing a
937 window to a large size... blackbox can delay a bit while it renders
938 the new decorations... if the user tries to move the window before
939 these decorations are finished... the window is resized again... this
943 Changes from 0.40.4 to 0.40.5:
944 - updated the default style to reflect the button resource change in
946 - added internal menu alignment
947 - added internal linked list insertion at a certain point, used in
949 - submenus now update their parent menu to reflect that the submenu
951 - right clicking anywhere on the rootmenu or window menus will now
952 unmap them... NOTE: this doesn't work on submenus or the rootmenu
953 or on the SendToWorkspaceMenu
954 - cleaned up some of the image rendering code to use less comparisons
955 while rendering an image... also removed alot of
956 multiplication/division use in beveling loops to increase speed
957 - changed dithering error distribution to make images smoother at
958 15 and 8bpp (8bpp got the most benefit from this change)
959 - changed the toolbar appearance... removed the raise/lower button,
960 changing the level of the toolbar isn't possible as of yet... a new
961 button has been added on the left of the toolbar, pressing it will
962 map the workspace menu, which has a few changes
963 - the workspace menu now conatins submenus of all the window lists of
964 all workspaces... it is now possible to see which window is on which
965 workspace... also... the icon button has been removed from the
966 toolbar and the iconmenu is now a submenu of the workspace menu
967 - window placement has been slightly modified... if clients request a
968 certain position, the request is honored, otherwise the client is
969 cascaded... if either the cascade or requested position obscures part
970 of the window when the window is created, the window is centered in
972 - window state updated... when blackbox is restarted, all client
973 windows are placed on the workspace they were previously occupying...
974 this is only between restarts... not when X is restarted...
975 however... applications may be coded specifically for blackbox to
976 start on a certain workspace... for more information on this, email
978 - window menu placement has been made a little more sane
981 Changes from 0.40.3 to 0.40.4:
982 - removed the window.handle{.color,.colorTo} resources... the handle
983 is now treated as a button, and uses the button resources
984 - added window.focus.button and window.unfocus.button resources to the
985 style file... this allows colors to be set different from the
986 titlebar... the colors are controlled with window.focus.button.color,
987 window.focus.button.colorTo, window.unfocus.button.color and
988 window.unfocus.button.colorTo
989 - transient focus policy has changed... if any window has an open
990 transient window... focus is awarded to the trasient instead of the
991 parent window, even if the mouse doesn't occupy the trasient window
992 - cleaned up some namespace in Basemenu.cc and Basemenu.hh
993 - changed dithering error diffusion
994 - fixed Bevel2 so that it doesn't sig11 anymore
995 - changed stacking code slightly... "stuck" windows now are placed
996 in relation to the toolbar... i.e. if the toolbar is on top... stuck
997 windows are on top of any other client windows... if the toolbar
998 is underneath client windows... stuck windows are also stacked
999 underneath the client windows
1000 - major reworking of Window.cc and Window.hh to fully support the
1001 _MOTIF_WM_HINTS on client windows... if this hint is present... then
1002 the window is decorated according to those hints... all the move/
1003 resize/configure code had to be updated because of this... one step
1004 closer to gnome compliance
1005 - window menus now contain different items based on the functions
1006 available to the client window... if a window cannot be maximized...
1007 then no maximize item is present in the window menu... also, "Close"
1008 and "Kill Client" are no longer present at the same time... if the
1009 client supports the WM_DELETE_WINDOW Protocol, then "Close" is
1010 present, "Kill Client" is only present for clients that do not
1011 support the protocol
1012 - windows may now be moved by the titlebar, handle or thin border
1013 around the window... window menus are also accessible by pressing
1014 button 3 on any of these 3 windows
1015 - a new focus model has been added... it works... but is mostly
1016 untested... session.focusModel: AutoRaiseSloppyFocus in .blackboxrc
1017 will retain the sloppy focus model... but raise windows to the
1021 Changes from 0.40.2 to 0.40.3:
1022 - fixed a bug in Blackbox::nextFocus that would put blackbox into an
1023 infinite loop when 2 windows where open, window 0 was iconified and
1024 window 1 had focus and pressing alt-tab or the next window button
1026 - completely recoded all the graphics stuffs to support all visual
1027 classes and color depths, also the image code is more compact and
1028 faster than previous releases
1029 - removed graphics.cc and graphics.hh from the distribution and added
1030 Image.cc and Image.hh for the new graphics implementation. a new
1031 class called BImageControl is now in charge of all pixmap caching
1032 and color allocation on displays that don't run/support TrueColor...
