2 NEWS for veteran Window Maker users
3 -----------------------------------
10 new libPropList-0.9.1 is REQUIRED to build Window Maker 0.61.1.
11 go grab it and install it first.
17 Window Edge Attraction
18 ----------------------
20 Window edge attraction was now added.
24 will enable/disable gravity to edge's boder.
25 The strength of gravity can be controled by modify `EdgeResistance' value
26 in WindowMaker configuration file.
29 Titlebar Draw String Plugin
30 ---------------------------
32 FTitleColor, UTitleColor, PTitleColor, MenuTitleColor can be assigend with
33 drawstring plugin instead of plain color. For example:
44 will invoke function drawplainstring from libwmfun.so and pass 3 colors for
45 arguments. To code new plugin, please see plugin.h for more informations.
54 The user menu is now a compile time option disabled by default.
55 Supply --enable-usermenu to configure to enable it.
58 root menu INCOMPATIBLE changes
59 ------------------------------
61 EXEC <program> will execute the named program
63 SHEXEC <command> will execute the shell command.
65 If you want to execute something like blabla > /dev/null, then use SHEXEC
67 Dont forget to update your menus.
70 New Option For setstyle
71 -----------------------
73 The --ignore flag will tell setstyle to not change the option that is
74 specified, when modifying the Window Maker configurations. For example:
76 setstyle --ignore MenuStyle sometheme.themed will cause the MenuStyle
77 option to not be changed.
79 setstyle --ignore FTitleBack --ignore UTitleBack --ignore PTitleBack bla.themed
80 will load the theme, but keep the titlebar background related options as
84 MultiByte Text Support Changes
85 ------------------------------
87 The --enable-kanji configure option is not needed anymore and was removed.
88 To enable support for multibyte text, you must:
89 - set the LANG environment variable to the appropriate value
90 - change the font configurations to contain font sets in the appropriate
91 encodings in both ~/G/D/WindowMaker and ~/G/D/WMGLOBAL (for WPrefs)
92 - set the MultiByteText option to YES in both of the above files
98 WorkspaceNameDisplayPosition =
99 none/center/top/bottom/topleft/topright/bottomleft/bottomright
102 SmoothWorkspaceBack = YES/NO
104 will enable smoothing of scaled workspace background images.
108 Application User Menu Path Changes
109 ----------------------------------
111 Default configuration for user specific menus installed in
112 /usr/local/share/WindowMaker/UserMenus or $(datadir)/WindowMaker/UserMenus
113 and ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/UserMenus.
116 Omnipresent icons in Clip
117 -------------------------
119 Added ability to set icons docked in Clip to be omnipresent on all workspaces.
120 To set/reset this flag use the clip menu.
121 The Clip menu changed in the following way:
122 - if you bring up the menu from the Clip's main icon, it will contain as
123 before the "Rename Workspace" entry in the second position.
124 - however, if you bring up the menu from any other icon in clip, the
125 "Rename Workspace" menu entry is replaced by "Omnipresent" or
126 "Toggle Omnipresent" depending on the context.
128 This entry will work in the following way, depending on the context:
130 1. If there is no icon selected in the clip, then the menu will contain the
131 entry named "Omnipresent" which will be checked accordingly to the current
132 state of the icon (omnipresent or not), and will let you change the
133 omnipresent state of the icon you brought the menu from.
134 2. If one or more icons are already selected when the Clip menu is called, the
135 entry will be named "Toggle Omnipresent" and will apply to all selected
136 icons trying to toggle their omnipresent state. The icons which will be
137 succesfully changed to their new state as requested, will be unselected,
138 while the ones that will fail for some reason to gain their new state,
139 will remain selected.
141 In both cases if there is no success in setting what user requested a panel
142 will inform user of the failure.
143 (Note: trying to set an icon to not-omnipresent will never fail. Failures can
144 be met only when trying to set omnipresent for an icon).
146 The icons set to omnipresent will be marked with a triangle in the upper left
147 corner, having the color of the IconTitleColor.
149 An icon can be set to omnipresent, only if its position is free in all the
150 workspaces, else you will be informed of the problem and asked to fix it first.
151 Also when dragging an omnipresent icon around in Clip, all the icons docked in
152 all the workspaces are shown while the dragging is done, to let one easily see
153 where are free slots in all workspaces.
155 For advanced users, there is also a shortcut to set/reset the omnipresent
156 state of an icon: just use "Shift+MiddleButton" (button2) on the icon you want
158 In this case only the mark in the upper left corner will appear in case of
159 success, or nothing will happen if icon cannot be made omnipresent (advanced
160 users are expected to know why the icon failed to be made omnipresent, so they
161 don't need a panel to explain them why ;) ).
163 Now before you load your gun to start a flame war because this is against your
164 principles you love so much, please sit down and think that this is a feature,
165 which, if you don't use, the old behaviour of the Clip is totally preserved.
166 It just adds some extra capabilities to the Clip for people who think that this
170 XDND drop on dock support
171 -------------------------
173 Support for XDE on dock is now replaced by XDND.
174 To enable, edit src/wconfig.h
185 MenuStyle=<style>; will change the menu texture style.
188 normal (default): for the traditional one texture per item, with bevels in
191 singleTexture: for a single texture that spans the whole menu, with bevels
194 flat: singleTexture without the bevels
199 ResizebarBack=<texture>;
201 where <texture> is any of the textures you normally use in titlebars and
204 If the style file/theme does not contain a ResizebarBack option, setstyle
205 will automatically hack it so that wmaker will make the theme work like
209 New crash dialog panel
210 ----------------------
212 From now on, whenever a fatal situation appears, Window Maker will display a
213 dialog panel to the user and let him choose what to do.
215 - Abort and leave a core file (usefull for debugging and getting backtraces)
216 - Restart Window Maker (default behaviour)
217 - Start alternate window manager (the one defined as fallback, or if not
218 possible fvwm or twm in this order).
220 If it will not be able to restart or start the alternate window manager, it
221 will abort and leave the core file.
224 Application User Menu
225 ---------------------
227 Applications with an appicon can have a user defined menu.
229 This menu will emulate keyboard events, and will be sent to the applications'
230 window(s), thus the application must accept key combinations (CTRL+N for
233 To enable this feature, #define USER_MENU in src/wconfig.h and place menu
234 files in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/UserMenus (/usr/local/etc/WindowMaker/UserMenus
237 The user menu is in PropList format and the filename is in:
238 <instance name>.<class name>.menu or application's main window.
239 (Example: the menu for xcalc would be - xcalc.XCalc.menu)
241 Example user menu syntax:
245 ("Put 1", SHORTCUT, "2"),
247 ("Put 2", SHORTCUT, "2"),
248 ("Put 3,4 and 5", SHORTCUT, (3,4,5))
250 ("Exit", SHORTCUT, "Control+q")
258 Appearance Editing in WPrefs
259 ----------------------------
261 Added Appearance/Texture editing capability in WPrefs. Workspace background
262 selection is not yet finished.
268 Removed all themes from the source tree, and moved them in a separate package.
269 You can download the new package from the same place as this package:
270 ftp://ftp.windowmaker.org/pub/beta/srcs/
271 Look after WindowMaker-extra-<version-number>.tar.gz
272 Also WindowMaker-extra pack include the old WindowMaker-data.tar.gz which only
274 Look for the greatest version number when you download this package.
277 get-wraster-flags script change
278 -------------------------------
280 The name of the options passed to get-wraster-flags changed, to allow a better
281 name compatibility with the naming conventions used by other software.
282 The name change was as follows:
283 --lflags was changed in --ldflags
284 To allow backward compatibility, with already written software, the old
285 --lflags option is still recognized, but you are encouraged to move the the
296 Added 2 new cool themes (actually I added in 0.51.1, but forgot
297 to put it here...) from largo (LeetWM) and BadlandZ (STEP2000).
