2 - pulling patch in from David Dellanave (solaris compile issues)
5 - fixing compilation issue for Mac OS X (thanks to Thomas F. Burdick!!)
8 - fixing bug in token-parsing (thanks to Adam Hooper!!!)--we now allow
9 ")"'s in our ExecCommands. =:)
14 - fix recursive redhat-build bug (fixes 577135)
17 - fix a memory leak in ToolWindow::windowAttributeChange.
20 - remove server grabs from the Image code. They prove to not be needed (they
21 no longer exist in the blackbox code.) And they cause the X server to lock
22 indefinately if you run 2 bbkeys on the same display, running the second
23 one from a terminal on the display.
26 - when we recieve a startup message from blackbox, clear out any leftover
27 windows in the window list. These are caused by the fact that on shutdown
28 of blackbox, if any windows are unmanaged after bbkeys, bbkeys doesn't get
29 notified of their destruction and so ends up with extra windows in its list.
32 - fix compiling issues under solaris. Thanks to grub on irc for use of his
36 - get rid of work-around for pre-0.60 blackbox, which fixes bug that let you
37 move the toolbar around with bbkeys.
40 - fix window focus tracking bug. Fixes bug where you could manipulate the
41 last focused window on a nono-visible workspace.
44 - fix multi-head bug in main.cc. We now putenv("DISPLAY=...") so that
45 applications launched will be launched on the correct display. Thanks to
46 Greg Gilbert for his patch!
49 - fix bug in main.cc (| rather than ||). Thanks to Roman Neuhauser!
52 - fix bug in bbkeys.hh--increasing MaxInstructions to 100 for cthulhain
55 - fix in bbkeys.cc -- XUngrabKey changed to use same call to find what
56 screen we're on as the XGrabKey call
59 - fix in bbkeys.cc -- doing "xterm -e sh -c $command" rather than "xterm -e
60 $command". Thanks to Magnus Solvang for the bug report. Also, changing
61 hideous char* and snprintf() to ostrstream, YAY!!
66 - add a sanity check to the removeWindow function. Basically, blackbox tells
67 bbkeys when a window disappears, or is removed. If the window being
68 removed was the last window blackbox specified as having the input focus,
69 bbkeys now resets what it thinks has the input focus. This prevents the
70 bug reproducable by iconifying the last window on a workspace, and then
71 trying to maximize "nothing". [xOr]
73 - cleaning up build again. Rather than having 200 -DDEFINE_ statements
74 in our compile lines, we use config.h (like normal people). =:) This
75 very well may break stuff, but it looks good thus far.... [vanRijn]
77 - adding AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to stop the ever-annoying "here, let me run
78 aclocal for you again!!" idiocy of automake and friends [vanRijn]
80 - fixing things for multi-head displays--replacing
81 "getScreenInfo(0)->getRootWindow()," with
82 "getCurrentScreenInfo()->getRootWindow()," So yes, bbkeys now has
83 multi-head support. Sort of. You need to have a separate instance of
84 bbkeys running against each head ("bbkeys -display :1"), etc. cat
85 complaints >> /dev/null.... [vanRijn]
87 - removing kludgy C command-line configurator with much-improved perl script
88 from Damien Tougas (thanks!!!) [vanRijn]
90 - changing bbkeys.cc to look for bbkeysconf.pl rather than bbkeysConfigC
93 - removing showAllWorkspaces from bbkeys.{bb,nobb} config file and making it
94 an additional keybinding. This allows two different ways of showing all
95 open windows and navigating through them--one keybinding for the regular
96 "NextWindow" variety (as in previous versions of bbkeys, and another
97 keybinding, "NextWindowAllWorkspaces", that pops up the window list for
98 navigation for windows open on all workspaces. [vanRijn]
100 - bugfix.... previously, bbkeys would ignore windows that had no name. We
101 now follow blackbox's lead (and follow blackbox's code) and create a name
102 for it, "Unnamed". Thanks to Damien Terrier for this bug report.