1033 this takes the job away from the Blackbox class... whose job is now
1034 to manage all it's children and disperse events read from the display
1035 - fixed bug that didn't handle windows created before blackbox is
1039 Changes from 0.40.1 to 0.40.2:
1040 - added a variable initialize line of code to keep blackbox from
1041 splattering from a sigsegv on startup
1044 Changes from 0.35.0 to 0.40.1:
1045 - cosmetic menu rendering fixes, changed the way the submenu dot is
1046 sized; changed an off by one error in drawing the rounded edges;
1047 fixed the text to be draw in the center of the item instead of at the
1049 - major changes to the toolbar (formerly the workspace manager) to
1050 change the way it looks and works. The large blank space is gone,
1051 and the toolbar is now half the height it used to be (roughly). the
1052 workspace label displays the current workspace, with the workspace
1053 menu accessible by clicking button 1 on the label. the two buttons
1054 directly to the right of the workspace label change the workspace
1055 when pressed. the window label displays the current focused window,
1056 which makes it easier to identify which window has input focus (for
1057 some people like me that have very dark or very closely colored
1058 decorations). the window menu is accessible by pressing button
1059 one on the window label, and selecting an item from the window menu
1060 will set input focus to that window (if it can receive focus). the
1061 two buttons to the right of the window label circulate focus (up and
1062 down, respectively) through the window list, skipping windows that
1063 cannot receive focus. the icon button displays a menu of all
1064 iconified applications. both the icon menu and the window menu will
1065 not become visible if they are empty. the next button on the toolbar
1066 is a raise/lower button for the workspace manager. the toolbar is
1067 stacked on startup according to the resource set in ~/.blackboxrc,
1068 but this button will raise and lower the workspace to the users
1069 desire, saving the stack order when blackbox is exited or restarted.
1070 the clock is still the same, but editing the session.clockFormat
1071 will change it from normal time (session.clockFormat: 12) to 24hour
1072 format (session.clockFormat: 24)
1073 - a pixmap cache has been implemented. a linked list stores all images
1074 rendered, removing them from the list and freeing them with the X
1075 server when all applications have removed references to them. for
1076 those who start man instances of the same applications will benefit
1077 greatly from this, as the same decorations are not redraw for each
1078 and every window. this greatly reduces the load on the X server
1079 (my X server went from taking 20-28mb of memory to 8-11mb, a dramatic
1080 improvement, especially on this 32mb machine). as a result of this,
1081 reconfiguring is faster, as is startup and restarting.
1082 - click to focus has been implemented, with some restrictions. other
1083 window managers allow the user to click anywhere on the decorations
1084 OR the client itself to set focus. i have not found an elegant way
1085 to do this yet, so focus can only be set by pressing button 1 on
1086 the decorations (like the titlebar, handle, buttons, border, etc.)
1087 just not on the client itself. i am looking more into this, but
1088 don't expect anymore than what is in place now. to use
1089 click-to-focus, put session.focusModel: ClickToFocus in ~/.blackboxrc
1090 - 2 new commands have been added to the menu syntax, [include] and
1091 [style]... the [reconfig] command still has the option to reconfigure
1092 after a command has been run, but probably will be faded out...
1093 [include] (/path/to/file) includes the file inline with the current
1094 menu, meaning that a submenu isnot created for the separate file,
1095 if a submenu is desired, the file should include the [submenu] and
1096 [end] tags explicitly.
