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- placement: Fix the initial position
- build: Bump requirements for Xfce 4.18
- Translation Updates:
German, Greek, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500),
Russian, Serbian, Turkish
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- placement: Factorize max space computation
- placement: Use a GdkRectangle instead of multiple coords
- client: Move getSizeExcludingMargins()
- screen: Add a new API to get the screen max space
- placement: Remove the "same monitor" param
- placement: Add new function to compute the max space available
- client: No need to always reconfigure on monitor change
- client: Preserve saved position on monitor change
- client: Get the GdkDisplay from ScreenInfo
- settings-dialogs: Remove ENABLE_NLS ifdefs
- Fix build warnings
- client: Toggle from partial maximization to unmaximize
- placement: Auto-maximize windows with both width and height
- startup-notification: Fix timeout computation
- bump copyright to 2022
- client: Update workarea only for windows with struts
- client: Fix
- netwm: Fix clientValidateNetStrut()
- Added functionality to move window to another monitor
- configure.ac.in: drop obsolete check for libSM
- client.c: fix a little typo
- placement: clientMaxSpace() drop unused variable
- ui_style: drop unused getUIPangoContext()
- configure.ac.in: drop unused HAVE_CYGWIN conditional
- configure.ac.in: fix obsolete AC_HEADER_STDC / obsolete checks
- configure.ac.in: replace obsolete AC_HELP_STRING
- netwm.c: simplify and optimize struts array
- client.h: move STRUTS_SIZE to hints.h
- xfce-wm-menu.png: Fix the 22x22 icon size
- Drop subtitle from workspace settings dialog
- updated NEWS
- Translation Updates:
Albanian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Estonian, French, Italian, Japanese,
Kazakh, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
Fix broken release tarball (please use 4.17.1 over 4.17.0)
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4.17.0 (2022-11-01)
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- drop obsolete and unsupported KDE systray protocol
- wireframe: add window class hint to wireframes
- configure.ac.in: configure option to enable poswin
- Make workspace setting workable with other window managers
- Makefile.am: remove stale intltool-merge lockfile
- gitignore: add files generated by distcheck
- common: xfwm_get_monitor_geometry() report fail via return code, fix
potential NULL
- compositor: fix ifdef
- compositor: fix printf format strings
- placement: Compute struts using output scale
- workspace: Update maximized on struts change
- menu: Small code cleanup
- focus: Fix focus being lost on workspace switch
- icons: Check XGetGeometry() appropriate return value
- compositor: Clear root backing pixmap before use
- Fix intltool lock file bug in make distcheck
- poswin: Fix location with client-side decorations
- compositor: Damage window when adding the opaque region
- Drop subtitle and use symbolic close icon
- Replace stock icons
- Use symbolic icons
- Change dialog help and close button icons
- placement: Windows on different screens cannot overlap
- Remove redundant code
- client: Do not hide transients for group if above
- stacking: Above goes on top of fullscreen
- client: Handle removal of GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS
- placement: Restack fullscreen window when necessary
- placement: Small cleanup
- icons: Gracefully handle non-existent icons
- settings: Fix untranslatable string
- placement: Ignore struts from windows on other monitors
- focus: Check for user focus for when passing focus
- compositor: Disable GLX vblank with virgl
- startup-notification: Reduce timeout to 10 seconds
- compositor: Add support for adaptive vsync with GLX
- compositor: Do not set deprecated compositor selection
- compositor: Disable GLX on mutli-screen (Zaphod)
- Merge branch 'drsudo/xfwm4-layerRadioBox'
- Added radio buttons and checkboxes to window menu
- display: check for XResQueryClientIds to enable XRes extension.
- cleanup: Don't use parenthesis when returning constants
- netwm: Do not use _NET_WM_PING in multi-screen
- settings: Enable either windows wrap or tiling
- compositor: Add throttled repaint
- compositor: Do not clear timeout on retry
- compositor: Fix repaint timeout
- Post release tag bump
- Translation Updates:
Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian,
Belarusian (Tarask), Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China),
Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada),
English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician,
Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian,
Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500),
Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian,
Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish,
Ukrainian, Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan), Uyghur
4.16.1
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- Catch more XErrors (#476, #486)
- Untile window before switching to fullscreen (#478)
- Allow interactive resizing with any keyboard modifier (#487)
- Do not prefer Xpresent on AMD/Radeon (#490)
- Use g_info/g_print instead of g_message for some message
- I18n: Update translation:
ast, be, be@tarask, cs, el, et, eu, fi, he, hr, hu, ie, pl, pt_BR, zh_TW.