105 - patch for allowing an alternate keybinding config file (thanks to Scott
108 - sync with blackbox for 0.61.2--attributes element Atom has changed to now
109 include decoration state so that ToggleDecor() works. [vanRijn]
111 - including patch from Sergey Vlasov for allowing use of Meta and Hyper
112 modifiers, also try to get the correct Num_Lock and Scroll_Lock modifier
113 mask from the X server rather than hard-coded. I've not had tons of time
114 to play with this, though I have made sure that it works on my laptop.
117 - fix for RPM-building process... install gzipped man pages by default on
118 RPM-based systems. Thanks to Darryll for the bug report!! =:) [vanRijn]
120 - removing bbkeysconf and bbkeysConfigGtk *shudder* apps from
121 chain-launching mode. These babies are dead and let's just move on
122 folks.... By keeping them in there, I'm afraid people will think it's
123 okay to use them. It's not. They're WAY out of date. Also, thanks to a
124 smarter way of handling key grabbing configuration in bbconf, we don't
125 have to hang bbkeys while keygrabs are being configured. [vanRijn]
127 - adding logic to bbkeys to pass configurators correct command-line
128 arguments so we load the rc-file that our user is running bbkeys with.
131 - long-overdue documentation finessing, thanks to Roman Neuhauser for the
132 patches and suggestions! =:) Also, adding CVS version id's to all source
133 and documentation files, woot! =:) [vanRijn]
135 - cross-compilation patch from Bo Thorsen--moves -lX11 to LIBS [vanRijn]
139 - changing external app launch order--we go bbconf, bbkeysconf,
140 bbkeysConfigGtk, rxvt, xterm... *phew*
142 - fix in stackmenu.cc (hopefully we got it this time?) to fix segfaults
143 on some platforms due to screwy X stuff. *shudder*
148 - patched for matrix-style workspace navigation, updating the 0.3.5 patch written
149 by Markus Ottenbacher (m.ottenbacher@gmx.de) found at
150 http://homepages.compuserve.de/meottenbacher/. Include UpWorkspace,
151 DownWorkspace, LeftWorkspace and RightWorkspace as WithAction() in your
152 ~/.bbkeysrc, and enable the arrangement in rows and columns in your
153 bbkeys.bb as well as in bbpager.bb (usually placed under
154 /usr/local/share/bbtools/) to use this functionality. Bill Beal <beal@tunl.duke.edu>
156 - fixed a bug due to an improper test for next and prev (test for key
157 release). next and prev might just be 0, so we can't do if (next)
158 because the correct index of the grabSet.KeyMap might be 0 for either
159 prevwindow or nextwindow keybinding and it would fail the test and not
160 release the keyboard and not lower the window menu.
162 - fixed a bug for the window list popup menu--sticky window bug where
163 sticky windows would show up twice on their originating windows but not
164 at all on the workspace that you switched from immediately prior to
165 switching to the window where the sticky window is "homed"... =:)
167 - xOr's new "showAllWorkspaces" option lets you see every window that you
168 have on any workspace with an indicator as to what workspace that
169 window is living on.... Very sweet code.
171 - fix for popup window menu... Added "always on top" code so that it
172 stays at top of window stack and won't let blackbox hide it with any
173 other window (as occurs when auto-raise is enabled in blackbox).
176 - bug fixin's--fixed annoying "un-iconify" feature when bbkeys did window
177 cycling, thanks to halt, all else for pointing that one out.... Also,
178 removed REPORT struct from resource.hh which only had auto_raise in it
179 (not sure why it's been there, un-used all this time anyway)....
181 - changed all "friend .*$" to "friend class .*$" to comply with more
182 strict gcc versions.... Thanks to Jan Schaumann for this!