1097 [style] is a new addition for the style file support. syntax is:
1098 [style] (label here) {/path/to/style/file} which will read the new
1099 style file and reconfigure when selected.
1100 - style files have been added to allow for easier switching between
1101 configurations. the style file resources are dramtically different
1102 from those in 0.3x.x, see app-defaults/Blackbox-style.ad for an
1104 - with the addition of style files, menus have been given their own
1105 justification resource, allowing (for example) menus to be left
1106 justified while titles are center or right justified.
1107 - please read the sample configuration files in app-defaults/ for the
1108 new and improved configuration system. NOTE: Blackbox.ad is a
1109 sample ~/.blackboxrc, but you shouldn't copy this file to
1110 ~/.blackboxrc, as Blackbox will store the resources it needs
1112 - an unofficial release numbered 0.40.0 was given out to some
1113 testers, and even this release needs the same treatment as 0.35.0
1114 with respect to the new config system (0.40.0 only implemented the
1115 pixmap cache, the new toolbar and *part* of the new config system,
1116 but not the style files or automatic generation of ~/.blackboxrc)
1119 Changes from 0.34.5 to 0.35.0:
1120 - changed the way menus are draw to round both end of the highlight...
1121 - cosmetic enhancements for the various justifications...
1122 - this is the first stable release of blackbox
1125 Changes from 0.34.4 to 0.34.5:
1126 - hopefully... this will be the last bug fix... so i can begin working
1127 on new features... i fixed event mask selection on client windows
1128 after reparenting them to the decoration frame... this should get
1130 - changed the signal hander to core on sigsegv and sigfpe... sigint and
1131 sigterm will just exit blackbox cleanly... sighup will cause blackbox
1132 to reconfigure itself
1133 - changed the way the version string is printed...
1136 Changes from 0.34.3 to 0.34.4:
1137 - changed the window stacking code to stack windows and their menus
1138 more sanely... window menus are stacked directly ontop of the client
1139 windows... instead of on top of every other client window... the
1140 workspace manager is now by default stacked above client windows...
1141 - reworked alot of code in Window.cc, blackbox.cc, Workspace.cc and
1142 WorkspaceManager.cc to properly handle ICCCM state hints... the
1143 startup and shutdown code has been completely reworked as a result of
1146 Changes from 0.34.2 to 0.34.3:
1147 - this was a small change in the code... but a BIG change for the user
1148 base... the X error handler is now non fatal... yes... this means if
1149 blackbox encounters an X error (like a bad window or a bad match) it
1150 will fprintf() the error and continue running... the quick window bug
1151 has been mostly fixed... i have a small app that i wrote that quickly
1152 maps a window, calls XSync()... then destroys the window and exits...
1153 the first time i ran this little beauty... blackbox died a horrible
1154 death... blackbox now handles this app nicely... but does
1155 occasionally report an error (during the decoration creation... which
1156 is promptly destroyed from the destroy notify event placed in the
1157 queue by the X server... thus... no memory leaks... no memory
1158 corruption... blackbox just keeps chugging along nicely
1161 Changes from 0.34.1 to 0.34.2 (unreleased):
1162 - fixed MSBFirst byte order image rendering at 32bpp (24bpp pending)
1163 (for machines better than this intel machine of mine)
1164 - changed BImage to allocate dithering space when the image is created
1165 and to delete it when the image is destroyed... instead of allocating
1166 the space and deleting the space each time the image is rendered to
1167 an XImage... hopefully this will provide a speed increase (albeit a
1169 - changed blackbox to call XListPixmapFormats once at startup...
1170 instead of each time an image is rendered... this should afford some
1171 speed increase (a small one at best :)
1172 - fixed a bug in Window.cc that re-reads the window name...
1173 Jon Denardis discovered this bug while playing with netscape 4.5...
1174 the validation call is now directly before the XFetchName call...