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- common: Avoid zero refresh rate for monitor
- hints: Protect against XError from XGetTransientFor()
- netwm: Allow above/below only for regular windows
- netwm: Mark splashscreen as transient for groups
- client: Complete client state even on different workspaces
- build: Increase GTK+ requirement to 3.22
- Add `cycle_minimized` option
- compositor: Release overlay window last
- compositor: Free GLX data when really using GLX
- compositor: Remove useless trace message
- compositor: Release current GLX context on teardown
- display: Remove custom XError handler
- compositor: Check for XError when adding windows
- compositor: Trap XErrors when disabling compositor
- main: Enable compositor by default
- compositor: Remove automatic redirect support
- main: Add short command line options
- main: Add debug command line option
- pixmap: Use a safer strncpy()
- settings: Fix compiler warning
- Remove useless autotools macros and Makefile targets
- Use --enable-debug=yes when compiling from git
- Revert "compositor: Do not damage on opaque region update"
- themes: Use smaller, lighter shadows
- compositor: Check if compositor is enabled
- compositor: Avoid XError when disabling compositor
- compositor: Warn for missing epoxy GL function
- netwm: Do not raise window if activate is set to none
- Remove GSourceFunc casts
- compositor: Fix build with older epoxy versions
- settings: Add 'Always on top' to the double click action
- Settings: Remove default alphabetical sorting of keyboard shortcuts
Closes: #451 (Disable initial sorting of keyboard shortcuts)
- compositor: Handle XFixes XError
- compositor: Add support for GL_ARB_sync
- compositor: Return early if a Present swap is pending
- debug: Fix build in debug mode
- compositor: Fix compilation issue with Xpresent
- compositor: Log fence and GLX swap time in debug mode
- compositor: Move fence sync to redraw_glx
- compositor: Move fence triggered to its own function
- compositor: Set swap control if possible
- compositor: Adjust to the actual number of buffers
- compositor: Use a GLX drawable per buffer
- client: Allow transients for group to be minimized
- settings: Add a UI option for desktop zooming
- themes: Remove title shadow
- themes: Adjust shadows size/opacity
- client: Make above/below consistent
- compositor: Limit damage region to the screen
- compositor: Optimize repaint without vblank
- compositor: Only accumulate damage with multiple buffers
- compositor: Copy entire content for GLX buffers
- xsync: Handle XError
- compositor: Ignore opaque region for shaded windows
- compositor: Clip opaque region against window shape
- client: Protect against XError in XKillClient()
- compositor: Do not damage on opaque region update
- compositor: Opaque region applies to client window
- compositor: Reuse client size
- client: Toggle tiling on key shortcut
- client: Small cleanup
- Add README.md to EXTRA_DIST
- client: Keep tiled size of windows
- compositor: No need to update compositor window on configure
- compositor: Limit opaque region clipping to window extents
- compositor: Damage on opaque region update only if visible
- client: Send synthetic configure on force redraw
- Post release tag bump
- Translation Updates:
Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian
(Tarask), Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong
Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern
Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United
Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German,
Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue,
Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay,
Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Persian
(Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian,
Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish,
Ukrainian, Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan), Uyghur
4.15.3
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- Fix opaque regions leaving trails of unpainted areas
4.15.2
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- Add support for opaque regions in the compositor
- Make cursor zoom optional (xfce/xfwm4#439)
- Remove the deprecated options "--daemon" (Pablo Mazzini)
- Disable Xi2 support by default
- Add column sorting in settings
- Optimize window matching in the compositor with a hash table (Michael
Banack)
- Add more XErrors traps
- I18n: Updated translations: ar, ast, be, be@tarask, bg, bn, ca, cs, da,
de, el, en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, es, et, eu, fa_IR, fi, fr, gl, he, hr, hu,
hy_AM, hye, id, ie, is, it, ja, ka, kk, ko, lt, lv, ms, nb, nl, nn, oc,
pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sl, sq, sr, sv, th, tr, ug, uk, ur, ur_PK,
vi, zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW
New translations: be@tarask, fa_IR, hye, ka
4.15.1
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- Fix an error leak in compositor (xfce/xfwm4#351)
- Fix compositor selection atom misuse
- Prefer zero initialized memory allocation functions
- Use g_slice allocator for compositor windows
4.15.0
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- First 4.15.x development release
- Show tabwin only on primary monitor if set
- All fixes and i18n as found in 4.14.4
4.14.0
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- settings-dialog: Replace GtkStock buttons
- Translation Updates:
Galician, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk
4.13.4
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- Fix GL texture filter (bug #15676)
- Fix zooming without GL
- Place windows on current monitor (bug #14959)
- Fix raising of parent transients (bug #15580)
- Enable root pixmap with compositor (bug #15709)
- I18n: Update translations: fi, hy_AM, ja, kk, nb, pt_BR, sr, th, uk
4.13.3
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- Update CSS for tabwinb only on theme change (Viktor Odintsev)
- HiDPI: Use GTK3 scaling attributes for window titles (Viktor Odintsev)
- HiDPI: Adjust default theme with scale
- Fix initial pointer location when zooming
- Fix double-click distance setting (Adam K)
- Allow the top of the frame to be cropped when maximised (Adam K,
bug #14470)
- Update default theme to use maximized cropping
- Fix build without compositor (bug #15432)