184 - okay. stacked window cycling tweaks. As a visual clue for the
185 stacked-Cycling folks, we now set focus on cycled-through windows as we
186 go, raising the window selected at the end of the cycle. This sounds
187 more confusing than it is. This makes it possible to separate the new
188 and improved cycling method from the popup menu. Oh, and hitting Escape
189 in the middle of cycling will return focus to the window that you
192 - I've made it possible to turn off the visual menu for the new-and-improved
193 stacked cycling method. To do this, just put
194 "bbkeys.menu.showCycleMenu: False" (without the quotes, duh) into your
195 ~/.bbtools/bbkeys.bb or ~/.bbtools/bbkeys.nobb file. This will let
196 bbkeys still use the new method, will set focus as you cycle through the
197 stack, but won't actually raise the window you want until you tell it
198 to by releasing your keys or hitting <Enter>, and won't show the popup
199 window list and cycle through the entries as you go. Again, harder to
200 explain than it is to use....
202 - including README, ChangeLog, and AUTHORS in installed files list
204 - including first man page files (W00T!!) =:). Thanks to Jan Schaumann,
205 bbkeys now has man pages, baybee. Installing now and including files
209 - BIG changes!!! w00T!!! There's some very significant improvements in
210 this version, and as such, I'm calling this version 0.8.0 for various
213 2) I'm thinking we're about "there", and 0.8.0 sounds like more of a
214 non-beta product than 0.3.8
215 3) I feel like it =:)
217 - xOr (see below) has done some majorly good coding with bbkeys. He's
218 implemented a different window-cycling scheme that's more
219 "Windows"-like (think <alt+tab> popup window with list of things you're
220 cycling through)... Verrrry slick. Umm. Did I say Verrrrry?
222 Why, yes I did. You are just going to have to see it to believe it. Blackbox
223 has just again become my favorite window manager for X, with the help
224 xOr has given to me. The window cycling methodology has changed, and
225 believe me, this is a change for the better. There's now two methods
226 of window cycling--both use the same keybindings, so don't get yer
227 panties tied in knots. xOr has implemented a newer, better "old-style"
228 window cycling, called linear cycling. It's basically what
229 blackbox/bbkeys has done up until this point, but with a few
230 significant improvements. But the really exciting new feature in this
231 release of bbkeys is the other way--a "stacked" cycling method. It
232 makes much more sense than the old way. And it's purtier, because you
233 can see what you're window-changing to before you actually go there.
234 And when you hit <alt+tab> (example keybinding--you can have it be
235 whatever you want it to be), it goes back to the window you were on
236 right before this one.
238 It's way cool, uber-neato, and excellently implemented. I'll expand on
239 this more in README, so look there for more details.
241 - xOr has also fixed a bug in LinkedList.cc (as posted to the blackbox
242 mailing list) that affected how the windows were put into the cycling
245 - I'm considering xOr a co-developer now (as long as he has the time and
246 desire, of course), but we've a project available on sourceforge.net at
247 http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=32563 . Of course, this means
248 that all the usual sourceforge advantages are there, like CVS access,
249 etc. The project is bbconf.sourceforge.net for the time being, so
250 CVS access looks like this:
252 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbconf.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbconf login
253 <hit enter for password>
254 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbconf.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbconf co bbkeys
256 I've imported the bbkeys tree (0.8.0 will be pulled directly from it),
257 and I've also imported a bbconf module. bbconf will be the new
258 all-in-one blackbox configuration utility (if I get some help). =:)
259 To get read-only access to it, do this...
261 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbconf.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbconf login
262 <hit enter for password>
263 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbconf.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbconf co bbconf
265 - adding ToggleDecor as an option to toggle ummmm, window decor.... (duh).
266 *** BIG HONKING NOTE ***
267 This doesn't currently work. =:\ The code is in bbkeys, but can't
268 actually do anything until blackbox is changed to tell us what the
269 decorated state of the window is. Hopefully this will be included in
272 - changing order of configurator launch again, thanks to a bug report
273 from David Lawrence Ramsey (I had " black" instead of "black")--so we
274 now try rxvt before xterm, and rxvt should actually work now....