1175 instead of before an if() { } block that calls strcmp and XFree()
1176 - edit Window.cc to change the way buttons are decorated and sized
1177 the associatedWindow.button.color(To) resources have been removed,
1178 but the associatedWindow.button texture resource is still there
1181 Changes from 0.34.0 to 0.34.1:
1182 - fixed the unmanaged rxvt/xconsole/whatever problem that didn't
1183 decorate windows at start up... just a little logic error that was
1184 fixed with a few braces
1185 - fixed the shutdown code so that X and blackbox don't die a gruesome
1186 death while reparenting the small applets on the workspace manager
1187 toolbar... the above bug fixed also fixed a bug that didn't reparent
1188 any existing app windows...
1189 - updated libBox code to allow for flaws in it's design (forgotten from
1191 - removed #include <sys/select.h> from blackbox.cc so that it compiles
1192 on any platform (since select is supposed to be defined in unistd.h)
1193 - removed the NEED_STRNCASECMP block in blackbox.cc until i can get
1194 a working posix like routine to work (needed for OS2 platforms)
1195 - edited the Imakefile scheme to have the the toplevel Imakefile and
1196 Imakefiles in app-defaults/ lib/ and src/... there now is Imakeconfig
1197 which includes all the options in one file... so that editing all
1198 the Imakefiles is no longer necessary
1201 Changes from 0.33.6 to 0.34.0:
1202 - edited some Imakefiles so that rpm creaters have an easier time
1203 - added stuff to lib/ which contains a small (VERY small) library for
1204 letting applications open a window on the workspace manager toolbar
1205 this is very very new... restarting will cause the app to crash
1206 (at best) or take X with it (the worst)... play with it an let me
1208 - further revised window.cc and blackbox.cc to provide better error
1209 checking... window.cc received the most updates... validating a
1210 window is now done in the statement before the window is used... not
1211 at the beginning of the function the window is used in...
1212 - fixed the stacking order bug when changing workspaces... the windows
1213 will now be restored in the order that you left them... not in the
1214 order they were created in...
1215 - updated the README... a little bit anyway :)
1216 - updated BlackboxWindow::maximizeWindow() in window.cc to properly
1217 maximize windows that have specified size increments
1218 - fixed BlackboxWindow::configureWindow so that shaded windows that re
1219 size themselves only resize the titlebar
1220 - added ccmalloc 0.2.3 to the main source tree to aid in debugging...
1221 this is NOT maintained by myself, see the source tree for details
1222 - eliminated a double delete call with the aid of ccmalloc!@#!
1225 Changes from 0.33.5 to 0.33.6:
1226 - added Makefile.generic for those of you with foobared imake configs.
1227 the use of xmkmf -a (i.e. imake) is still prefered... but this should
1228 work on any system... with a little editing
1229 - added static int handleXErrors(Display *, XErrorEvent *) in
1230 blackbox.cc to handle any and all X lib errors while blackbox is
1231 running... this should produce a coredump and thus the -moron
1232 community should be able to flood my inbox with stack trace upon
1234 - added some sub directories and moved the sources around, this allows
1235 for easier inclusion of the library for blackbox specific programs
1236 (which will run in the dock)
1237 - hopefully fixed the "disappearing-rxvt-trick"... since i can't
1238 reproduce it i don't know for sure
1239 - removed the use of alloca in graphics.cc... i was noticing very odd
1240 behaviour from malloc() and free()... where blackbox would sig11
1241 when exiting because of XCloseDisplay doing something naughty...
1242 and this seems to have done the trick... no more sig11's from malloc
1243 or new... everything i've thrown at blackbox is gently but firmly
1244 beaten into submission...
1245 - added docboy's curved gradient hack as a compile time option... see
1246 src/Imakefile and src/graphics.cc
1249 Changes from 0.33.4 to 0.33.5:
1250 - added a small test to cascade windows that start out partially hidden
1251 (like netscape, Xnest, xv, etc.)