- Improved GLX support with NVIDIA proprietary/closed source driver
(bug #15453)
- Compositor updates with GLX
- Small optimization with zoom on GLX
- Increase X11 client priority of xfwm4
- Change default compositor background to plain black
- Fallback to resource class name for icons (Iharob Al Asimi, bug #15510)
- Clear shortcut in settings-dialog when removed (bug #12802)
- Remove icons from window menu
- Fix regression with maximized window (bug #15638)
- I18n: Update translations: bg, ca, cs, da, de, es, fr, gl, hr, hu,
hy_AM, id, ie, it, lt, ms, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ru, sr, tr, zh_CN, zh_TW
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4.13.2
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- Fix flickering with GLX backend (bug #14564, bug #13519)
- Fix monitor geometry with scaled UI (bug #14566)
- Fix issue with Android Virtual Device emulator (bug #12206)
- Fix XI2 mask (bug #14695, Timo Teras)
- Fix preview with shaded windows (bug #14899)
- Fix tabwin placement with scaled UI (bug #14931, Jonas Zetterberg)
- Add xfconf setting for selecting permanent vblank method
- Fix maximization with GTK clients using size increments (bug #13954)
- Add style class to tabwin modes (Andre Miranda)
- Fix crash/stack smash in startup-notification on some architectures
(bug #15028, Martin Husemann)
- Avoid crash with button layout setting (bug #14606)
- Raise on activate only with raise-on-focus (bug #14656)
- Fix use after release of client picture with hidden (bug #14990)
- Fix monitor output size update (bug #15085)
- Allow transients to be minimized (bug #14953)
- Raise all transients together (bug #15303)
- Fix menu alignment with scaled UI (Jason Zaman)
- Fix a regression where the client would remain visible if closed while
cycling (bug #15318)
- Withdraw the frame before the client window (bug #15061)
- Revert to GLX as default vblank method (bug #15325)
- Reduce repaint timeout (bug #14335)
- Fix support for 1bpp icons
- Use cairo for pixmaps and masks
- Allow hiding windows using NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN (bug #15356,
pnd23@telenet.be)
- Fix size increment with scaled UI
- Various compositor improvements and optimizations with GLX
- Check for appropriate XSync version and increase xfwm4 priority
- Adjust zoom update based on monitor refresh rate (bug #15391, Alistair
Buxton)
- Fix window type for broken clients (bug #15399)
- Fix pointer enter/leave with decoration buttons (bug #14741)
- New default theme
- I18n: Update translations: ar, ast, be, bg, bn, ca, cs, da, de, el,
en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, es, eu, fi, fr, gl, he, hr, hu, id, is, it, ja,
kk, ko, lt, lv, ms, nb, nl, nn, oc, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sl,
sq, sr, sv, th, tr, ug, uk, ur, ur_PK, zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW
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- Use the pimrary monitor by default for placement (bug #13454)
- Use ximerama indices for EWMH's NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS (bug #9351,
bug #13608)
- Remove the old vblank code (bug #13613, Błażej Szczygieł)
- Update "presentproto" requirement to avoid XPresent issue on 32bit
(bug #13257)
- Remove support for environment variable "XFWM4_USE_PRESENT"
- Allow to resize borderless maximized window with [Alt] + mouse
- Add support for GTK3 (Viktor Odintsev)
- Add XI2 support (Viktor Odintsev)
- Fix maximization on expected output (bug #13284, P. Pronk, bug #13954)
- Fix logic error in bottom struts validation (bug #13964, Andrey
Alekseenkov)
- Add command line option "--vblank" to select vblank method
- Optionally raise window while cycling (bug #2701, David Siroky)
- Ignore XErrors caused by damages
- Fix build out of tree (bug #14542, Stephane Gourichon)
- Fix GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS support (bug #14511
- Add support for NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR (bug #12434)
- Various bug fixes (bug #11960, bug #12534, bug #13257, bug #13954,
bug #14164, bug #14174, bug #14181, bug #14240, bug #14323, bug #14514)
- I18n: new en_CA translation
- I18n: Update translations: ar, ast, be, bg, bn, ca, cs, da, de, el,
en_AU, en_GB, es, eu, fi, fr, gl, he, hr, hu, id, is, it, ja, kk, ko,
lt, lv, ms, nb, nl, nn, oc, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sl, sq, sr, sv,
th, tr, ug, uk, ur, ur_PK, zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW
4.13.0
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- Add support for VSYNC using either Present or OpenGL
- Support for scaled cursor when zooming
- Daemon mode is now deprecated (--daemon has no effect)
- Bug fixes and I18n improvements
4.12.0
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- Add support for gtk window menu
- Avoid window decorations in preview
- Clean-up compositor state in case of error
- Compute struts based on reported screen size
- Do not tile windows if they don't fit in
- Enable compositing by default
- Enable window preview in cycling by default
- Fix build with compositor disabled
- Fix window menu positioning with CSD
- Fix window preview disappearing on themes reload
- Reuse client macros in compositor
- Revert "Optionally remove frame on tiling as well"
- Set maximum valid struts values
- Use larger window preview by default
- Use opaque background color for preview
- Use smallest screen area
- Translation Updates (ast, bg, de, es, fi, he, is, it, nb, pt, ro,
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- Add a zoom_desktop xfconf setting
- Add corner tiling
- Add support for extended XSync counter
- Add support for GTK frame extents
- Add support for GTK hide titlebar on maximize
- Add support for NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED
- Add titleless maximization feature
- Allow color substitution in themerc
- Allow cycling during drag'n drop
- Allow shadow under dock ARGB windows
- Allow tiling and workspace wrap on move
- Changed wireframe to cairo drawing when using the compositor
- Fix cycle vs. focus follow mouse
- Fix fullscreen mode not working correctly for QT apps)
- Fix gravity on configure request
- Fix keyboard shortcuts after keyboard layout changes
- Fix maximizing when window is tiled vertically or horizontally
- Fix maximum host name length.
