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4.16.0
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- xfce4-screensaver-configure: Use GIRepository of libxfce4util and xfconf (#11)
- Change type of seconds to guint in add_lock_timer
- Check dbus system_connection in add_sleep_inhibit
- Cleanup GSourceFunc usage
- Convert date_time_update to a timer function
- Fix format specifiers in lock_timer
- Fix issues connected to dbus (#66)
- Fix pam_strerror usage
- Pass constants to XSetScreenSaver
- Plug memleak in get_x11_idle_info
- Remove obsolete check for scrnsaver.h from configure.ac
- Translation Updates:
Czech, Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish
0.1.11
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- Builds: Move from exo-csource to xdt-csource (Bugzilla #16717)
- CI: Add basic GitLab pipeline
- distcheck: Add missing gs-auth-pam.c
- DPMS: Change sleep settings to seconds, default after 5 seconds (#27)
- Fix: Catch gs_listener_dbus_init failures
- Fix: remove unused flag --no-daemon
- Icons: New icons and rDNS icon name, org.xfce.ScreenSaver
- Internal: Change timers from milliseconds to seconds
- README.md: Note setuid requirement after install with shadow/bsdauth (#9)
- xfce4-screensaver.common-auth: replace @include with standard systax (#6)
- Translation Updates:
Albanian, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
(China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian,
English (Australia), Estonian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian
Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian,
Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
0.1.10 (beta)
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- Send DBus lock responses for xfce4-session support (bug #16522)
- Translation Update: Galician
0.1.9 (beta)
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- Reimplement g_date_time_format_iso8601 to support GLib 2.50+
- Replace deprecated GTimeVal usage
- Rebuild windows on monitor reconfiguration
- Draw overlays during window reconstruction to protect screen
- Do not activate DPMS when screensaver is inactive (bug #16327)
- Better handling of multi-monitor and lid-close events (bug #16102)
- Update LINGUAS (bug #15949)
- Fix decimal properties when running through atof
- Return 1 on lock command failure (bug #15945)
- Rename 'Pictures folder' to 'Slideshow' (bug #15589)
- Raise NameError and TypeError (bug #15830)
- Fix float parsing error (bug #16295)
- Fix inhibitor proxying (bug #16356)
- Fix inhibitor listing in xfce4-screensaver-command (bug #16355)
- Add systemd sleep inhibitor (bug #15929)
- Fix dbus inhibition (bug #16365)
- dbus: Prevent overzealous activation (bug #16365)
- Translation Updates:
Albanian, Belarusian, Czech, Finnish, Galician, Hebrew, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese
(Brazil), Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
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- Features:
- Optional screensaver inhibition for fullscreen apps
- Blank screensaver now supports DPMS (Xfce #15216)
- Translation Updates:
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan),
Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian,
Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
Russian, Spanish
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- Features:
- Added configuration tool for individual screensavers
- Added support for on-screen keyboards
- Code Cleanup:
- Drop libXxf86 dependency, no longer implemented or available
(see https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-screensaver/issues/199)
- Removed unneeded login window construction code
- Removed window shaking on failed login
- Removed unused session-idle signal
- Removed unused code from gs-manager/gs-window-x11
- Simplified lock screen code
- Simplified screensaver activation and locking code
- General:
- Improved wallpaper drawing at 2x scale
- Migrated xfce4-screensaver-command to GDBus
- Fixed confusion between saver and lock timeouts
- Translation Updates:
Armenian (Armenia), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China),
Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician,
German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish,
Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Turkish
0.1.6 (beta)
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- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed flickering in the password dialog
- Fixed password dialog appearance, visual artifacts with various
themes are resolved
- Remove reference to pkg-config file (.pc) (Xfce #15597)
- Code Cleanup:
- Cleaned up kdb-indicator logic
- Consolidated debug function calls
- Moved job theme processing out of gs-manager
- Removed drag-and-drop theme installation
- Removed placeholder widgets from the glade template
- Removed unused callbacks
