2 - pulling patch in from David Dellanave (solaris compile issues)
7 - fix recursive redhat-build bug (fixes 577135)
10 - fix a memory leak in ToolWindow::windowAttributeChange.
13 - remove server grabs from the Image code. They prove to not be needed (they
14 no longer exist in the blackbox code.) And they cause the X server to lock
15 indefinately if you run 2 bbkeys on the same display, running the second
16 one from a terminal on the display.
19 - when we recieve a startup message from blackbox, clear out any leftover
20 windows in the window list. These are caused by the fact that on shutdown
21 of blackbox, if any windows are unmanaged after bbkeys, bbkeys doesn't get
22 notified of their destruction and so ends up with extra windows in its list.
25 - fix compiling issues under solaris. Thanks to grub on irc for use of his
29 - get rid of work-around for pre-0.60 blackbox, which fixes bug that let you
30 move the toolbar around with bbkeys.
33 - fix window focus tracking bug. Fixes bug where you could manipulate the
34 last focused window on a nono-visible workspace.
37 - fix multi-head bug in main.cc. We now putenv("DISPLAY=...") so that
38 applications launched will be launched on the correct display. Thanks to
39 Greg Gilbert for his patch!
42 - fix bug in main.cc (| rather than ||). Thanks to Roman Neuhauser!
45 - fix bug in bbkeys.hh--increasing MaxInstructions to 100 for cthulhain
48 - fix in bbkeys.cc -- XUngrabKey changed to use same call to find what
49 screen we're on as the XGrabKey call
52 - fix in bbkeys.cc -- doing "xterm -e sh -c $command" rather than "xterm -e
53 $command". Thanks to Magnus Solvang for the bug report. Also, changing
54 hideous char* and snprintf() to ostrstream, YAY!!
59 - add a sanity check to the removeWindow function. Basically, blackbox tells
60 bbkeys when a window disappears, or is removed. If the window being
61 removed was the last window blackbox specified as having the input focus,
62 bbkeys now resets what it thinks has the input focus. This prevents the
63 bug reproducable by iconifying the last window on a workspace, and then
64 trying to maximize "nothing". [xOr]
66 - cleaning up build again. Rather than having 200 -DDEFINE_ statements
67 in our compile lines, we use config.h (like normal people). =:) This
68 very well may break stuff, but it looks good thus far.... [vanRijn]
70 - adding AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to stop the ever-annoying "here, let me run
71 aclocal for you again!!" idiocy of automake and friends [vanRijn]
73 - fixing things for multi-head displays--replacing
74 "getScreenInfo(0)->getRootWindow()," with
75 "getCurrentScreenInfo()->getRootWindow()," So yes, bbkeys now has
76 multi-head support. Sort of. You need to have a separate instance of
77 bbkeys running against each head ("bbkeys -display :1"), etc. cat
78 complaints >> /dev/null.... [vanRijn]
80 - removing kludgy C command-line configurator with much-improved perl script
81 from Damien Tougas (thanks!!!) [vanRijn]
83 - changing bbkeys.cc to look for bbkeysconf.pl rather than bbkeysConfigC
86 - removing showAllWorkspaces from bbkeys.{bb,nobb} config file and making it
87 an additional keybinding. This allows two different ways of showing all
88 open windows and navigating through them--one keybinding for the regular
89 "NextWindow" variety (as in previous versions of bbkeys, and another
90 keybinding, "NextWindowAllWorkspaces", that pops up the window list for
91 navigation for windows open on all workspaces. [vanRijn]
93 - bugfix.... previously, bbkeys would ignore windows that had no name. We
94 now follow blackbox's lead (and follow blackbox's code) and create a name
95 for it, "Unnamed". Thanks to Damien Terrier for this bug report.
98 - patch for allowing an alternate keybinding config file (thanks to Scott
101 - sync with blackbox for 0.61.2--attributes element Atom has changed to now
102 include decoration state so that ToggleDecor() works. [vanRijn]
104 - including patch from Sergey Vlasov for allowing use of Meta and Hyper
105 modifiers, also try to get the correct Num_Lock and Scroll_Lock modifier
106 mask from the X server rather than hard-coded. I've not had tons of time
107 to play with this, though I have made sure that it works on my laptop.