300 Full Screen Maximization
301 ------------------------
303 The FullMaximize window attribute will allow the window to
304 be maximized to the full size of the screen (ignoring anything
305 like titlebar, resizebar, dock, panels etc). It should be usefull
306 for programs that must use the whole screen, like games or things
307 like presentation programs.
312 KDE Application Menu script
313 ---------------------------
315 wkdemenu.pl is a converter from KDE application menu structures to wmaker
316 menu that can be used as a piped menu. Look wkdemenu.sh for how to use it.
319 Window Edge Resistance
320 ----------------------
322 Window edge resistance was now added. No, feature freeze hasn't been
323 removed. Its just part of the edge resistance rewrite ;)
329 Added SteelBlueSilk theme
331 Installation Path Changes
332 -------------------------
334 Default configuration data installed in /usr/local/etc/WindowMaker
335 or $(sysconfdir)/WindowMaker
340 Window Maker has become a GNU program (part of the GNU Project).
342 Title text drop shadow
343 ----------------------
345 drop shadow option added for titlebar text. This is a compile time
346 option which needs to be defined in src/wconfig.h after you run
347 configure and before you run make.
349 New options and syntax for your WindowMaker domain file are:
352 FShadowColor = <color>;
353 PShadowColor = <color>;
354 UShadowColor = <color>;
355 MShadowColor = <color>;
357 The shadow option is dynamic (no need for a restart).
358 MShadowColor is for the menu title text.
363 WARNING!!! libPropList was removed from the Window Maker distribution
364 and is being distributed separately. If you dont have it installed yet,
365 get it from ftp.windowmaker.org/pub/libs and install before building
369 signal handling change
370 ----------------------
371 SIGHUP will exit wmaker instead of restarting it!!! This is because
372 GNOME expects the window manager to exit instead of restarting...
373 Complaints should go to gnome people. SIGUSR1 will restart wmaker now.
378 WINGs-flags was removed, and replaced by get-wraster-flags.
379 Please remove WINGs-flags from your system, since it was obsoloted by
381 Continuing to use WINGs-flags can lead to hazardous effects, since is no
388 docklib is a little library for making dock applets. It's in the
389 docklib-0.0.tar.gz file. Unpack it and read the README file there.
395 Removed OnTopTransients option
397 Added OpenTransientOnOwnerWorkspace
403 OPEN LOOK(tm)/olwm hints support was added.
405 Read the appropriate section in the README file.
411 New option for WorkspaceBack. mpixmap is the same as spixmap, but
412 it will scale the pixmap by keeping the aspect ratio (maximize or maxpect).
413 The option only works for workspace backgrounds.
415 Also added IGNORE_PPOSITION compile time flag, which is equivalent
416 to NoPPosition from fvwm.
427 Added full support for GNOME and KWM hints.
428 Read the INSTALL file to see how enable them.
430 Everything in the so called GNOME window manager bla bla bla pseudo-spec is
433 As for KDE stuff, it implements 90% of everything kwm does, adds some
434 Window Maker specific extensions to it and still uses half of the memory
435 kwm does, which should be enough to let you dump kwm ;) For details on what
436 exactly is implemented, see comments in src/kwm.c Read the README.KDE file
437 for more information.
440 WARNING: Some KDE hints are badly designed, so doing things like using
441 kpanel's desktop switcher/pager and Window Maker's internal workspace
442 management functions to create, destroy and rename workspaces at the same
443 time might cause unknown effects. To be on the safe side, only
444 use either of them to manage workspaces. Switching workspaces is hopefully,
445 safe, so you can switch workspaces from wherever you want.
449 Workspace Specific Background Images
450 ------------------------------------
452 Use the WorkspaceSpecificBack to set background images for specific
453 workspaces. The WorkspaceBack is used as the default background image.
457 WorkspaceSpecificBack = ((solid, red), (cpixmap, ship.jpg, gray), (),
458 (dgradient, red, blue))
460 This will set the background image of workspace 1 to (solid, 0),
461 2 to ship.jpg and 4 to a gradient. Workspace 3 and other workspaces
462 will have the image defined by WorkspaceBack.
464 Note that this uses quite some memory...
470 setstyle now accepts the -nofonts flag, which will load the style
471 file ignoring all font related options.
475 setstyle -nofonts Blabla.style
478 getstyle can be used to create theme packs. See the usage in the
479 WindowMaker/README.themes file.
486 Textured gradients will tile a texture pixmap and combine it with a gradient,
487 using an arbitrary opaqueness.
489 Syntax is (thgradient, <file>, <opaqueness>, <color1>, <color2>)
490 (tvgradient, <file>, <opaqueness>, <color1>, <color2>)
491 (tdgradient, <file>, <opaqueness>, <color1>, <color2>)
493 <color1> and <color2> are the colors for the gradient,
494 <file> is the texture file and
495 <opaqueness> is the opaqueness to merge the texture witht the gradient,
496 ranging from 0 to 255.
500 (thgradient, "BlueImage.jpeg", 120, white, black)
502 The BlackTexture style and Checker theme are examples.
506 You can use any type of pixmap file for this, but small (like 64x32)
507 grayscale pixmap files should get the best results (fast and low memory
508 usage). You can use color pixmaps, but it is harder to get the desired effect
511 Be warned that this texture type is the slowest.
518 IconTitleBack and IconTitleColor control the color of the
519 miniwindow title. Both of them are colors.
522 IconTitleColor=white;
526 Since this introduces an incompatibility in themes and getting flamed by the
527 themes ppl isn't the most pleasant thing ("Whaddafuk you're thinking!? You
528 just broke 500 themes!!!" ;) the setstyle command was hacked so that it will
529 make old themes work as before, by trying to automatically set the above
530 options. Note that in some cases it will not have exactly the same results as
534 StartMaximized window attribute. Will maximize the window when it
538 AutoRaiseLower option for the Clip. This allows automatic Raise/Lower of the
539 Clip icons when the mouse pointer enter/leave the Clip. To avoid unwanted
540 raising/lowering there is a time threshold before raising/lowering.
541 The thresholds can be changed in wconfig.h by changing one or both of
542 AUTO_LOWER_DELAY and AUTO_RAISE_DELAY (expressed in miliseconds).
543 For example if you set AUTO_RAISE_DELAY to 0, then the Clip will be raised as
544 soon as the mouse pointer enters it's area. Setting AUTO_RAISE_DELAY to a very
545 big value, will make the Clip to practically do not auto raise unless clicked,
546 but to be automatically lowered after AUTO_LOWER_DELAY (ms) when leaved.
552 Starting with this version, a new format of themes is being supported.
553 Before you open pine and start composing your flame, rest assured that
554 the old format is still supported. The new format is documented
555 in the WindowMaker/README.themes file.
561 The -noext option for OPEN_MENU will strip whatever is after the last .
562 in file names that appear on the opened directory. So,
564 OPEN_MENU ~/bg WITH xv -root -quit
566 will create a menu with all the images in ~/bg without the extension.
573 Icon (miniwindow) stacking
574 --------------------------
576 If you want miniwindows to reside under normal windows, edit
577 wconfig.h and change WNormalLevel (just grep for it) to
584 If you have a 5 button mouse and want to give some utility for
585 the extra 2 buttons, edit the appropriate line in src/wconfig.h
586 Clicking Button4 in the root window will switch you to the previous
587 workspace and Button5 will do that for the next.
593 put NoWindowOverDock back
595 KeepOnBottom window attribute
598 -static command line option
599 ---------------------------
601 wmaker -static will start Window Maker in static mode. This will
602 prevent wmaker from checking or making any configuration changes.