- Fix opacity being reset on theme change
- Fix reparenting with compositor
- Fix selection with mouse in multi-monitor alt-tab dialog
- Fix size increment
- Limit parallel pointer moves before wrapping
- New default window decoration themes (including HDPI and xHDPI)
- On canceled move, restore all maximizations states
- Optionally remove frame on tiling as well
- Optionnally use window preview in tabwin
- Prevent CSD windows from being moved too far up
- Remove horizontal tyling on move
- Remove maximize button from non-resizable windows
- Remove restore-on-move option
- Send debug messages to a log file
- Update desktop geometry on xrandr events
- Use cairo wireframe for move/resize
- Use correct type on platforms where time_t is 64bits like OpenBSD
- Use source indication in activate window
- Use the correct drm/dri device on OpenBSD
- Workaround for NET_WORKAREA with multimonitor
- Lot of translations updates (ast, bg, cs, da ,de, en_AU, es, fi, fr,
he ,hr ,hu, id, it, ja ,kk, ko, ms ,nl, pl, pt_BR, ru ,sr ,th, tr,
uk, zh_CN)
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- Improve auto-maximize fn to maximize windows which size is equal to
the available size.
- Restore original window size after untiling (Bug 8765).
- Add improved tab-win dialog.
- Translation updates: Asturian, Bulgarian, Czech, German, English
(Australia), Spanish (Castilian), French, Croatian, Indonesian,
Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Malay, Norwegian
Bokmal, Dutch (Flemish), Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese,
Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish,
Ukrainian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan)
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- Remove unnecessary clipping of the rootPicture.
- If making a solid fill, use XRenderCreateSolidFill.
- Repaint the screen when background changes.
- Ignore when root atoms are unset.
- Implement zooming.
- Add tweak setting to toggle roll up feature (bug #10563).
- Disable roll up feature by default (bug #10563).
- Translation updates: Asturian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Catalan
(Valencian), Danish, German, Greek, Spanish (Castilian), Basque,
Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Japanese,
Kazakh, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian
Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian,
Slovak, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan),
Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan).
4.11.0
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- Fix duplicated accelerators (bug #5256).
- Do not write empty session files.
- Optimize smart placement (bug #5785).
- Improvements in accelerator handling.
- Remove unmaintained translations.
- Make the xfwm4-settings dialog use less height.
- Fixup padding in keyboard shortcuts tab.
- Autotools updates.
- Add Vsync support for the compositor (bug #8898).
- Translation updates: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian,
Bengali (India), Catalan (Valencian), Czech, Danish, German,
Dzongkha, Greek, English (United Kingdom), Spanish (Castilian),
Basque, Persian, French, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian,
Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean,
Macedonian, Marathi, Malay, Dutch (Flemish), Polish, Portuguese,
Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Slovak, Serbian, Tamil, Thai,
Turkish, Uyghur, Ukrainian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan).
4.10.0
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- Translation updates: Czech, English (United Kingdom), Spanish
(Castilian), French, Galician, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh,
Korean, Dutch (Flemish), Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak,
Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan).
4.9.1
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- Improve tiling.
- Reduce tiling distance (bug #8628).
- Keep pointer position relative to the window being moved (bug #8629).
- Set spacing to avoid overlap with some themes (bug #8501).
- Add workspace settings in a notebook.
- Improve workspace dialog subtitle/comment.
- Generate default icon during make dist.
- Update FSF address in settings dialogs.
- Add missing license.
- Restore button press/release mask as removing it breaks switching
workspaces with scroll wheel (bug #8656).
- Add UI option to WM tweaks for tiling.
- Resize fullscreen windows on screen size changes (bug #8622).
- Don't use deprecated g_str(n)casecmp (bug #8688).
- Translation updates: Amharic, Arabic, Asturian, Azerbaijani,
Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Bengali (India), Catalan (Valencian),
Czech, Danish, German, Dzongkha, Greek, English (United Kingdom),
Esperanto, Spanish (Castilian), Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish,
French, Galician, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean,
Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Marathi, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal,
Dutch (Flemish), Norwegian Nynorsk, Panjabi (Punjabi), Polish,
Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Sinhala,
Slovak, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Uyghur, Ukrainian,
Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan).
