remove docs from old blackbox
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-ChangeLog from Blackbox (this code's previous project): - -Changes from 0.62.1 to 0.65.0: - - added Taiwan Chinese (zh_TW), Hungarian (hu_HU), Latvian (lv_LV), - Korean (ko_KR), Norwegian (no_NO), Polish (pl_PL), Romanian (ro_RO) and - Ukrainian (uk_UA) nls files and updated most of the others. - - added French man pages - - remove slit and netwm as compile time options - - strip much of BaseDisplay's original functionality and move it to the - blackbox class. - - huge amounts of internal cleanups - - added emacs local variables to each file that prevent the addition of tabs - - added a Util.cc file which contains useful functions with no obvious home. - - move code over to the STL - - removed several unused variables and otherwise reduced the memory usage - of the objects in Blackbox. For the record the binary is roughly 100k - larger than 0.62.0 and that is mostly due to the STL but there is also a - fair bit of new code. However for the most part blackbox runs faster and - is still one of the leanest window managers out there today. - - bsetroot now sets _XROOTPMAP_ID, so pseudo transparent apps will be happy - - beginnings of a strut implementation. toolbar and slit are removed from - the available screen area if 'full maximize' is not set - - XReparentWindow sends an UnmapNotify to the window manager however - in certain cases the window is already unmapped so the window manager - never gets the event and the unmapNotify event is where reparentNotify was - handled. Added a reparentNotifyEvent handler in the BlackboxWindow class - and a new case in the Blackbox class's process_event function. - - no more blackbox->grab/ungrab calls everywhere - - compression of motion and expose - - Now we have one function which turns ~/ into /home/user/. This is now - called everywhere this expansion should be done. Even added this to the - resource.menu_file so now the menu file may be specified as - ~/blackbox_menu. - - added a TimerQueue which is a priority_queue with the ability to release - items it contains before they reach the top of the queue. Also added a - TimerQueueManager protocol class which BaseDisplay now inherits from. - - BTimer now defaults to NOT recurring. Most of the timers in blackbox were - one shots so I saw little benefit in defaulting to repeating timers. - - update transient handling, should solve issues with apps like acroread. - added a getTransientInfo() method of the BlackboxWindow class which - handles checking the transient state in X and setting the appropriate - variables on the window. To attack the infinite loops this - function ensures that client.transient != this and we check for loops - of the form A -> B -> C -> A. The new transient code also allows for one - window to have multiple transients so applications like xmms and web - browsers are better behaved. - - even better ICCCM support and focus handling - - wmswallow works - - fix for clock clipping in the toolbar - - better support for non decorated windows and toggling decor - - the geometry window shown when moving or resizing a window now handles the - parentrelative setting better. parentrelative support has been improved - for all of the other widgets as well. - - better window group handling - - improved edge snap support (still no window to window snapping) - - changing preferences no longer leads to windows being raised - - the window's "send to" menu ignores the current workspace, which is a - better UI approach - - new placeWindow algorithm. Blows the old one out of the water. Not only - is it faster but it is also cleaner code too (-: Went from number 5 in - the profiling results to under 30. Image rendering is now the slowest - part of managing of new windows. - Because of the new code layout, support is now there for new and - different layout options but this will wait for after 0.65.0. - - smart window placement ignores shaded windows now - - new option in the Config menu which allows Scroll Lock to disable - Blackbox's keybindings. - -Changes from 0.62.0 to 0.62.1: - - the lock modifier code handles user redefined modifiers better - - check if the locale actually needs multibyte support before using multibyte - functions - - use srcdir in all of the makefiles - - added zh_CN (Chinese) nls support - - -Changes from 0.61.1 to 0.62.0: - - the immorel release - - added the ja_JP nls directory and man pages - - general code touchups - - blackbox-nls.hh is always generated even if --disable-nls is used. - This allows us to not have all of those hideous #ifdef NLS chunks. - Nothing to worry about, if you do not want NLS this does not affect you - - Workspace::placeWindow() cleanups. Also a speed bump from reducing the - use of iterator->current() and changing the delta from 1 to 8 - - cleanups to compile with g++ 3.0 - - make distclean actually removes Translation.m and blackbox-nls.hh. - Also fixed Makefile.am to pass --foreign instead of --gnu when calling - the autotools. - - fixed a desciptor leak in BScreen::parseMenuFile, seems opendir - lacked a matching closedir. - - fix transient window handling code in Workspace::removeWindow() so - transients give focus back to their parents properly. The code originally - handled sloppy focus then transient windows, so we just flopped the - if/elsif. This is immediately noticable with web browsers and their open - location windows. - - plugged a small leak in ~Toolbar - - fixed list::insert so you really can insert at item number 2. While there - I cleaned up the code a bit. - - added decoration to the atom state stored in a window - - fixed a typo in bsetroot.cc: 'on of' -> 'one of'. - - fixed the window menu gets left open when another window button is pressed - issue with a call to windowmenu->hide() in window->maximize() - - applied xOr's patch for decoration handling - - applied xOr's patch for the maximize, shade, unmaximize bug - - applied Kennis' patch for sending incorrect Slit configure notices - - BlackboxWindow's flags have been moved into a flags structure - - applied xOr's patch for border handling - - resizing a window turns off its maximized flag. Before a resized window - thought it was still maximized and maximizing a double action - - BlackboxWindow::withdraw no longet sets the state to Withdrawn. - This confused some X clients. - - updated the manpages and added Dutch NLS support (thanks Wilbert) - - added it_IT nls files, thanks Luca Marrazzo <marra.luca@libero.it> - - the menu file mentioned in the manpage is now based on DEFAULT_MENU - - configure script found basename in -lgen, but did not set HAVE_BASENAME - causing compilation problems on irix and possibly others. Added a call - to AC_DEFINE in AC_CHECK_LIB to fix this. - - menu is no longer installed, you need to copy it yourself - - cleaned up i18n code a little. Several member functions were declared - but never used and getMessage() had a default argument which was also - never used. - - i18n will now compile cleanly on machines without nl_types.h - - the lock modifiers no longer stop blackbox! - - maximize a window via bbkeys and the maximize button is not redrawn, fixed - - now exit with an error code if an unknown option is passed - - autoraise and multiple dialog windows yields segv bug fixed - also lengthened the default auto raise delay from 250 to 400 - - another iteration of autoraise and dialog box handling, this time we - noticed that nothing ever reset blackbox.focused_window to 0 when a window - was removed - - check if the window is visible before changeBlackboxHints() calls maximize - - placeWindow no longer takes edgeSnapThreshhold into account - - ignore style files ending in ~ - - support locale specifiers with @euro in them - - added Slovenian man pages and nls, thanks Ales Kosir - - Toolbar name editing buffer reduced to 128 chars, logic added to make sure - this buffer is not overrun - - added German nls files, thanks Jan Schaumann - - added my name to the code, updated the version output - - -Changes from 0.61.0 to 0.61.1: - - fixed some of the code to explicitly use colormaps so that when - blackbox decides to use a non-default visual everything will - still work (although it may look darn ugly) - - optimizations to the deiconify/raising code to (hopefully) deal - with a rather nasty bug, plus make things a little more efficient - - changed the code so that the close button is always redrawn on - button release events, just in case the client decides not to - close in response to the message (see Acroread) - - tinkered with the Makefiles again to make sure Blackbox - completely cleans up after itself during an uninstall - - fixed a glitch in window placement that was making Blackbox - place some larger windows at coordinates near 2**31 - - merged in a patch from nyz which fixed a bug with not sending - configure events when a window is both moved and resized (eg - when the left resize grip is used) as well as optimized some - of the show/hide code to use the stacking order - - fixed a bug in blackbox's support of the X shape extension... - it wasn't correctly resetting the bounding region after a window - was resized - - fixed a glitch with the geometry window where it would persist - if the client was unmapped while in motion - - tweaked the code for decorating transient windows so that it - is possible to use MOD1+Mouse3 to resize transients as long as - there is not some other reason to disable functions.resize - - -Changes from 0.60.3 to 0.61.0: - - added slightly updated copies of the blackbox/bsetroot manpages. - - reworked the Windowmenu code so that using the second mouse - button on the Send To menu moves you along with the window - - merged in bsd-snprintf.