603 That makes it possible to run wmaker before running wmaker.inst
606 Hysteresis for menu item selection
607 ----------------------------------
609 Hopefully it's intelligent enough, so you won't notice it.
611 In case you want to know what's it, it's equivalent to that
612 (insanely long) 2 second delay present in that Windoze95 menu,
613 but more usefull than annoying (I hope :). To see it, do the following
614 with your current wmaker version and later with 0.20.3:
616 - open the apps menu and stick it
617 - click in the item for the "Workspaces" submenu and hold
618 - drag the mouse to the 4th or bigger entry (like "Workspace 4") in a
619 straight line, trying to select the target item before the submenu
620 is unmapped when you dragged over other items in the main menu
627 Window shortcuts are shortcuts to arbitrary windows. You can make up to 4
628 shortcuts. To assign a previously bound shortcut to a window use the "Select
629 Shortcut" submenu in the window commands menu. If the shortcut is not yet
630 assigned for any window, you can hit the shortcut to assign it to the active
631 window. The shortcut will do the same as clicking in an entry in the window
632 list menu. The keys for the shortcuts are defined in the ~/G/D/WindowMaker
633 file or in WPrefs.app
637 WindowShortcut1Key through WindowShortcut4Key
643 The name of WindowMaker was changed to Window Maker.
645 Window creation animation disabled by default.
650 If you use it edit src/wconfig.h and #define OPTIMIZE_SHAPE or disable the
651 titlebar and resizebar for the window. OPTIMIZE_SHAPE will remove the
652 flickering for xdaliclock and other programs that change their shapes often,
653 but will increase network traffic considerably. So, if you use xdaliclock
654 from a remote machine it can get slow.
660 The applications menu will now use the shell in the SHELL environment
661 variable to execute EXEC menu commands. If it is unset (I think it's always
662 automatically set by the shell program) it will use /bin/sh
665 Extra fancy icon kaboom :)
666 --------------------------
668 Edit src/wconfig.h and #define ICON_KABOOM_EXTRA to get
669 more effects for the icon undocking animation.
671 Options for superfluous stuff are even more superfluous, so this
672 will not become runtime.
675 XDE drag and drop support
676 -------------------------
678 Support for XDE drag and drop was added (by "]d" <id@maliwan.org>).
679 To enable, edit src/wconfig.h
680 The support works with gtk 1.1.2
686 libPropList will now be built automatically by wmaker. Wich means
687 the (simplified) building process is now:
695 tar xzf libPropList.tar.gz
696 (cd libPropList; make)
700 You also don't need to worry about GNOME libPropList incompatibilities
704 Bug with focus lost in sloppy focus fixed
705 -----------------------------------------
707 The bug only occurs in sloppy or auto focus modes, with AutoFocus disabled
708 and Superfluous enabled. There is no easy/clean way to fix this, so Window
709 Maker will disable the animation of window creation if the focus mode is
710 either sloppy or auto AND AutoFocus=NO.
712 If you want the animation, enable AutoFocus or use manual focus mode
716 The NoWindowUnderDock option was removed
717 ----------------------------------------
718 To obtain the same result, use the "Keep Dock On Top" option in the dock menu.
721 Persistent Program Suplied Icons
722 --------------------------------
724 Application supplied icons are now stored, so that the dock will keep
725 showing them after the app is exited. The icons are stored at
726 ~/GNUstep/.AppInfo/WindowMaker/
732 Sound support is now on by default. Even if you don't use sound the overhead
733 is very small, and has no impact on performance. If you still want to
734 optimize it and remove a few hundred of bytes, then use --disable-sound or
735 --enable-sound=no options when you configure Window Maker.
741 Multihead support. wmaker will now manage all screens that are attached to the
743 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
746 It does so from a single process (instead of spawning a new process for each
747 screen, like fvwm does). This keeps memory usage a lot lower than fvwm.
749 State files have a suffix .n, where n is the number of the screen.
751 Since I don't have a real multiheaded machine, it probably has bugs.
756 Yet another useless superfluous animation. Find out what exactly it is
763 ~/G/L/W/exitscript will be called automatically when wmaker is exited.
769 1. Miniaturization animation is now selectable by a runtime option
772 IconificationStyle = <style>;
774 to your WindowMaker configuration file.
775 <style> can be one of: Zoom, Twist, Flip or None
776 Case doesn't matter, and default is Zoom.
780 This can be controlled by setting:
782 EdgeResistance = xxx;
784 in your WindowMaker configuration file.
785 xxx is an integer greater than 0 and represents the number of pixels of edge
786 resistance. Setting it to 0 (default) will disable this feature.
791 A new theme named Night, is available in this distribution.
797 GIF support was added. You will need libgif 2.2 to use it.
799 cpixmap added. Syntax is the same as tpixmap or spixmap
804 getstyle will include IconBack info in Style files.
808 libPropList was updated. If you have it installed, you must upgrade or
809 WPrefs will crash because of bugs in libPropList.
817 WindowTitleBalloons = YES;
818 will enable balloons for window titles that are not fully visible.
820 MiniwindowTitleBalloons = YES;
821 will enable balloons for miniwindow titles.
823 AppIconBalloons = YES;
824 for application icons (docked or not)
830 IconPosition (the position of the icons) is specified as:
832 IconPosition = c1c2c3;
836 c1 can be t or b (meaning top or bottom)
837 c2 can be l or r (meaning left or right)
838 c3 can be v or h (meaning vertical or horizontal)
845 is the old iconPosition position.
849 will place the icons over the Dock.
854 EmulateAppIcon = YES; will make the window have an application icon.
855 Only use this option for fully specified windows (like rxvt.Rxvt).
856 NEVER use in generic window specifications (like * or rxvt).
857 You must restart the application for the attribute to take effect.
868 Boolean balues have changed!!! YES, Y and any non-zero integer will
869 mean TRUE and anything else (including True) will mean FALSE. This
870 is to conform to the OpenStep values used for booleans and
871 not cause headaches later, when GNUstep apps also starts using
872 defaults and users will try using True wich won't get recognized.
880 Clip button layout was changed. IT IS TEMPORARY AND THE DEFINITIVE LOOK
887 More bugs were fixed in it. Upgrade the library if you have an older version
888 installed, with the one included.
894 Format for property list menus has changed! The redundant array for
895 submenus was removed, so a menu that looked like:
898 ("Xterm", EXEC, "xterm"),
901 ("Gimp", EXEC, "gimp"),
910 ("Xterm", EXEC, "xterm"),
912 ("Gimp", EXEC, "gimp"),
922 NUMLOCK_HACK is back. This time it works and is enabled by default.
923 If you think you don't need it and promise me that you won't send
924 "bug" reports saying that shortcuts stop working after a while, you can
925 disable it ;) It will save some memory and CPU.
931 Removed the SwapMenuButton option and added 3 finer grained options:
933 SelectWindowsMouseButton
934 WindowListMouseButton
935 ApplicationMenuMouseButton
937 Values that can be used are Left, Middle, Right and Button1 through Button5
938 Left is equivalent to Button1, Middle to Button2 and Right to Button3
941 Removed the WorkspaceChangeDelay option and corresponding action.
942 Removed AClipColor and IClipColor
945 Added the SelectKey back
948 Changed default binding of Window commands menu from F10 to Control+Escape
955 libPropList has changed! Upgrade it before compiling wmaker.
957 Hopefully the bugs that caused wmaker to crash if an error is found
958 in the config files is fixed. If you do crash wmaker with a bad
959 file, please try to find out the smallest possible portion of the file
960 that still crashes wmaker and send it to me.
