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labwc 0.7.2

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This release is the second in a row that is larger than usual in terms of both
fixes and new features. Significant additions include input-methods, pipemenus,
snap-to-edge overlays and optionally drop-shadows.

As usual, most of the commits are by the core devs: @ahesford, @Consolatis,
@jlindgren90, @johanmalm and @tokyo4j, but we also have many great
contributions from others as noted in the log.

Added

  • Add <menu><ignoreButtonReleasePeriod> to prevent clicks with small movements
    from inadvertantly closing a menu or selecting a menu item. This is the
    equivalent of <menu><hideDelay> on Openbox. #1760
  • Support drop-shadows (disabled by default) for windows using server-side
    decorations. Written-by: @cillian64
<theme>
  <dropShadows>yes|no</dropShadows>
</theme>
window.active.shadow.size: 60
window.inactive.shadow.size: 40
window.active.shadow.color: #00000060
window.inactive.shadow.color: #00000040
  • Add window-rule ignoreConfigureRequest to ignore X11 client-side
    configure requests (positioning and resizing). #1446
  • Support window-rules based on window type: <windowRule type="">, where
    type can be for example NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP for an XWayland
    window. Written-by: @xi @txgk
  • Add none branch to the ForEach action. Written-by: @nicolas3121
    #1298
<action name="ForEach">
  <query identifier="foo"/>
  <then>
    <!-- carry out some action on match -->
  </then>
  <none>
    <!-- carry out some action if there were no matches at all -->
  </none>
</action>
  • Add -S|--session <command> option to start <command> on startup and
    to terminate the compositor when exits. This is useful for
    session management as it allows the session client (for example
    lxqt-session) to terminate labwc when exiting itself.
  • In theme setting color definitions, support inline alpha encoding like
    #aabbccff
  • Add window-switcher custom field inspired by printf formatting. #1670
    Written-by: @droc12345 and @Consolatis
<windowSwitcher>
  <fields>
    <field content="custom" format="foobar %b %3s %-10o %-20W %-10i%t" width="100%" />
  </fields>
</windowSwitcher>
  • Support defining window-switcher width as a percentage of output
    (display) width. Written-by: @droc12345
osd.window-switcher.width: 75%
  • Support Openbox compatible pipe-menus. See labwc-menu(5) for usage.
  • Add snap-to-edge overlay. Written-by: @tokyo4j. PR #1652 #1702
    This includes the following new config and theme settings:
<snapping>
  <overlay>
    <enabled>yes|no</enabled>
    <delay inner="500" outer="500"/>
  </overlay>
</snapping>
snapping.overlay.[region|edge].bg.enabled: yes|no
snapping.overlay.[region|edge].border.enabled: yes|no
snapping.overlay.[region|edge].bg.color: #8080b380
snapping.overlay.[region|edge].border.width: 1
snapping.overlay.[region|edge].border.color: #ffffff,#000000,#ffffff
  • Add theme settings listed below for window-switcher preview border.
    Written-by: @tokyo4j
osd.window-switcher.preview.border.width: 2
osd.window-switcher.preview.border.color: #ffffff,#00a2ff,#ffffff
  • Support libinput config option for calibration matrices.
    <libinput><device><calibrationMatrix>. Written-by: @SnowNF
  • Add new window-switcher field content types workspace, state,
    type_short and output. Written-by: @droc12345 PR #1623
<windowSwitcher allWorkspaces="yes">
  <fields>
    <field content="workspace" width="5%" />
    <field content="state" width="3%" />
    <field content="type_short" width="3%" />
    <field content="output" width="9%" />
    <field content="identifier" width="30%" />
    <field content="title" width="50%" />
  </fields>
</windowSwitcher>
  • Support input methods (or input method editors, commonly abbreviated
    IMEs) like Fcitx5, using protocols text-input-v3 and input-method-v2.
    This includes IME popups. Written-by: @tokyo4j
  • Add atCursor attribute to action ShowMenu so that a window's
    "client-menu" could optionally be launched at the pointer using a
    keybind as follows:
<action name="ShowMenu" menu="value" atCursor="yes" />
  • Support workspace-prefix (<desktops><prefix>) for workspace-switcher
    onscreen display when naming workspaces by digits, for example 1, 2, 3
    Written-by: @droc12345
  • Process all *.env files in an environment.d directory alongside and
    in the same way as each potential environment file.
  • Allow empty variables in environment files. In other words, respond to
    variable declarations of the form "VARIABLE=", with no following value,
    by setting the corresponding environment variable as an empty string.
  • Add optional headless fallback output that is automatically created when
    no other output exists. Enable this by setting the environment variable
    LABWC_FALLBACK_OUTPUT to the desired output name. The feature
    benefits applications like wayvnc the most by ensuring that there is
    always an output available to connect to. #1618
    Co-Authored-By: Simon Long [email protected]
  • Optionally show windows on all workspaces in window-switcher.
<windowSwitcher allWorkspaces="yes">
  • Handle touch on headerbar using cursor emulate events. Issue #1550
    Written-by: @spl237
  • Updated dbus activation environment with more environment variables
    (XCURSOR_SIZE, XCURSOR_THEME, XDG_SESSION_TYPE, LABWC_PID)
    Written-by: @winerysearch Issue #694
  • Run shutdown script on exit (equivalent to autostart on startup)
  • Add wrap argument to action MoveToOutput. Wrap is disabled by
    default to keep the user interface consistent. Example usage:
<action name="MoveToOutput" direction="right" wrap="yes" />

