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Changes from version 1.0 to 1.1
-------------------------------
1 - Correction of a few bugs
2 - Add the OpaqueResize flag : similar to OpaqueMove, but redraw the window
you are resizing at each motion event. Extremely resource consuming, but
beautiful with fast server/client/network.
3 - Now if you don't specify any background/foreground/pixmap indication for
the root window, ctwm leave it alone so you can have your own root
background pixmap.
4 - You can now specify on the command line a list of workspaces in which a
new client opens. The syntaxe is :
whatever_client -xrm 'ctwm.workspace: name1 name2 ... namen'
or whatever_client -xrm 'ctwm.workspace: all'
where 'name1', 'name2', ..., 'namen' are names of workspaces and 'all' refers
to all workspaces.
example :
xload -xrm 'ctwm.workspace : all'
5 - Add the OccupyAll command in .ctwmrc, you can now specify at startup a
list of windows that occupy all the workspaces.
example :
OccupyAll {
"xload"
"xconsole"
"xbiff"
}
6 - Add the f.gotoworkspace function. It goes the workspace specified by its
name.
example :
"F1" = : root : f.gotoworkspace "cognac"
Changes from version 1.1 to 1.2
-------------------------------
1 - you can now directly edit workspace names in their buttons. only
printable characters, delete and backspace keys are honored.
2 - Ctwm now handle shaped colored icons in XPM format. This added the
variable XPMIconDirectory, and slightly modified the syntax of the Icons
command. The XPM icon file names should be prefixed by the character '@'
to distinguished them from the ordinary bitmap files.
Example :
XPMIconDirectory "/usr/lib/X11/X11/XPM"
Icons {
"Axe" "@xedit.xpm"
"xterm" "@xterm.xpm"
"xrn" "@xrn.xpm"
"HPterm" "@hpterm.xpm"
"XAlarm" "@datebook.xpm"
"Xman" "@xman.xpm"
}
These above xpm pixmap are given.
3 - Many bugs fixed :
- Icon regions now works.
- the absence of ShowIconManager is taken into account.
- The -iconic flag is honored.
- The -xrm 'ctwm.workspace' works as expected.
- I think that f.warpto[to|ring] works correctly i.e warps.
also to the correct workspace if the destination window
doesn't occupy the current workspace.
- A few minor bugs fixed.
Changes from version 1.2 to 1.3
-------------------------------
1 - Many bugs fixed :
- Partial geometry in the WorkSpaceManagerGeometry statement no longer
cause ctwm to core dump.
- The occupy window name now is "Occupy Window" instead of "Occupy WIndow"
a typo on the uppercase I in window.
- Several types problems that make good compilers to issue warnings.
- The icons of the WorkSpaceManager and Occupy Window windows now behave
correctly with ButtonPress.
- UnknownIcon can now have Xpm icons specified.
- f.showiconmgr no longer map empty icon managers.
- The ctwm process is smaller (even smaller than twm).
2 - Add the Occupy command in .ctwmrc, you can now specify at startup
which window occupy which workspace.
example :
Occupy {
"xload" {"all"}
Window "xterm" {"here" "there" "elsewhere"}
"xv" {"images"}
WorkSpace "images" {"xloadimage"}
}
Changes from version 1.3 to 2.0
-------------------------------
1 - A few bugs fixed :
- Resize at window creation with button2 works.
- Some others i don't remember.
2 - Better support of monochrome displays : video inverse instead of 3d
buttons.
3 - WorkSpaceManager and Occupy Window are now resizable. Don't forget to
verify you have a powerful server before resizing the workspace manager
with OpaqueResize set.
4 - X11R4 support with Imakefile.X11R4 (i didn't try so tell me).
5 - The visibility of the workspace manager is now consistant with the
visibility of the icon managers. This mean that by default the workspace
manager is *NOT* visible at startup. Use the ShowWorkSpaceManager to
make it visible at startup.
6 - Two new functions : f.showworkspacemgr and f.hideworkspacemgr have been
added. They do what you imagine.
7 - And now, the cherry on the cake. The workspace manager has now 2 states,
the button state (the usual one) and the map state (the new one). In the
map state the buttons are replaced by windows displaying a synthetic
view of the corresponding workspaces. All the non-iconified windows of
the workspace are shown as small windows with the icon name written in
it. It looks like the virtual screen of [t]vtwm, but, of course, much
nicer.
In this state, you can modify directly the occupation of your windows by
manipulating these little windows.
- Button1 move a window from a workspace to another.
- Button2 copy a window from a workspace to another.
- Button3 remove a window from a workspace.
Clicking in the "root" of these windows warps you to the corresponding
workspace. Clicking and releasing Button1 or Button2 quickly in a small
window go to the corresponding workspace and warps the pointer to the
corresponding window.
The Control-Key (Press and Release) in workspace manager toggles the
buttons and map state.
Four variables and Three functions manipulates this :
- StartInMapState : The map state is selected at startup, default is
buttons state.
- MapWindowCurrentWorkSpace : The aspect of the current workspace in
the map window.
- MapWindowDefaultWorkSpace : Specify the aspect of the non-current
workspaces in the map window.
- MapWindowBackground :
- MapWindowForeground : Specify the aspect of the small windows in
the map window on a per-client basis.
- f.setbuttonsstate : You can guess.
- f.setmapstate : You can guess.
- f.togglestate : You can guess.
8 - AutoRaise with RaiseDelay. Thanks to Johan Vromans (jv@mh.nl) who gave me
this patch. I think Warren Jessop (whj@cs.washington.edu) wrote it for
twm.
Changes from version 2.0 to 2.1
-------------------------------
1 - Cleanup code to make gcc happy.
2 - Bugs fixed
- IconMaskHint honored.
- Workaround a bug on HP7xx/8.07 servers for RaiseLower in Map window.
The stacking order in the MapWindow was not correct on those servers.
use :
EXTRA_DEFINES = -DBUGGY_HP700_SERVER
in your Imakefile if you plan to use this server. It doesn't break on
others servers.
- No longer core dump if MapWindowCurrentWorkSpace or MapWindowDefault-
WorkSpace are specified before WorkSpaces in .ctwmrc
- Small windows handling in the WorkspaceMap window works even if the
Workspace Manager window has a title (that was not the case with
ctwm-2.0).
- ForceIcon works for Xpm icons.
- Occupation of "transient for" window is correct.
- RestartPreviousState necessary to keep previous window occupation on
restart.
- If a window dies while Occupy Window is mapped, the Occupy Window is
correctly unmapped.
3 - Ctwm now maintains the WM_CURRENTWORKSPACE property on the root window
and WM_OCCUPATION on every windows. They mean what you think. These
properties are string properties and are in clear text instead of an
obscure mask. If an external application changes these properties ctwm
respond with the correct actions, changing the current workspace or the
occupation of a window. I give a small example (gtw.c). An application
can manage its occupation and it is even possible to write an external
workspace manager. It is of course not ICCCM compliant because ICCCM says
nothing on multiple workspaces. The special names "all" and "current" can
be used. And you can specify relative occupations if the workspace names
list begin with a '+' or '-' (ex: +current adds a window to the current
workspace).
4 - 3 new functions :
- f.pin : Pin/Unpin a menu on the screen. Only usable inside a root menu.
- f.vanish : Remove a window from the current workspace. Works only if
the window occupies at least one other workspace.
- f.warphere "win-name" : Adds the window whose name matches win-name to
the current workspace and warps the pointer to it.
5 - And a new keyword : NoShowOccupyAll : tells ctwm not to show OccupyAll
windows in the WorkSpaceMap window.