966 PixmapPath was split to PixmapPath and IconPath. PixmapPath is the path
967 for the pixmaps used as textures and IconPath is for the icons.
968 Don't forget to add IconPath to your current configuration file.
970 There's also a new library in ~/GNUstep/Library/Icons. You should place
971 your icons there, since icons are not a WindowMaker specific resource.
974 DontConfirmKill=YES; will disable the confirmation panel for Kill
982 Unhide Here in the appicon menu was changed to be the first entry.
983 This way you can unhide the appicon with a single click without
984 even moving the pointer.
990 The collect icons commands was renamed to attract icons and
991 the attract icons options was renamed to Auto attract icons.
993 The Remove Selected Icons was renamed to Remove Icon(s). It will
994 act as before if some icon is selected and will remove the clicked
995 icon (without confirmation) if it is not.
997 Added a Keep Icon(s) command that will keep the selected icons if
998 any is selected and the current one if none.
1000 The Move To command was renamed to Move Icon(s) To.
1005 If you have libPropList installed, you might want to reinstall it,
1006 replacing with the included libPropList. It has a small bug fix.
1011 Removed --with-gnome and made MWM_HINTS defined by default.
1012 This means that "GNOME support" will work with no additional
1013 flags passed to configure.
1015 Added support for KDE, by adding a DisableWorkspaceMouseActions option.
1016 Set it to YES and run krootwm to be able to use everything in kfm.
1019 Shortcuts for Root Menu
1020 -----------------------
1022 There is now a new SHORTCUT optional keyword for the menus.
1023 For example, you can bind Control-F1 to xterm with:
1025 "XTerm" SHORTCUT Control+F1 EXEC xterm
1027 or F2 to ARRANGE_ICONS with:
1029 "Arrange Icons" SHORTCUT F2 ARRANGE_ICONS
1032 All commands allowed in the menu file accept the keyword, except for
1039 ** Configuration of docked applications is now done in a panel instead of
1042 ** Added a command menu for application icons
1044 ** Shift double-click on the application icon will unhide the app
1045 in the current workspace.
1051 NotMiniaturizable option changed to NoMiniaturizeButton
1052 NotClosable option changed to NoCloseButton
1055 Speed options values are now UltraFast, Fast, Medium, Slow or UltraSlow
1058 Removed the Select keyboard binding. You can access it in the window
1061 Removed the ClipMaxIcons option and made it a compile time option.
1063 Removed the ConstrainWindowSize option
1065 Renamed NoSound to DisableSound
1067 Renamed NoAutowrap to DontLinkWorkspaces
1069 Renamed NoDithering to DisableDithering
1071 Renamed NoAnimations to DisableAnimations
1073 Removed the LeftHanded option and added a SwapMenuButton option.
1074 SwapMenuButton will make the rubberband selection in the root window
1075 be bound to the right button and the root menu to the left button.
1078 New way to display temporary icons
1079 ----------------------------------
1081 The icons that are attracted by Clip, but will not be kept after the
1082 application close, are now using a different color for shading, unlike previous
1083 version that always used white. This will improve look for very different color
1084 combinations, and allow the user to control the look of the shaded icon.
1085 The color used for shading the icons is computed as follows:
1087 First a color is computed depending on the IconBack type:
1088 - for solid the color is the solid color itself.
1089 - for simple gradients the color is (from_color + to_color)/2.
1090 - for multiple gradients, the color is the first color in list.
1091 - for pixmaps, the color is the solid color specified for that pixmap.
1093 Then the color is made lighter by multiplying each red/green/blue filed with
1094 1.7 and limiting each field to 0xff in case they exceed this value.
1095 Then this new color will be used by superposing it with the icon we want to
1096 shade, using a proper alpha value.
1098 To control the color for shading is simple:
1100 - In case of multi gradients you just need to put the first color, as the color
1101 you like. WindowMaker do not use the first color in the list to directly build
1102 the gradient, but only when it needs a solid color for something (like in this
1105 - For pixmaps, put the needed color as the solid color the syntax for pixmaps
1106 require. This color is also not used when displaying normal icons, just when
1107 solid colors are needed (like this case).
1109 - For solid color, or simple gradients, in case the color it uses after
1110 computing is not good enough, you can always convert the solid or simple
1111 gradient to a multi gradient with the same look, and use that one. In this
1112 case is simple, just put the needed color as first color in list.
1114 Please note that this will not slow down WindowMaker, because the IconBack is
1115 read only once at startup, and then only if it is changed. After reading it WM
1116 will construct the image of the tile, and use the image instead of recomputing
1117 the gradient every time.
1119 Here are 2 examples of converting solid or simple gradient to a same looking
1122 IconBack = (solid, Blue);
1124 IconBack = (mhgradient , LightBlue, Blue, Blue);
1125 using LightBlue as color for shading.
1127 IconBack = (dgradient, "#284569", "#082420");
1129 IconBack = (mdgradient, "#183454", "#284569", "#082420");
1130 looking the same, but using #183454 for shading.
1133 New Sound Server Location
1134 -------------------------
1136 The sound server new URL is http://www.frontiernet.net/~southgat/wmsound
1137 Also it seems to be running on FreeBSD too (with little changes maybe).
1145 The path for the WINGs resource files was changed. If you don't
1146 do make install, you must move /usr/local/share/WindowMaker/Resources to
1147 /usr/local/share/WINGs
1153 The following new options are available:
1154 NewStyle = Yes/No; (static) Replaces --enable-newstyle
1155 DisableDock = Yes/No; (static) Same as -nodock command line option.
1156 DisableClip = Yes/No; (static) Same as -noclip.
1157 Superfluous = Yes/No; (dynamic) Replaces --enable-superfluous.
1160 - The static options are only read at startup. Changing them, needs to restart,
1161 so they will be accounted.
1162 - DisableDock and DisableClip have lower precedence than -nodock -noclip
1163 command line options. If both option/command line option are given, then the
1164 command line option will be accounted.
1170 The start hidden option was fixed, and made to be an application wide option.
1171 It will apply to every window the application owns. Also its place in the
1172 Attribute Inspector panel, changed accordingly, to reflect this.
1173 The start miniaturized is however still applying to particular windows of an
1174 application, unless the option is set for the class.
1175 Start miniaturized, will override start hidden if both set.
1178 Because of the way Netscape Communicator is implemented, it is NOT possible
1179 to set the start hidden or miniatirized flags for it. This is because Netscape
1180 chooses to send a second map event to the window it maps. This makes the
1181 window to receive a second map request and to be unhidden or maximized back,
1182 immediately after it was hidden or miniaturized by WindowMaker at startup.
1191 The NextMenuBehaviour option was renamed to WrapMenus
1192 The WorkspaceTiedMiniwindows option was renamed to StickyIcons
1194 The .tif files were renamed to .tiff
1197 Selecting Mini Windows
1198 ----------------------
1200 Now miniaturized windows can be selected as well as normal windows.
1201 You can do this by Shift-Click-ing them. They will be marked, and will follow
1202 you through workspaces like normal selected windows do.
1203 Miniaturizing a window will no longer deselect the window, but will place the
1204 icon and mark it as selected.
1205 The only difference between miniaturized and normal window selection is that
1206 for the moment the rubber-band selecting method works only for normal windows.
1209 Icon Selection Panel in Attributes Editor
1210 -----------------------------------------
1212 Now, selecting icons is as easy as clicking in the file name in a list.
1218 IconSlideStep, IconSlideSlowDown and IconSlideDelay were merged to
1221 MenuScrollStep and MenuScrollDelay were merged to MenuScrollSpeed
1223 ShadeStep and ShadeDelay were merged to ShadeSpeed
1226 Valid values for them are: Fast, Normal, Slow or UltraSlow
1228 If you want to fine tune the values, they can be changed in wconfig.h
1229 Send me your set of values with an indication of how fast is your hardware,
1230 so that I can make the default values more adequate.
