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@@ -1,660 +0,0 @@ -ratpoison NEWS --- history of user-visible changes. -*- outline -*- - -Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Shawn Betts -Copyright (C) 2013 Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas - -Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, -are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright -notice and this notice are preserved. - -* Changes since 1.4.5 -** *Lots* of reliability fixes in ratpoison itself -Please check out the ChangeLog for more details. - -** Build process cleanup -e.g. detection of getline() was fixed, build is ok with old gcc's (2.95) - -** ratpoison -c now reports errors ($? != 0) - -** UTF-8 text is now printed correctly -Both with and without Xft support. - -** contrib/ cleanup -Scripts should be more portable, ruby bindings work with newer ruby versions. - -** New newwindow and titlechanged hooks - -** Functionality was added to rpws -It can now move windows to other workspaces; workspaces can be dumped and -restored. - -* Changes since 1.4.4 -** bug fixes to history and xft - -* Changes since 1.4.3 -** add commands ratinfo, ratrelinfo, banishrel - -** add history to input bar when libhistory is not used - -** add settings historysize and historycompaction - -** new window formatters %p, %M -prints the pid of the window and whether its a maxsize window. - -** new commands grename, gother - -** new bindings C-t N and C-t P -bound to nextscreen/prevscreen - -** new settings, bwcolor and fwcolor -For setting the border color of focused and unfocused windows. - -** netwm dialog type windows supported -These windows are treated as transients. Some Firefox popup windows -are tagged as dialog windows and should now work with ratpoison as -expected. - -** new format character %M -This expands to Maxsize if the window is a maxsize window, nothing if not. - -** ratpoison can use xft -If xft is found on your system ratpoison will use it unless explicitely told not to using --without-xft - -* Changes since 1.4.2 -** key event handling -top level key bindings are grabbed "asynchronously" instead of -"synchronously." This should eliminate the freezes some people have -experienced in previous versions. - -* Changes since 1.4.1 -Just bug fixes. - -* Changes since 1.4.0 -** set padding affects bar location -On OSX the bar and top of each window is hidden by the menu bar. set -padding corrects the window problem but not the bar problem. So this -change fixes that. - -** new set variable framefmt -See docs for info. - -** new commands swap, exchangeleft, exchangeright, exchangeup, exchangedown -See docs for info - -** new commands execa and execf -See docs for info. - -** default font change -It is now "-*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" which hopefully -fixes some i18n issues. - -** new command set topkmap -See info manual. - -** build date in ratpoison -v - -** new command sfrestore -restores frame configurations for multiple screens. - -** support for i18n fonts - -* Changes since 1.4.0-beta4 -** new parameters in frame dumps -:screenh and :screenw specify the size of the screen the frame was -on. using these values (when present) ratpoison will scale the frames -to fit the new screen size (if different). - -** New window format characters -See the info file for details. - -** info takes optional argument and new infofmt setting -the info command takes an optional formatting argument. if no argument -is supplied a default fmt is used. To change the default use 'set -infofmt'. See the manual for details. - -** shell commands do not insert trailing space -Until now all completions had a trailing space. Now shell command -completion doesn't to make it easier to tab complete directories. The -previous behavior one had to delete the space then type / and -continue. - -** aspect ratio hint honoured -windows with aspect ratio hints are treated as transients and are -given the same default gravity as maxsize windows. - -** new hook deletewindow -When a window is deleted this hook is called. - -** _net_wm_pid property supported -ratpoison will put windows that have the _net_wm_pid property into the -frame & group that was current when the windows' client was -launched. for example: - - ratpoison -c split -c gnew -c "exec firefox" -c focus -c gnext - -will Do The Right Thing. - -** set warp change -the mouse position relative to the window is now used, instead of -relative to the root window. - -** new compat command -the old def* aliases are depricated and have been moved to this -command. Execute it to restore these bindings. - -** new command redo - -** new editor bindings C-m and C-h - -* Changes since 1.4.0-beta2 -** meta takes a key argument -This can be used to stuff keys. - -* Changes since 1.4.0-beta1 -** RATPOISON environment variable -RATPOISON is set to the location of the ratpoison