6 - All window names can now be specified as (shell-like) regular expressions.
Changes from version 2.1 to 2.2
-------------------------------
1 - Bugs :
- Redraw small windows when icon name changes.
- Kill window from the title bar menu
- Partial geometry on Workspace manager can core dump.
- AutoRaise and tiny windows in the Workspace Map.
2 - Transient windows and non group leader windows are now always on the top
of their leader.
3 - When an icon name changes, the icon itself changes automatically according
the Icons list in your .ctwmrc. This is very useful for clients that have
several states. For example xrn or some X mail readers can have two
differents icons for new mail (news) / no new mail (news).
4 - A new keyword : TransientHasOccupation has been added for people annoyed
by the fact that since ctwm-2.1, transient-for non group-leader windows
have the same occupation that their leader. If you specify this, these
windows have their own occupation.
5 - A new keyword : AutoOccupy. If specified, the occupation of a client is
changed automatically when it's name or icon name changes, according to
the Occupy list in your .ctwmrc. For example a mail reader can popup
instantly in the current workspace when mail arrives.
6 - A new keyword : DontPaintRootWindow. If specified, the root window is
not painted, whatever you told in the Workspaces specification. This is
useful to have pixmaps in the Workspace Map but not on the root window.
7 - You can use XPM pixmaps for your background root window. Use xpm:filename
instead of @filename. The latter is still accepted. Of course if your
XPM file has transparent parts, there are not transparent on the root
window, i.e. you dont see the electron gun through it.
8 - XPMIconDirectory is replaced by PixmapDirectory. (XPMIconDirectory is
still accepted).
9 - You can now use colored root background pixmap and icons in many formats.
Ctwm use the imconv library from the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
To use these formats, specify : 'im:filename' for the pixmap name.
- The following format are supported :
bmp Microsoft Windows bitmap image file
cur Microsoft Windows cursor image file
eps Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file
gif Compuserve Graphics image file
hdf Hierarchical Data File
ico Microsoft Windows icon image file
icon Sun Icon and Cursor file
iff Sun TAAC Image File Format
mpnt Apple Macintosh MacPaint file
pbm PBM Portable Bit Map file
pcx ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file
pgm PBM Portable Gray Map file
pic PIXAR picture file
pict Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file
pix Alias image file
ppm PBM Portable Pixel Map file
pnm PBM Portable aNy Map file
ps Adobe PostScript file
ras Sun Rasterfile
rgb SGI RGB image file
rla Wavefront raster image file
rle Utah Run length encoded image file
synu SDSC Synu image file
tga Truevision Targa image file
tiff Tagged image file
viff Khoros Visualization image file
x AVS X image file
xbm X11 bitmap file
xwd X Window System window dump image file
- You can find the imconv package at ftp.sdsc.edu. in the directory
/pub/sdsc/graphics/imtools.
- If (width > screenwidth / 2) || (height > screenheight / 2) the image is
centered else it is tiled.
- If you don't have the libim library or don't want to use it, undefine
IMCONV in Imakefile.
But take care :
- It is very memory consuming (on the server side).
- It is very color cells consuming.
- The ctwm executable is much larger executable.
- Startup is much much slower (but not the workspace swap).
- It works only for 8 planes pixmaps and 8 planes screens. If there is
an imconv specialist somewhere that can generelize this, he is
welcome.
10 - Two new functions : f.nextworkspace, f.prevworkspace.
11 - Xpm examples files are now automatically installed in $(TWMDIR)
12 - An example of .ctwmrc is given, showing some aspect of ctwm
(example.ctwmrc). It is not a complete .ctwmrc, only the ctwm
aspects are shown.
13 - A new file PROBLEMS has been added that lists some problems you
can have while using ctwm and some solutions.
Is there any good pixmap designer out there, that i can add beautiful
icons and background to the distribution. Don't use too many colors,
try to use the same few already used in the example icons.
Changes from version 2.2 to 3.0
-------------------------------
1 - A few bugs fixes.
2 - A 3D presentation of menus, titles and IconManagers can be selected with :
UseThreeDMenus, UseThreeDTitles and UseThreeDIconManagers. If
UseThreeDTitles is set the default values for TitleButtonBorderWidth,
FramePadding, TitlePadding, ButtonIndent are set to 0 pixels. I am not
that proud of the appearance of 3D titles but 3D menus look nice. If
UseThreeDTitles is set the flag SunkFocusWindowTitle tells ctwm to sunk
the title of the window that the focus. 3D features look ugly on
monochrome displays, but I have no such display for testing purpose. If a
monochrome display owner can have a look, he is welcome. The contrast
of the clear and dark shadows can be tuned via the ClearShadowContrast
and DarkShadowContrast parameters. These parameters are percentages.
The formulas used are :
clear.{RGB} = (65535 - color.{RGB}) * (ClearShadowContrast / 100),
dark.{RGB} = color.{RGB} * ((100 - DarkShadowContrast) / 100),
If you choose UseThreeDIconManagers, icon titles are also 3D. By defaults
new colors are allocated for shadows, but you can specify BeNiceToColormap
to inform ctwm to use stipple instead of new colors, the effect is
less beautiful, but acceptable.
3 - A new keyword : NoIconTitle with an optionnal window list.
4 - A new keyword : TransientOnTop with an integer parameter. This
paramater is a percentage and tells ctwm to put transient (and
non-group leader) windows always on top of their leader only if
their surface is smaller than this fraction of the surface of
their leader.
5 - OpaqueMove and OpaqueResize now accept an optionnal list of windows
as parameter. They also have their NoOpaqueMove and NoOpaqueResize
counterpart with the same syntax.
6 - Two new keywords : OpaqueMoveThreshold and OpaqueResizeThreshold
with one integer parameter. The parameter represent a percentage of
the screen surface. If Opaque{Move,Resize} is active for a window,
(via point 4) the opaque {move, resize} is done only if the window
surface is smaller than this percentage of the screen. The default
is large enough.
7 - Startup is optionally piped into m4 before ctwm parse it, ypu can
now have a common startup file for ctwm, tvtwm, etc ... It can be
disabled at compile time by undefining USEM4 in Imakefile. It can
be disabled at execution time by using the -n option. Take care if
you have backquotes (`) in your .ctwmrc file. This character is
special to m4. In that case, put something like :
changequote(,)
changequote(``,'')
at the beginning of your .ctwmrc.
8 - The startup looks nicer (I think). If you use XPM and the file
welcome.xpm is present in your PixmapDirectory, it is displayed
while the startup is in progress. Unfortunately, the PixmapDirectory
is known only after the .ctwmrc is loaded, and this loading is
a large part of the startup time. So you can define the environnement
variable CTWM_WELCOME_FILE to point to an XPM file, in which case
it will be displayed very quickly.
9 - A new function : f.separator, valid only in menus. The effect is to
add a line separator between the previous and the following entry.
The name selector part in the menu is not used. f.separator works
only with conventionnal menus, not with 3D menus.
10 - Thanks to bret@essex.ac.uk, the man page is integrated with the original
twm one, and is of a much better quality.
11 - While moving a window, the position is displayed in a similar way as
the size when resizing.
12 - The info window now display the compile time options of the current
version of ctwm.
13 - You can now specify xpm pixmap title buttons and TitleHighlight.
There is 5 built-in scalable pixmap for buttons, :xpm:menu, :xpm:dot,
:xpm:resize, :xpm:zoom and :xpm:bar.
14 - Ctwm now restarts when receiving signal SIGHUP, so to restart it from
a shell, use : kill -1 the_ctwm_pid
15 - 2 New keywords : WMgrVertButtonIndent and WMgrHorizButtonIndent with
1 parameter, specifying the vertical and horizontal space beetween
buttons in the workspace manager.