1233 New Window Attributes
1234 ---------------------
1236 Added StartMiniaturized and StartHidden as window attributes and
1237 removed the previous implementation. Also removed the dock menu entries.
1238 They are now settable in the Attributes Panel.
1240 Also added DontSaveSession attribute. This way, you won't end up with multiple
1241 unwanted copies of the same app after the previous session is restored.
1242 I start X with a xterm in .xinitrc instead of wmaker, wich will cause the
1243 xterm restored by wmaker be duplicate. Just add -name something to the
1244 xterm started form .xinitrc and mark DontSaveSession=YES for that window.
1248 User Specifiable Visual IDs
1249 ---------------------------
1251 wmaker now supports different visuals than the default one. It isn't of much
1252 use for most people, but can be usefull for lucky SGI users who want it
1253 to use TrueColor instead of the default PseudoColor.
1255 wmaker -visualid VISUAL_ID
1257 where VISUAL_ID is the hex code for the visual you want.
1259 Note: I don't have an SGI box and haven't tested it...
1266 The starting workspace is identified in the following order:
1267 1. If the app is omnipresent will be mapped on the current workspace.
1268 2. Else if the application have a StartWorkspace option set as attribute
1269 then this one will be used.
1270 3. Else, if the application was started from Clip, the workspace on which
1271 the Clip from where it was started is used.
1272 4. Else the current workspace is used.
1274 Restoring saved sessions will always use the saved workspace, no matter
1275 what other options are, except onmipresent.
1281 Workspace specific mini windows
1282 -------------------------------
1284 The minimized windows can be workspace specific, being more consistent with
1285 the rest. This is because minimized window represents just another state of a
1286 window (like normal or shaded), which all are workspace specific.
1287 This (or the old "present anywhere") behavior can be set using an option in
1288 the WindowMaker database: WorkspaceTiedMiniWindows = Yes/No;
1290 New way to animate the blowing icons
1291 ------------------------------------
1293 There is now a compile time option that allows one to set how the icons are
1294 animated when detaching from dock/clip in superfluous mode.
1295 By default the classic "Falling pieces" animation is used.
1296 If SPREAD_ICON is #define-ed in wconfig.h, then a "Spread in four directions"
1297 animation is used instead. Take a look at the section where this is described
1299 By default there is #undef SPREAD_ICON to select "Falling pieces" animation.
1301 Auto Colapse for Clip
1302 ---------------------
1304 The clip now supports an option named "Auto Collapse" which can be set from
1305 the clip main menu. When set, clip will stay collapsed, and will show itself
1306 when the mouse moves over it. While the mouse is over it, or over any of the
1307 icons attached to the clip, the clip will stay uncollapsed, letting you to
1308 access the attached icons. This is not true for applications like asclock, or
1309 applets of that kind, because the icon window do not belongs to WindowMaker,
1310 but to the application itself. For such icons you must keep the mouse over the
1311 icon groundplate, else it will collapse back. But usually these type of icons
1312 will not stay in a collapsed clip, since one needs to see what they show.
1313 When the clip is leaved it will collapse back after a delay of 1 second, unless
1314 the mouse is moved back to the clip area. The delay can be set modifying
1315 AUTO_COLLAPSE_DELAY in wconfig.h. Default is 1000 (ms) which means 1 second.
1322 Changed name from Fiend to Clip
1323 -----------------------------------
1325 All occurrences of word Fiend with or without capital F were replaced with
1326 the corresponding Clip (same capital).
1327 This affects all configuration files under ~/GNUstep that contain this word.
1328 It can be refered as "Workspace Dock" too.
1331 New option in Clip menu, and extended Clip behavior
1332 ---------------------------------------------------
1334 The following new items are available in the dock menu:
1337 2. Keep Attracted Icons
1339 4. (Un)select All Icons
1340 5. Remove Selected Icons
1342 7. Start miniaturized (also available for regular dock)
1343 8. Start hidden (also available for regular dock)
1345 10. Set icon... (also available for regular dock)
1348 Here is what they do:
1350 1. "Attract Icons" will let the Clip to attract and attach any new appicon that
1351 is created when an application starts. It will not do this if the Clip is
1352 full. If the Clip is Collapsed then the appicon will be hidden after it is
1354 2. "Keep Attracted Icons" will tell the Clip to keep the attracted appicons,
1355 after the application is closed. Without this the appicons will vanish,
1356 leaving the Clip in the original state. If you move an appicon that was
1357 attracted from Clip to regular Dock, it will be kept when closed, no matter
1358 what "Keep Attracted Icons" is set to in Clip.
1359 3. "Collect Icons" will collect all appicons that are not yet attached to Dock
1360 or Clip, and attach them to the current workspace Clip. The value of
1361 "Keep Attracted Icons" will apply when applications close. If Clip is
1362 collapsed, the appicons will be hidden.
1363 4. "(Un)select All Icons" will select all icons in the clip if none is
1364 selected, or it will deselect all selected ones. The selected icons are
1365 marked using a small triangle in the bottom right corner of the appicon.
1366 The color of the mark is set using SClipColor in WindowMaker domain
1368 5. "Remove Selected Icons" will remove from Clip all selected icons. The ones
1369 that still run, will be detached, all the others will vanish.
1370 6. "Move To" will transfer all selected icons to another workspace and attach
1371 them to the Clip in that workspace. If none is selected, only the one the
1372 mouse was pressed on will be moved.
1373 7. "Start miniaturized" will launch (or autolaunch if set) the application in
1374 a miniaturized state.
1375 8. "Start hidden" will launch (or autolaunch if set) the application in a
1376 hidden state. Note that only one of the two can be set at a time.
1377 9. "Selected" can be used to toggle the selected state of the appicon
1378 individually. The same can be achieved using Shift-LeftClick on the appicon.
1379 In fact the intended way of toggling the selected state is by using
1380 the Shift-LeftClick on icon. The menu entry is just another way to do the
1382 10. "Set icon..." will allow one to set the image for the appicon. The image
1383 will be updated without restart, and also all appicons in the same
1384 instance.class as the one we set for, will be updated.
1386 So a simple way of avoiding the screen to be filled up with appicons is to set
1387 the "Attract Icons" in the Clip. Also the "Keep Attracted Icons" can be set to
1388 No, so the attracted icons will be deleted when application exits, thus leaving
1389 the Clip clean. If also one to not want to see the appicons that keep filling
1390 the Clip, he can set the Clip to be Collapsed.
1392 Getting rid of unneeded icons in Clip is as simple as selecting them
1393 individually using Shift-LeftClick, and then using the "Remove selected Icons"
1397 Support for different visuals.
1398 ------------------------------
1400 WindowMaker is now able to support any visual, except DirectColor, in any
1401 depth from 1bpp to 32bpp.
1403 One can start the X server with different visuals, by passing the X server the
1404 right option. For XFree 3.3.x is -cc <id>.
1405 WindowMaker is not yet able to choose a different visual from the Default one
1406 on a given screen, but can use any default visual it finds, except the direct
1408 For example starting X like (for XFree 3.3.x, and if the driver for the
1409 card supports this. Read the man page for your X server):
1410 startx -- -bpp 8 -cc 0 will give you the StaticGray visual.
1411 startx -- -bpp 8 -cc 1 will give the GrayScale visual
1414 Wrlib code is now generic, and will support any visual except DirectColor in
1415 any depth. Programs written with wrlib can work on different visuals from
1416 the default visual for a given screen.
1417 Behavior in different visuals can be tested using the testgrad program in
1418 wrlib subdirectory in distribution.