(h|c) from openssh so that Blackbox can - compile on older boxes without (v)snprintf in their standard lib. - - fixed a pair of problems where blackbox was not returning icons - and slit apps to a useable state at shutdown - - fixed a problem with menus not getting layered correctly after - a reconfigure or menu reload - - changed the behavior of the various MOD1+ButtonPresses on windows... - they should now be more consistent with the button behavior on the - decorations : - . MOD1+Button1 raises and moves the window (unchanged) - . MOD1+Button2 lowers the window (used to resize the window) - . MOD1+Button3 resizes the window (new button combo) - - fixed a small but _extremely_ annoying bug exposed by cvsup - - styled frames are now a thing of the past... the textures formerly - known as window.frame.(un)focus have been replaced by solid colors - window.frame.(un)focusColor... the thickness of the frame is now - determined by frameWidth, which will default to bevelWidth if not - specified - - middle clicking on a window in a workspace's window list now moves - the window to the current workspace - - fixed a minor glitch with the appearance of window labels for - certain newly-started apps (i.e. rxvt) - - added a new configure option for both the toolbar and the slit -- - autohide. Hopefully this should help quell the demands for the - removal of the toolbar... - - added code to better handle apps that change the window focus - - changed the command execution code (used to handle rootCommands - and executable menu items) to be more robust... compound commands - should now work - - a new-and-slightly-improved implementation of unstyled frames should - mean slightly better performance than previously - - fixed a couple of stupid bugs in the new code for handling - Solid Flat textures more efficiently - - fixed the nls makefiles so that they respect DESTDIR, behave better - if you reinstall over an existing installation, and actually remove - their files on a make uninstall - - added cthulhain's bsetbg script to the util directory... see the - file README.bsetbg for more information - - added Estonian, French and Danish translations - - -Changes from 0.60.2 to 0.60.3: - - put in a (temporary?) fix for a bug with the new way icons are - handled. Previously an icon was created only for non-transient - windows, which means that 1) minimized transient windows were - not getting cleaned up at shutdown, and that 2) one could - conceivably lose access to a minimized transient if there were - a break in the transient chain. - - For the time being, every iconified window gets an icon. In - order to make this a little nicer, if a window doesn't provide - an icon title, the window title is used in the icon menu, rather - than 'Unnamed'. - - fixed a bug in handling the destruction of intermediate - transient windows. The code was leaving the transient of a - destroyed window with a reference to the now non-existent - window. This can lead to all sorts of problems. - - fixed a slight positioning error when the slit is on the right - side of the screen - - included a new style, Minimal, which is designed for use on 8-bit - displays. It tries to use a bare minimum of colors, and with the - new code regarding Flat Solid, should consume very little memory. - - made yet another alteration to the way focus changes after a window - closes under ClickToFocus. Blackbox now tracks the stacking order of - all windows and uses this information to give the focus to the topmost - window. - - new configure option : - --enable-styled-frames include support for fully-styled window - frames -- these are the decorations which - are affected by the window.frame* theme - entries. This option is turned on by - default. - - Because of the way they are implemented, - these are typically the most memory and - render intensive of the various blackbox - decorations, even if they are typically - only a pixel or so wide. Disabling this - feature can result in a substantial - decrease in X memory usage, but it's - enabled by default to remain compatible - with previous versions. - - - added a whole mess of logic so that blackbox will use - XSetWindowBackground for Flat Solid textures instead generating - a pixmap (which would be subsequently cached)... should help cut - down some on the X memory usage - - altered the behavior of the BImageControl timer... now it will - fire every cacheLife minutes, regardless of when anything has - been removed from the cache - - modified the NLS build code yet again... at this point we've - hopefully hit the least common denominator and it should work - for everyone - - dealt with a possible problem in the BlackboxWindow constructor - where we referred to a member after deletion - - removed a last lingering bit of the allocate()/deallocate() code - - fixed a pair of string formatting problems - - -Changes from 0.60.1 to 0.60.2: - - updated README.bbtools, since bbpager and bbkeys were updated to work with - 0.60.x (also removed the .diffs from the source tree) - - fix for compiling with NLS support on Solaris - - added Turkish, Russian and Swedish translations - - applied patch for more correct Spanish translations - - added completed pt_BR (Brazillian Porteguese) translation - - removed mem.h and the allocate()/deallocate() calls throughout blackbox - these have been unused for a long time, and needed to go away :) - - compile fixes for --enable-debug - - changed the font loading/drawing code... XFontSets are only used if - the locale is set properly. So you can still compile with nls support, - but do not set your LANG environment variable, and your fonts will be - loaded and drawn the old way - - smarter Basemenu::drawItem() code added, i noticed alot of flicker when - moving menus, because of code constantly redrawing menus items... this - has been significatly modified and sped up quite a bit - - fixed a bug where iconified windows wouldn't remove themselves from the - icon menu when they unmapped/closed themselves (which would result in a - crash if you selected this dead item) - - fixed a potential crash in Workspace::removeWindow() that had relation - to focus last window on workspace... one person experience gibberish being - displayed, another experienced a crash - - fixed a flicker problem when changing focus between windows rapidly - (the toolbar's window label was getting redrawn twice per focus, not - optimum behavior) - - fixed the infamous bsetroot segfault... this was quite a feat... took 3 - people in excess of 8 hours to find... and it was a simple one line change - - -Changes from 0.51.3.1 to 0.60.1: (note: 0.60.1 is 0.60.0 non-alpha) - - changed licensing for Blackbox from GNU GPL to more open BSD license - see the file LICENSE - - removed alot of empty files that did nothing but passify automake/autoconf - Blackbox now passes --foreign to automake to lessen the requirements for - files like NEWS,AUTHORS,COPYING,README,etc. - - new configure options: - --enable-ordered-pseudo this enables a new algorithm for dithering - on pseudocolor (8 bit) displays... a noticable - pattern is visible when using this. you may or - may not like it... just something different - if you want it, but is turned off by default. - - --enable-debug turn on verbose debugging output... this - isn't very complete or really very helpful... - right now it just describes memory usage and - tracks a few X event handlers... this is turned - off by default - - --enable-nls turn on natural language support... this option - will turn on the use of catgets(3) to read - native language text from any of the supported - locales (see the nls/ directory for current - translations)... - - This option also turns on the use of XFontSets, - which allows the display of multibyte - characters, like Japanese or Korean. - This option is turned on by default. - - --enable-timed-cache turn on/off the new timed pixmap cache... this - differs from the old pixmap cache in that - instead of releasing unused pixmaps - immediately, it waits for <X> minutes, where - <X> is set with session.cacheLife in your - ~/.blackboxrc... this option is turned on - by default. - - - changed the default menu to include a listing of workspaces (and their - window lists) and the new configuration menu (see below) - - included new default styles, contributed by regulars on - irc.openproject.net's #blackbox - - generated default "translation" catalog for the C/POSIX locale... the - same catalog is used for English (en_US for now, will add others - as necessary) - - included translation for Spanish (es_ES) and Brazilian - Portuguese (pt_BR)... if you are interested in doing a - translation, email me at blackbox@alug.org - - properties and hints added for communication with bbpager and bbkeys, the - two most common "blackbox addons" - - KDE 1.x support has been completely removed, pending approval of the new - window manager specification to be used by KDE2 and GNOME - - a (broken!) base for the new window manager spec was put in place, but - using --enable-newspec will result in code that will not compile - - added a timer class to handle internal timeouts without using - getitimer/setitimer/SIGARLM... this will enable other things to be done, - as any number of timers with any timeout can be used - - Blackbox will search for the highest depth supported by each visual on - each screen... basically this means that blackbox will try to use - TrueColor if a TrueColor visual exists (but it's not the default visual) - - menu hilite changed from being just a color to being a texture and new - window decoration layout... as a result the style file syntax has changed, - old styles for 0.5x.x will not work. See the included styles for examples, - and browse by http://bb.themes.org/ - - added support for enabled/disabled and selectable menuitems, this is for - use in the configmenu mostly (but is used in the windowmenu) - - added the Configmenu, which is insertable into your menu by using: - - [config] (Catchy Label) - - changes made in the configmenu take effect immediately, and are saved in - your ~/.blackbxrc... current tunable settings: - - Focus model - Window placement - Image dithering - Opaque window moving - Full Maximization - Focus New Windows - Focus Last Window on Workspace - - the window placement and focus model options will be discussed below - - added texture type "ParentRelative" which causes the decoration to display - the contents of it's parent... this is a sort of pseudo-transparent option - and doesn't