276 - hopefully fixing strcasecmp issue for AIX boxen--it's in strings.h
277 instead of string.h. Adding check for strings.h.... PLEASE let me
278 know if this doesn't actually fix anything. I'd like to put this guy
281 - Applying patches from Ben Jansens <xor at x-o-r dot net>. His comments
284 I've removed all the functionality from the wminterface class that bbkeys
285 does not use, and reorganised the header files for wminterface and bbkeys,
286 adding comments for all of the class members. With this patch, bbkeys not
287 longer calls the blackbox cycling routines, but maintains its own list of
288 windows, and cycles them itself. One thing to note is that the cycling does
289 not occur in the same order as the buttons on the toolbar cycle. I personally
290 dont think this will be a big issue, and i think the new way is nicer. When a
291 new window opens, its added to the list right *after* the focused window,
292 so that hitting PrevWindow would take you back to the window that was
297 * VERY nice work, Ben. Thanks for your work! *
299 - Bug squashing and fixing galore... Thanks again to Ben for pointing
300 these out. The issue was that we were doing stuff to windows without
301 making sure the window wasn't our root window. Doh! So now we make
302 sure 1) we have a focus_window and 2) that focus_window isn't
303 PointerRoot. Hopefully that will do the trick....
310 - Fixed slight bug in font-loading for label.font and frame.font. As
311 things were, we only looked for TitleFont (a bbtools-specific directive
312 which most probably isn't in most style files), a bbkeys-specific font
313 directive (which was less likely to be found). I added to the search
314 criteria toolbar.font, which for sure will be in every
315 toolbox/bbconf-generated style file and is most probably in every other
316 style file as well. Long story short, fonts should now load according
317 to the individual style used, rather than relying so heavily on
319 - applied patch submitted from MrFab (Scott Garner for the irc-challenged)
320 to manipulate window placement via keypress!!! VERY clean and nice
321 work, MrFab!! And useful, to boot! =:)
322 - reworked and applied patch from Alex (dicerandom @ earthlink dot net)
323 for keystroke-resizing of focused windows. Very nice work, Alex!
325 - reworked fork() section for configurator launch--based on Kyle
326 Donaldson's idea.... We now try bbkeysconf, bbkeysConfigGtk, xterm,
327 rxvt--in that order... Thanks Kyle!
328 - new and improved bbkeysConfigC--better functioning, disclaimer added
329 since we trounce on whatever was in ~/.bbkeysrc, added printout of all
330 available keygrabs now....
333 - Doh!! In the midst of the glorious bug-squashing that 0.3.4 offered, I
334 introduced a new bug (just to see if anybody actually uses my code,
335 erm, or something). =:) I was getting rid of all the strdups that I
336 could and in the process forgot to replace it with a working solution
337 for the ExecCommand part of bbkeys's functionality.
340 - updated Image.cc, Image.hh, BaseDisplay.hh to newest (0.61.0) blackbox
341 files to correct bug that reared its ugly little head when running on
342 SPARC boxen Ultra 5 (Bus Error). Thanks to Tibor Simko for reporting
344 - many bug fixes and killing of leaks =:) thanks to memprof and X
345 man-page reading (shudder). I found quite a few memory leaks (some
346 that bbkeys inherited from the XEmacs code) and discovered some
347 undocumented features that may not qualify as leaks, but the net result
348 was that bbkeys could chew up RAM far more than he should. So, the end
349 result is that bbkeys now has far fewer memory problems. I'm pretty
350 sure that there are more buglets to be found, but that's for when I get
351 bored again, I guess. =:) Thanks to Sean 'Shaleh' Perry for this
352 buglet report (and others too). =:)
353 - updated bbkeysconf--couple of fixes for compiling on solaris....
354 - added -lX11 to the link line (should be there anyway)
355 - changed a QString.left to a QString.at function call
356 - thanks to Bo Thorsen for these buglet-reports! =:)