110 - fix for RPM-building process... install gzipped man pages by default on
111 RPM-based systems. Thanks to Darryll for the bug report!! =:) [vanRijn]
113 - removing bbkeysconf and bbkeysConfigGtk *shudder* apps from
114 chain-launching mode. These babies are dead and let's just move on
115 folks.... By keeping them in there, I'm afraid people will think it's
116 okay to use them. It's not. They're WAY out of date. Also, thanks to a
117 smarter way of handling key grabbing configuration in bbconf, we don't
118 have to hang bbkeys while keygrabs are being configured. [vanRijn]
120 - adding logic to bbkeys to pass configurators correct command-line
121 arguments so we load the rc-file that our user is running bbkeys with.
124 - long-overdue documentation finessing, thanks to Roman Neuhauser for the
125 patches and suggestions! =:) Also, adding CVS version id's to all source
126 and documentation files, woot! =:) [vanRijn]
128 - cross-compilation patch from Bo Thorsen--moves -lX11 to LIBS [vanRijn]
132 - changing external app launch order--we go bbconf, bbkeysconf,
133 bbkeysConfigGtk, rxvt, xterm... *phew*
135 - fix in stackmenu.cc (hopefully we got it this time?) to fix segfaults
136 on some platforms due to screwy X stuff. *shudder*
141 - patched for matrix-style workspace navigation, updating the 0.3.5 patch written
142 by Markus Ottenbacher (m.ottenbacher@gmx.de) found at
143 http://homepages.compuserve.de/meottenbacher/. Include UpWorkspace,
144 DownWorkspace, LeftWorkspace and RightWorkspace as WithAction() in your
145 ~/.bbkeysrc, and enable the arrangement in rows and columns in your
146 bbkeys.bb as well as in bbpager.bb (usually placed under
147 /usr/local/share/bbtools/) to use this functionality. Bill Beal <beal@tunl.duke.edu>
149 - fixed a bug due to an improper test for next and prev (test for key
150 release). next and prev might just be 0, so we can't do if (next)
151 because the correct index of the grabSet.KeyMap might be 0 for either
152 prevwindow or nextwindow keybinding and it would fail the test and not
153 release the keyboard and not lower the window menu.
155 - fixed a bug for the window list popup menu--sticky window bug where
156 sticky windows would show up twice on their originating windows but not
157 at all on the workspace that you switched from immediately prior to
158 switching to the window where the sticky window is "homed"... =:)
160 - xOr's new "showAllWorkspaces" option lets you see every window that you
161 have on any workspace with an indicator as to what workspace that
162 window is living on.... Very sweet code.
164 - fix for popup window menu... Added "always on top" code so that it
165 stays at top of window stack and won't let blackbox hide it with any
166 other window (as occurs when auto-raise is enabled in blackbox).
169 - bug fixin's--fixed annoying "un-iconify" feature when bbkeys did window
170 cycling, thanks to halt, all else for pointing that one out.... Also,
171 removed REPORT struct from resource.hh which only had auto_raise in it
172 (not sure why it's been there, un-used all this time anyway)....
174 - changed all "friend .*$" to "friend class .*$" to comply with more
175 strict gcc versions.... Thanks to Jan Schaumann for this!
177 - okay. stacked window cycling tweaks. As a visual clue for the
178 stacked-Cycling folks, we now set focus on cycled-through windows as we
179 go, raising the window selected at the end of the cycle. This sounds
180 more confusing than it is. This makes it possible to separate the new
181 and improved cycling method from the popup menu. Oh, and hitting Escape
182 in the middle of cycling will return focus to the window that you
185 - I've made it possible to turn off the visual menu for the new-and-improved
186 stacked cycling method. To do this, just put
187 "bbkeys.menu.showCycleMenu: False" (without the quotes, duh) into your
188 ~/.bbtools/bbkeys.bb or ~/.bbtools/bbkeys.nobb file. This will let
189 bbkeys still use the new method, will set focus as you cycle through the
190 stack, but won't actually raise the window you want until you tell it
191 to by releasing your keys or hitting <Enter>, and won't show the popup
192 window list and cycle through the entries as you go. Again, harder to
193 explain than it is to use....