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- Add tiling feature (bug #6648).
- Navigate with arrows in task switcher (bug #4752).
- Show dialogs in settings category.
- Do not cancel pending focus transition and use actual meaningful
timestamp to avoid setting focus on wrong window in focus follow
mouse (Bug #8323).
- Remove docbook documentation.
- Remove older themes from main package (moved to xfwm4-themes now).
- Add patch for themeable tab-window (bug #8238).
- Use themeable icons for the settings manager and the menu, rework
the default icons for the settings manager and the window menu and
add SVG version.
- Reintroduce the double-click timeout.
- Drop AC_PROG_LIBTOOL in favor of LT_PREREQ and LT_INIT.
- Simply double click detection logic.
- Add special icons for the button layout in settings.
- Remove some XFlush() calls.
- Upon restart, restore the previous selected workspace.
- Improve horizontal/vertical maximization toggle so that de-maximizing
in either direction while fully maximized gives the expected
maximization result.
- Change the default theme to differentiate from 4.8.
- Update mouse cursor theme and size dynamically (bug #6854).
- Optimize transients for group evaluation while withdrawing windows.
- Increase timeout for other WM to exit with "--replace",
- Rework focus and fullscreen windows to make xfwm4 simpler and
more predictable.
- Get rid or of old GNOME 1.x protocol.
- Get rif of legacy fullscreen emulation.
- Translation updates: Amharic, Arabic, Asturian, Azerbaijani,
Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Bengali (India), Catalan (Valencian),
Czech, Danish, German, Dzongkha, Greek, English (United Kingdom),
Esperanto, Spanish (Castilian), Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish,
French, Galician, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean,
Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Marathi, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal,
Dutch (Flemish), Norwegian Nynorsk, Panjabi (Punjabi), Polish,
Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Sinhala,
Slovak, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Uyghur, Ukrainian,
Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan).
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- Workaround Adobe AIR setting workspace to 0xFF instead of 0xFFFFFFFF
as per EWMH specifications (bug #8304).
- Name the window manager when one is already running to help debugging
sessions issues.
- Add missing bit from master causing pidgin buddy list to be shown on
all workspaces (bug #8263).
- Avoid entering the move/resize loop twice (can happen when using
NET_WM_MOVERESIZE client message).
4.8.3
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- Do not exit the move/resize loop when just any key is pressed unless the
operation is triggered via the keyboard (this should be enough to fix the
remaining part of Bug #8233)
- Reverting from desktop view may not focus the top most window (Bug #8173)
- Recompute window's position/maximization state even if the overall size of
the screen hasn't changed as the actual layout of the monitors may have
changed nevertheless.
- Check for both forward and backward cycling modifier to be released before
exiting the cycle loop (Bug #6508)
- Fix a couple of memory leaks
- Fix some events being lost causing the tabwin window to remain sometimes
after the key has been released
- Fix crash when workspace count is set to negative values (Bug #8002)
- Fix crash in signal handler
- Fix a bug with transients for group (including utility windows)
being withdrawn as many times as parent windows where in the group, causing
utility windows to disapear when switching workspaces (this bug was affecting
The GIMP and reported initially bugzilla.gnome.org as bug #651454).
- Do not allow applications to change the win layer on dialogs to prevent
dialogs to be unreachable in some Java based applications
- Do not enforce the size increment only if the size request comes
from the application itself (refix Bug #7445)
- On docs installation, create relative paths in symlinks to images
- Translations updates: de, fi, hr, is, ko, ro, zh_CN, zh_TW
4.8.2
=====
- Relax resize wrt to size increments.
- Allow menu shortcut to work even for non-decorated windows (bug #7300).
- Keep window fully visible on screen on size request.
- Fix panel plugins such as verve not receiving focus in focus follow
mouse mode (bug #6617, bug #6649).
- Display session's struct memeber needs to be set even when not
connected otherwise bad things may happen when quitting.
- Translation updates: be, es, ja, ko, ms, nl, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk,
te, zh_CN.
- Manual translation updates: ru, tr, zh_CN.
4.8.1
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- Allow images without an alpha channel to be used in themes as well.
- Restore the release keyboard events.
- Updated translations: Russian, Basque, Swedish, Turkish.
4.8.0
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- Update copyright year.
- Updated translations: Greek, Croatian, Polish, Romanian,
Frensh, Arabic.
4.7.4
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- Fix bug #6651 Shape Mask Changes not Immediately Recognized by Xfwm4.
- Use Xsettings standard double-click-distance (bug 6334).
- Fix bug #6334.
- Bug 6334: Use lower prio for double click timeout.
- Thinner bottom frame.
- Double-click on edges trigger window fill in any given direction.
- Fix bug 6989.
- Fix bug #6589.
- Fix bug #6902.