work for all decorations... see the included style named - "Operation" for an example of ParentRelative - - added support for solid interlacing... for example: - - toolbar: raised interlaced solid bevel1 - toolbar.color: grey - toolbar.colorTo: darkgrey - - will cause the toolbar base to be draw with solid lines, one line grey, - the next darkgrey, the next grey, the next darkgrey, ... - - changed dithering algorithm for TrueColor displays from Floyd-Steinberg to - an ordered dither... dithering at 8bpp (Pseudocolor) can be either FS or - ordered, but must be selected at compile time... - - NOTE: when using ordered pseudocolor (8bpp) dithering, your - session.colorsPerChannel ***MUST*** be 4, otherwise your display will - not display *any* correct colors - - fixed TrueColor rendering to do aligned writes (suppresses warnings on - Alpha Linux machines) - - added support for GrayScale/StaticGray displays (completely untested) - - made linked lists smarter, they can now have as many iterators assigned to - them as you want... no more FATAL errors - - added the Netizen class, which is a client that has - _BLACKBOX_STRUCTURE_MESSAGES listed in their WM_PROTOCOLS... these clients - get notified of window add, remove, focus, shade, iconify, maximize, - resize, etc. - - the two most common Netizens are bbpager and bbkeys - - when loading an incomplete style, blackbox now uses default colors to - draw decorations (instead of the annoying "see-through" effect) - - added menu tag [config]... which inserts the Configmenu into your rootmenu - - made [include] handling smarter, it will only read regular files (it - won't read a directory in case you ever accidentally put one there) - - the slit and toolbar menus now include a placement option, which will place - them in various positions on the screen - - included a slit menu option to choose it's direction (horizontal or - vertical) - - added options to the slit and toolbar menus to have them always stacked - above other windows - - right clicking on the workspace label no longer initiates a workspacename - edit... right clicking anywhere on the toolbar brings up the toolbar menu, - which has an entry that lets you change the workspace name - - iconified windows no longer show up in the window list for the current - workspace... just in the icon submenu - - ClickToFocus now works like one would think, clicking anywhere in a window - will focus it - - overall... this version of blackbox has and does alot more than previously - just take it for a test drive and see how well you like it - - -Changes from 0.50.5 to 0.51.0: - - new default theme, shows off new gradients (see below) - - many themes updated to show off new menu bullet configuration - - added new source file Display.cc... it offers an easy way to connect to - an X display and setup screen info, this was done to make life easier - for John Kennis, the author of the bbtools. Image.cc and Image.hh have - been modified to use classes from this abstraction, so that drop in - replacements are all that is necessary to update the bbtools image code. - - configurable menu bullet... 2 new resources for in your style file: - - menu.bulletStyle: (round|triangle|square|diamond|empty) - menu.bulletPosition: (left|right) - - - new style resource for setting the borderWidth on menus, client windows and - the buttons/frame/handle/titlebar... the default theme uses a borderWidth - of zero... it's pretty neat - - udpated Image code... blackbox now supports 8 types of gradients (thanks - to mosfet@kde.org... in exchange for helping him get the diagonal gradient - code from blackbox into kde, kde gave me the source to their new gradients) - the 8 gradients are: - - diagonal, vertical, horizontal, crossdiagonal, pipecross, elliptic, - pyramid, rectangle - - use them just like you would normally (ie. raised elliptic gradient bevel1) - - merged John Kennis' patch for notifying KDE modules of windows that are - raised/lowered/activated(focused) - - new geometry window that is displayed when a window is moved/resized - - cleaned up code for detecting slit apps - - window stacking code changed to keep menus above windows, and to keep the - slit raised when the toolbar is raised - - fixed compiler error from gcc 2.95 about frame.frame in several places - - fixed some bugs with shaped windows that set decorations via MWM hints, - and also fixed bugs with such windows changing their shape - - more complete ICCCM compliance, default window gravity is now NorthWest - instead of Static... - - focus code revamped... window focusing is alot faster and simpler, i - mimicked the way TWM does it's focusing... proved much faster - - the window menu always has "Kill Client" as an option now - - fixed window stacking for windows that have multiple transients (like - netscape) - - smartplacement from 0.50.4 has been reinstated... i quickly grew tired of - waiting on windows to be placed with the old version (if you like the way - 0.50.5 did it... send me an email and i'll consider making it an option) - - added some new signal handling code (using sigaction, if available on your - system)... - - fixed some bugs with KDE support... this makes bbpager behave properly - - workspace editing via the toolbar has been made a little nicer with the - new focus code... right clicking on the workspace label will put you into - edit mode, but no windows can be focused until you leave edit mode... - ALSO... the window that had focus when you entered edit mode will have the - focus returned to it after editing is finished - - added new option to blackbox... -rc <filename> will read <filename> instead - of .blackboxrc for it's base configuration - - the option for opaque window moves has been moved from the stylefile into - .blackboxrc... set the session.opaqueMove: resource to True or False, - depending on what you want - - general namespace cleanups... just stuff to make maintaining the code a - little easier... - - any form of "beta" has been removed from the version number for 0.51.x - i am declaring this series as "stable" so that i can begin a major overhaul - of blackbox, which will be done with John Kennis and Jason Kasper, two - very sharp guys that think the same way i do ;) - - -Changes from 0.50.4. to 0.50.5: - - modified and merged some patches from several contributors. added their - names to AUTHORS - - major documentation updates - - added a few more platform success reports. changed development platform - again :) - - added new texture option: Interlaced... it is an extension to the gradient - texture that looks really neat... it is compiled in by default but may - be removed with --disable-interlace - - let's see... where do i begin... the code for 0.51.x has been GREATLY - enhanced over 0.50.4 (and the stupid little compile error for KDE has been - fixed ;)) Blackbox has undergone major renovation... and i can proudly - say that this release is rock solid. Also, i reinstated ccmalloc's tour - of duty, and spent several days with it stomping memory leaks in blackbox. - i can proudly say that there are no major memory leaks present in 0.51.x - - the toolbar has changed it appearance a little bit... the menu button has - been removed and the labels and buttons are now symmetrically placed on the - toolbar... oh no!? how do you get to your icons/workspaces now? the - middle click patch from Greg Barlow has been modified, enhanced and merged - with 0.51.x... the workspace menu now behaves just like the root menu... - and it can be pinned to the root window (just move it) - - the image code has once again been worked over... this time a local LUG - friend and i have hashed it out many times and into the wee hours of the - morning... this stuff is FAST now... before i added interlacing... we - had doubled the speed of the dgradient function... yes... *doubled* - - the code to generate error tables, color tables and other tables that are - used in image dithering has been rewritten, which severs the last tie to - window maker's wrlib that blackbox had. i now understand why and how all - the code that i "borrowed" works... and it's been improved... because of - this change... dithering is a lot cleaner... and dithering on 8bpp displays - is less grainy and less obtrusive... - - the linked list code has also been rewritten... blackbox has been using - a doubly linked list, and not taking advantage of all the list's - capabilities (because it doesnt need them)... so the linked lists are now - single-link and much quicker at inserting, removing, searching... - - once again... the menu parsing code has been rewritten... this code is - very efficient and very extensible... so extensible infact that after - implementing the current menu syntax... i added a new tag! you can now - insert the workspaces list into your root menu with this: - - [workspaces] (descriptive label) - - - the slit menu is now spacially correct... if you want the slit in the top - right corner of the root menu... click the top right corner of the slit - menu... i think this is a little more user friendly - - window gravity should be better supported now... restarts and what not - shouldn't produce all those one pixel shifts or moves anymore... - - the modifiers for the keygrabs in blackbox are now configurable... - the "keys" are still hard wired (left/right for workspace changing, tab - for window cycling)... but you may now configure which modifiers to use - with the key combos... this introduces two new resources into your - .blackboxrc: - - session.workspaceChangeModifier - - and - - session.windowCycleModifier - - these resources may be set to any combination of the following: - - Control Mod1 Mod2 Mod3 Mod4 Mod5 Lock Shift - - also... for convenience... "Alt" is parsed as "Mod1"... - session.workspaceChangeModifier defaults to "Control" and - session.windowCycleModifier defaults to "Mod1" - - smart placement has been made smarter thanks to Dyon Balding's smarter - placement patch... this patch has been modified from the original slightly - (mostly speed concerns) - - signal handling has been made more robust... this allows it to compile on - more