16 - Some more xpm files given. Among them several backgrounds.
17 - Ctwm set the property WM_WORKSPACELIST (type STRING) on the root
window, this property contains the null separated list of all the
workspaces. Now the WM_OCCUPATION property on each window is a null
separated list instead of a space separated list, it was wrong since
workspace names can contain spaces. So, the first time you will start
the this version, your windows will show up anywhere.
18 - A new library libctwm.a and an include file ctwm.h are given. The
library contains functions for an external program to have some
control over ctwm. The functions are :
Bool CtwmIsRunning ();
char **CtwmWorkspaces ();
char *CtwmCurrentWorkspace ();
int CtwmChangeWorkspace ();
char **CtwmCurrentOccupation ();
int CtwmSetOccupation ();
int CtwmAddToCurrentWorkspace ();
There is no documentation. A program demolib.c is given to help.
Changes from version 3.0 to 3.1
-------------------------------
1 - Ctwm is moving. You can now have animated images for icons, root backgrounds,
title buttons and focus window title image. This adds one new keyword :
AnimationSpeed, and 4 new function :f.startanimation, f.stopanimation,
f.speedupanimation and f.slowdownanimation. An image name is considered
an animation if it contains the percent (%) character. In which case
ctwm replaces this character by numbers starting a 1, and will play
an animation with all these images. There is only 2 examples : ball%.xpm
suitable for icons, and supman%.xbm suitable for title highlight.
Another example (much more beautiful) can be found in the Mosaic
distribution. There is also one built-in animation for title buttons :
"%xpm:resize", for example :
RightTitleButton "%xpm:resize" = f.resize
2 - Add the WMgrButtonShadowDepth keyword to control the depth of the
shadow of the workspace manager buttons.
3 - The RandomPlacement command has now an optionnal parameter :
"on", "off", "all" or "unmapped".
4 - Three new keywords : ChangeWorkspaceFunction, IconifyFunction and
DeIconifyFunction, the argument is the name of a function that is
executed whenever the corresponding event occurs. Useful for sounds :
ChangeWorkspaceFunction !"cat /users/lecom/sounds/bom.au 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/audio&"
5 - A new keyword : IconJustification with 1 argument, either :"left", "center"
or "right". Tells ctwm how to justify the icon image on the icon title
(if any).
6 - flex is now supported.
7 - The IconRegion keyword now support an optionnal winlist argument.
Thanks to Mike Hoswell (hoswell@ncar.ucar.edu) for adding this.
8 - f.separator now works (does something) with 3D menus.
9 - The format xwd is now accepted for images (icons, background, ...). You
have to prefix the image file name with xwd: to use this format.
If the first character of an image file name is |, the filename is
supposed to be a command that output a xwd image, and it is executed.
For example, to use a gif file, use :
"|(giftoppm | pnmtoxwd) < /users/lecom/images/2010.gif"
10 - A new keyword : MaxIconTitleWidth with an integer argument. If an icon
title is larger than this integer, it is truncated.
11 - A sound extension is supported. To use it you have to define USE_SOUND
in the Imakefile (not defined by default). In order to use this option
you need the rplay package. The documentation for this extension is in
sounds.doc. Warning : this extension is not mine, and I don't use it, so
don't expect a good support if you have problems with it.
12 - A new keyword : NoBorder with a window list argument. These windows
won't have borders. Thanks to J.P. Albers van der Linden
(albers@pasichva.serigate.philips.nl) for this patch.
13 - Ctwm has a new option selectable with the flag -w, if used, ctwm will
not take over the whole screen(s), instead it will create a new window
and manage it. The -w has an optional argument which is a window id
of an existing window, if specified, ctwm will try to manage this window.
This is totally useless, but I like it. The f.adoptwindow function can
be used to capture an existing window into such a captive ctwm. A possible
use of such mode can be to test new configuration file without restarting
ctwm.
14 - Now the welcome file can be of any type understood by ctwm. So
it must be prefixed with its type. The default is xpm:welcome.xpm
if the XPM option is compiled in, else it is xwd:welcome.xwd. You
use for example :
setenv CTWM_WELCOME_FILE "|(giftoppm | pnmtoxwd) < ~/images/2010.gif"
15 - You can now have 3D window borders with the keyword : UseThreeDBorders.
In which case the 3D border witdh is given with : ThreeDBorderWidth.
The default value is 6. The color is BorderColor for the window that has
focus and BorderTileBackground for all others windows. Note : The 3D
borders do not merge very well with squeezed titles, as the top edge
of the window where the title is missing does not get a 3d border.
16 - Now, WindowRing can be specified without argument, in this case all the
windows are in the ring. (Alec Wolman <wolman@blue.cs.washington.edu>)
17 - New keyword : WarpRingOnScreen, if present, tells ctwm that f.warpring
should warp pointer only to windows visible in the current workspace.
Changes from version 3.1 to 3.2
1994-11-13 (or earlier)
-------------------------------
1 - I have considerably reworked the focus handling. So I have probably
introduced some problems.
2 - New keyword : NoIconManagerFocus. Tells ctwm not to set focus on windows
when the pointer is in an IconManager.
3 - new option : -W. Tells ctwm not to display any welcome when starting.
To be used on slow machines.
4 - New keyword : StayUpMenus. Tells ctwm to use stayup menus. These menus
will stay on the screen when ButtonUp, if either the menu has not
yet been entered by the pointer, or the current item is a f.title.
5 - Now ctwm tries to use welcome.xwd instead of welcome.xpm if it exists.
On my machine the ctwm process size went from 2.3MB to 1MB when changing
this. Xpm is very greedy.
6 - New keyword : IconRegionJustification. Tells ctwm how to justify icons
inside their place in the IconRegion. This keyword needs a string
value. The acceptable values are : "left", "center", "right" and "border".
If "border" is given, the justification will be "left" if the icon
region gravity is "west" and "right" if the icon region gravity is "east".
(clever, isn't it)
7 - If you specify the -f filename option, ctwm will first try to load
filename.scrnum, where scrnum is the screen number. If it fails, it will
try to load filename as usual.
8 - TitleButtons can now have different bindings for buttons with the
following syntax :
LeftTitleButton ":xpm:menu" {
Button1 : f.menu "WindowMenu"
Button2 : f.zoom
Button3 : f.hzoom
}
The old syntax is of course accepted.
Patch from Stefan Monnier (Stefan_Monnier@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU).
9 - A lot of new animated title buttons : "%xpm:menu-up", "%xpm:menu-down",
"%xpm:resize-out-top", "%xpm:resize-in-top", "%xpm:resize-out-bot",
"%xpm:resize-in-bot", "%xpm:maze-out", "%xpm:maze-in", "%xpm:zoom-out",
"%xpm:zoom-in" and "%xpm:zoom-inout". From Stefan Monnier
(Stefan_Monnier@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU).
10 - 2 new builtin menus : TwmAllWindows and TwmWorkspaces. Guess what they
do.
11 - You can now bind menus to keys. When a menu is visible, you can
navigate in it with the arrow keys. "Down" or space goes down, "Up"
goes up, "Left" pops down the menu, and "Right" activates the current
entry. The first letter of an entry name activates this entry (the first
one if several entries match). If the first letter is ~ then
Meta-the-second-letter activates it, if this first letter is ^ then
Control-the-second-letter activates it, and if this first letter is space,
then the second letter activates it.
12 - Support for VMS. Patch from Peter Chang (peterc@v2.ph.man.ac.uk).