- Fix application cycling.
- Translation updates (zh_TW, fi, uk, ca, nb, cs, ja, el, de,
4.7.3
=====
- Panel won't focus entries in focus follow mode (bug #6649).
- Adjusted sizes when a maximized window is undecorated (bug #6543).
- Unshade windows when given focus with Alt-Tab (bug #5931).
- Fix hang when closing a submenu (bug #6562).
- New theme for 4.8.
- Focus-follows-mouse activate/raise should not do focus (bug #4679).
- Translation updates (pt, pt_BR, it).
=====
- Fix corrupted button layouts by obtaining the button IDs correctly
(bug #6824).
- Bump the GTK+ dependency to 2.14 which is the minimum version
required for Xfce 4.8.
- Properly implement session handling (bug #6330).
- Make the settings dialog smaller so it fits on netbooks screens.
- Depend on libxfce4ui 4.7.5 for crucial fix in the
save-state-extended signal.
- Translation updates (it, gl, pt, da, de, kk, hu, zh_CN).
4.7.1
=====
- Fix break with latest API changes in libxfce4ui.
- Translation updates (zh_TW, ug, it, gl, ja, sv).
=====
- Fix window positioning problem when output it removed (bug #6209).
- Do not clear the show desktop flag upon activation of
already visible windows
- Transition fullscreen windows back to their original layer
when another window is activated (bug #3551).
- Add new keyboard shortcut to switch between windows of the
same application.
- Add new keyboard shortcut to switch between windows of different
applications only.
- Port to libxfce4ui + GtkBuilder and drop libxfcegui4 dependency.
- Display an app switcher window per physical monitor (bug #5229).
- Fix opacity for newly mapped window not focused by default (bug #5706).
- Add new option "cycle_apps_only" to switch between regular toplevels only
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faster window selection through keyboard)
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- Implement prelinminary support for snap on resize.
- Implement a workaround to avoid loosing key release events.
- Add linkage to libm when compositor is used (bug #6231).
- Check for invalid type for GValue to avoid a crash (bug #6195).
- Don't save the settings dialogs when saving the session.
- Watch workspace changes in wnck and update treeview accordingly.
- Move helper-dialog to $libdir/xfce4/xfwm4.
- Build documentation in make dist.
- Various theme updates.
- Translation updates (ja, es, pl, uk, da, ro, ast, lv, sq, gl, ru, sk, pt,
fi, hu, it, de, pt_BR, cs, kk, si, hr, id, zh_TW)
4.6.2
=====
- Build fixes for GIT.
- Fix mixed RTL/LTR text not rendering properly in title and tabwin.
- Place windows on top of stack even when not focused in focus
follow mouse (bug #5479).
- Increase menu button height and redice width (bug #5567).
- Do not set the "demand attention" flag when the window is already
focused.
- Keep windows entirely visible on screen change (bug #5795).
- Various compilation warnings fixed.
- Compute screen size based on each monitor size and layout and
avoid using reported size (bug #5795).
- Reloading settings on keys-changed signal is a huge overhead and
complete nonsense (bug #5964).
- Recent Xorg drivers disable the output when the lid is closed,
leaving no active monitor, in that case simply ignore the event to
avoid messing with windows' positions (bug #6209).
- Add linkage to libm when compositor is used (bug #6231).
- Check for invalid type for GValue to avoid a crash (bug #6195).
- Allow only regular windows to be placed either above or below.
- Translation updates (cs, el, es, gl, it, pl, pt, sv, tr, uk, lv,
ur, ur_PK, ro, ru, nl, ug).
4.6.1
=====
- Reduce repaint timeout in the compositor (Bug #5080)
- Fix applications getting focused when focus on map is unset even
without focus stealing prevention enabled (Bug #5044)
- Reduce minimum timeout for focus delay in focus follow mouse (100ms was way
too much)
- Fix raise delay settings in xfwm4 dialog being totally ignored
- Avoid unecessary warnings about timestamps at startup
- Fix a long standing bug in xfwm4 4.6 were activating a transient would not
regrab the mouse on parent window.
- Do not go over adjacent windows with fill (Bug #5152)
- Do not actually change window layer when status is above, below or fullscreen
(Bug #5030)
- Check fullscreen status against each monitor and not just the overall screen
size in the compositor.
- Fix remaining active grab if shortcut is not used (Bug #5207)
- Plug various memory leaks
=====
- Fix possible monitor cache size inconsistency when the screen size changes.
- Fix fill function not working with multiscreen.
- Fix size not properly computed by the fill function with a dock on top or
left (Bug #4960).
- Only display the shortcut conflict dialog if the conflict is with a different
shortcut than the one being edited.
- When stealing a shortcut from another shortcuts provider, clear the shortcut
of that provider first.
- Fix focus stealing prevention with applications which support the
NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW protocol
- Do not automatically give focus to windows placed on lower layers, but
focus those on upper layers at first map.