platforms and now prefers to use sigaction() over signal() - - over all... many code clean ups were made and old commented code was - purged... this is a very clean very stable release... enjoy people :) - - -Changes from 0.50.3 to 0.50.4: - - changed some Copyright information to include the current year - - added a number of platforms to the Supported Platforms section of the - README - - added the Slit... the Slit is a window maker dockapp util that lets users - use all of applications with Blackbox, and allows users to easily switch - between Window Maker and Blackbox more easily... it is included by default, - but you can remove it from the source with --disable-slit on your configure - command line - - large Brueghel styles and images removed from the base distribution - - merged a patch from Benjamin Stewart for very robust menu parsing... this - patch allows for parenthesis in menu files, and works well for - automatically generating menus from shellscripts and programs... the menu - syntax has not changed... it just is understood better :) - - added shell style tilde-slash (~/) home directory expansion for the - [include] and [style] tags in menu files - - added some sanity to window position/gravity code to for GTK applications - - added Window Maker style Mod1+MouseButton1+Motion window moving (for those - few braindead apps that like to be positioned where no decorations are - visible) - - added a SIGCHLD handler to clean up processes started by a startup script - that then exec's blackbox (gets rid of all those zombie processes) - - added a new resource to .blackboxrc which tells Blackbox where to put the - Slit... editing your .blackboxrc to change this is discouraged and - discarded, as the Slit has a menu that lets you select where to put it - (click any mouse button on the slit and see for yourself) - - fixed a bug in the workspace renaming feature that ate all Shift keypresses - - -Changes from 0.50.2 to 0.50.3: - - few documentation updates - - fixes to let -lgen actually get linked with the executable (fixes compile - errors on some platforms, most notably, IRIX 6.5) - - a new series of styles has been added to the distribution (this accounts - for the increased size) - - fix to let 16 color servers run blackbox (colormap reduction) - - various bug fixes... numerous strncpy's changed to sprintfs... - - default font set internally to "fixed" (to let it run on servers that don't - have any fonts installed) - - fixed bug to let blackbox remove all but the last workspace (instead of the - last two) - - window gravity offset changes - - the default key grabs have changed... there are now 4: alt-tab, - shift-alt-tab, ctrl-alt-right, ctrl-alt-left... these keys perform - as would be expected - - fixed wire move bug for transient windows - - passified error handing for the main window class - - fixed gravity restore for restart/exit purposes - - -Changes from 0.50.1 to 0.50.2: - - minimal KDE integration (configure/compile time option, turned off by - default). This is unfinished and i can't really say if i ever will finish - it, but there is enough there to integrate the panel and other modules - with Blackbox. - - changed the regexp in building menus to use a comma (,) as the separator, - instead of a period - - various bug fixen (like the one where the window list would stay put after - the workspace menu went away) - - some hacks to improve speed in the LinkedList routines - - new stacking method (to better integrate with the KDE support)... windows - are no longer in different "levels", raising windows brings them ALL the - way to the front (so it's possible to obscure override redirect windows - like image splashes etc.) and lowering throws them ALL the way to the - back (even under kfm's icons)... however, the rootmenu and the toolbar - (if configured to be ontop) will be placed above raised windows - - sticky windows have changed due to the new stack implementation, they can - be anywhere in the stack (and not always ontop or onbottom) - - session.screenNUM.toolbarRaised resource has changed to - session.screenNum.toolbarOnTop - - the workspace label in the toolbar is sized a little more sanely now - (i found that it looks the best when the workspace label width == clock - label width) - - colormap focus now has it's own resource, session.colormapFocusModel, which - is set to "Click" by default, which means you have to click a window's - decorations or the root window to (un)install a colormap... setting this - resource to "FollowsMouse" will work just as it says... the window under - the pointer will have it's colormap installed - - -Changes from 0.50.0 to 0.50.1: - - eliminated the need for XConvertCase... workspace editing should now print - any and all characters correctly - - added check for libgen.h (which provides the prototype for basename() on - some systems, like OpenBSD) - - some code obfuscation (i've been removing comments, as some of them don't - relate to some of the code below them... i plan on recommenting the code - some time soon) - - clicking button 3 will hide ANY menu now, and in the case of the workspace - and or client menus, any other menus and/or buttons associated will be - closed as well - - added a patch for multi-screen which sets the DISPLAY env variable so that - items selected from one screen don't show up on another... many thanks to - F Harvell <fharvell@fts.net> for this - - fixed a clock bug... again thanks to F Harvell for this one - - complete and proper window placement and window restore has been - implemented... windows that are partially off screen will be placed in the - center of the root window - - the toolbar's workspace label is now dynamically sized according to the - length of the workspace names - - as stated above... workspace name editing has been completely redone, i - discovered XLookupString() this weekend and have deemed it the function of - the week... any and all characters should be printed properly now - - window placement now has it's own resource... - session.screen<NUM>.windowPlacement which may be set to SmartPlacement - (which has been implemented) or anything else to default back to cascade - placement - - a new resource, session.screen<NUM>.toolbarWidthPercent has been added, and - should be set to an integer representing what percentage of the root window - width the toolbar should occupy (default has been changed back to 67) - - -Changes from 0.40.14 to 0.50.0: - - added util/ subdirectory to place small, utility programs to use in - conjunction with blackbox. - - updated the README... it's still vague and useless, but gives a better - view of whats going on - - the configure script now checks for a few more headers, setlocale and - strftime in addition to basename functions to better include support for - multiple arch/langs/etc. - - updated default menu file... made it a little more general... and made - the default style menu [include]'d instead of explicitly included... - this break off of the style menu allows for custom menus to include the - default style menu for a create selection of styles - - changed all the default styles to use bsetroot instead of xsetroot - - menu handling has been improved... no more than one menu at a time may be - visible on the desktop (save for the root menu and it's tear off menus) - this means that you can't have multiple window menus and the workspace menu - open all at once... which saves screen space and reduces clutter - - much of the code has been reorganzied and reformatted for better - readability... this consists of function name changes and function - "ownership" (which basically means workspaces aren't managed by the toolbar - itself anymore, but by a general screen class on which the toolbar can - operate) - - the workspacemenu now autohides when selecting a window from one of the - window lists - - removed many empty destructors for Basemenu subclasses to improve code - readability - - two new files, Screen.cc and Screen.hh, have been added to the distribution - they add the new class BScreen which was needed for the biggest change of - the Blackbox code base, the addition of multiple screen (i.e. multihead) - support. A separate BScreen is created for each screen, and all screens - work inconjunction with the other... windows can't be passed between - screens, because the X server doesn't allow this (more investigation on - this later) - - the toolbar's clock format is now controlled by the strftime() function... - if configure can't find this function on your system, the old date/time - format is used... with strftime, clicking on the clock doesn't display the - date... as the date may now be part of the clock display... read the man - page for the strftime function to write a format string for your clock, - and place it in .blackboxrc (i.e. - session.strftimeFormat: %I:%M %p on %a, %b %d is my strftime format - string) - - the toolbar has been stripped of it's workspace responsibilities, but this - change has no effect on the end user. - - common code interspersed through out the code has been consolodated into - small functions and called multiple times instead of having the same or - similar code repeated in the same class - - the window startup code has been improved upon again so that shaded windows - are restored between restarts - - some ICCCM code has been updated to properly reflect the state of windows - while shaded or on different workspaces... this state code change should - also fix the JX toolkit problem of deiconifying and nothing being redrawn - - the main Blackbox class has been changed to purely handle X events... it - doesn't manage resources (save for those necessary for proper event - handling, like the focus model for each screen) - - the format of .blackboxrc has changed slightly, the session.menuFile, - session.doubleClickInterval, session.imageDither, session.styleFile, - and session.colorsPerChannel resources are unchanged. However, the - following resources are screen dependant: - - session.screen<num>.strftimeFormat - session.screen<num>.workspaces - session.screen<num>.workspaceNames - session.screen<num>.toolbarRaised - session.screen<num>.focusModel - - where <num> is the screen number (zero being default and all that would be - present on a single screen/monitor setup). - - a utility named bsetroot (mentioned above) has been included in the - blackbox distribution, to aid in setting root window patterns (ala - xsetroot). the only different between xsetroot and bsetroot is that - bsetroot doesn't redefine cursors, and doesn't restore defaults if no - arguments are given. bsetroot does support multiple screens, and is ideal - for those setups (instead of running xsetroot for each screen) - - -Changes from 0.40.12 to 0.40.13: - - added some compile time parameters to allow for clean compiling - - added support for vertical/horizontal maximization (i did this by - hand, but kudos to John Martin for the idea ;) - - added basename() to the distribution... it will only be compiled in - if basename is not present in standard libraries - - window focus code has changed yet again... i've decided to completely - rewrite the focus handling code, instead of trying to fix it... let - me know how this does - - a new resource has been added to the style loader... a resource of - the form: rootCommand: <shell command string> will execute this - command when the style is loaded, suitable for setting the root - window background to an image/pattern/color... this should make - style integration more seamless - - -Changes from 0.40.11 to 0.40.12: - - more migration to autoconf/automake/autoheader etc. - - changed the default installation prefix... /usr/local is now the - default... all default config files will be stored in - ${prefix}/share/Blackbox... any old files will not be used, and - should be removed - - a small internal rework has made the "Inverted" option for - pressed button textures obsolete... please update your configs - - Makefile.generic has been removed - - Laurie's tear off menu patch has been adapted into the source tree... - sorry Laurie, but i had to rework your patch to make it completely - bullet proof ;) - - rework of Image code... resizes and maximizations should be much - faster now - - existance of XConvertCase is checked by configure... if it is NOT - found, then when editing the workspace name, pressing shift will - not print capital letters... sorry... get an uptodate X distribution - (R6.3 or higher) so that XConvertCase exists... - - the date format on the clock is controlled by a new .blackboxrc - resource... session.dateFormat... accepted values are: - American ( mm/dd/yy ) and - European ( dd.mm.yy ) - the default is american... if any other string is entered for the - resource, blackbox defaults again to american... - - changed some window positioning code so that windows aren't thrown - to the middle of the screen unless they are completely hidden when - shown - - time bugs have been fixed... this is too detailed to go into... so - read the source if you are curious, otherwise just hit Reconfigure - when ever you change the system time, and blackbox will update and - continue to monitor/display the correct time (also... wrt y2k... - blackbox is y2k compliant is your libc's localtime() is y2k - compliant) - - this release has a major internals rework... let me know of any - problems... i would also love to hear about improved/degraded - performance... enjoy people... - - -Changes from 0.40.10 to 0.40.11: - - changed the blackbox distribution to use autoconf instead of - imake... let me know how this works - - removed all the Imakefiles and Imakeconfig in favor of autoconf... - - added necessary files for automake and autoconf - - fixed a bug that would automatically shift focus to the workspace - label after switching to an empty workspace which would edit the - workspace name if pressing ctrl-arrow... - - fixed a bug that wouldn't focus any windows with alt-tab after - switching workspaces - - new feature: click button 1 on the clock to display today's date - releasing the mouse button redraws the current time - - implemented double-click window shading by adapting David Edwards' - <david@dt031n1a.tampabay.rr.com> shade patch - - added new .blackboxrc resource - session.doubleClickInterval - which - controls the time between double clicks... used by the double-click - shade feature... defaults to 250ms is not specified - - -Changes from 0.40.9 to 0.40.10: - - fixed the broken menu highlights - they are now a dot in front of - the menu label - - enhanced the image rendering code to prebuild dithering lookup - tables... this saves some multiply and divide instructions during the - rendering loop... it makes a noticable difference on my lowly p133 ;) - - just for completeness... i've added some error output for various - things that could (but rarely do) go awry - - the focus code has been updated yet again... but this time it's for - the better ;) the ctrl arrow keys continue working after a window - has been closed etc. etc... this should be the final change... unless - i find more bugs in it - - -Changes from 0.40.8 to 0.40.9: - - fixed a menu bug to keep as much of the menu on screen as possible - - added a patch from Peter Kovacs <kovacsp@egr.uri.edu> to raise the - current focused window when the user clicks on the window label on - the toolbar - - changed some window gravity defaults... nothing major here - - focus handling code has been spruced up... and majorly tested... - 0.40.8's focus code was about as good as a full tank of gas but - no corvette... let me know how the focus handles in 0.40.9 - - -Changes from 0.40.7 to 0.40.8: - - more menu fixes... highlights are handled as normal... constant - highlights are draw differently... the rounded edges minus the - highlighted bar... - - hand strength reduction in the BImage::renderXImage() method... - this doesn't offer much of a speed up... but every little bit - counts - - stuck clients that open transients now have their transients stuck - by default - - changed some input focus code to better handle the sloppy focus - model... the little annoyances like two focused windows should now - be fixed... - - removed gcc specific code... changed use of strsep to strtok (which - is defined by ANSI C) - - this is strictly a maintainence release... no new features have - been introduced - - -Changes from 0.40.6 to 0.40.7: - - changed bhughes@arn.net to bhughes@tcac.net throughout the source - tree - - menu sanity fixes... like unmapping a submenu when an item is removed - - image code fixes... no memory is allocated during the rendering... - only when the BImage is created... thanks to lee.salzman@lvdi.net for - the frame work for these changes - - fewer floating point division in gradient rendering routines... again - thanks to lee.salzman@lvdi.net for the basis of these changes - - reading workspace names is now a little more robust, but probably not - bullet proof... events are handled normally while reading the - workspace name... instead of blocking them all... the label changes - color... and reverts back to normal when enter is pressed (which - applies the new workspace name) - - the window geometry label drawn during window resizing has moved to - inside the window frame, this allows us to see what size windows are - being resized to when the right edge is close to the edge of root - - a lock system has been implemented for the blackbox objects... this - fixes a nasty little problem of stale windows (decorations with no - client window) because of on object grabbing the server and another - unlocking it... the current system works similar to XLockDisplay - (which is used in threaded X programs). - - icccm code enhancements for XWMHints and NormalHints - - window maximizing now properly returns the maximized client to its - previous location (this is a bug fix... maximize netscape, then - maximize an xterm... unmaximizing netscape will put it where the - xterm was previously) - - -Changes from 0.40.5 to 0.40.6: - - the workspace and client menus now keep the current workspace and - focus window highlighted so that we know which window is in focus - (especially useful with multiple xterms in the same workspace) - - image dithering code has been updated slightly to hopefully squeeze - every last drop of performance out of it - - pixel computation has been simplified - - gradient code has been changed to use less floating point division - this breaks Jon Denardis' gradient hack, but the option has been - left in place in case Jon wants to re-implement it :) - - more ICCCM compliance code added... window colormap focus has a - click-to-focus policy... any window that wants to use it's own - colormap (i.e. netscape -install) will have it's colormap installed - when button1 is pressed anywhere on the decorations (like when - raising) the default root colormap is reinstalled when pressing - button1 on the root window - - workspace names can now be changed on the fly... they are stored in - the users ~/.blackboxrc file, and may be edited from there, although - any changes made to the file will be over written when blackbox is - shutdown or restarted... - - workspace names can be edited *while blackbox is running* by pressing - button3 on the workspace label on the toolbar... pressing enter ends - the edit and normal event processing resumes... these names are saved - on exit/restart for convienence - - support for window gravity has been added... this is addition is - another step closer to complete ICCCM compliance - - window resizing is a bit more sane now... a bug once pointed out long - ago that i never noticed plagued me the other day... when resizing a - window to a large size... blackbox can delay a bit while it renders - the new decorations... if the user tries to move the window before - these decorations are finished... the window is resized again... this - has been fixed - - -Changes from 0.40.4 to 0.40.5: - - updated the default style to reflect the button resource change in - 0.40.4 - - added internal menu alignment - - added internal linked list insertion at a certain point, used in - menus - - submenus now update their parent menu to reflect that the submenu - is no longer open - - right clicking anywhere on the rootmenu or window menus will now - unmap them... NOTE: this doesn't work on submenus or the rootmenu - or on the SendToWorkspaceMenu - - cleaned up some of the image rendering code to use less comparisons - while rendering an image... also removed alot of - multiplication/division use in beveling loops to increase speed - - changed dithering error distribution to make images smoother at - 15 and 8bpp (8bpp got the most benefit from this change) - - changed the toolbar appearance... removed the raise/lower button, - changing the level of the toolbar isn't possible as of yet... a new - button has been added on the left of the toolbar, pressing it will - map the workspace menu, which has a few changes - - the workspace menu now conatins submenus of all the window lists of - all workspaces... it is now possible to see which window is on which - workspace... also... the icon button has been removed from the - toolbar and the iconmenu is now a submenu of the workspace menu - - window placement has been slightly modified... if clients request a - certain position, the request is honored, otherwise the client is - cascaded... if either the cascade or requested position obscures part - of the window when the window is created, the window is centered in - the root window... - - window state updated... when blackbox is restarted, all client - windows are placed on the workspace they were previously occupying... - this is only between restarts... not when X is restarted... - however... applications may be coded specifically for blackbox to - start on a certain workspace... for more information on this, email - me - - window menu placement has been made a little more sane - - -Changes from 0.40.3 to 0.40.4: - - removed the window.handle{.color,.colorTo} resources... the handle - is now treated as a button, and uses the button resources - - added window.focus.button and window.unfocus.button resources to the - style file... this allows colors to be set different from the - titlebar... the colors are controlled with window.focus.button.color, - window.focus.button.colorTo, window.unfocus.button.color and - window.unfocus.button.colorTo - - transient focus policy has changed... if any window has an open - transient window... focus is awarded to the trasient instead of the - parent window, even if the mouse doesn't occupy the trasient window - - cleaned up some namespace in Basemenu.cc and Basemenu.hh - - changed dithering error diffusion - - fixed Bevel2 so that it doesn't sig11 anymore - - changed stacking code slightly... "stuck" windows now are placed - in relation to the toolbar... i.e. if the toolbar is on top... stuck - windows are on top of any other client windows... if the toolbar - is underneath client windows... stuck windows are also stacked - underneath the client windows - - major reworking of Window.cc and Window.hh to fully support the - _MOTIF_WM_HINTS on client windows... if this hint is present... then - the window is decorated according to those hints... all the move/ - resize/configure code had to be updated because of this... one step - closer to gnome compliance - - window menus now contain different items based on the functions - available to the client window... if a window cannot be maximized... - then no maximize item is present in the window menu... also, "Close" - and "Kill Client" are no longer present at the same time... if the - client supports the WM_DELETE_WINDOW Protocol, then "Close" is - present, "Kill Client" is only present for clients that do not - support the protocol - - windows may now be moved by the titlebar, handle or thin border - around the window... window menus are also accessible by pressing - button 3 on any of these 3 windows - - a new focus model has been added... it works... but is mostly - untested... session.focusModel: AutoRaiseSloppyFocus in .blackboxrc - will retain the sloppy focus model... but raise windows to the - top when focused... - - -Changes from 0.40.2 to 0.40.3: - - fixed a bug in Blackbox::nextFocus that would put blackbox into an - infinite loop when 2 windows where open, window 0 was iconified and - window 1 had focus and pressing alt-tab or the next window button - on the toolbar - - completely recoded all the graphics stuffs to support all visual - classes and color depths, also the image code is more compact and - faster than previous releases - - removed graphics.cc and graphics.hh from the distribution and added - Image.cc and Image.hh for the new graphics implementation. a new - class called BImageControl is now in charge of all pixmap caching - and color allocation on displays that don't run/support TrueColor... - this takes the job away from the Blackbox class... whose job is now - to manage all it's children and disperse events read from the display - - fixed bug that didn't handle windows created before blackbox is - running (again :/) - - -Changes from 0.40.1 to 0.40.2: - - added a variable initialize line of code to keep blackbox from - splattering from a sigsegv on startup - - -Changes from 0.35.0 to 0.40.1: - - cosmetic menu rendering fixes, changed the way the submenu dot is - sized; changed an off by one error in drawing the rounded edges; - fixed the text to be draw in the center of the item instead of at the - bottom - - major changes to the toolbar (formerly the workspace manager) to - change the way it looks and works. The large blank space is gone, - and the toolbar is now half the height it used to be (roughly). the - workspace label displays the current workspace, with the workspace - menu accessible by clicking button 1 on the label. the two buttons - directly to the right of the workspace label change the workspace - when pressed. the window label displays the current focused window, - which makes it easier to identify which window has input focus (for - some people like me that have very dark or very closely colored - decorations). the window menu is accessible by pressing button - one on the window label, and selecting an item from the window menu - will set input focus to that window (if it can receive focus). the - two buttons to the right of the window label circulate focus (up and - down, respectively) through the window list, skipping windows that - cannot receive focus. the icon button displays a menu of all - iconified applications. both the icon menu and the window menu will - not become visible if they are empty. the next button on the toolbar - is a raise/lower button for the workspace manager. the toolbar is - stacked on startup according to the resource set in ~/.blackboxrc, - but this button will raise and lower the workspace to the users - desire, saving the stack order when blackbox is exited or restarted. - the clock is still the same, but editing the session.clockFormat - will change it from normal time (session.clockFormat: 12) to 24hour - format (session.clockFormat: 24) - - a pixmap cache has been implemented. a linked list stores all images - rendered, removing them from the list and freeing them with the X - server when all applications have removed references to them. for - those who start man instances of the same applications will benefit - greatly from this, as the same decorations are not redraw for each - and every window. this greatly reduces the load on the X server - (my X server went from taking 20-28mb of memory to 8-11mb, a dramatic - improvement, especially on this 32mb machine). as a result of this, - reconfiguring is faster, as is startup and restarting. - - click to focus has been implemented, with some restrictions. other - window managers allow the user to click anywhere on the decorations - OR the client itself to set focus. i have not found an elegant way - to do this yet, so focus can only be set by pressing button 1 on - the decorations (like the titlebar, handle, buttons, border, etc.) - just not on the client itself. i am looking more into this, but - don't expect anymore than what is in place now. to use - click-to-focus, put session.focusModel: ClickToFocus in ~/.blackboxrc - - 2 new commands have been added to the menu syntax, [include] and - [style]... the [reconfig] command still has the option to reconfigure - after a command has been run, but probably will be faded out... - [include] (/path/to/file) includes the file inline with the current - menu, meaning that a submenu isnot created for the separate file, - if a submenu is desired, the file should include the [submenu] and - [end] tags explicitly. - [style] is a new addition for the style file support. syntax is: - [style] (label here) {/path/to/style/file} which will read the new - style file and reconfigure when selected. - - style files have been added to allow for easier switching between - configurations. the style file resources are dramtically different - from those in 0.3x.x, see app-defaults/Blackbox-style.ad for an - example... - - with the addition of style files, menus have been given their own - justification resource, allowing (for example) menus to be left - justified while titles are center or right justified. - - please read the sample configuration files in app-defaults/ for the - new and improved configuration system. NOTE: Blackbox.ad is a - sample ~/.blackboxrc, but you shouldn't copy this file to - ~/.blackboxrc, as Blackbox will store the resources it needs - automatically - - an unofficial release numbered 0.40.0 was given out to some - testers, and even this release needs the same treatment as 0.35.0 - with respect to the new config system (0.40.0 only implemented the - pixmap cache, the new toolbar and *part* of the new config system, - but not the style files or automatic generation of ~/.blackboxrc) - - -Changes from 0.34.5 to 0.35.0: - - changed the way menus are draw to round both end of the highlight... - - cosmetic enhancements for the various justifications... - - this is the first stable release of blackbox - - -Changes from 0.34.4 to 0.34.5: - - hopefully... this will be the last bug fix... so i can begin working - on new features... i fixed event mask selection on client windows - after reparenting them to the