Completely untested. If you have problems to build on VMS ask
Peter Chang.
13 - New keyword : MoveOffResistance. (idea borrowed to fvwm) : If you set
MoveOffResistance to a positive (n) value, dontmoveoff will only prevent
you from going off the edge if you're within n pixels off the edge. If you
go further, dontmoveoff gives up and lets you go as far as you wish.
f.forcemove still allows you to totally ignore dontmoveoff. A negative value
puts you back into "never moveoff" mode (it's the default).
14 - The files background[1-7].xpm and background9.xpm have been removed from
the distribution. Someone tells me that they are copyrighted. I tried to
contact him in order to join his copyright, but his mail address is invalid.
(desktop-textures@avernus.com). Most of these backgrounds and much more
can be obtained in the AIcons package on ftp.x.org. Particularly in
cl-bgnd/Textures : bg_blu.gif, concrete.gif, marble1.gif, sharks.gif
bg_grn.gif, granite_dark.gif, marble2.gif, snails.gif, coarse.gif,
granite_light.gif and pool.gif.
15 - New keyword : BorderResizeCursors with no parameter. If used ctwm
will put nice cursors when the cursor in on the window borders.
To be used when you have bound a button to f.resize in the frame context.
16 - The xpm files are now installed in $(TWMDIR)/images instead of $(TWMDIR).
17 - Due to the many problems I had with signals being slightly different
on different systems, I rewrote the animation handling without using
signals anymore. I hope it is more portable. The old code is still
available if you define USE_SIGNALS.
Changes from version 3.2 to 3.3
1995-02-11 (or earlier)
-------------------------------
1 - Better 3D borders with SqueezeTitle.
2 - New keywords : BorderShadowDepth, TitleButtonShadowDepth,
TitleShadowDepth, MenuShadowDepth and IconManagerShadowDepth. You can
modify the depth of the 3D shadow of all the objects.
3 - f.altcontext. a new context named "alter" is introduced. The next key
or button event after a call to f.altcontext will be interpreted using
the alternate context. To define bindings in the alternate context, use
the keyword alter in the context field of the binding command.
4 - f.altkeymap. Up to 5 alternate modifiers (a1 to a5). The next key
or button event after a call to f.altkeymap will be interpreted with
this alternate modifies set. To define bindings with an alternate
modifier, use the keyword 'a' followed by the number of the modifier in
the modifier field of the binding command. Only the root, window, icon
and iconmgr context are allowed when an alternate modified is used.
5 - Default menu entry : If a menu entry name begins with a '*' (star),
this star won't be displayed and the corresponding entry will be the
default entry for this menu. When a menu has a default entry and is used
as a pull-right in another menu, this default entry action will be executed
automatically when this submenu is selected without beeing displayed.
It's hard to explain, but easy to understand.
6 - New keywords : ReallyMoveInWorkspaceManager and
AlwaysShowWindowWhenMovingFromWorkspaceManager.
ReallyMoveInWorkspaceManager tells ctwm to move the actual window when
the user is moving the small windows in the WorkSpaceMap window.
AlwaysShowWindowWhenMovingFromWorkspaceManager tells ctwm to always
map the actual window during the move, regardless of whether it crosses
the current workspace or not. The Shift key toggles this behaviour.
7 - 4 new functions :f.rightworkspace, f.leftworkspace, f.upworkspace
and f.downworkspace. Do what you expect.
8 - The function f.raiseicons (from Rickard Westman <ricwe@ida.liu.se>).
Raises all icons.
9 - A new keyword : IconRegionAlignement. Like IconRegionJustification
but align vertically. The parameter is "top", "center", "bottom" or
"border".
10 - f.addtoworkspace, f.removefromworkspace and f.toggleoccupation. (idea
from Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@linus.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>). They
take one argument that is a workspace name. When applied to a window,
they add to, remove from, or toggle the occupation of this window in
this workspace.
11 - AlwaysOnTop (from Stefan Monnier <monnier@di.epfl.ch>). Accept a list
of windows as argument. Ctwm will do it's best to keep these windows
on top of the screen. Not perfect.
12 - f.movepack, f.movepush, MovePackResistance. f.movepack is like f.move,
but it tries to avoid overlapping of windows on the screen. When the
moving window begin to overlap with another window, the move is stopped.
If you go too far over the other window (more that MovePackResistance
pixels), the move is resumed and the moving window can overlap with
the other window. Useful to pack windows closely. Instead of stopping
the move, f.movepush tries to push the other window to avoid overlap.
f.movepush is here mainly because I found it amusing to do it. Is is
not very useful.
13 - TitleJustification : Takes one string argument : "left", "center", or
"right". Tells ctwm how to justify the window titles.
14 - UseThreeDWMap : Tells ctwm to use 3D decorations for the small windows
in the workspace map.
15 - ReverseCurrentWorkspace : Tells ctwm to reverse the background and
foreground colors in the small windows in the workspace map for the
current workspace.
16 - DontWarpCursorInWMap : Tells ctwm not to warp the cursor to the
corresponding actual window when you click in a small window in the
workspace map.
17 - If there is neither MapWindowBackground, nor MapWindowForeground in the
config file,the window title colors are used for the small windows in the
workspace map.
Changes from version 3.3 to 3.4
1996-09-14 (or earlier)
-------------------------------
1 - 2 new keywords : XMoveGrid and YMoveGrid with an integer parameter.
Constrains window moves so that its x and y coordinates are multiple
of the specified values. Useful to align windows easily.
2 - New function : f.deleteordestroy. First tries to delete the window
(send it WM_DELETE_WINDOW message), or kills it, if the client doesn't
accept such message.
3 - New function : f.squeeze. It squeezes a window to a null vertical
size. Works only for windows with either a title, or a 3D border
(in order to have something left on the screen). If the window is
already squeezed, it is unsqueezed.
4 - New built-in title button : :xpm:vbar (a vertical bar).
5 - CenterFeedbackWindow : The moving and resizing information window
is centered in the middle of the screen instead of the top left
corner.
6 - 2 New options :
-version : Ctwm just prints its version number and exits.
-info : Ctwm prints its detailed version and compile time
options.
7 - WarpToDefaultMenuEntry (Useful only with StayUpMenus) : When using
StayUpMenus, and a menu does stays up, the pointer is warped to
the default entry of the menu. Try it. Can emulate double click.
For example :
Button2 = : icon : f.menu "iconmenu"
menu "iconmenu" {
"Actions" f.title
"" f.separator
"*Restore" f.iconify
"Move" f.move
"Squeeze" f.squeeze
"Occupy ..." f.occupy
"Occupy All" f.occupyall
"" f.separator
"Delete" f.deleteordestroy
}
will result in DoubleButton2 on an icon uniconifies it.
8 - When you popup a menu that is constrained by the border of the screen
the pointer is warped to the first entry. (Avoid exiting ctwm when you
just want to refresh the screen).
9 - When compiled with X11R6 defined, ctwm supports ICE session management.
(the code has been stolen directly from the X11R6 twm, it has not been
thoroughly tested, humm... actually, not tested at all).
10 - SchrinkIconTitles : A la Motif schrinking of icon titles, and expansion
when mouse is inside icon.
11 - AutoRaiseIcons : Icons are raised when the cursor enters it. Useful
with SchrinkIconTitles.
Patches from Matt Wormley <mwormley@airship.ardfa.calpoly.edu>
------------------
12 - XPM files for title bars or buttons may include the following symbolic
colors. These symbolic colors allow the possiblity of using the same
3d XPM file with different colors for different titlebars.