1419 testgrad -h will show the usage.
1421 Multidiagonal gradients are also implemented now in wrlib, and a new algorithm
1422 is used to speed up the generation of diagonal gradients.
1425 New arrangement of the directory structure under ~/GNUstep/
1426 ---------------------------------------------------------------
1428 To better adapt to theme support the directory structure changed under
1429 ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker
1431 1. Style directory moved to Styles.
1432 2. Added the following directories: Backgrounds, IconSets, Pixmaps, Sounds and
1434 3. The .style files no longer get copied in the user's Styles directory.
1435 Instead they are read from the global /usr/local/share/WindowMaker/Styles
1438 Under ~/GNUstep/Defaults the following changes occurred:
1440 1. A default WMState is installed by wmaker.inst.
1441 It contains the dockit program assigned to the top icon of the dock, and
1442 the wmsetbg program assigned for the drop command on both dock's and clip's
1444 Double clicking the dock's main icon will bring up dockit that will let you
1445 dock any application that do not have an application icon.
1446 Dropping an image on dock's or clip's main icon, from an Offix DND aware
1447 application, will put the image on the background tiled, and will update
1448 WindowMaker domain database file.
1449 2. Syntax of WMState changed a little. The old position will not be restored
1450 when you will first start the new version, but after that it will be
1451 normally remembered. This is because now the main clip icons is only saved
1452 once, not for every workspace.
1453 You should replace Fiend with Clip in any place where it appears, if you
1454 want to keep the old WMState file, else it will not work.
1455 3. At compile time, it will detect if you have support for tif, and will
1456 install a WMWindowAttributes with corresponding image name extension
1457 (.tif or .xpm). This is true only for pixmaps that come with the source
1458 distribution and get installed under /usr/local/share/WindowMaker/Pixmaps
1460 The menu file changed a lot. Old menu file will *not* work with new theme
1461 support, so please upgrade.
1464 New behavior of OPEN_MENU command
1465 ---------------------------------
1467 The OPEN_MENU command now supports the following syntax:
1468 1. File menu handling.
1469 // opens file.menu which must contain a valid menu file and inserts
1470 // it in current position
1472 2. Pipe menu handling.
1473 // opens command and uses it's stdout to construct menu.
1474 // Command's output must be a valid menu description.
1476 3. Directory handling.
1477 // Opens one or more directories and construct a menu with all
1478 // the subdirectories and executable files in them sorted alphabetically.
1479 OPEN_MENU /some/dir [/some/other/dir ...]
1480 4. Directory handling with command.
1481 // Opens one or more directories and construct menu with all
1482 // subdirectories and readable files in them sorted alphabetically,
1483 // preceding each of them with command.
1484 // WITH is a required keyword!!!
1485 OPEN_MENU /some/dir [/some/other/dir ...] WITH command -options
1487 Please note that because of the 'WITH' keyword old menu files no longer work
1488 for the OPEN_MENU with a command.
1494 Theme support is now as easy as untar-ing a tarball in the right place.
1495 Because of the way OPEN_MENU works, they can be installed on a global
1496 shareable basis, or for personal user use.
1497 Themes installed under ~/GNUstep will be available only for a user, but
1498 if if they are installed under /usr/local/share/WindowMaker they will be seen
1499 by all users. This is also true for style files, background images, pixmaps,
1500 etc that get installed under /usr/local/share/WindowMaker.
1501 Themes can be saved or loaded using the Appereance menu.
1503 Also support for different IconSets is available. You can save or load a new
1504 IconSet using the Appereance menu.
1506 Setting background images is now as simple as putting the images in the right
1507 place (~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds or
1508 /usr/local/share/WindowMaker/Backgrounds, or any other place in your
1509 PixmapPath). Then use the Appereance menu. They will be instantly available
1510 since they are opened by a OPEN_MENU command. Also the image do not need to
1511 have a .jpg or any other extension. It will be recognized anyhow.
1512 As an example please see the OpenStep theme supplied with WindowMaker.
1513 The OpenStep image is a jpeg file without extension.
1515 Please keep in mind that anything under /usr/local/share/WindowMaker will be
1516 available for all users.
1519 New options for wmsetbg and getstyle
1520 ------------------------------------
1522 wmsetbg now accepts the following options:
1523 usage: wmsetbg [-options] image
1528 -s scale image (default)
1529 -u update WindowMaker domain database
1530 -D <domain> update <domain> database
1531 -c <cpc> colors per channel to use
1533 By default, it will try to guess if dithering is needed or not and proceed
1535 Using -d or -m will force it to dither or match colors.
1537 Dithering for more than 15bpp is generally not needed, and will only result
1538 in a slower processing.
1539 Don't use dithering except when needed, because it is slower. Else rely on
1540 wmsetbg which will detect if dithering is needed and use it.
1542 -u will update the WorkspaceBack in the default database domain file in
1543 ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker, and let WindowMaker refresh the screen.
1544 Please note that this option only works under WindowMaker, and will have no
1545 effect under other window managers, since it rely on WindowMaker to update
1546 the image after it reads the updated defaults database.
1548 -D <domain> is same as above, but will update the domain <domain> instead of
1549 the default WindowMaker domain.
1551 -c <cpc> will set the color per channel to use. Only needed for PseudoColor
1552 visuals. WindowMaker will automatically pass the value read from the
1553 WindowMaker domain database.
1556 getstyle now have the -t option, that instructs it to read all options
1557 related to theme. Without -t getstyle will read only style options that
1558 means it will not read WorkspaceBack and IconBack.
1559 Use -t when you want to make a theme and need all theme options to be saved.
1560 Else it will extract just a style file.
1563 Session management support
1564 --------------------------
1566 Two new commands are available for use in menus:
1568 SAVE_SESSION and CLEAR_SESSION.
1571 will take a snapshot of all running applications, and their current hints
1572 (shaded, hidden, minimized, geometry and workspace they are on),
1573 and save it inside the WMState file. Also the current workspace we are on is
1574 saved. The applications that are running and were started from dock or clip are
1575 marked, so they will be attached to the corresponding dock/clip when restored.
1576 This state is restored every next session, until a new one is saved or
1577 CLEAR_SESSION is used.
1580 will clear any previous saved session.
1582 There is also a run time option named SaveSessionOnExit = Yes/No; that allows
1583 one to automatically save the state of desktop when leaving WindowMaker.
1584 This way next session, the state of the desktop before last exit is restored.
1586 Please note that if this option is set to Yes, than any manual saving of the
1587 state, or any clearing of the state will be overridden when exiting
1590 These options are available under the "Workspace" menu.
1593 User WindowMaker configuration files are now merged with global ones
1594 --------------------------------------------------------------------
1596 When starts WindowMaker will look for database domain files under
1597 $GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT/Defaults or ~/GNUstep/Deafults to be read. (In this order).
1599 If they are not available then it will scan for them in
1600 $GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT/Defaults, $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Defaults or
1601 /usr/local/GNUstep/Defaults (in this order).
1603 Even if the file was found or not, it will always load the corresponding domain
1604 file under /usr/local/share/WindowMaker/Defaults.
1606 Then if the user file was found it will merge it over the global file, else
1607 the global file will be used.
1609 This way any settings that are set by the system administrator in the shared
1610 file will be available for users that do not have them in their config files.
1611 Any option the user have in his config file will override the one in the
1614 So any new runtime options that appear in WindowMaker domain, do not need to
1615 be set in all user files, except the ones the user wants a different behavior
1616 from the default set for all users in the shared file.
1618 Also it is possible for the user to not have any personal domain databases, and
1619 the global shared ones will be used, but it still needs to have the directory
1620 structure, so WMState gets written on session exit.