Fixed

  • Prevent Chromium from crashing when started after a virtual keyboard is
    destroyed. #1789
  • Fix top-layer not showing when there is a minimized full-screen window
    Written-by: @fberg
  • Prevent the following whilst window-switcher cycling (#1640):
    • Cursor actions on the window previews
    • Request-xdg-activation
    • Foreign toplevel request-activate
    • XWayland request-activate
  • Prevent shaded XWayland windows from getting cursor events. #1753
  • Fix menu-parser use-after-free bug. #1780
  • Update top layer visibility on map to fix bug with Steam's Big Picture Mode
    window which requests fullscreen before mapping. #1763
  • Do not update server-side-decoration if window is too small. #1762
  • Fix crash on Kill action with XWayland windows. #1739
  • Update workspaces on --reconfigure. Written-by: @tokyo4j
  • Notify idle manager when emulating cursor movement.
  • Fix GrowToEdge/ShrinkToEdge action bug caused by clients ignoring the
    requested size, for example a terminal honouring size-hints.
  • Fix assert() on VT switch. Issue #1667
  • Ensure titlebar has consistent look when using transparency. #1684
  • Fix dnd bug where dnd does not finish properly on cursor-button-release
    if there is no surface under the cursor such as on the desktop when no
    background client is running. #1673
  • Send cursor-button release event to CSD client before finishing window
    dragging to avoid a bug whereby the release event is incorrectly sent to
    a layer-shell client at the end of a drag.
  • Validate double-click against SSD part type because clicks on
    different parts of a client in quick succession should not be
    interpreted as a double click. #1657
  • Fix bug that region overlay is not shown when a modifier key is re-
    pressed.
  • Fix workspace-switcher on-screen-display positioning of text using
    right-to-left (RTL) locales. Written-by: @micko01 Issue #1633
  • Unconstrain xdg-shell popups to usable area (rather than full output) so
    that popups do not cover layer-shell clients such as panels.
    Written-by: @tokyo4j
  • Exclude unfocusable XWayland windows (for example notifications and
    floating toolbars) from being processed by wlr-foreign-toplevel protocol
    as these windows should not be shown in taskbars/docks/etc.
  • Render text buffers with opaque backgrounds because subpixel text
    rendering over a transparent background does not work properly with
    cairo/pango. PR #1631 issue #1684
  • Fallback on layout 'us' if a keymap cannot be created for the provided
    XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT. If keymap still cannot be created, exit with a
    helpful message instead of a segv crash.
  • Reload cursor theme and size on reconfigure. This gives instant feedback, but
    only works for server side cursors or clients using the cursor-shape protocol.
    Written-by: @spl237 and @Consolatis. #1587 #1619
  • Fix a number of surface-focus related short-comings:
    • Handle cursor-button-press on layer-shell subsurfaces and fix bug in
      get_cursor_context() which resulted in layer-surfaces not being
      detected correctly. PR #1594
    • Overhaul the logic for giving keyboard focus to layer-shell clients.
      PR #1599 Issue #1653
  • Fix move/resize bug manifesting itself on touchpad taps with
    <tapAndDrag> disabled because libinput sends button press & release
    signals so quickly that interactive_finish() is never called.
    Written-by: @tokyo4j
  • Include always-on-top windows in window-switcher.
  • Make resize flicker free again when running labwc nested (it was a
    regression caused by wlroots 0.17).
  • Clean up dbus and systemd activation environments on exit
  • Fix view_get_adjacent_output() bug resulting in often returning an
    incorrect output when using more than two outputs. Issue #1582