195 - including README, ChangeLog, and AUTHORS in installed files list
197 - including first man page files (W00T!!) =:). Thanks to Jan Schaumann,
198 bbkeys now has man pages, baybee. Installing now and including files
202 - BIG changes!!! w00T!!! There's some very significant improvements in
203 this version, and as such, I'm calling this version 0.8.0 for various
206 2) I'm thinking we're about "there", and 0.8.0 sounds like more of a
207 non-beta product than 0.3.8
208 3) I feel like it =:)
210 - xOr (see below) has done some majorly good coding with bbkeys. He's
211 implemented a different window-cycling scheme that's more
212 "Windows"-like (think <alt+tab> popup window with list of things you're
213 cycling through)... Verrrry slick. Umm. Did I say Verrrrry?
215 Why, yes I did. You are just going to have to see it to believe it. Blackbox
216 has just again become my favorite window manager for X, with the help
217 xOr has given to me. The window cycling methodology has changed, and
218 believe me, this is a change for the better. There's now two methods
219 of window cycling--both use the same keybindings, so don't get yer
220 panties tied in knots. xOr has implemented a newer, better "old-style"
221 window cycling, called linear cycling. It's basically what
222 blackbox/bbkeys has done up until this point, but with a few
223 significant improvements. But the really exciting new feature in this
224 release of bbkeys is the other way--a "stacked" cycling method. It
225 makes much more sense than the old way. And it's purtier, because you
226 can see what you're window-changing to before you actually go there.
227 And when you hit <alt+tab> (example keybinding--you can have it be
228 whatever you want it to be), it goes back to the window you were on
229 right before this one.
231 It's way cool, uber-neato, and excellently implemented. I'll expand on
232 this more in README, so look there for more details.
234 - xOr has also fixed a bug in LinkedList.cc (as posted to the blackbox
235 mailing list) that affected how the windows were put into the cycling
238 - I'm considering xOr a co-developer now (as long as he has the time and
239 desire, of course), but we've a project available on sourceforge.net at
240 http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=32563 . Of course, this means
241 that all the usual sourceforge advantages are there, like CVS access,
242 etc. The project is bbconf.sourceforge.net for the time being, so
243 CVS access looks like this:
245 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbconf.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbconf login
246 <hit enter for password>
247 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbconf.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbconf co bbkeys
249 I've imported the bbkeys tree (0.8.0 will be pulled directly from it),
250 and I've also imported a bbconf module. bbconf will be the new
251 all-in-one blackbox configuration utility (if I get some help). =:)
252 To get read-only access to it, do this...
254 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbconf.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbconf login
255 <hit enter for password>
256 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbconf.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbconf co bbconf
258 - adding ToggleDecor as an option to toggle ummmm, window decor.... (duh).
259 *** BIG HONKING NOTE ***
260 This doesn't currently work. =:\ The code is in bbkeys, but can't
261 actually do anything until blackbox is changed to tell us what the
262 decorated state of the window is. Hopefully this will be included in
265 - changing order of configurator launch again, thanks to a bug report
266 from David Lawrence Ramsey (I had " black" instead of "black")--so we
267 now try rxvt before xterm, and rxvt should actually work now....