Background: The main color to be used by the title bar
HiShadow: The color to be used as the highlight
LoShadow: The color to be used as the dark shadow.
Using these colors, I have built some 3d XPM files for various
titlebars while still keeping the ability to change titlebar colors.
13 - Added a keyword to the .ctwmrc file: "UseSunkTitlePixmap". This
makes it so the shadows are inversed for title pixmaps when focus is
lost. This is similar to having the SunkFocusWindowTitle, but it
makes your 3d XPM sink instead of just the whole bar.
14 - Added 3 new builtin 3d buttons for "Iconify", "Resize" and "Box". They
are available with the :xpm: identifier in the .ctwmrc file.
15 - Added another keyword to the .ctwmrc file: "WorkSpaceFont". This
allows you to specify the font to use in the workspace manager.
16 - 8 new xpm pixmaps for buttons, title highlite, etc... :
3dcircle.xpm 3ddimple.xpm 3ddot.xpm 3dfeet.xpm 3dleopard.xpm 3dpie.xpm
3dpyramid.xpm 3dslant.xpm
------------------
Patches from Scott Bolte <scottb@cirque.moneng.mei.com>
------------------
17 - 2 new functions : f.forwmapiconmgr and f.backmapiconmgr, similar to
f.forwiconmgr and f.backiconmgr but only stops on mapped windows.
------------------
18 - Last minute : PixmapDirectory now accept a colon separated list of
directories.
19 - If you use m4, ctwm now defines TWM_VERSION which is the version in
the form of floating point (e.g. 3.4).
20 - I forgot to tell that IconRegion has now 3 more optionnal parameters
iconjust, iconregjust and iconregalign. That can be used to give
special values to IconJustification, IconRegionJustification and
IconRegionAlignement for this IconRegion. The new syntax is :
IconRegion geomstring vgrav hgrav gridwidth gridheight [iconjust] [iconregjust] \
[iconregalign] [{ win-list }]
Changes from version 3.4 to 3.5
1997-11-27 (or earlier)
-------------------------------
1 - f.pack direction
Where direction is either : "right", "left", "top" or "bottom"
The current window is moved in the specified direction until it reaches
an obstacle (either another window, or the screen border). The pointer
follows the window. Example :
"Right" = m : window : f.pack "right"
"Left" = m : window : f.pack "left"
"Up" = m : window : f.pack "top"
"Down" = m : window : f.pack "bottom"
2 - f.fill direction
Where direction is either : "right", "left", "top" or "bottom"
The current window is resized in the specified direction until it
reaches an obstacle (either another window, or the screen border).
"Right" = s|m : window : f.fill "right"
"Left" = s|m : window : f.fill "left"
"Up" = s|m : window : f.fill "top"
"Down" = s|m : window : f.fill "bottom"
3 - f.savegeometry
The geometry of the current window is saved. The next call to
f.restoregeometry will restore this window to this geometry.
4 - f.restoregeometry
Restore the current window geometry to what was saved in the last
call to f.savegeometry.
5 - ShortAllWindowsMenus
Don't show WorkSpaceManager and IconManagers in the TwmWindows and
TwmAllWindows menus.
6 - f.toggleworkspacemgr
Toggle the presence of the WorkSpaceManager. If it is mapped, it will
be unmapped and vice verça.
7 - OpenWindowTimeout number
number is an integer representing a number of second. When a window
tries to open on an unattended display, it will be automatically
mapped after this number of seconds.
8 - DontSetInactive { win-list }
These windows won't be set to InactiveState when they become invisible
due to a change workspace. This has been added because some ill-behaved
clients (Frame5) don't like this.
9 - UnmapByMovingFarAway { win-list }
These windows will be moved out of the screen instead of beeing
unmapped when they become invisible due to a change workspace. This has
been added because some ill-behaved clients (Frame5) don't like to be
unmapped. Use this if point 8 doesn't work.
10 - AutoSqueeze { win-list }
These windows will be auto-squeezed. i.e. automatically unsqueezed when
they get focus, and squeezed when they loose it. Useful for the
workspace manager. (Note, it is not possible to AutoSqueeze icon managers).
11 - StartSqueezed { win-list }
These windows will first show up squeezed.
12 - RaiseWhenAutoUnSqueeze
Windows are raised when auto-unsqueezed.
13 - Now if the string "$currentworkspace" is present inside the string
argument of f.exec, it will be substituated with the current workspace
name. So it is possible to do something like :
f.exec "someclient -xrm ctwm.workspace:$currentworkspace&"
and the client will popus up in the workspace where the command was
started even if you go elsewhere before it actually shows up.
14 - Fixes the VMS version. From Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
<levitte@lp.se>.
15 - Better I18N. From Toshiya Yasukawa <t-yasuka@dd.iij4u.or.jp>. (Define
I18N in Imakefile to activate it).
16 - Better Session Management interface. Patches from Matthew McNeill
<M.R.McNeill@durham.ac.uk>.
17 - new flag : -name, useful only for captive Ctwm. Sets the name of the
captive root window. Useful too for next point. If no name is specified
ctwm-n is used, where n is a number automatically generated.
18 - Two new client resources are now handled by Ctwm :
ctwm.redirect: <captive_ctwm_name>
The new client window is open in the captive Ctwm with name :
<captive_ctwm_name>.
ctwm.rootWindow: <window_id>
The new client window is reparented into <window_id> (whaa!!!).
It is up to you to find any usefullness to this.
19 - If the string "$redirect" is present inside the string
argument of f.exec, it will be substituated with a redirection
to the current captive Ctwm if any (or nothing if in a main Ctwm).
So it is possible to do something like :
f.exec "someclient $redirect&"
and the client will popus up in the right captive Ctwm.
20 - New function f.hypermove. With it, you can drag and drop a window
between 2 captives Ctwm (or between a captive and the root Ctwm).
21 - 2 new m4 variables defined in your startup file :
TWM_CAPTIVE : value "Yes" if Ctwm is captive, "No" else.
TWM_CAPTIVE_NAME : The name of the captive Ctwm, if captive.
22 - RaiseOnClick : if present a window will be raised on top of others
when clicked on, and the ButtonPress event will be correctly forwarded
to the client that owns this window (if it asked to).
RaiseOnClickButton <n> : Button number to use for RaiseOnClick.
23 - IgnoreLockModifier : if present, all bindings (buttons and keys) will
ignore the LockMask. Useful if you often use caps lock, and don't
want to define twice all your bindings.
24 - AutoFocusToTransients
Transient windows get focus automatically when created. Useful with
programs that have keyboard shortcuts that pop up windows.
(patch from Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>).
25 - PackNewWindows
Use f.movepack algorithm instead of f.move when opening a new window.
Changes from version 3.5 to 3.5.1
1999-05-02 (or earlier)
---------------------------------
1 - f.initsize : resets a window to its initial size given by the
WM_NORMAL_HINTS hints.
2 - f.ring : Selects a window and adds it to the WarpRing, or removes it if
it was already in the ring. This command makes f.warpring much more
useful, by making its configuration dynamic (thanks to Philip Kizer
<pckizer@tamu.edu>).
3 - f.jumpleft, f.jumpright, f.jumpup, f.jumpdown : takes one integer
argument (the step). These function are designed to be bound to keys,
they move the current window (step * {X,Y}MoveGrid) pixels in the
corresponding direction. stopping when the window encounters another
window (ala f.pack).
Changes from version 3.5.1 to 3.5.2
1999-09-10 (or earlier)
-----------------------------------
1 - f.moveresize : Takes one string argument which is a geometry with the
standard X geometry syntax (e.g. 200x300+150-0). Sets the current
window to the specified geometry. The width and height are to be given
in pixel, no base size or resize increment are used.