1621 So all it needs to have is ~/GNUstep/Defaults directory available.
1624 New behavior of the Slide Icons
1625 -------------------------------
1627 Animation constants are now runtime.
1631 IconSlideSlowDown = 50;
1633 To better adapt both slow and fast machines the behavior of sliding icons
1634 changed in the following manner:
1636 Old one was to keep moving the icon with a constant step (default 5 pixels)
1637 until it reached the destination.
1639 Now it will use a new parameter named IconSlideSlowDown to speed up or slow
1642 Instead of moving it with a constant step it will use IconSlideSlowDown to
1643 divide the distance to the destination, and use this value as the first step.
1644 Then is will compute the remaining distance and will again use
1645 IconSlideSlowDown to divide it and get the new step. And so on.
1646 When the step to move becomes smaller than IconSlideStep, IconSlideStep will
1647 be used further until the destination is reached.
1649 This way a nice deceleration effect is achieved, since while the icon
1650 approaches destination, it will use smaller steps, gibing the illusion that
1651 the icons is moving slower.
1653 IconSlideDelay will give the pause between steps, and is expressed in ms.
1655 Giving large values to IconSlideSlowDown (>1024 for 1024x768 screen) will
1656 result in the old "constant step advance" behavior, since the computed step
1657 will always be smaller than IconSlideStep, and the last will be used instead.
1659 Making IconSlideSlowDown = 0 or 1, will result in an instant jump to the
1660 destination without any animation.
1666 Because the icon images on screen automatically update after any change in
1667 WMWindowAttributes domain file, the use of both Save and Apply buttons is no
1668 longer needed. If one wants to just apply the setting to the current window
1669 only, he will only use the Apply button.
1670 If he wants them saved for all applications in the same instance and/or class
1671 the using the Save button will write them to disk, and automatically
1672 WindowMaker will update all the icons that need to be updated on screen.
1678 Some basic sound support is now part of WindowMaker. The sound server is not
1679 yet part of WindowMaker distribution, so you need to download it separately.
1680 This is because is linux specific, and need some changes before it can be
1682 Until them if you have a linux system and want to use sound, use the
1683 wmsound-0.5 available at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/7874
1684 Download that package, and only build the sound server there.
1685 DO NO APPLY ANY PATCHES FROM THERE!, because they are already applied.
1686 Just build the sound and copy the executable in /usr/local/bin
1687 Follow the rest of the install steps described there, except the patch-ing
1690 To enable sound for WindowMaker pass --enable-sound to configure.
1692 Also use NoSound = Yes/No; to enable/disable sound at runtime without killing
1695 If you cannot set the sound to work yet, then is not for you.
1696 Wait until the sound server will be fixed and will be part of WindowMaker.
1699 New entries in WindowMaker domain database
1700 ------------------------------------------
1702 The following entries have been added to the runtime options:
1704 SaveSessionOnExit = No;
1706 will autosave (or not) the session state on exit.
1708 WindowPlaceOrigin = "64, 64";
1710 will offset all windows in auto or cascade placement mode with the value
1711 (in pixels) before placing them on screen. First is horizontal direction and
1713 This do not apply to windows that request a specific position on screen.
1714 This is useful if you want your Clip on the top left corner to not be
1715 overlapped by mapping windows.
1716 It will let it to have a row and a column of docked appicons near the screen
1717 edge, that will not be overlapped by windows.
1718 If you set it to "128, 128" it will have 2 rows and 2 columns not overlapped.
1723 Enable/disable sound at runtime without the need of killing the sound server.
1726 MenuScrollDelay = 10;
1729 Constants for the menu scrolling animation.
1733 IconSlideSlowDown = 50;
1735 Constants for the icons sliding on screen. Explained above.
1740 Animation parameters for shading a window. How many steps it will take, and the
1741 delay between steps in ms.
1743 DoubleClickTime = 250;
1745 The time for the double click to be considered so. Expressed in ms.
1747 SClipColor = "#6f8ae2";
1749 Color for selected icons in Clip.
1751 All delays are expressed in ms.
1758 *** Enhanced fiend clone.
1760 Here are the new fiend features:
1761 1. Keys for raising/lowering the fiend, and their default values:
1762 FiendLowerKey = None;
1763 FiendRaiseKey = None;
1764 FiendRaiseLowerKey = None;
1766 All reside in WindowMaker configuration file.
1768 2. Added posibility to launch the workspace menu with button1 click on the
1769 idle indicator of fiend, or with button3 click on workspace name on the
1772 3. Added Control-button1-click on fiend's idle indicator, to create a new
1773 workspace and move to it. Same action as New item in Workspace menu.
1775 4. Fiend's idle indicator do have a color that reflects its normal/collapsed
1778 5. The delay between changing workspaces from fiend is now a runtime option:
1780 WorkspaceChangeDelay = 700;
1782 in WindowMaker configuration file.
1784 6. Application icons can be moved between dock and fiend now.
1786 7. The way workspaces are changed is controlled now by two runtime options:
1788 AdvanceToNewWorkspace=Yes/No;
1789 CycleWorkspaces=Yes/No;
1791 Both apply to either fiend navigating buttons or to next/prev worksapace
1792 keybindings. Both default to No, and are in WindowMaker configuration file.
1794 8. Also added posibility to advance to new workspace, no matter what value
1795 AdvanceToNewWorkspace have, with Control-button1-click on "next workspace"
1799 *** Theme support ***
1801 Spixmap and tpixmap now work. Their syntax is:
1803 SomeStyleOption = (spixmap, file, color);
1804 SomeStyleOption = (tpixmap, file, color);
1806 - spixmap means scaled pixmap, so the image in the file will be scaled to
1807 adapt to the destination's size.
1808 - tpixmap means tiled pixmap, and the image from file will be tiled in the
1811 file is searched in the PixmapPath, but can be a full path name.
1813 Color is used depending on which Style option is applied.
1814 For example in case of titlebars, color is used for miniwindows titles color.
1815 You are not restricted in selecting that color, but is better to put one
1816 that matches the overall color of the image.
1818 Currently they apply to all the options that accept (solid, color), or any
1820 This means they also apply to WorkspaceBack and IconBack, which allows theme
1821 support with the simple use of the setstyle and getstyle utilities.
1822 There is no need for an extra theme manager, just to include the needed
1823 options in the style files.
1825 In case of WorkspaceBack, color is used to be set in the background until
1826 the image gets loaded and displayed. This is to avoid the stippled screen
1827 the X server shows, in case the image is big and loads slow.
1828 There is a small utility in the util directory, named wmsetbg which is
1829 used to set the background image. This is needed for windowmaker not to
1830 freeze while loading and scaling the image.
1831 Currently it is hardcoded in windowmaker to use wmsetbg to set the background
1832 image, and is better to use it since is smaller that other image manipulation
1833 programs, and it is compiled with support for same image types as windowmaker.
1834 Since it comes and is installed with WindowMaker, there will be no need to
1835 download and use an external app, which also may not have support for the same
1836 image types as windowmaker.
1844 The fiend clone is a dock extender, that lets you dock more than the default
1845 10-12 icons in the dock. It actually lets you dock how many icons you like,
1846 with a current default of 25 per workspace. The fiend have different docked
1847 icons on every workspace. Also the fiend main icon shows you the workspace
1848 you're on and lets you navigate through the workspaces with the small green
1849 buttons on the low right corner.
1850 To save screen space the fiend can be collapsed to the main icon either
1851 from the fiend menu (available with right click on the fiend icons), or
1852 with a double left click on the main fiend icon, which is a toggle for
1853 the collapsed/uncollapsed state.
1854 Collapsed state is marked by a different title color.
1855 Pressing on the small buttons on the low right corner, the workspaces are
1856 changed in increments of 1 to the left or right, but keeping the button
1857 pressed over them will continuously advance through workspaces until the
1858 mouse is moved away from the buttons or the button is released.