269 - hopefully fixing strcasecmp issue for AIX boxen--it's in strings.h
270 instead of string.h. Adding check for strings.h.... PLEASE let me
271 know if this doesn't actually fix anything. I'd like to put this guy
274 - Applying patches from Ben Jansens <xor at x-o-r dot net>. His comments
277 I've removed all the functionality from the wminterface class that bbkeys
278 does not use, and reorganised the header files for wminterface and bbkeys,
279 adding comments for all of the class members. With this patch, bbkeys not
280 longer calls the blackbox cycling routines, but maintains its own list of
281 windows, and cycles them itself. One thing to note is that the cycling does
282 not occur in the same order as the buttons on the toolbar cycle. I personally
283 dont think this will be a big issue, and i think the new way is nicer. When a
284 new window opens, its added to the list right *after* the focused window,
285 so that hitting PrevWindow would take you back to the window that was
290 * VERY nice work, Ben. Thanks for your work! *
292 - Bug squashing and fixing galore... Thanks again to Ben for pointing
293 these out. The issue was that we were doing stuff to windows without
294 making sure the window wasn't our root window. Doh! So now we make
295 sure 1) we have a focus_window and 2) that focus_window isn't
296 PointerRoot. Hopefully that will do the trick....
303 - Fixed slight bug in font-loading for label.font and frame.font. As
304 things were, we only looked for TitleFont (a bbtools-specific directive
305 which most probably isn't in most style files), a bbkeys-specific font
306 directive (which was less likely to be found). I added to the search
307 criteria toolbar.font, which for sure will be in every
308 toolbox/bbconf-generated style file and is most probably in every other
309 style file as well. Long story short, fonts should now load according
310 to the individual style used, rather than relying so heavily on
312 - applied patch submitted from MrFab (Scott Garner for the irc-challenged)
313 to manipulate window placement via keypress!!! VERY clean and nice
314 work, MrFab!! And useful, to boot! =:)
315 - reworked and applied patch from Alex (dicerandom @ earthlink dot net)
316 for keystroke-resizing of focused windows. Very nice work, Alex!
318 - reworked fork() section for configurator launch--based on Kyle
319 Donaldson's idea.... We now try bbkeysconf, bbkeysConfigGtk, xterm,
320 rxvt--in that order... Thanks Kyle!
321 - new and improved bbkeysConfigC--better functioning, disclaimer added
322 since we trounce on whatever was in ~/.bbkeysrc, added printout of all
323 available keygrabs now....
326 - Doh!! In the midst of the glorious bug-squashing that 0.3.4 offered, I
327 introduced a new bug (just to see if anybody actually uses my code,
328 erm, or something). =:) I was getting rid of all the strdups that I
329 could and in the process forgot to replace it with a working solution
330 for the ExecCommand part of bbkeys's functionality.
333 - updated Image.cc, Image.hh, BaseDisplay.hh to newest (0.61.0) blackbox
334 files to correct bug that reared its ugly little head when running on
335 SPARC boxen Ultra 5 (Bus Error). Thanks to Tibor Simko for reporting
337 - many bug fixes and killing of leaks =:) thanks to memprof and X
338 man-page reading (shudder). I found quite a few memory leaks (some
339 that bbkeys inherited from the XEmacs code) and discovered some
340 undocumented features that may not qualify as leaks, but the net result
341 was that bbkeys could chew up RAM far more than he should. So, the end
342 result is that bbkeys now has far fewer memory problems. I'm pretty
343 sure that there are more buglets to be found, but that's for when I get
344 bored again, I guess. =:) Thanks to Sean 'Shaleh' Perry for this
345 buglet report (and others too). =:)
346 - updated bbkeysconf--couple of fixes for compiling on solaris....
347 - added -lX11 to the link line (should be there anyway)
348 - changed a QString.left to a QString.at function call
349 - thanks to Bo Thorsen for these buglet-reports! =:)