2 - AutoLower et f.autolower : from Kai Großjohann
(Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE). Same as autoraise but with lower.
3 - WindowRingExclude : Takes a window list as argument. All listed windows
will be excluded from the WarpRing.
4 - A new menu : 'TwmIcons' same as 'TwmWindows', but shows only iconified
windows. I did this when I got bored of having icons. Now I have no
icons and no icon managers. I use this menu to deiconify windows.
When I was young, I liked to have brightly colored icons, but now that
I am getting old(er), I prefer a bare desktop.
Changes from version 3.5.2 to 3.6
2002-08-08 (or earlier)
---------------------------------
1 - Fix line numbers for errors when using m4 preprocessor. Send thanks
to Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>.
2 - Fix the way menu entries are selected with the keyboard. Now
when you type a letter, the pointer moves to the next entry
whose first letter is this letter, but does not activate it.
The new keyword IgnoreCaseInMenuSelection, can be used to
ignore case for this delection.
3 - New keyword : DontSave, Takes a window list as argument. All listed
windows won't have their characteristics saved for the session manager.
Patch from Matthias Baake <Matthias.Baake@gmx.de>
4 - Also from Matthias Baake <Matthias.Baake@gmx.de>. I let him speak :
With the new keywords BorderLeft, BorderRight, BorderBottom and BorderTop
(each of them is optional with a default value of 0 and takes a
nonnegative integer as argument) you can declare a border "off limits" for
f.move etc.. These borders act the same way as the real borders of the
screen when moving windows; you can use f.forcemove to override them.
5 - Sloppy Focus added with keyword "SloppyFocus" in configuration file
(DINH V. Hoa <dinh@enserb.fr>).
6 - the keyword "ClickToFocus" has been correctly implemented
(DINH V. Hoa <dinh@enserb.fr>).
7 - the keyword "IgnoreModifier" has been added,
to use this feature, you have to add a line
"IgnoreModifier { lock m2 }" in the configuration file.
All bindings (buttons and keys) will ignore the modifiers
you specified. It is useful when you use caps locks or
num locks. You don't need IgnoreLockModifier any more with this option.
(DINH V. Hoa <dinh@enserb.fr>).
8 - New keyword : WindowBox : creates a new window called a box, where
all the client windows that match the windows list are opened in,
instead of the roor window. This is useful to group small windows
in the same box (xload for instance) :
WindowBox "xloadbox" "320x100+0-0" {
"xload"
}
9 - New function : f.fittocontent. Can be used only with window boxes.
The result is to have the box have the minimal size that contains
all its children windows.
10 - New keyword : WindowGeometries. Used to give a default geometry to some
clients :
WindowGeometries {
"Mozilla*" "1000x800+10+10"
"jpilot*" "800x600-0-0"
}
11 - New keyword : IconMenuDontShow. Don't show the name of these windows
in the TwmIcons menu.
And, as usual, a few bug fixes here and there.
Changes from version 3.6 to 3.7
2005-07-19
-------------------------------
1 - Workspace context (bkctwmws.patch)
Makes it possible to bind keys specific to the workspace manager
(by Björn Knutsson). Use the event context 'workspace' for this.
2 - New keyword : AlwaysSqueezeToGravity
If it is enabled, window squeezing always follows window gravity
(instead of northward when the window has a title).
(by Rudolph T. Maceyko).
3 - TwmKeys and TwmVisible menus (dlctwmmenu.patch) :
Adds TwmKeys (rootmenu listing all keybindings) and TWM Visible (rootmenu
showing only deiconified windows) (by Dan Lilliehorn).
4 - Preliminary GNOME compliance (see README.gnome and TODO.gnome)
(by Nathan Dushman).
5 - IconifyStyle : "normal" "mosaic" "zoomin" "zoomout" "sweep"
A few 'fancy' graphical effects when you iconify windows, just for fun.
6 - Jpeg images support : You can now use jpeg image files wherever you
can use images. Use the jpeg:imagename syntaxe.
7 - f.showbackground.
Since we can now use fancy jpeg image for root backgrounds, this function
unmaps all windows in the current workspace. This is a toggle function,
if all windows are unmapped, they are all remapped. Better bind this
function in the root context.
8 - Preliminary support for Xinerama extention. You can define 'virtual'
screens (it's better if they correspond to you actual screens). The
thing is that you can see several workspaces at the sams time, one per
virtual screen. Of course, you cannot view the same workspace (or the
same window) in 2 vscreens at the same time. The syntax is :
VirtualScreens {
"1280x1024+0+0"
"1600x1200+1280+0"
}
for 2 screens, the first one (on the left) is 1280x1024, the second one
(on the right) is 1600x1200.
This is preliminary, because this has not been extensively tested. I did
this because I have now 2 screens, but I was unable to get them working
properly, so I use only one.
[ At this point, Claude has stopped working on CTWM, and the project
is now in the hands of Richard Levitte <richard@levitte.org>. ]
9 - Changed Imakefile to support a distribution target.
10 - Changed :xpm:cross to become a bit larger and have a slightly more
3D appearance, and is visible even in very dark configurations.
11 - Make AlwaysSqueezeToGravity to work for all windows (if no window
list is given).
12 - New keyword: NoImagesInWorkSpaceManager
If it's enabled, background images aren't displayed in the workspace
map.
This was contributed by Thomas Linden.
13 - New command line option: -cfgchk
If used, CTWM will only parse the configuration file and indicate
if it found errors or not.
This was contributed by Matthew D. Fuller.
14 - DontMoveOff patch (by Björn Knutsson)
Change the behavior of DontMoveOff/MoveOffResistance so that
when you attempt to move a window off screen, it will not move
at all until it's been moved #MoveOffResistance pixels (as
before), but at this time it will no longer "snap", but
instead it will start moving off screen. This means that you
still have the old behavior of DontMoveOff, but now with the
ability to move a window off screen less that
#MoveOffResistance pixels.
15 - Random placement and DontMoveOff patch (by Björn Knutsson, changed)
When random placement was used, DontMoveOff wasn't honored.
This behavior has now changed so a window will be kept within
the screen when at all possible. When the window is too
large, it's top or left edge (or both) will be placed in
coordinate 0.
This change differs a little bit from Björns contribution by
not using rand() at all.
16 - f.warpring patch (by Björn Knutsson)
If IconManagerFocus is set, there's no reason why the icon
manager should get enter and leave events. This fixes some
disturbing in the warpring that would otherwise happen.
17 - f.movetoprevworkspace,
f.movetonextworkspace,
f.movetoprevworkspaceandfollow,
f.movetonextworkspaceandfollow patch (by Daniel Holmström)
Makes it possible to move a window to the previous or next
workspace and, if you like, go to that workspace and focus
the moved window.
18 - f.fill "vertical" patch (by Daniel Holmström)
Expands the window vertically without overlapping any other window,
much like { f.fill "top" f.fill "bottom" } but with the exception
that it doesn't expand over window borders. It also sets the
windows 'zoomed' to F_FULLZOOM, so one can toggle between this
size, original and maximized.
19 - RESIZEKEEPSFOCUS bugfix patch (by Daniel Holmström)
If a window is maximized with togglemaximize and then restored
it might loose focus if the cursor is outside the restored window.
This hack puts the cursor at the left-top corner of the window.
20 - f.zoom bugfix patch (by Daniel Holmström)
f.zoom now doesn't move the window up (as it sometimes did before)
21 - IgnoreTransient patch (by Peter Berg Larsen)
New keyword with list of windows for which to ignore transients.