359 - changes and updates (thanks to nyz for the help!!!) to change the
360 communication Atoms between blackbox-0.60.1 and bbkeys (READ: YOU MUST
361 BE RUNNING BBKEYS 3.3 OR LATER IF YOU USE BLACKBOX 0.60.1 OR LATER)...
364 - Weehee!! Get along, little doggie!! Or something.... Thanks to the
365 man, the myth, the legend, the zzzeek-meister, one of those irritating
366 little problems that I've never had enough interest in fixing has been
367 fixed!! You know the one--where you're going merrily along through your
368 day, using bbkeys happily, when all of a sudden, things appear to have
369 just stopped working altogether. And then you start cursing that
370 darned bbkeys author, and in general, have a horrid day thereafter. Well
371 fear no more, little pilgrim--that "feature" has been hunted down and
372 wrestled to the ground, thanks to zzzeek (classic@io.com). The 'feature'
373 was one that I was never worried about--since it followed blackbox's
374 'feature' that did exactly the same thing. What thing is that? Why,
375 I'm so glad you asked. If you hadn't noticed before, if you have your
376 CapsLock, NumLock, or ShiftLock pressed (or any other funky modifier
377 key pressed), bbkeys stopped performing your key-grabs.
379 Well, anywho, I've rambled enough. I'm going to have bbkeys by default
380 work with any modifiers now. If you want bbkeys to work the way it does
381 now and stop grabbing keys when you have Caps/Num/ShiftLock pressed,
382 you'll have to change this line to True in your bbkeys config file
383 ($HOME/bbtools/bbkeys.bb, not ~/.bbkeysrc):
385 bbkeys.honorModifiers: False
389 - *sigh* My next release is going to not even have a UI. =:) Okay, for
390 those in this world who run blackbox on a 12" monitor (*cough* talmage
391 *cough*), or refuse to upgrade because -miniMe is toooooo big (*cough*
392 luqin *cough), =:) bbkeys now has a new run-time switch "-tinyMe" which
393 will cause bbkeys to draw itself at the old 0.2.7 size.
397 - buglet fix in MakeWindow so we don't XMapWindow every time (thanks nyz!)
398 - alrighty then, the -miniMe controversy continues. kns mentioned an idea
399 for a new miniMe look and I like it. _I_ may even use -miniMe now.
400 =:) Here's the thing, I really don't care at all about -miniMe, since
401 I use him at full-size. If somebody wants to code for this to be a
402 configurable option (bbkeys.keyhole.size or bbkeys.keyhole.width, etc.),
403 I'll be more than happy to look at it.
407 - included new Image classes from the latest blackbox source so luqin's
408 and r00tv's styles work. =:) Oh, it'll help other people too, but
409 they pested me first.
410 - added Workspace9, 10, 11, and 12 to keygrabs and configurator
415 - added MaximizeVertical and MaximizeHorizontal key-grabbability. Don't
416 know why it didn't occur to me earlier. =:) nyz did all the hard work
419 - As of this release of bbkeys, I'm no longer going to support the gtk
420 configurator (unless I get a WHOLE lot of of input to the contrary).
421 I've re-written the gui configurator in qt (thanks to luqin for the
422 beginnings of this) and let me tell you, it is a WHOLE lot easier to
423 work with qt2 than gtk. Much, much cleaner. You doubt?
425 (gideon@judea)[bbkeysConfigGtk/src]-% wc -l *.{c,h}
427 689 bbkeysConfigSig.c
430 139 bbkeysConfigSig.h
434 (gideon@judea)[bbkeys-0.2.7/bbkeysconf-1.1]-% wc -l *.{cc,hh}
442 734 lines of code versus 1588 makes me a happy, happy SE. =:)
444 - So, I'm pulling out the bbkeysConfigGtk directory from the bbkeys source
445 tarball and in its place is bbkeysconf. I'll also be regulaly
446 posting rpms of both bbkeys and bbkeysconf as new releases rear their
447 ugly little heads, as well as one last RPM of bbkeysConfigGtk as well
448 as the tarball for bbkeysConfigGtk if anybody just HAS to have the gtk
451 - As a result of this, the -no[gtk] for bbkeys will change to -no[qt].
453 - Slight buglet fix for bbkeys when he's in iconic mode to properly set
454 WM_ICON_NAME (Thanks to Mats Jonson for the bug-report. =:) ) so bbkeys
455 shows up as bbkeys and not "Unnamed" in blackbox's Icon list.