352 - changes and updates (thanks to nyz for the help!!!) to change the
353 communication Atoms between blackbox-0.60.1 and bbkeys (READ: YOU MUST
354 BE RUNNING BBKEYS 3.3 OR LATER IF YOU USE BLACKBOX 0.60.1 OR LATER)...
357 - Weehee!! Get along, little doggie!! Or something.... Thanks to the
358 man, the myth, the legend, the zzzeek-meister, one of those irritating
359 little problems that I've never had enough interest in fixing has been
360 fixed!! You know the one--where you're going merrily along through your
361 day, using bbkeys happily, when all of a sudden, things appear to have
362 just stopped working altogether. And then you start cursing that
363 darned bbkeys author, and in general, have a horrid day thereafter. Well
364 fear no more, little pilgrim--that "feature" has been hunted down and
365 wrestled to the ground, thanks to zzzeek (classic@io.com). The 'feature'
366 was one that I was never worried about--since it followed blackbox's
367 'feature' that did exactly the same thing. What thing is that? Why,
368 I'm so glad you asked. If you hadn't noticed before, if you have your
369 CapsLock, NumLock, or ShiftLock pressed (or any other funky modifier
370 key pressed), bbkeys stopped performing your key-grabs.
372 Well, anywho, I've rambled enough. I'm going to have bbkeys by default
373 work with any modifiers now. If you want bbkeys to work the way it does
374 now and stop grabbing keys when you have Caps/Num/ShiftLock pressed,
375 you'll have to change this line to True in your bbkeys config file
376 ($HOME/bbtools/bbkeys.bb, not ~/.bbkeysrc):
378 bbkeys.honorModifiers: False
382 - *sigh* My next release is going to not even have a UI. =:) Okay, for
383 those in this world who run blackbox on a 12" monitor (*cough* talmage
384 *cough*), or refuse to upgrade because -miniMe is toooooo big (*cough*
385 luqin *cough), =:) bbkeys now has a new run-time switch "-tinyMe" which
386 will cause bbkeys to draw itself at the old 0.2.7 size.
390 - buglet fix in MakeWindow so we don't XMapWindow every time (thanks nyz!)
391 - alrighty then, the -miniMe controversy continues. kns mentioned an idea
392 for a new miniMe look and I like it. _I_ may even use -miniMe now.
393 =:) Here's the thing, I really don't care at all about -miniMe, since
394 I use him at full-size. If somebody wants to code for this to be a
395 configurable option (bbkeys.keyhole.size or bbkeys.keyhole.width, etc.),
396 I'll be more than happy to look at it.
400 - included new Image classes from the latest blackbox source so luqin's
401 and r00tv's styles work. =:) Oh, it'll help other people too, but
402 they pested me first.
403 - added Workspace9, 10, 11, and 12 to keygrabs and configurator
408 - added MaximizeVertical and MaximizeHorizontal key-grabbability. Don't
409 know why it didn't occur to me earlier. =:) nyz did all the hard work
412 - As of this release of bbkeys, I'm no longer going to support the gtk
413 configurator (unless I get a WHOLE lot of of input to the contrary).
414 I've re-written the gui configurator in qt (thanks to luqin for the
415 beginnings of this) and let me tell you, it is a WHOLE lot easier to
416 work with qt2 than gtk. Much, much cleaner. You doubt?
418 (gideon@judea)[bbkeysConfigGtk/src]-% wc -l *.{c,h}
420 689 bbkeysConfigSig.c
423 139 bbkeysConfigSig.h
427 (gideon@judea)[bbkeys-0.2.7/bbkeysconf-1.1]-% wc -l *.{cc,hh}
435 734 lines of code versus 1588 makes me a happy, happy SE. =:)
437 - So, I'm pulling out the bbkeysConfigGtk directory from the bbkeys source
438 tarball and in its place is bbkeysconf. I'll also be regulaly
439 posting rpms of both bbkeys and bbkeysconf as new releases rear their
440 ugly little heads, as well as one last RPM of bbkeysConfigGtk as well
441 as the tarball for bbkeysConfigGtk if anybody just HAS to have the gtk
444 - As a result of this, the -no[gtk] for bbkeys will change to -no[qt].
446 - Slight buglet fix for bbkeys when he's in iconic mode to properly set
447 WM_ICON_NAME (Thanks to Mats Jonson for the bug-report. =:) ) so bbkeys
448 shows up as bbkeys and not "Unnamed" in blackbox's Icon list.
453 - Weehee!!! Much bug-squashing release!!!