decoration frame... this should get - xv working again... - - changed the signal hander to core on sigsegv and sigfpe... sigint and - sigterm will just exit blackbox cleanly... sighup will cause blackbox - to reconfigure itself - - changed the way the version string is printed... - - -Changes from 0.34.3 to 0.34.4: - - changed the window stacking code to stack windows and their menus - more sanely... window menus are stacked directly ontop of the client - windows... instead of on top of every other client window... the - workspace manager is now by default stacked above client windows... - - reworked alot of code in Window.cc, blackbox.cc, Workspace.cc and - WorkspaceManager.cc to properly handle ICCCM state hints... the - startup and shutdown code has been completely reworked as a result of - this - -Changes from 0.34.2 to 0.34.3: - - this was a small change in the code... but a BIG change for the user - base... the X error handler is now non fatal... yes... this means if - blackbox encounters an X error (like a bad window or a bad match) it - will fprintf() the error and continue running... the quick window bug - has been mostly fixed... i have a small app that i wrote that quickly - maps a window, calls XSync()... then destroys the window and exits... - the first time i ran this little beauty... blackbox died a horrible - death... blackbox now handles this app nicely... but does - occasionally report an error (during the decoration creation... which - is promptly destroyed from the destroy notify event placed in the - queue by the X server... thus... no memory leaks... no memory - corruption... blackbox just keeps chugging along nicely - - -Changes from 0.34.1 to 0.34.2 (unreleased): - - fixed MSBFirst byte order image rendering at 32bpp (24bpp pending) - (for machines better than this intel machine of mine) - - changed BImage to allocate dithering space when the image is created - and to delete it when the image is destroyed... instead of allocating - the space and deleting the space each time the image is rendered to - an XImage... hopefully this will provide a speed increase (albeit a - small one) - - changed blackbox to call XListPixmapFormats once at startup... - instead of each time an image is rendered... this should afford some - speed increase (a small one at best :) - - fixed a bug in Window.cc that re-reads the window name... - Jon Denardis discovered this bug while playing with netscape 4.5... - the validation call is now directly before the XFetchName call... - instead of before an if() { } block that calls strcmp and XFree() - - edit Window.cc to change the way buttons are decorated and sized - the associatedWindow.button.color(To) resources have been removed, - but the associatedWindow.button texture resource is still there - - -Changes from 0.34.0 to 0.34.1: - - fixed the unmanaged rxvt/xconsole/whatever problem that didn't - decorate windows at start up... just a little logic error that was - fixed with a few braces - - fixed the shutdown code so that X and blackbox don't die a gruesome - death while reparenting the small applets on the workspace manager - toolbar... the above bug fixed also fixed a bug that didn't reparent - any existing app windows... - - updated libBox code to allow for flaws in it's design (forgotten from - 0.34.0) - - removed #include <sys/select.h> from blackbox.cc so that it compiles - on any platform (since select is supposed to be defined in unistd.h) - - removed the NEED_STRNCASECMP block in blackbox.cc until i can get - a working posix like routine to work (needed for OS2 platforms) - - edited the Imakefile scheme to have the the toplevel Imakefile and - Imakefiles in app-defaults/ lib/ and src/... there now is Imakeconfig - which includes all the options in one file... so that editing all - the Imakefiles is no longer necessary - - -Changes from 0.33.6 to 0.34.0: - - edited some Imakefiles so that rpm creaters have an easier time - - added stuff to lib/ which contains a small (VERY small) library for - letting applications open a window on the workspace manager toolbar - this is very very new... restarting will cause the app to crash - (at best) or take X with it (the worst)... play with it an let me - know how it works - - further revised window.cc and blackbox.cc to provide better error - checking... window.cc received the most updates... validating a - window is now done in the statement before the window is used... not - at the beginning of the function the window is used in... - - fixed the stacking order bug when changing workspaces... the windows - will now be restored in the order that you left them... not in the - order they were created in... - - updated the README... a little bit anyway :) - - updated BlackboxWindow::maximizeWindow() in window.cc to properly - maximize windows that have specified size increments - - fixed BlackboxWindow::configureWindow so that shaded windows that re - size themselves only resize the titlebar - - added ccmalloc 0.2.3 to the main source tree to aid in debugging... - this is NOT maintained by myself, see the source tree for details - - eliminated a double delete call with the aid of ccmalloc!@#! - - -Changes from 0.33.5 to 0.33.6: - - added Makefile.generic for those of you with foobared imake configs. - the use of xmkmf -a (i.e. imake) is still prefered... but this should - work on any system... with a little editing - - added static int handleXErrors(Display *, XErrorEvent *) in - blackbox.cc to handle any and all X lib errors while blackbox is - running... this should produce a coredump and thus the -moron - community should be able to flood my inbox with stack trace upon - stack trace :) - - added some sub directories and moved the sources around, this allows - for easier inclusion of the library for blackbox specific programs - (which will run in the dock) - - hopefully fixed the "disappearing-rxvt-trick"... since i can't - reproduce it i don't know for sure - - removed the use of alloca in graphics.cc... i was noticing very odd - behaviour from malloc() and free()... where blackbox would sig11 - when exiting because of XCloseDisplay doing something naughty... - and this seems to have done the trick... no more sig11's from malloc - or new... everything i've thrown at blackbox is gently but firmly - beaten into submission... - - added docboy's curved gradient hack as a compile time option... see - src/Imakefile and src/graphics.cc - - -Changes from 0.33.4 to 0.33.5: - - added a small test to cascade windows that start out partially hidden - (like netscape, Xnest, xv, etc.) - - changed icon handling to include a menu of icons accessible from the - workspace manager toolbar - - deiconifying a window now takes it to the top of the stack - - clicking on a menuitem that has a submenu no longer hides the submenu - - added resource "workspaceManager.24hourClock", a value of True turns - on the 24hour clock on the toolbar - - removed icon pixmap/window/mask support/handling from window.cc and - window.hh... since icons are now handled in a menu, this is no - longer needed - - added session.handleWidth and session.bevelWidth - to control window sizes (instead of hardcoded defaults) - - changed parts of Basemenu.cc and WorkspaceManager.cc to follow the - sizes set by session.bevelWidth - - fixed Alt-Tab window switching... also fixed some focus handling bugs - which let two windows become focused at the same time (which is bad - mojo) - - -Changes from 0.33.3 to 0.33.4: - - corrected a typo in the sample Blackbox.ad file to correctly show - which resource to set for the menu file - - added moderate window group support for programs like netscape and - other motif applications... modified window stacking code and - internal list code to support window groups (this makes transients - behave properly... another step towards more complete ICCCM - compliance) - - modified focus event handlers to stop applications from focusing out - when pressing menubars... also window focus is returned to root if - the focus window is closed... if another window is under the focus - window when it is closed... that window is awarded input focus - - fixed tiny little bug that didn't move the close button when resizing - a window - - -Changes from 0.33.2 to 0.33.3: - - changed some of the menu code ("updated" in 0.33.1) back to the - original 0.33.0, which seems to perform better. Reason behind it? - - blackbox died too often with 0.33.1/2 - - added "Kill Client" option to window menus... for those applications - that don't accept the WM_DELETE_WINDOW atom - - menus that are not partially moved off the root window are shifted to - a visible position when the pointer enters the frame... it is also - shifted back to it's original position when left (this is new... let - me know how it works) - - -Changes from 0.33.1 to 0.33.2: (unreleased) - - changed BlackboxIcon to not try and read its config when it was - created. This was forgotten from the 0.31.0 -> 0.33.0 move :/ - - -Changes from 0.33.0 to 0.33.1: (unreleased) - - improved menu handling, less possibilty for SIGSEGV - - menus now make copies of all label, exec strings and titles, to - make less loose pointers - - fixed typo to allow submenus of submenus of submenus (...) - - fixed workspace menu and window list menu placements - - -Changes from 0.31.0 to 0.33.0: - - added #ifdef statements so the C preprocessor doesn't complain about - _GNU_SOURCE being redefined. - - changed internal resource data structures - - added Sticky windows functionality - - remove old animation code bound with #ifdef ANIMATIONS - - fixed a silly little bug that sometimes mapped a submenu when its - parent was unmapping itself - - added ExecReconfigure option to execute a shell statement before - performing reconfiguration - - rearranged window config code to reduce wait time while resizing - - added internal macro BImageNoDitherSolid to make window frame - rendering faster (dithering a solid image is silly anyway) - - added new menu file format - - added Blackbox::validateWindow to provide a stabler environment for - Blackbox. This gives blackbox more error checking and greater - stability. For me, random crashes have (nearly) disappeared. - - removed window name/class dependant frame texture/color - - with 0.31.0, each entity read it's configuration from the rc database - loaded at start. this has changed back to the old behaviour of - reading all configuration parameters at start, no database reads are - performed after the initial setup (save for reconfiguring). - - configuration has changed to be a little cleaner, and a little more - thorough. See the Blackbox.ad and BlackboxMenu.ad for exmaples. -