binary. This is -useful for scripts. - -* Changes since 1.3.0 -** command arguments can be wrapped in double quotes. -To include a space in a command argument, wrap the argument with ". - -** New command undefinekey -not passing a 3rd argument to definekey and bind no longer unbind the -key. You must use undefinekey and unbind now. - -** ratpoison -c prints errors to stderr -You can now capture errors and output seperately depending on whether -its printed to stderr or stdout. - -** the mouse warp feature is now turned off by default -to turn it back on, run 'warp on'. - -** version now displays the date and time - -** new command, sselect -sselect lets you jump to an X11 screen by number. - -** configure script warns about missing history lib -Rather than error out, now, ratpoison will just be built without history. - -** new commands ratwarp, ratrelwarp, and ratclick - -** more new commands -inext, iprev, iother, cnext, cprev, cother, prompt, dedicate, -describekey, focusprev, sdump, sfdump. - -** yet two more new commands: putsel, getsel -putsel puts the specified text into the X11 selection so other clients -can yank it. getsel returns the current selection. - -* Changes since 1.3.0-rc2-beta2 -** new format option %f -This options displays the frame number the window is in or a space if -it is not in a window. - -** Super modifier changed from S to s. S is now the shift modifier - -** window list style is columnar by default - -* Changes since 1.3.0-rc2-beta1 -** New command 'set' -set replaces the def* commands. For example 'defwinliststyle column' -is now 'set winliststyle column'. - -The old def* commands now alias to their 'set' version. - -* Changes since 1.3.0-rc1 -** Top level keymap -The keymap named 'top' is now a top level keymap. No prefix key need -be pressed to access its bindings. In fact, the prefix key is now a -binding in the 'top' keymap. - -** hsplit and vsplit switched -To be compatible with emacs these command names have been -switched. The bindings are the same but custom scripts and aliases -will have to make the switch. - -** new command defframesels -Allow you to customize the keys used to select frames with fselect. - -** Xinerama support -Each xinerama screen is handled as X11 screens normally are. The only -different is that each xinerama screen can select from all the -managed windows. - -** focuslast finds the last focused frame among all screens - -** fselect selects from frames in all screens - -** new command-line option --file -Used to specify an alternate configuration file. - -* Changes since 1.3.0-beta3 -** new configure option --disable-history - -** new commands readkey, newkmap, delkmap, definekey -These commands operate on the new feature: keymaps. They allow you to -have nested keymaps. - -* Changes since 1.3.0-beta2 -** new command gdelete -Delete a group. - -** contrib/allwindows.sh script -A script that lists all groups and the windows in each group. - -* Changes since 1.2.2 -** Workspace script -rpws is an installed script that adds workspaces to ratpoison. Look at -contrib/rpws for instructions on how to use it. - -** new commands addhook and remhook -There are now hooks for various operations. - -** Completions -You can now type Tab and get completions on window names, group names, -and colon commands. - -** Line editing capabilities -You can now go forward a word, backward a char, delete a word, etc. - -** New commands gnewbg, gselect, groups, gmove, and gmerge -These commands allow further manipulation of window groups. - -** shell commands return status -If a command the user executed (with the exec command) returns with a -non-zero exit status, the command and exit status are reported in a -message. - -** new commands gnew, gnext, gprev -Window are now part of groups. There can be more than one group. - -* Changes since 1.2.0-beta4 -** new commands unmanage and clrunmanaged -Instead of editing conf.h you can use these commands to dynamically -add (and clear) the unmanaged window list. - -* Changes since 1.2.0-beta3 -** new command line argumen --screen -Now you can specify the screen you want to manage. By default -ratpoison manages all screens on the display. - -** new command line argument --display -Now you can specify the display to connect to. - -* Changes since 1.2.0-beta2 - -* Changes since 1.1.1 -** new comand 'defwinliststyle' -when turned on, the window list is displayed in a column, not a row. - -** new command 'verbexec' -prints a message when executing a shell command - -** new commands 'fdump' and 'frestore' -These commands are for saving and restoring frame sets. - -** key presses -All actions now occur after the user has released the key. - -** keybinding changes -fselect is bound to C-t C-f and C-t f, curframe is now bound to C-t F, -and resize is bound to C-t C-r and C-t r. - -** new command fselect -select a frame by its number. - -** new command 'tmpwm' -temporarily