- Fix compilation failure in debug full without render
- Fix ICCCM synthetic unmap notify handling causing a race condition with
amule when started hidden to system tray (Bug #4928)
- Fix margin max value (Bug #4931)
- Apply font settings changes in real time (DPI, hinting, hint style, rgba).
- Fix key "Super" remaining sticky when used as a modifier shortcut
(Bug #4959).
4.5.99.1 (Xfce 4.6rc1)
======================
- Fix a crash when removing a monitor with xrandr 1.2.
- Command line option "--daemon" would have no effect when xfwm4 connects to
the session manager (Bug #4839).
- Fix settings not being set at startup (Bug #4845).
- Flatten default theme.
- Add support for NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS.
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- Fix dragging button layout when the dialog is embedded in the settings
dialog (Bug #4524).
- Make title alignment and button layout insensitive when not supported by the
- Use gtk_selection_data_get_data() only if available (Bug #4855).
4.5.93 (Xfce 4.6beta3)
======================
- Work around a problem affecting the use of the "Super" key as modifier for
moving windows (Bug #4632).
- Fix smart placement not working for windows with height or width larger than
actual screen size (Bug# 3126).
- Remove maximization if a client updates its size max size hint (Bug #4706).
- String review by Josh Saddler <nightmorph@gentoo.org> (Bug #4703).
- Fix fill horizontally and vertically not working as expected (Bug #4712).
- Prevent "fill" from expanding beyond physical monitor.
- Do not mark gtk+ stock labels as translatable (Bug #4722).
- Change default shadow radius and position.
- Fix some controls not being localized (Bug #4740).
- Remove markup not supported by xfce_message_dialog() (Bug #4786).
- Avoid placing unfocused windows on top of the current focused window when not
focusing new windows (Bug #4795).
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4.5.92 (Xfce 4.6beta2)
======================
- Add support for restart style SmRestartImmediately.
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- Add support for NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW.
- Add client windows to save set to avoid loosing all windows in case of crash.
- Rework the window menu to improve consistency with libwnck menu (Bug #4531).
- Simplify management of transients.
- Add support for keyboard shortcuts (Bug #4492).
- Add new option do disable blinking of urgent windows.
- Fix possible crash when the dbl_click_action setting gets unset.
- Fix workspaces names not being set in the workspace settings GUI.
- Do not display warnings for values that are not configurable via xfconf
(typically theme settings).
- Draw focus in tabwin to make sure the selection is visible even with themes
that do not show selected items.
- Add key shortcut for reverse cycling (Bug #2778)
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4.5.91 (Xfce 4.6beta1)
======================
- Add support for NET_WM_PING protocol.
- Add support for NET_WM_PID to be able to kill apps (when not responding to
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NET_WM_PING).
- Make shadow opacity configurable (bug #4447).
- Make wireframe while cycling user configurable (Bug #4443).
- Rework visual depth selection of the frame window (Bug #4452).
- Add new user option to set/unset repeat blinking of urgent windows (Bug #4440).
- Add margins configuration in workspace settings (Bug #4438).
- Loosen the rule that prevents an application from iconifying itself when
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skip_taskbar is set (Bug #4434).
- Fix NET_WM_STATE claiming maximization vertical and horizontal even if only
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horizontal of vertical is actually set (Bug #3969).
- Add an option to set default window placement w/out smart placement missing from
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the wmtweaks GUI.
- Allow any modifier to be used for easy move, including disabling the functionality
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entirely.
- Add embedding support to all xfwm4 settings dialogs.
- Sort theme alphabetically (Bug #4318).
- Implement workspace name changing.
- Do not allocate window extents if the window is not visible (Bug #4363).
- Improve centering of windows with Xinerama.
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- Lot of settings dialogs fixes and enhancements
- Update Basque translation
- Update German translation
- Update Korean translation
- Update Slovene translation
4.5.90 (Xfce 4.6alpha)
======================
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- Add button prelight in window frames (Bug #3219).
- Add resize from top of window.
- Rewritten move/resize operations with keyboard.
- Add hooks in the compositor to reduce flickering during resize (bug #4283,
#4268).
- Support for EWMH 1.4 NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW.
- Window menu includes more operations (fullscreen, above, below, move, resize).
- Support for xrandr 1.2 (requires gtk+ 2.14).
- Iconified windows are sent to the end of the focus ring.
- Add a --replace option to replace ICCCM2 compliant window managers
(Bug #3731).
- Compositor supports overlays from Composite extension version 0.3 if
- Reworked transient/parent relationship to improve compatibility with libwnck
tasklist.
- Add "fill" operation to make a window as large as available space.
- Various optimizations to reduce the frame redraws.
- Rework the event filter to avoid passing all events to gtk+.
- Treat dialogs and utility windows as transients for group (bug #3102).
- Add support for shape input with XShape extension 1.1 (Bug #3092).
- Make the title button in the xfwm4 settings manager dragable (bug #3000).
- Fix a misinterpretation of ICCCM about when to send a synthetic
configureNotify event (bug #2977).