Changed

  • Support press-move-release when interacting with the labwc root-menu. #1750
  • In theme settings, mark color definitions in the format #rrggbb aaa as
    deprecated (still supported, but will removed in some future release) in
    favor of the more commonly used `#rr...
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0.7.1

01 Mar 21:24
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Added

  • Support libinput option sendEventsMode to allow enabling/disabling devices.
    Co-Authored-By: @Sachin-Bhat
<libinput>
  <device>
    <sendEventsMode>yes|no|disabledOnExternalMouse</sendEventsMode>
  </device>
</libinput>
  • Add click method libinput option. Written-by: @datMaffin
<libinput>
  <device>
    <clickMethod>none|buttonAreas|clickfinger</clickMethod>
  </device>
</libinput>
  • Add data/labwc.svg & data/labwc-symbolic.svg, and specify icon name
    in labwc.desktop to enable Display Managers to show an icons for labwc.
  • Expose output configuration test to clients. For example, this enables
    wlr-randr --dryrun
  • Add window-edge resistance for interactive moves/resizes and support negative
    strengths to indicate attractive snapping. Written-by: @ahesford
<resistance>
  <screenEdgeStrength>-20</screenEdgeStrength>
  <windowEdgeStrength>-20</windowEdgeStrength>
</resistance>
  • Set keyboard layout on reconfigure. Issue #1407
  • Reset keyboard-layout group (index) for each window on reconfigure if
    the keymap has changed.
  • Support merging multiple config files with the --merge-config command
    line option. Issue #1406
  • Add config option to map touch events to a named output (display).
    Optionally, make this only apply to specific named devices.
    Written-by: @jp7677
<touch mapToOutput=""/>
<touch deviceName="" mapToOutput=""/>
  • Add tablet support including:
    • Mapping of tablet to output (display)
    • Emulation of cursor movement and button press/release
    • Configuration of area and rotation
      Written-by: @jp7677 @Consolatis
<tablet mapToOutput="HDMI-A-1" rotate="90">
  <area top="0.0" left="0.0" width="0.0" height="0.0" />
  <map button="Tip" to="Left" />
  <map button="Stylus" to="Right" />
  <map button="Stylus2" to="Middle" />
</tablet>
  • Add tearing support. #1390. Written-by: @Ph42oN @ahesford
  • Add configuration support for mouse buttons Side, Extra, Forward,
    Back and Task. Written-by: @jp7677
  • config: allow <libinput><device> without category attribute to define a
    default profile because it is more user-friendly and intuitive.
  • Add a configuration option to enable adaptive sync only when an application
    is in fullscreen mode. Written-by: @Ph42oN
  • Add touchpad libinput device type to increase configuration flexibility,
    for example allowing naturalScroll on touchpads, but not on regular pointer
    devices such as mice. Written-by: @jmbaur
  • Add actions:
  • Add config option <placement><policy> with supported values center,
    cursor and automatic. The latter minimizes overlap with other windows
    already on screen and is similar to Openbox's smart window placement.
    The placement policies honour <core><gap>.
    Written-by: @ahesford #1312
<placement>
  <policy>center|automatic|cursor</policy>
</placement>

Fixed

  • Delay popup-unconstrain until after first commit in response to a changed
    wlroots 0.17 interface and to get rid of the error message below. Issue #1372

    [types/xdg_shell/wlr_xdg_surface.c:169] A configure is scheduled for an uninitialized xdg_surface

  • Notify clients about configuration errors when changing output settings.
    Issue #1528.