run a different window manager, then come back to -ratpoison once it has terminated. - -** error and debug reporting -The format has been changed to the more standard format used by C -compilers. - -** New commands 'resize', 'shrink' -resize resizes a frame and shrink shrinks a frame to the size of the -window in it. - -** Shell command exit status -When a shell command fails to execute then a message is reported in -ratpoison: "Command not found." - -** New command 'warp' -Toggles rat warping. By default ratpoison saves the position of the -rat when leaving a window and when the user returns to the window the -rat's position is restored. This can be counter-intuitive, so now you -can toggle it. - -** split, vsplit, hsplit -These commands now take a single argument. The argument can be a ratio -which divides the frame into two frames sized based on this ratio, or -it can be a number representing the number of pixels the existing -frame will occupy. - -* Changes since 1.1.0 -** new commands "nextscreen" and "prevscreen" - -* Changes since 1.0.0 -** defbarloc changed to defbargravity - -** defbarloc -This command take a gravity argument just like the wingravity -commands. - -** new command defbarborder -This command allows you to customize the border width of ratpoison's -windows. These windows are the input window, the bar window, and the -current frame indication window. - -** "number" command takes additional optional argument -The second argument is used to specify a window other than the -current. - -** new command "alias" -An alias gives a name to a command sequence. For instance, you could -alias 'emacs' to 'exec emacs'. Then you could simply type 'C-t :emacs' -and ratpoison would boot emacs. - -** new command "license" -Display ratpoison's license. This is also bound to C-t V and C-t C-V. - -** input history -All input you type into ratpoison is stored as a history entry. Use -C-p and C-n to cycle through it. - -** new command "defbarpadding" -This command specifies how much ratpoison pads the bar window. See the -documentation for usage. - -** new command "link" -Call the command that a keybinding is bound to. for instance, 'link -C-t' would call the command 'other'. - -** new command "focuslast" -Switch between the current frame and the last focused frame. It is -bound to C-t M-Tab. - -** Raise requests don't change frame focus if rudeness doesn't allow it -If a window in another frame requests to be raised, a message pops up -just like everywhere else. The old behavior was to jump focus to the -windows frame regardless of the rudeness. - -** New windows formatting option %l -Prints a last access number. The higher the number, the more recently -the window was accessed. - -** Remove command line options --kill and --restart -Use -c quit and -c restart instead. - -** New command restart -Restart ratpoison. - -** New command lastmsg -Display the last message. - -** New command info -display information about the current window. - -** New command unsetenv -Remove an environment variable from...well...the environment. - -** New command chdir -Change the current directory. - -** Multiple commands passed to ratpoison via the command-line are now processed -A stream of commands like, `ratpoison -c next -c prev -c next' are -processed in order. - -** clock command renamed to time -This was to improve screen compatibility. - -** New command setenv -Use this to set environment variables for all programs run from -ratpoison thereafter. - -** Command defbartimeout renamed to msgwait -This was done to better mirror screen commands. - -** Command generate renamed to meta -This was done to better mirror screen commands. - -** Comand maximize renamed to redisplay -This was done to better mirror screen commands. It is no longer bound -to C-t m it is now bound to C-t l. - -** Cursor in the input window -There is now a cheap cursor to help you remember where you are. - -** conf.h compile-time customizations moved -They are now accessible through the def* suite of commands. - -** Window alignment -Windows can now be aligned so they stick to the top-left corner of the -screen, the center of the screen, the bottom-right, etc. Use the `pos' -command. There is a customizable default setting for each of the three -'kinds' of windows: `defwinpos' for normal windows, `deftranspos' for -transient windows, and `defmaxsizepos' for normal windows with -maximimum size hints. - -** Window format string -The format of the list of windows dumped by the `windows' command is -now customizable with `defwinfmt'. - -** Different Window naming schemes -Windows now have 3 resources that can be used as their default name: -the WMNAME hint which generally contains transient information such as -what file is currently open, the res_name from the WMCLASS hint, or -the res_class the WMCLASS hint. This affects commands like `select' -which search for a window