454 - added ability for bbkeys to minimize itself (right-click on bbkeys's
455 "close" button). This should satisfy those of us who would like to not
456 see the beautiful little application I wrote and just use it. *sniff* =:)
457 - added "-iconic" switch, so bbkeys can be launched in minimized mode.
458 Again, *sniff* Nobody likes my pretty window. =:)
459 - fixed a few undocumented features...
460 -- bbkeys queued up all keystroke combos while external gooey configurator
461 was running and then did then all at once, really quick-like when you
462 came back from the configurator. This tended to annoy my users. =:)
463 -- bbkeys wasn't releasing grabbed keys before it launched the
464 configurator, so the configurator wasn't receiving any of the previously
465 grabbed keys. XSync(False) does wonders. =:)
466 - updated bbkeysConfigGtk to allow configuration of ExecCommand directives.
470 - erm. forgot to write in this for a while. =:)
471 - took out timer implementation for ~/.bbkeysrc changing -- this should fix
472 the abnormally high CPU/MEM usage that bbkeys has shown -- and replaced it
473 with a virtual function call to CheckConfig out of BaseDisplay.cc.
474 - thought about changing the configurators, then changed my mind. =:\
478 - fix for bbkeys not pickup up anything for its frame color/texture
479 (thanks to luqin for the patch. =:) )
483 - added ExecCommand feature so users can define programs to execute with
484 a given keystroke. Syntax is as follows:
486 KeyToGrab(F1), WithModifier(Mod1), WithAction(ExecCommand), DoThis(PROGRAM)
488 where PROGRAM is whatever you want to launch. PROGRAM must be in your PATH
489 if it is not given with a path. (duh) =:)
491 - improved the logic (hopefully) surrounding resource loading. Took
492 loadKeygrabs out of reconfigure() (which gets hit on every Expose event)
493 which should improve bbkeys's performance. Also, apparently I've never
494 put in the code that I thought I did which checks ~/.bbkeysrc for changes.
495 That should work correctly now.
500 - fixed several style issues.
502 - fixed the bug with having two "-n" switches. =:) now, "-no[gtk]" is the
503 way to tell bbkeys to launch the xterm-based conflagurator
505 - re-coded bbkeys' internals (made them much more intuitive and easy to read).
506 bbkeys uses 3 basic objects: Window's, GEOM(etry objects), and Pixmap
507 objects. The Windows are physical units of space that X communicates with.
508 The GEOM objects are pretty self-explanatory, x, y, height, width. And
509 the Pixmap objects contain the image that is mapped onto the window itself.
511 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
512 Windows: GEOMs: Pixmaps: resource->objects and what
513 resources bbkeys uses for them
514 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
515 win_title geom_title pix_title label.texture
517 win_back geom_back pix_back frame.texture
519 win_closeBtn geom_closeBtn pix_closeBtn button.texture
521 win_configBtn geom_configBtn pix_configBtn button.texture
523 pix_pressedBtn button.texture_pressed
524 window.button.pressed
525 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
527 - fixed style files in data/ (silly me, I forgot to change them over from
528 bbpager's style files. ) Extra-special thanks to sourceo for pointing
529 this little bit to me and reminding me to put it in the ChangeLog =:)
533 - got rid of all the old bbws code base from bbkeys and ported the whole
534 darned thing to kns's bbpager-0.2.5-alpha code base.
539 - added "-mini-Me" switch =:) for those people *cough* sissies *cough* who
540 complain about bbkeys' size. So size DOES matter.... erm, anyway, if
541 launched with the "-mini-Me" option, bbkeys will draw a cute little window
542 10x10 in size (or whatever I feel like, dangit) containing just the button
543 to launch the configurator, instead of the regular, full-blown window. No
544 exit button for YOU! =:) Let me know if this doesn't suit you....
546 - improved documentation of sorts. Ugly habit, this documentation stuff. If
547 you look in README, you'll now see all of the commands that bbkeys will
548 think about obeying. If it feels like it. And if you ask really, really