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19 <h3
>Version
0.95.3 released
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20 <p
> Window Maker
0.95.3 was released on May
16th
2012. This release fixes a regression
21 which would cause more than one instance of an application to
start (under some circunstances
) when using menu
22 shortcuts
. The window maximization procedures now have a more intuitive behavior with respect to remembering
23 the old geometry
and going back to it
. Furthermore
, there are some other small fixes
and cleanups
.</p
>
25 <h3
>Version
0.95.2 released
</h3
>
26 <p
> Window Maker
0.95.2 was released on February
14th
2012, and it contains just a few
27 commits on top of
0.95.1. They were necessary to fix a few issues like
'make dist' not compiling
.
28 Furthermore a few more code cleanups slipped in
.</p
>
31 <h3
>Version
0.95.1 released
</h3
>
33 <p
>Window Maker
0.95.1 was released on January
29th
2012.</p
>
35 <p
>The last official Window Maker release was version
0.92.0 from
2005, and version
0.95.1 contains many bug fixes
and
36 also a few
new features
.</p
>
38 <h3
>New features
and highlights
</h3
>
40 <p
>The following
list is incomplete
, but should give a first
-order approximation to the
new features in this release
.
41 For the truly curious among you
, reading through
<code
>git log
</code
> is the only complete source of information
.</p
>
45 <p
><a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/6924454836b3a9432def2749f093ea060ac82e97">Left Half
/ Right
46 Half Maximize
</a
>.</p
>
50 <p
><a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/cf62d1591f5aef1e6760a8c0881a6de97ae26e92">Maximus
: tiled
51 maximization
</a
>. Maximizes a window such that it occupies the largest area without overlapping others
.</p
>
55 <p
><a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a063338175511c4e6af211cef9f2c8a555d7cb44">New mouse
-resizing
56 functionality
</a
>. Windows can now be resized
vertically (horizontally
) using MOD+
Wheel (CTRL+Wheel
).</p
>
60 <p
><a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/05720d97076ffc1569e50d904b998ec99c3d3d4e">History
and TAB
61 completion in dialogs
</a
>. To
use this
new functionality in your old WMRootMenu
, replace %a by %A in the relevant
62 entry
. It will look like this
<code
>(Run
..., SHEXEC
, "%A(Run, Type command:)")</code
>. Or use
63 <code
>wmgenmenu
</code
> to generate a
new menu
.</p
>
67 <p
><a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a257e16593bb471662ce46f65d489c2ba6d87813">Bouncing appicon
72 <p
>New applications (<a href
=
73 "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/1861880239634774bf898175a3155b7c7cd9b59c">wmgenmenu
</a
> and wmmenugen
)
74 to generate the root menu automatically by looking which applications you have on your
$PATH. Translations to
75 German
, <a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/077a2eaa71623421eaffc234c30e6d40a52f0220">Spanish
and
76 French
</a
> of menus generated by wmgenmenu
.</p
>
80 <p
><a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/56d856878743ec2d3b8d98ab6a0b61a6b2c99129">Automatic detection
81 of configuration changes
</a
>. Linux users whose kernel supports the
<a href
=
82 "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify">inotify
</a
> mechanism have their configuration changes detected
83 automatically without polling
, reducing the number of CPU wakeups
.</p
>
87 <p
><a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/9318a7f42870753bd6b8c306573936369aa819f4">Improved dockapp
92 <p
>And many trivial things which reduce little annoyances one might have
. For example
, an option was added to
93 control whether
or not Window Maker should
do <a href
=
94 "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/d6c134f420bfa1cd6b6a9474d01548933b559901">automatic workspace
95 switching
</a
> to satisfy a focus request from a window located in another workspace
.</p
>
99 <p
>(For developers
). The
<a href
=
100 "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/442e3876c6e5a78c6ed385ec204647553f45c168">addition
</a
> of a debian
/
101 folder which allows the creation of a debian package
for wmaker using the git sources
.</p
>
105 <p
><a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/b6689a0108fd06ba4d7bf22b789b3de531c2ad70">Added keyboard
106 shortcut to uncover
/cover the dock
</a
>.</p
>
110 <p
><a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/18408fff93468c533bf4aef3ce6c9808b415adde">Mac OS X
-style
111 window cycling
</a
>.</p
>
115 <p
><a href
="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c201e1612c1798106ccc2f806669a90b0bbb7a19">Preliminary XRandR
116 support
</a
> (needs a bit more work to be bug
-free
; not compiled in by
default. Use --enable
-xrandr
if you want to
123 <p
>Window Maker
0.92.0 was already very stable
, but many bugs were fixed in this release
. A
<strong
>very
</strong
>
124 incomplete
list is given below
, and as time permits it will be
updated (including links to the commits
) in the future
.
125 But the message now is that
if you don
't like bugs, use version 0.95.1.</p>
129 <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/37829a7c60ca09eb47d4d82b00070f6f6c0fb277">Fix loading saved
130 states on 64-bit systems</a></p>
134 <p>Fix to avoid a segfault when creating more than 81 workspaces, as reported on youtube <a href=
135 "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNJZvKwmhE">here</a>.</p>
139 <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c91bb1ba1360006c568db37438779e525868cf17">Periodic focus
144 <h3>Summary of changes</h3>
146 <p>A lot of effort was put into cleaning up the code, with lots of code removal and tidying things up. The following
147 output should give you an idea of the development in the last cycle:</p>
149 git diff --shortstat wmaker-0.92.0+..wmaker-0.95.1
150 592 files changed, 118361 insertions(+), 133342 deletions(-)
151 git diff --shortstat 688a56e8ab67b..wmaker-0.95.1
152 566 files changed, 37676 insertions(+), 41817 deletions(-)
153 </pre>The first shortstat is really everything, including the (huge) patch generated in this <a href=
154 "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/688a56e8ab67b56550e2874d9d7423f0d435bfd9">commit</a> from 2009, which changed the old
155 sources to the linux kernel coding style. The second shortstat contains the summary of development afterwards -- but included is
156 the addition of a debian folder with files summing around ~20k lines. The full diffstat for the second command can be seen
157 <a href="fulldiffstat.php">here</a>.
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