by name. - -* Changes since 0.1.1 - -** new conf.h customization MAXSIZE_WINDOWS_ARE_TRANSIENTS -determines whether windows with maxsize hints are treated like -transient windows. - -** The frame indicator -The frame indicator never sticks and only appears when there is more -than one frame (i.e. when there are splits). - -** Transient window handling has changed -Transient windows now map ontop of the current window. - -** new command 'rudeness' -This command allows you to fine tune what windows rp will map -when. For instance you can ask rp not to map new windows. Instead it -will notify you with a message: "New window #1 (emacs)". - -** user abort key sequence -When typing input, hit C-g (customizable in conf.h) to abort the -input. - -** new key syntax -keys are now specified with C-, M-, A-, H-, S- which stand for the -control, meta, alt, hyper, and super modifiers. ^ does not denote -control. Before, control t looked like ^t now it looks like C-t. - -** new command 'help' -help brings up a key binding listing. it is bound to C-t ?. - -** new command 'quit' -This command quits ratpoison - -** windows not residing in a frame are hidden -This gets rid of annoying flickers around the edges of active windows -as windows in the back update. - -** rat cursor changes - -When you hit the prefix key the rat cursor changes to a square to tell -you what it is waiting for another key. This feature can be removed in -conf.h. - -** Split windows - -Well, the day is finally here. You can now split windows in -ratpoison. Hit C-t s to split horizontally and C-t S to split -vertically. Have fun! - -** new command-line option --command - -You can now send ratpoison commands (colon-commands) to ratpoison via -the command line. for example to tell ratpoison to go to the next -window type this: - -$ ratpoison --command next - -** window borders are configurable -WINDOW_BORDER_WIDTH has been added to conf.h. This constant determines -the border width for all windows. - -** Rodent handling -A new command, :banish, which will move the rat pointer out of harms -way, has been added. It is bound to 'C-t b' by default. No more -slapping your rat out of the way, as fun as that was. - -* Changes since 0.1.0 - -** Window list changes -A '+' is now drawn between the window number and the window name for -the last accessed window. - -** AltGr (XK_Mode_switch) support - -ratpoison now handles AltGr on all its input. - -* Changes Since 0.0.5 -** C-t e removed - -Since you can custo your own keystrokes, there's not much sense -cluttering things with a binding to launch emacs. - -** XErrorEvents don't bring down ratpoison - -A friendly message pops up displaying the error message. This does -mean that there is a problem with ratpoison and it should be -investigated and reported. But at least your entire session doesn't go -down. - -** Sorted window list - -The window list is now sorted by number. - -** Resizing input window - -The size of the input window can be customized in conf.h by setting -INPUT_WINDOW_SIZE. It also dynamically resizes to accommodate the user -input. - -** Pointer location - -The pointer location is saved on a per window basis. When ratpoison -switches to a window it restores the pointer location to its location -the last time that window had focus. - -** Auto quit ratpoison - -When the auto close feature is enabled, ratpoison will exit when the -last managed window is closed. This feature can be turned on by -uncommenting the line: - -/* #define AUTO_CLOSE */ - -in conf.h - -** 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. - -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, 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. - -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 -All fixed length buffer sizes in window names that resulted in -curious segfaults have been fixed. - -** Themes support -There is still no theme support, despite what you might have heard. - - -* Changes Singe 0.0.4 -** added --kill and --restart -These command line options allow the restarting and killing of a -running ratpoison process. - -** Mouse jumps to the bottom of the screen on keypresses -This is pretty annoying if you're using anything other than keyboard -apps. It is disabled by default. - - -* Changes Since 0.0.3 -** Added --enable-debug -This turns on debugging messages - -** Added --version and --help command line options - - -* Changes Since 0.0.2 -** Installation -*** Added automake and autoconf -To build and install ratpoison, you must now do this: - -aclocal -automake -a -c -autoconf -./configure -make -make install - -** Features -*** Added jump to window by name Hit C-t C-' and a box will pop up -asking you for the name of the window to jump to. - -*** Added rename-window -hit C-t C-a and a box will pop up asking you to rename the current -window. Once it has been renamed, it will stay renamed. - -** Bugs and Bug fixes |