460 - Weehee!!! Much bug-squashing release!!!
461 - added ability for bbkeys to minimize itself (right-click on bbkeys's
462 "close" button). This should satisfy those of us who would like to not
463 see the beautiful little application I wrote and just use it. *sniff* =:)
464 - added "-iconic" switch, so bbkeys can be launched in minimized mode.
465 Again, *sniff* Nobody likes my pretty window. =:)
466 - fixed a few undocumented features...
467 -- bbkeys queued up all keystroke combos while external gooey configurator
468 was running and then did then all at once, really quick-like when you
469 came back from the configurator. This tended to annoy my users. =:)
470 -- bbkeys wasn't releasing grabbed keys before it launched the
471 configurator, so the configurator wasn't receiving any of the previously
472 grabbed keys. XSync(False) does wonders. =:)
473 - updated bbkeysConfigGtk to allow configuration of ExecCommand directives.
477 - erm. forgot to write in this for a while. =:)
478 - took out timer implementation for ~/.bbkeysrc changing -- this should fix
479 the abnormally high CPU/MEM usage that bbkeys has shown -- and replaced it
480 with a virtual function call to CheckConfig out of BaseDisplay.cc.
481 - thought about changing the configurators, then changed my mind. =:\
485 - fix for bbkeys not pickup up anything for its frame color/texture
486 (thanks to luqin for the patch. =:) )
490 - added ExecCommand feature so users can define programs to execute with
491 a given keystroke. Syntax is as follows:
493 KeyToGrab(F1), WithModifier(Mod1), WithAction(ExecCommand), DoThis(PROGRAM)
495 where PROGRAM is whatever you want to launch. PROGRAM must be in your PATH
496 if it is not given with a path. (duh) =:)
498 - improved the logic (hopefully) surrounding resource loading. Took
499 loadKeygrabs out of reconfigure() (which gets hit on every Expose event)
500 which should improve bbkeys's performance. Also, apparently I've never
501 put in the code that I thought I did which checks ~/.bbkeysrc for changes.
502 That should work correctly now.
507 - fixed several style issues.
509 - fixed the bug with having two "-n" switches. =:) now, "-no[gtk]" is the
510 way to tell bbkeys to launch the xterm-based conflagurator
512 - re-coded bbkeys' internals (made them much more intuitive and easy to read).
513 bbkeys uses 3 basic objects: Window's, GEOM(etry objects), and Pixmap
514 objects. The Windows are physical units of space that X communicates with.
515 The GEOM objects are pretty self-explanatory, x, y, height, width. And
516 the Pixmap objects contain the image that is mapped onto the window itself.
518 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
519 Windows: GEOMs: Pixmaps: resource->objects and what
520 resources bbkeys uses for them
521 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
522 win_title geom_title pix_title label.texture
524 win_back geom_back pix_back frame.texture
526 win_closeBtn geom_closeBtn pix_closeBtn button.texture
528 win_configBtn geom_configBtn pix_configBtn button.texture
530 pix_pressedBtn button.texture_pressed
531 window.button.pressed
532 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
534 - fixed style files in data/ (silly me, I forgot to change them over from
535 bbpager's style files. ) Extra-special thanks to sourceo for pointing
536 this little bit to me and reminding me to put it in the ChangeLog =:)
540 - got rid of all the old bbws code base from bbkeys and ported the whole
541 darned thing to kns's bbpager-0.2.5-alpha code base.
546 - added "-mini-Me" switch =:) for those people *cough* sissies *cough* who
547 complain about bbkeys' size. So size DOES matter.... erm, anyway, if
548 launched with the "-mini-Me" option, bbkeys will draw a cute little window
549 10x10 in size (or whatever I feel like, dangit) containing just the button
550 to launch the configurator, instead of the regular, full-blown window. No
551 exit button for YOU! =:) Let me know if this doesn't suit you....
553 - improved documentation of sorts. Ugly habit, this documentation stuff. If
554 you look in README, you'll now see all of the commands that bbkeys will
555 think about obeying. If it feels like it. And if you ask really, really