22 - Workspace switch peformance optimization (by MC)
Stops ctwm from redrawing windows that occupy all workspaces when
switching from one workspace to another.
23 - GTK "group leader" bugfix (by Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert)
Makes ctwm aware of the mysterious GTK group leader windows.
24 - Resize cursor with non-3D-borders bugfix (by Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert)
BorderResizeCursors now works also for top and left borders when
non-3D-borders are used.
25 - Memory leak bugfix (by Simon Burge)
GetWMPropertyString in util.c no longer leaks memory.
26 - Warpring bugfix (by Takahashi Youichirou)
Solves these two problems when warping the pointer to the
next/previous mapped window:
o Sometimes the pointer moved right too much and ended up outside
the title bar.
o When the active window was closed and the pointer ended up on the
root window, the pointer wouldn't warp until moved with the mouse.
27 - NoWarpToMenuTitle patch (by Julian Coleman)
Fixes the sometimes annoying feature that the cursor is warped to the
menu title if the menu won't fit on the screen below the current
pointer position.
This patch introduces a new keyword "NoWarpToMenuTitle" keyword to
turn this off.
28 - Scr->workSpaceMgr.windowFont font init bugfix (by Martin Stjernholm)
The Scr->workSpaceMgr.windowFont in workmgr.c is now initialized.
29 - Full GNU regex patch (by Claude Lecommandeur)
It is now possible to use full GNU regex for window or class names by
defining USE_GNU_REGEX in Imakefile. It is disabled in the default
Imakefile.
30 - DontToggleWorkSpaceManagerState patch (by Dan 'dl' Lilliehorn)
New keyword to turn off the feature toggling the workspace manager
state to/from map/button state when you press ctrl and the workspace
manager window is in focus.
31 - TWMAllIcons patch (by Dan 'dl' Lilliehorn)
Adds the TWMAllIcons menu, listing all iconified windows on all
workspaces.
32 - f.changesize patch (by Dan 'dl' Lilliehorn)
Adds the function f.changesize which allows you to change the size
of the focused window via menus and keybindings.
Example:
"Down" = c|s: all : f.changesize "bottom +10"
33 - f.changesize bugfix and improvement (by Dan 'dl' Lilliehorn)
Fixes focusproblems with f.changesize and adds the ability to set
a new fixed size of a window.
Example:
"F1" = c|s: all : f.changesize "640x480"
34 - When crashing, ctwm now refers to ctwm-bugs@free.lp.se instead of
Claude.Lecommandeur@epfl.ch.
35 - Changed all the code to use ANSI C prototypes instead of the old
K&R style.
[Richard Levitte]
36 - Only use the DefaultFunction if no function was found.
[Richard Levitte]
37 - Correct DontMoveOff
The DontMoveOff checks when calculating random placement
wasn't satisfactory. It ended up placing all windows that
were small enough to fit in a random place at +50+50 with no
exception. The behavior has now been changed to only apply
to very large windows (almost as large as or larger than the
screen). At the same time, the RandomPlacement algorithm and
the DonMoveOff checks have been tweaked to keep the title
height in mind, so centering and coordinates correspond to the
realities of the rest of CTWM.
[Richard Levitte]
38 - Correct resizing from menu
Choosing resize from the menu when not having 3D borders moved
the target window down and right by a border width. This was
an error in window position calculations.
[Richard Levitte]
39 - Enhanced info window
Added the outer geometry. Added the 3D border width.
[Richard Levitte]
40 - Restart on subsequent SIGHUPs
Reworked the code that catches a SIGHUP and has ctwm restart as
a result. The restarting code has moved from Restart() to the new
DoRestart(). Restart() now only sets a flag, and CtwmNextEvent()
has been changed to react to that flag and call DoRestart(). From
now on, CtwmNextEvent() is always used to get the next event, even
when no animations are going on.
[Richard Levitte]
41 - A number of VMS-related changes
DEC/HP PC is a bit picky, the X11 environment is a little bit
different, and there were some sign/unsigned conflicts and one
too large symbol (the VMS linker truncates anything beyond the
31 first characters of any symbol name), so some tweaks were
needed to get CTWM to build cleanly on VMS.
[Richard Levitte]
42 - Allow gcc users to build with paranoia
To make it easier to find possible problems, the Imakefile macro
GCC_PEDANTIC can be defined in Imakefile.local.
[Richard Levitte]
43 - Allow spaces in sound files.
The .ctwm-sounds file parser would clip sound files at the first
spaces. That won't do for sound libraries where file names may
have spaces in them. The parser now accepts spaces in file names,
and will trim spaces from the beginning and the end of both file
names and event tokens, allowing for a slightly more flexible
format.
[Richard Levitte]
44 - ctwm.spec
Added a specification file for RPM building.
[Richard Levitte]
45 - More info for m4
The m4 subprocess now gets the variable PIXMAP_DIRECTORY, which
is defined to the directory where the pixmaps are installed, and
the new flags IMCONV, GNOME, SOUNDS, SESSION and I18N.
[Richard Levitte]
46 - Document sounds
The sounds system is now documented in the man page.
[Richard Levitte]
47 - Build RPMs
Added the target "rpm" to build an RPM directly from a distribution
tarball.
[Richard Levitte]
48 - Make life easier for package builders
Added the possibility to configure where some libraries can be found
through the use of USER_* make variables in Imakefile.local. Added
a lot more commentary in Imakefile.local-template.
[Richard Levitte]
49 - Make it easier to configure on VMS
Moved all the configuration definitions to descrip.local-template,
and instruct the users to copy that file to descrip.local and make
all needed changes there.
[Richard Levitte]
50 - Changed all relevant occurences of levitte@lp.se to
richard@levitte.org.
[Richard Levitte]
Changes from version 3.7 to 3.8
2007-02-16
-------------------------------
1 - Global cleanup
There were some variables shadowing others, things not being
safely initialized, that sort of thing.
[Richard Levitte]
2 - Fixed several memory leaks found by
"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
3 - Merged in the f.movetitlebar command. By default this is bound to
alt-left-click in the titlebar.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
4 - Fixed the following issues:
Poking at the code, it looks like InitVirtualScreens() is called
before the configuration file is parsed which would explain what
I see since there's no attempt to create them after the config
file read.
Moving the call after the config parsing causes things to work.
I've run into a few other issues that I fixed with the attached
patch:
- shadow menus on the right screen open the shadow on
the left screen
- shadow menus on the left screen open on top of the
window
- windows on the right screen disappear after startup
[Todd Kover]
5 - Adjustments to ctwm.man:
I noticed a couple of small errors.
One is that the window list arguments for the opaque
keywords are now optional, are listed with square brackets
in the man page. The other is that the two Threshold
keywords are shown in the man page as requiring curly-
brackets, but they are not required or accepted in
configuration files.
[Ross Combs]
6 - improve algoritm to deal with mismatched geometry of virtual
screens
- allow windows to be dragged from one virtual screen to another and
have them switch workspaces appropriately
- handle restarts properly with virtual screens, including preserving
where windows were placed within workspaces regardless of which
virtual screen a window was on; preserve across restarts
[Todd Kover]
7 - WMapCreateCurrentBackGround() and WMapCreateDefaultBackGround()
would skip remaining virtual screens if not all parameters are present.
- small type errors. [Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert].
8 - There were some directives in the config file that wanted to set some
setting for all virtual screens. However since that list is (now) only
set up after parsing the config file, they failed to work. Moreover,
these settings were basically meant to be global to all virtual
screens, so a better place for them is somewhere in *Scr. They all
related to the Workspace Manager, so I moved them from struct
WorkSpaceWindow to struct WorkSpaceMgr.