1252 - changed icon handling to include a menu of icons accessible from the
1253 workspace manager toolbar
1254 - deiconifying a window now takes it to the top of the stack
1255 - clicking on a menuitem that has a submenu no longer hides the submenu
1256 - added resource "workspaceManager.24hourClock", a value of True turns
1257 on the 24hour clock on the toolbar
1258 - removed icon pixmap/window/mask support/handling from window.cc and
1259 window.hh... since icons are now handled in a menu, this is no
1261 - added session.handleWidth and session.bevelWidth
1262 to control window sizes (instead of hardcoded defaults)
1263 - changed parts of Basemenu.cc and WorkspaceManager.cc to follow the
1264 sizes set by session.bevelWidth
1265 - fixed Alt-Tab window switching... also fixed some focus handling bugs
1266 which let two windows become focused at the same time (which is bad
1270 Changes from 0.33.3 to 0.33.4:
1271 - corrected a typo in the sample Blackbox.ad file to correctly show
1272 which resource to set for the menu file
1273 - added moderate window group support for programs like netscape and
1274 other motif applications... modified window stacking code and
1275 internal list code to support window groups (this makes transients
1276 behave properly... another step towards more complete ICCCM
1278 - modified focus event handlers to stop applications from focusing out
1279 when pressing menubars... also window focus is returned to root if
1280 the focus window is closed... if another window is under the focus
1281 window when it is closed... that window is awarded input focus
1282 - fixed tiny little bug that didn't move the close button when resizing
1286 Changes from 0.33.2 to 0.33.3:
1287 - changed some of the menu code ("updated" in 0.33.1) back to the
1288 original 0.33.0, which seems to perform better. Reason behind it? -
1289 blackbox died too often with 0.33.1/2
1290 - added "Kill Client" option to window menus... for those applications
1291 that don't accept the WM_DELETE_WINDOW atom
1292 - menus that are not partially moved off the root window are shifted to
1293 a visible position when the pointer enters the frame... it is also
1294 shifted back to it's original position when left (this is new... let
1295 me know how it works)
1298 Changes from 0.33.1 to 0.33.2: (unreleased)
1299 - changed BlackboxIcon to not try and read its config when it was
1300 created. This was forgotten from the 0.31.0 -> 0.33.0 move :/
1303 Changes from 0.33.0 to 0.33.1: (unreleased)
1304 - improved menu handling, less possibilty for SIGSEGV
1305 - menus now make copies of all label, exec strings and titles, to
1306 make less loose pointers
1307 - fixed typo to allow submenus of submenus of submenus (...)
1308 - fixed workspace menu and window list menu placements
1311 Changes from 0.31.0 to 0.33.0:
1312 - added #ifdef statements so the C preprocessor doesn't complain about
1313 _GNU_SOURCE being redefined.
1314 - changed internal resource data structures
1315 - added Sticky windows functionality
1316 - remove old animation code bound with #ifdef ANIMATIONS
1317 - fixed a silly little bug that sometimes mapped a submenu when its
1318 parent was unmapping itself
1319 - added ExecReconfigure option to execute a shell statement before
1320 performing reconfiguration
1321 - rearranged window config code to reduce wait time while resizing
1322 - added internal macro BImageNoDitherSolid to make window frame
1323 rendering faster (dithering a solid image is silly anyway)
1324 - added new menu file format
1325 - added Blackbox::validateWindow to provide a stabler environment for
1326 Blackbox. This gives blackbox more error checking and greater
1327 stability. For me, random crashes have (nearly) disappeared.
1328 - removed window name/class dependant frame texture/color
1329 - with 0.31.0, each entity read it's configuration from the rc database
1330 loaded at start. this has changed back to the old behaviour of
1331 reading all configuration parameters at start, no database reads are
1332 performed after the initial setup (save for reconfiguring).
1333 - configuration has changed to be a little cleaner, and a little more
1334 thorough. See the Blackbox.ad and BlackboxMenu.ad for exmaples.