ratpoison NEWS --- history of user-visible changes. -*- outline -*- * 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, 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. 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 C preprocessor based window manager themes are now supported. See src/conf.h and src/themes.h. * 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