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-1.12 -* fixed a bug with the bsetroot code that prevented compound commands from - being executed properly (only applies to 0.61.*). - -1.11 -* various bugfixes. -* bsetbg now uses the bsd license. - -1.10 -* bsetbg is now completely sh compliant, and no longer uses bash. -* removed internal default configuration in favor of: -* added the ability to generate a config file on the fly if one doesn't already exist. -* added support for -display to be passed to bsetroot. bsetbg now fully supports - all of bsetroot's options. -* made the error messages smart. -* if one of the variables in the configuration file contains an error, bsetbg will still - work perfectly unless it is required to use the faulty variable (in which case it - tells you what you did wrong). -* bsetbg will check for the existence of the specified image application in each of its - config variables. -* massive cleanup and optimization. - -1.00 -* rewrote most of the script to handle seperate apps for each config value. -* configuration file is consequently in a different format. -* fixed stupid bugs. - -0.09 -* fixed a bug that caused a crash when bsetbg tried to read a filename containing spaces. - -0.08 -* rewrote info function to make it even smarter. - -0.07 -* the end user hath spoken. bsetbg shall hereafter read configuration values - from one file and one file only, ~/.bsetbgrc. -* more error handling. -* fixed a bug that caused a crash when an image was specified without any arguments. - -0.06 -* bsetbg no longer checks for a configuration file when passing arguments to bsetroot. -* fixed up the -app stuff so that you can specify what the fallback action will be - (-center, -tile, or -full). -* added values for qiv to the sample.config. -* made -info a lot smarter than it used to be. -* no more support for ~/.bsetbgrc. it caused uneeded complication. - -0.05 -* added support for bsetroot. -* added the -app flag. -* fixed up the error checking. -* added -info flag to display current configuration values. -* added external configuration files. - -0.04 -* i don't remember back that far
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-If you use either bbpager or bbkeys, then you will need to have AT LEAST -these versions: - -bbpager 0.3.0 from http://bbtools.windsofstorm.net/ -bbkeys 0.8.3 from http://bbkeys.sourceforge.net/ - -If you use anything older than that, they will not work with Openbox. Why? -The old "Blackbox protocol" used by Blackbox 0.60.0-alpha had messages, -properties and the like prefixed with _NET, which is to be used by -the new KDE2+/GNOME2 window manager specification. It was decided to keep from -polluting the namespace and everything changed to _BLACKBOX. When the change -was made, bbpager and bbkeys (as well as other tools, I believe) had to be -updated to understand the new protocol. -
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-README for bsetbg 1.xx - -#### -### introduction ### - -bsetbg is a shell script that is intended to provide a standard root image -application for the Openbox window manager (although it will work under any -other window manager as well). bsetbg acts as a wrapper both to bsetroot and to -whatever application(s) you prefer to use for setting images on the root window. - -#### -### installation ### - -(o) copy the script to a directory in your path. -(o) chmod it to make it executable (chmod 755 /path/to/bsetbg). - -if you're lazy, do nothing. bsetbg will work out of the box for 99% of the -population. - -if you're at least vaguely curious, run bsetbg in an xterm without any arguments. -this way, you can watch what it does. - -if you're a "power user", read the 'configuration' section below. - -#### -### configuration ### - -bsetbg reads it's configuration from ~/.bsetbgrc . if it can't find this file, it -will search for a list of applications in the system path and use the positive -matches to create it. if you would prefer for this not to happen, you can create -your own config file using the included sample.config . -~/.bsetbgrc should contain the following variables: - -CENTER= application and arguments for centering an image on the root window -FULL= application and arguemnts for stretching/contracting an image to fill the root window -TILE= application and arguments to tile the root window -DEFAULT= action to take place by default if none of the above have been specified. - -if you let bsetbg create the configuration file, the only applications that will -be included in it are the ones that were found in your path. bsetbg will choose -one of them to be the default and comment out the rest, so if you don't like what -it chooses, edit the file and change the default values to whatever you like. - -#### -### usage ### - -** normal usage: - - bsetbg -full|-tile|-center <image> - -running bsetbg without any arguments except the name of the image will cause it to -set the image with the default values, which will vary from person to person. for -the ultimate control over your theme, always tell bsetbg what you want it to do. - - -** advanced usage: -if you use a certain program or set of arguments to achieve a particular effect -that goes beyond the scope of bsetbg's normal functionality, you can include the -application and its neccessary command line options after the -app flag: - - bsetbg -app <application> <"command line options"> <image> - -here is an example in which bsetbg will try to run xv to center the image against -a coloured background: - - bsetbg -app xv "-rbg rgb:27/40/8b -root -rmode 5 -quit" <image> - -note that you MUST enclose the application's options in double quotes. if you -don't, bsetbg will bail out and give you an error message. - -before bsetbg runs the command, it will check to make sure that the application -(xv in our example) is present on the target system. if it's not, bsetbg will fall -back to setting the image using the default values from the configuration. if you -want to control what the fallback option will be, use either -center, -tile, or --full after the options for the application: - - bsetbg -app xv "-rbg rgb:20/2b/32 -root -rmode 5 -quit" -center <image> - -in the above example, bsetbg will fall back to setting the image in centered mode -if xv isn't available. - - -** other usage: -bsetbg can also be used in place of bsetroot. just give bsetbg the same arguments -that you would normally pass to bsetroot. example: - - rootCommand: bsetbg -gradient flatinterlaced -from rgb:46/51/5c -to rgb:34/3c/45 - - rootCommand: bsetbg -solid SteelBlue - - -** informational usage: -'bsetbg -help' does what you'd expect it to. - -'bsetbg -info' will output information about bsetbg's current configuration -values. use this when you're debugging an incorrect configuration. - -#### -### troubleshooting ### - -this section is sort of an faq. - -(o) help! my background is messed up when i try to use a png image! - -if you are using xv, your version probably hasn't been patched to include png -support. you have two options: 1), you can download the source and the patches and -compile xv yourself (see the url at the end of this document), or 2), you can try -to hunt down a binary version of xv that was compiled with the png patch. - -if you aren't using xv, then whatever it is that you are using is having a problem -with png images. consult the documentation on it. - - -(o) when i switch to a new Openbox style, the background doesn't change. - -most likely, there's an error with bsetbg. if you alt+f[1-5] to go back to your -console, you can see bsetbg's error message. alternatively, run bsetbg from an -xterm and look at its output. - -in most instances, there will be a problem with your config file. you can either -try to fix it yourself, or you can rename your ~/.bsetbgrc to something else and -then run bsetbg without any arguments in order to force the creation of a new -configuration file. - - -(o) when i try to set an image in full/tiled/centered mode, the image is not - full/tiled/centered. - -you've probably given the values in the config file the wrong arguments for what -they are meant to do. either let bsetbg create a new file (see above), or else -read the "configuration" section if this document. - - -(o) i'm a moron who can't be bothered to read your fine and well-written README. - can i email you with my stupid questions? - -don't even think about it. - -#### -### other stuff ### - -xv can be found at: - http://www.trilon.com/xv/downloads.html - -qiv lives at: - http://www.klografx.de/software/qiv.shtml - -xli can be found at: - http://pantransit.reptiles.org/prog/#xli - -display (part of ImageMagick) can be found at: - http://www.imagemagick.org/ - -wmsetbg is a part of the Window Maker window manager. Window Maker can be found at: - http://windowmaker.org/ - -Esetroot is a part of the Enlightenment window manager: - http://enlightenment.org/ - -openbox homepage: - http://FILLMEINNOW/ - -and lastly, bsetbg: - http://lordzork.com/blackbox/ - - -#### -### more other stuff ### - -many thanks are due to: -youngjun han, for the inspiration to do it in the first place -zak johnson, for invaluable suggestions -brad hughes, for help in debugging (not to mention, creating a smashing window -manager) -and last but not least, mycat, mr. man. - -send all comments/suggestions/constructive criticism/blueprints for futuristic -weapons/etc to lordzork@lordzork.com - -bsetbg has only been tested under linux. if it doesn't work on your system, email -me the details and i'll try to fix it. - -copyright (C) 2000 by lordzork industries.