The affected directives are StartInMapState, WMgrVertButtonIndent,
WMgrHorizButtonIndent, MapWindowCurrentWorkSpace,
MapWindowDefaultWorkSpace. The window and icon_name, even though not
user-settable, were also moved.
This is basically change #7 above done right.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
9 - Re-introduced TwmWindow.oldvs, used to avoid calling
XReparentWindow() when possibe (it messed up the stacking order
of windows). However, maybe the use of .vs should be rethought a
bit: in Vanish() it is now set to NULL with the old value kept
in .oldvs. However the window is still a child of the same vs.
Maybe it is better not to set it to NULL and then, when *really*
changing the virtual screen, .vs can be used instead of .oldvs.
This whole "virtual screen" thing is unexplained in the manual,
which even uses it as a synonym for "workspace" already in the
introduction paragraph. (There also does not seem to be a way
now to test virtual screens in captive windows) I suspect that
all this causes lots of confusion, and when cleared up, can
simplify the code a lot.
I also fixed up the horrible indentation in the functions
where I changed something.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
10 - Fixed interaction between "inner" and "outer" workspace
selection with "captive" windows. This was because the Gnome
"_WIN_WORKSPACE" property is used in 2 conflicting ways: for
client windows it indicates which workspace they are in, for
root windows it indicates which workspace they show. Captive
windows are both. Also, the initially selected inner workspace
is now the first, not the same as the outer workspace (this had
a different cause).
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
11 - Introduce Scr->XineramaRoot to store the root window that
encompasses all virtual screen rootwindows. This further reduces
any need to use RealRoot and/or CaptiveRoot.
Add a schematic drawing that clarifies the relation between the
various root-type windows.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
12 - Get rid of all non-locale code and make I18N the silent default
(doesn't have to be mentioned any more).
THIS WILL BREAK CTWM ON OLDER (PRE-LOCALE) ENVIRONMENTS.
I strongly recommend an upgrade to "post-locale" standards.
[Richard Levitte]
13 - Enhance RandomPlacement with a displacement argument, so the
pseudo-radomness can be of displacements other than +30+30.
Here's an example for a pretty funky displacement:
RandomPlacement "on" "-30-100"
[Richard Levitte]
14 - Extend the Info window with the geometry seen from the lower
right corner as well.
[Richard Levitte]
15 - Extend the pointer button specification for title buttons
to take modifiers.
As part of this change, the following title pointer button
specification is deprecated:
Button {j} : {function}
in favor of the following, for consistency:
Button {j} = {function}
The old way still works, but is considered bad form and will
be removed in ctwm 4.0.
[Richard Levitte]
16 - Fix position of buttons in Occupy window, to make them centered.
(and spread the remaining space evenly in 4).
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
17 - "TwmWindow.group" was once apparently set to 0 when a window had
no group leader but this was changed to pointing to its own
window. This resulted however in many places checking for both
conditions, and several checking only for 0 which could not
occur anymore. Changed it back to 0 (so we can now distinguish
again windows that really indicate themselves as group leader,
if we wish) and this gave rise to some simplifications.
Also, there were various loops through all TwmWindows looking
for a group leader (or a transientfor), I replaced them with
GetTwmWindow() which uses the Xlib function XFindContext() which
uses a hash table lookup. This should be more efficient.
When you change the occupation of a group member window, it is
now applied to the group leader (which in turn affects all
members).
I tried this with ExMH, the only program that uses a real group
leader that I could find. Iconifying the leader unmaps the
members. What should "squeezing" do? ExMH also has an icon
window (see ICCCM 4.1.9, 3rd option) which behaves weirdly; this
may be a bug in ExMH (see exmh-2.7.2/exmh.BUGS) even though fvwm
somehow handles it better.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
18 - When Squeezing a window group leader, unmap the member windows,
just like happens with iconification.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
19 - Simplifications c.q. de-duplications of code regarding the
WorkSpaceManager and Occupation windows. This includes coding
the layout of these windows only once instead of twice (at
initialisation and when resizing). If it's wrong now at least it
should be consistent.
When changing occupation via functions like
f.movetonextworkspace, also move complete window groups (just
like when you do it via the Occupation window).
Also fixed changing the occupation of the Occupation window.
Documented (so far) undocumented possibility to edit the labels
of workspaces on the fly (what use this is, I'm not sure).
Removed some unused variables.
[Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert]
20 - Get rid of the USE_SESSION and X11R6 macros and make them the
silent default. Also cleaned out a few references to the macro
X11R4, which hasn't been used for ages.
THIS WILL BREAK CTWM ON OLDER (PRE-X11R6) ENVIRONMENTS.
I strongly recommend an upgrade to a newer X11 release.
[Richard Levitte]
21 - Modified the random placement so a negative X displacement has
the first "random" window start near the right edge instead of
the right and a negative Y displacement has the first "random"
window start near the bottom edge instead of the top.
[Richard Levitte]
Changes from version 3.8 to 3.8.1
2012-01-05
---------------------------------
1 - Fix bug causing [de]iconified status of windows to not be
maintained across workspaces.
[Matthew Fuller]
2 - Quite a bunch of compiler warnings.
[Matthew Fuller]
3 - Make sure we fully initialize our WorkSpaceWindow structure so
we don't try to dereference uninitialized pointers later on.
[Matthew Fuller]
4 - Increased the number of supported mouse buttons again, having
just heard of a mouse with 9 possible buttons...
[Richard Levitte]
5 - Fix a bug in the warping "next" function, where if there is a
single window and the cursor is not on it, invoking 'f.warpring
"next"' does nothing.
[Martin Blais]
6 - Introduce a new feature called "SaveWorkspaceFocus", which when
enabled, makes ctwm remember which window has the focus within
each virtual workspace. As you switch workspaces, the cursor is
automatically warped to the window previous in focus in the
workspace. This significantly reduces the amount of mouse use.
[Martin Blais]
7 - From Matthias Kretschmer <kretschm@cs.uni-bonn.de>:
f.fill patch.
Without the patch, you might get windows which are increased by
two times the border width more than it should be. Additionally
if you place a window with no/not much size contrainst like
firefox in the upper left corner and perform f.fill "top" or
f.fill "left" the size of the window will increase by two times
the border width in width and height without changing the
top-left coordinate without the patch. Of course in such a
situation the size should not change at all...
[via Olaf Seibert]
Changes from version 3.8.1 to 3.8.2
2014-??-??
-----------------------------------
1 - Various code cleanups.
Cleanup re: raising and warping to windows (previous location of
pointer in windows), SaveWorkspaceFocus. A few extra NULL
pointer checks.
Logical hasfocusvisible cleanup.
Rename TwmWindow.list to iconmanagerlist, and various smaller
cleanups.
Eliminated TwmWindow TwmRoot from struct ScreenInfo. Mostly a
mechanical change.
I found some cases where the dummy TwmWindow was apparently
mistakenly included in a loop. Replaced .next with TwmWindow
*FirstWindow and .cmaps witn Colormaps RootColormaps. Other
members were not used.
2 - Fix a bug where insufficient validation of the size hints
resulted in a division by zero when considering aspect ratio.
3 - Lots of minor compiler warnings and build fixes, a few of which
were real current or latent bugs. Leave warnings enabled by
default. A few of the build system adjustments may break very
old systems (e.g., those with original AT&T yacc).
4 - Fix incorrect inclusion of $DESTDIR in some paths.
5 - Update for new website and mailing list at ctwm.org.
6 - Look at _MOTIF_WM_HINTS for titlebar-less or border-less
windows.
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