- Simplified handling of user preferences
- Translation Updates:
Armenian (Armenia), Hebrew, Hungarian, Malay, Portuguese,
Portuguese (Brazil), Russian
- Features:
- Added support for elogind (Xfce #15243)
- Added support for profile images from AccountsService (Xfce #15235)
- General:
- Removed a lot of unused code (2,700+ lines)
- Simplified monitor-handling logic
- More consistent spacing in makefiles
- Bug Fixes:
- Added categories to display in the Settings Manager (Xfce #15507)
- Added a fallback idle timer for when X11 screensaver doesn't notify
- Fixed warning during configure stage (Xfce #15552)
- Fixed Inhibitor lock (Xfce #15551)
- Hid screensaver themes from 'Open with' options (Xfce #15531)
- Made numerous cppcheck, cpplint, and Coverity Scan fixes
- Constant variables guarding dead code
- Dereferencing before/after null
- Unchecked return values
- Unused variables
- Memory leaks
Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China),
Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia),
French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Korean,
Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Serbian, Slovak,
Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Added support for locking on suspend (Xfce #15001)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix password entry after stealing focus (Xfce #15042)
- General:
- Faster screen locking when activated
- Faster renderering of the authentication prompt
- Improved support for monitor dis-/connection events
- Improved lock screen display on lid open events
- Improved idle activation

Sean Davis
committed
- Improved low-power state, screensavers are now suspended
when monitors are powered off via DPMS (Debian #921835)
Basque, Belarusian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Galician, Lithuanian,
Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish
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- Features:
- All available settings are now availble in the Preferences dialog
- Locking on user inactivity is now based on X11 Screensaver signals
- Xfce Screensaver now respects the xdg-screensaver state
- Screensaver and lock screen functionality can now be toggled separately
- General:
- Removed deprecated DBUS methods and signals from documentation
- Preferences:
- Dropped unused preferences
- Renamed all Xfconf properties for improved clarity
- Embedded keyboard options have been disabled since they are currently
non-functional
- Bug Fixes:
- Replaced Help link with a link to the Xfce Documentation (Xfce #14877)
- Added /usr/lib and /usr/libexec as trusted engine paths, enables
local installs with access to existing screensavers (Xfce #14883)
- Fixed screen blanking and locking on BSD (Xfce #14846)
- Fixed lock screen crash on laptop lid-close events (GTK #1466)
- Fixed daemon crash when scrolling through available themes
- Fixed minimum window size to allow resizing much smaller
- Renamed screensavers to prevent conflicts with MATE Screensaver
- Reduced flicker rate when multiple keyboard layouts are available
- Build Improvements
- Silence warning: "ar: 'u' modifier ignored since 'D' is the default"
- Fix warning: "Target given more than once in the same rule"
- Code Quality:
- Applied cpplint fixes and added cpplint configuration file
- Cleaned up unused variables, trailing spaces, and deprecated code
- Glade templates were cleaned up and organized for easier maintenance
- Translation Updates:
Albanian, Basque, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Danish, French, Galician,
Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Malay, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Turkish
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- Bug Fixes:
- Resolve hidden libxfce4ui 4.13 requirement (Xfce #14821)
- Avoid hard-coded paths for systems that do not use /usr (Xfce #14822)
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- General:
- Support color settings for Xfdesktop 4.12
- Fallback to the Xfdesktop default color background (dark blue)
- UI files are now compiled and included in the binaries
- Root warning is now an InfoBar to make it more visible
- Enabled embedding in the Xfce Settings Manager
- Fix crash with no background placement, fix color settings (Xfce #14769)
- Redraw the screensaver on monitor configuration events (Xfce #14796)
- Automate detection of PAM configuration, add flag to override (Xfce #14779)
- Notify invalid lid-switch configuration and add Resolve button (Xfce #14782)
- Fix appearance with the Adwaita GTK theme
- Fix builds on OpenBSD, build status can now be tracked on the
Xfce Build Bot: https://buildbot.xfce.alteroot.org/job/xfce4-screensaver/
- New Translations:
Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan),
Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Russian,
Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish