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@@ -1,23 +1,59 @@ ratpoison NEWS --- history of user-visible changes. -*- outline -*- * Changes Since 0.0.5 -** Colormap support -ratpoison now maintains colormaps +** Improved shell command +The 'exec' command now calls execl ("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", cmd, 0) +where cmd is your shell command. In short, you can now make shell +command calls with parameters. -** XSizeHints honoured -Windows may not maximize fully now since they use XSizeHints to figure -out how big the window can be. +The default keybinding has been changed from C-: to C-! for the 'exec' +command. + +** Command line +An emulation of screen's colon command has been implemented. This +allows you to make wm commands by name. The current command set +includes: abort, next, prev, exec, number, select, colon, kill, +delete, other, windows, title, clock, maximize, newwm, and version. +To bring up a command line prompt, type C-:. See the info or man page +for details on the command set and its usage. ** Keysym reading updates keystrokes are now handled far better. Shifted keystrokes work. More uniform key event processing. -** New keystroke C-t space -Does the same as C-t C-n (next window) +You can no longer "over modify" keys. Previously, if C-tn was bound +to 'next', you could type C-tC-n and get the same result. No longer. +You need to explicity map both C-tn and C-tC-n if you want both to +work. + +** XSizeHints honoured +Windows may not maximize fully now since they use XSizeHints to figure +out how big the window can be. + +** Bold color removed +ratpoison now uses only foreground and background colors. They +default to black and white, respectively. To represent the current +window in the bar, the current window's text is reversed. + +** Colormap support +ratpoison now maintains colormaps + +** New keystrokes +*** C-t space and C-t enter +Do the same as C-tn (next window) +*** C-tA +Shows a the time in the display bar +*** C-tv +Shows the version of ratpoison ** Messages in the window bar ratpoison now outputs user error messages. +** Stability +Some fixed length buffer sizes in window names that resulted in +curious segfaults have been fixed. + + * Changes Singe 0.0.4 ** added --kill and --restart These command line options allow the restarting and killing of a |