  • Fix output configuration bug causing compositor crash when refresh rate is
    zero. Issue #1458

  • Fix disappearing cursor bug on view destruction. Issue #1393

  • Use used specified config-file (using -c command line option) on
    reconfigure.

  • Assign outputs to new views on surface creation instead of mapping, and
    notify the client of the preferred output scale when doing so. This fixes an
    issue with foot: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1579
    Written-by: @ahesford

  • Cancel key repeat on vt change to fix crash on VT change on FreeBSD.
    Issue #1424

  • Fix crash when a minimized fullscreen window closes. Written-by: @bi4k8

  • Execute menu actions after closing menus so that menu entries can issue
    wtype commands to the surface with keyboard-focus. Issue #1366

  • Try to honor original window geometry on layout changes.

  • Fix virtual keyboard bug experienced with wlrctl keyboard type xyz. Do not
    process virtual keyboard keycodes (just the keysyms). Issue #1367

  • Sync xdg-shell client view->pending when applying geometry to fix issue
    caused by applications choosing not respond to pending resize requests either
    by ignoring them or substituting alternative sizes (for example, when mpv
    constrains resizes to keep its aspect ratio fixed). Written-by: @ahesford

Changed

  • Make MoveToCursor honour <core><gap>. Issue #1494
  • Add Roll Up/Down client-menu entry for ToggleShade
  • When a Wayland-native window is snapped to a screen edges or user-defined
    region, labwc will notify the application that it is "tiled", allowing the
    application to better adapt its rendering to constrained layouts. Windows
    with client-side decorations may respond to these notices by squaring off
    corners and, in some cases, disabling resize abilities. This can be disabled
    with:
<snapping>
  <notifyClient>never</notifyClient>
</snapping>

or limited to only edge-snapped or only region-snapped windows. See the
labwc-config(5) manual page for more information.

  • When a window is dragged from a snapped position (either a screen edge or a
    user-defined region), the snapped state is now discarded as soon as the
    dragging begins. This means that dragging from a snapped position to a
    maximized state (with the topMaximize option enabled) and then
    un-maxmimizing the window will restore the window to its size and position
    before it was snapped. In previous releases, un-maximizing would restore
    the window to its snapped state. To preserve the snapped state of a window
    when maximized, use the Maximize window button or the ToggleMaximize
    action.

  • The new windowEdgeStrength setting makes windows resist interactive moves and
    resizes across the edges of other windows. This can be disabled with:

<resistance>
  <windowEdgeStrength>0</windowEdgeStrength>
</resistance>
  • Run menu actions on button release intead of press.
  • Constrain window size to that of usable area when an application is started.
    Issue #1399
  • Support showing the full app_id in the window switcher. Users with a custom
    windowSwitcher configuration should use the trimmed_identifier field
    label to preserve existing behavior; the identifier field now refers to the
    full app_id. Consult the labwc-config(5) manual page for more details.
    Issue #1309

0.7.0

22 Dec 17:10
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labwc 0.7.0

The main effort in this release has gone into porting labwc to wlroots 0.17
and tidying up regressions. Nonetheless, it contains a significant number of
additions and fixes as described below.

Should bug fixes be required against 0.6.6 (built with wlroots 0.16), a
0.6 branch will be created.