- Add option to instruct xfwm4 not to bring window back on
- Place splash screen windows on the normal layer, so that dialogs that
get mapped during startup have a chance to be placed above the splash
- Raise focused window on workspace switch (bug #2960).
- Sort Z-order on workspace change (bug #2960).
- Fix the small lag before icon update at first map and when updating all
frames at once.
- Use timeout for frame redraw, check actual WM name changes to work around
apps that falsely update their WM name property (Bug #2810).
- Update Catalan translation
- Update Italian translation
- Update Polish translation
- Update German translation
- Update Japanese translation
- Update Turkish translation
- Update Ukrainian translation
- Update Dutch translation
- Update Chinese (simplified) translations by Wu Li and fixed some
accelerators in the French translations.
- New Albanian translations by Besnik Bleta
- New British English translations by Jeff Bailes
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- Use screen from xevent instead of client for keypress (Bug #2749)
- Raise/focus when using alt+left-click for resize for consistency with move
- Be more permissive toward stick/unstick (bug #2735)
- Ignore focus stealing prevention between windows of the same group or
between windows that have a transient relationship.
- Rework grab release (bug #2694)
- Fix display of ARGB32 windows with compositing enabled but without
- Apply NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION changes (otherwise it breaks xfwm4
demand attention mechanism), but do not obey client state change requests
for NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION if the client is already focused.
- Apply patch from Mike Massonnet that fixes an error in Stonage decoration
theme (Bug #2696)
- Do not apply NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION if client is already focused, as
some apps seem to request NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION state even while
focused (See comment #14 in bug #2678)
- Set the demands attention flag with focus prevention enabled only (Bug #2678)
- Update the NET_WM_STATE when the client requests an update of
NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION (Bug #2678)
- Focus the internal fallback window
when focus is transferred to a window that doesn't have InputHint set but
still use WM_PROTOCOLS_TAKE_FOCUS (ie, there is no way for the window
manager to tell whether or not the client will accept focus in the end
since focus is set by the client alone through the 'take focus' mechanism)
(Fix bug #1853 without breaking bug #2410)
- Fix redraw problem with compositor
- Update application icon asynchronously to avoid queuing useless icon updates
(Ubuntu/Launchpad bug #61424)
- Fix user focus timetamp being falsely reset to 0 causing some windows to be
started un-focused (Bug #2664), re-add some traces (which compile with
-Werror this time), small code/api cleanup.
- Remove shadow on dock-type windows (bug #2648)
- Prevent fullscreen windows from being maximized (Bug #2663).
- Use timestamp provided by NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW and NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP messages
from EWMH version 1.3 and above, fix focus transition with
NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP messages causing either flickering or wrong restacking
- Quit nicely when MANAGE client message is received, so that xfwm4 obeys to
ICCCM2 standard (bug #2374)
- Fix demands attention being activated when it shouldn't
- Improve focus stealing prevention.
- Auto-maximize regular windows only.
- Be a lot more paranoid about what broken apps set as struts.
- Plug a huge X resources leak in handleMappingNotify () (bug #2618)
- Do not prevent stick when skip taskbar is set
- Re-enable focus passing to previously focused window (req. on ML)
- Focus windows that raise themselves if focus stealing prevention is
disabled, and set demands attention flag otherwise, that should improve
- Keep focus on sticky windows only for regular windows w/out skip
taskbar/pager property (Bug 2603)
- Improve resize (Bug #2597)
- Be more permissive with resizes towards struts (Bug #2597, bis), optimize
- Fix off-by-one causing windows to be moved wrongly via keyboard
- Enter key doesn't work for "Add keybinding theme" dialog (Bug #2560, patch
- Use focus pending with with apps that use WM_FLAG_TAKEFOCUS protocol too
(Bug #2561)
- Hide as more windows when showing desktop (Bug #2518)
- Don't skip windows that have the skip pager/taskbar properties when
- Fix focus transitioning to root taking into account the pending focus too,
so that focus doesn't return to the fallback internal window when it should
return to some other client window (like when an application closes with a
- Check for valid transient or modal when switching workspaces, to avoid
missing windows to unmap (bug #2518).
- Use X server time to restore focus when sent to the root window (bug #2472)
- Add new option to enable/disable borderless maximization (Bug
#2257).
- Rework keyboard shortcuts grabs, saving a lot of grabs and fixing
keyboard shortcuts not working on shaded windows (Bug #2291).
- Fix compiler warning when build w/out compositor support (Bug
#2335).
- Fix restore of original size/position of maximized windows
restored by session management, do not match windows that aren't
placed by the WM, that avoids some misplacements.).
- Add cancel option when cycling (Bug #2373).
- Add new window operations menu shortcut (Bug #2400).
- Set focus on desktop with showing desktop (Bug #2410).
- Improve workspace switch, reduce expose events (Bug #2409).
- Improve focus transition (Bug #2408).
- Rework error handling in pixbuf loading, fixes a crash.