1859 The delay between workspace changes is set by FIEND_WKS_CHANGE_DELAY in
1860 src/wconfig.h, and defaults to 700 ms.
1861 Unlike the dock, fiend can hold icons in any directions, and can be placed
1862 in any position on screen.
1864 When an icons is to be docked, but the position can be either in the dock
1865 or in the fiend, the dock will be used first, and the icon will be docked
1868 Here are the new runtime options introduced by the fiend:
1869 Files are located in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/
1871 In WMWindowAttributes:
1872 "Logo.WMFiend" = {Icon = "Cone.xpm";}; - icon for the fiend
1875 FiendMaxIcons = 25; - the max number of icons in fiend per
1877 FiendTitleFont = "-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
1878 - the font used to show the current
1880 FiendTitleColor = black; - color for the uncollapsed fiend title
1881 CFiendTitleColor = "#616161"; - color for the collapsed fiend title
1882 AFiendColor = "#00ba70"; - color for the workspace changing
1883 buttons, when active
1884 IFiendColor = "#008000"; - color for the workspace changing
1887 For the ones who don't want to use fiend, there is a option to wmaker named
1888 -nofiend that can be feed to the command line when starting wmaker.
1889 (This is the equivalent for -nodock, but removes fiend clone).
1891 The syntax of WMState file have changed, but you don't have to worry because
1892 WindowMaker will know to read the old format and will save it and further
1893 will use the new one. You do not need to change your file, for the new version
1899 *** Enhanced Attribute editor.
1901 Now you can save defaults for all windows.
1902 Please note that only Icon, KeepInsideScree, and sometimes NoAppIcon
1903 can be useful in a normal environment. But others may have other opinion ;)
1904 If you set AlwaysUserIcon default for all windows, note that apps like
1905 asclock, wmload, wmmail, wmrack, will show that icon instead of their
1908 Now Attribute editor also counts for defaults saved for all windows,
1909 (not only the default "No" for all options hardcoded in WindowMaker),
1910 when saving options for some instance.class specification. This is to
1911 save disk space by saving only the options that differs from global defaults
1912 (either defaults for all windows or the hardcoded valued in WindowMaker).
1914 Attribute Editor now updates on the fly the appicon image or creates/deletes
1915 the appicon if you set that options in the Inspector panel and Apply them.
1916 Modifying Icon file, NoAppIcon or AlwaysUserIcon and Applying them will
1917 result in the image update for the app-icon.
1919 Note that if you apply but not save these options, the miniwindow image will
1920 not be updated. This is because app-icon is always on screen so it can be
1921 updated, but miniwindow image is read from the defaults database and from disk
1922 every time you minimize the window and is destroyed when you restore.
1927 *** Atribute editor is working ;).
1929 How it works is quite obvious.
1930 Anyway, here is a short description.
1932 Save - only save the configuration in defaults database and updates
1934 Apply - only applies the values to the current window
1935 Revert - reverts the values from the defaults database
1937 Note that Save and Revert count for the window specification
1938 (instance & class), that are selected, and save/use the values for/from
1941 The Update button will show the icon who's name was typed in the textfield
1942 If the textfield is empty, will try to use the default icon.
1943 Also saving with and empty textfield for icon, uses the default icon.
1945 The Default button will use the icon in the textfield as default icon
1946 and save that value in WMWindowAttributes (Note that in this case is no
1947 need to press the Save button!). Also if the textfield is empty it will
1948 try to use the old default icon, if available.
1950 *** Now menus are saved between sessions, or over a restart.
1952 Just stick them to the desktop, and you will find them over sessions
1953 until you close them.
1954 Please note that only the root_menu, the window switch_menu and the
1955 workspaces_menu can be saved this way.
1957 *** Changed the lousy Windoze menu behaviour.
1959 This applies to 'NextMenuBehaviour = NO;'
1961 Now the items are no more automatically selected if you launch the menu
1962 and the mouse is over some item, if you use a short click to launch the
1963 menu (shorter than the default DBL click time).
1964 If you use a longer click or keep the mouse pressed, the item under mouse
1965 will be selected after that delay, and launched when you will release the
1967 If the click was short, a second one is needed to launch the item.
1969 *** Autoarrange icons is now a runtime option
1972 AutoArrangeIcons = YES/NO;
1975 *** Added configurable horizontal resize threshold
1978 HorizontalResizeThreshold = <n>;
1980 This will make the n pixels at the exterior side of the corner handle
1981 of the resize bar to restrict to horizontal only resize.
1982 Also you can use Shift-click&drag anywhere on the corner handle to
1983 restrict the resize only to horizontal.
1984 Note that the Shift-click&drag does not depend of the configured threshold
1985 and works completely independent.
1987 *** New option for OPEN_MENU (pipe from command)
1989 OPEN_MENU | /foo/bar/script
1991 will make a menu that is dinamically constructed by /foo/bar/script
1996 *** New option for OPEN_MENU
1998 OPEN_MENU /foo/bar/pics xv -root -quit
2000 will make a menu with all files in /foo/bar/pics and precede them
2001 with EXEC xv -root -quit
2003 thus, making a menu with entries like:
2006 "marble.gif" EXEC xv -root -quit marble.gif
2007 "water.jpg" EXEC xv -root -quit water.jpg
2011 *** Multicolor gradients
2013 (mhgradient, colorX, color1, color2, color3, ..., colorn)
2014 (mvgradient, colorX, color1, color2, color3, ..., colorn)
2016 You can put any number of colors >= 2.
2018 colorX is a special color that is used as the solid color of the
2019 texture when wmaker needs a solid color (like in miniwindow title and
2022 *** PixmapPath format changed
2026 PixmapPath = "/usr/local/share/pixmaps:~/foobar";
2030 PixmapPath = ("/usr/local/share/pixmaps", "~/foobar");
2033 *** Added OffiX DND in dock
2035 Use the "Set drop arguments..." command in the menu and put a %d
2036 where the dropped object string should be substituted, like:
2040 *** Escape thingies for menu and dock commands:
2042 %w - substitute with current selected X window ID
2043 %s - substitute with current selection
2044 %d - substitute with last dropped object
2045 %a(some text) - opens a input box with "some text" as a title. Then,
2046 the text typed will be substituted there
2048 \r, \n - substitute with corresponding characters
2051 *** The WMState file format has changed a little.
2052 The Command field for the dock application list is now a normal string,
2053 instead of a list. So, remove the parentheses and the commas for the command
2054 and join all the parts. Example:
2058 Command = ( xterm," -geometry", "+10+10" );
2062 Command = "xterm -geometry +10+10";
2067 AutoFocus = NO; disables automatic focusing of windows
2068 when they are first mapped
2073 titlebar gradients are in a single piece now
2075 the WMDock file was merged into the WMState file. You can insert this
2076 file in WMState and set it's key to Dock. For example, if your WMDock
2080 Applications = { {Command = (); }};
2085 and WMState contains:
2088 Workspaces = ( "Workspace 1" );
2091 then you can merge both and have:
2094 Workspaces = ( "Workspace 1" );
2096 Applications = { {Command = (); }};
2104 The configuration format has changed!! Forget everything about the old
2107 dockapp was removed and the old version will not work anymore.
2109 the dialogs require tcl/tk. they will be rewritten in plain C
2112 These are some tips for people upgrading from older versions and don't want
2113 too many unused files around. There is no problem if you decide to keep
2116 you can rm -r ~/gnustep if you don't want anything from there
2118 remove the files in /usr/local/share/WindowMaker before installation
2120 the /usr/local/share/pixmaps directory can be removed