Added

  • Support titlebar hover icons. Written-by: @spl237
  • Add theme options osd.workspace-switcher.boxes.{width,height}
    Written-by: @kyak
  • Add actions VirtualOutputAdd and VirtualOutputRemove to control virtual
    outputs. Written-by: @kyak (#1287)
  • Teach MoveToEdge to move windows to adjacent outputs.
    Written-by: @ahesford
  • Implement <font place="InactiveWindow">. Written-by: @ludg1e (#1292)
  • Implement cursor-shape-v1 protocol to allow Wayland clients to request a
    buffer for a cursor shape from a compositor. Written-by: @heroin-moose
  • Implement fractional-scale-v1 protocol to allow Wayland clients to properly
    scale on outputs with fractional scale factor. Written-by: @heroin-moose
  • Add ResizeTo action (#1261)
  • Allow going backwards in window-switcher OSD by using arrow-up or arrow-left.
    Written-by: @jp7677
  • Add ToggleOmnipresent action and add an "Always on Visible Workspace" entry
    for it in the client-menu under the Workspaces submenu. Written-by: @bnason
  • Account for space taken up by XWayland clients with _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL
    property in the usable_area calculation. This increases inter-operability
    with X11 desktop componenets.
  • Set XWayland's _NET_WORKAREA property based on usable area. XWayland
    clients use the _NET_WORKAREA root window property to determine how much of
    the screen is not covered by panels/docks. The property is used for example
    by Qt to determine areas of the screen that popup menus should not overlap.

Fixed

  • Fix xwayland.c null pointer dereference causing crash with CLions. (#1352)
  • Fix issue with XWayland surfaces completely offscreen not generating commit
    events and therefore preventing them from moving onscreen.
  • Do not de-active windows when layer-shell client takes keyboard focus, to
    fix sfwbar minimize action. (#1342)
  • Move layer-shell popups from the background layer to the top layer to render
    them above normal windows. Previously this was only done for the bottom
    layer. In support of Raspberry Pi's pcmanfm --desktop. (#1293)
  • Calculate usable_area before positioning clients to ensure it is correct
    before non exclusive-zone layer-shell clients are positioned or resized.
    (#1285)
  • Prevent overriding XWayland maximized/fullscreen/tiled geometry to fix an
    issue where some XWayland views (example: xfce4-terminal) do not end up with
    exactly the correct geometry when tiled.

Changed

  • Treat XWayland panel windows as if fixedPosition rule is set
  • Use the GTK3 notebook header color as the default active title color
    (small change from #dddad6 to #e1dedb). Written-by: @dimkr

0.6.6

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labwc 0.6.6

Added

  • Add fixedPosition window-rule property to avoid re-positioning windows
    on reserved-output-space changes (determined by settings or
    exclusive layer-shell clients) and to disallow interactive move or
    resize, for example by alt+press.
  • Add Unfocus action to enable unfocusing windows on desktop click.
    Issue: #1230
  • Add config option <keyboard layoutScope="window"> to use per-window
    keyboard layout. Issue #1076
  • Support separate horizontal and vertical maximize by adding a
    direction option to actions Maximize and ToggleMaximize.
  • Add actions GrowToEdge and ShrinkToEdge. Written-by: @digint
  • Add snapWindows option to MoveToEdge action. Written-by: @digint
  • Add MoveToCursor action. Written-by: @Arnaudv6
  • Add config option <keyboard><numlock> to enable Num Lock on startup.
  • Support Meta (M), Hyper (H), Mod1, Mod3, Mod4 and Mod5 modifiers in
    keybind definitions. Fixes: #1061
  • Add themerc 'titlebar.height' option. Written-by: @mozlima
  • Add If and ForEach actions. Written-by: @Consus
  • Allow referencing the current workspace in actions, for example:
    <action name="SendToDesktop" to="current"/>

Fixed

  • Do not reset XWayland window SSD on unminimize
  • Keep XWayland stacking order in sync when switching workspaces
  • Update top-layer visiblity on workspace-switch in order to show
    top-layer layer-shell clients correctly when there is a window in
    fullscreen mode on another workspace. Issues: #1040 #1158
  • Make interactive window snapping with mouse more intuitive in
    multi-output setups. Written-by: @tokyo4j
  • Try to handle missing set_window_geometry with Qt apps which
    occasionally fail to call set_window_geometry after a configure
    request, but correctly update the actual surface extent. Issue: #1194
  • Update XWayland stacking order when moving a window to the front/back.
  • Prevent switching workspaces for always-on-bottom windows. Fixes: #1170
  • Fix invisible cursor after wlopm --off && wlopm --on.
  • When a session is locked using 'session-lock' protocol, reconfigure for
    output layout changes to avoid incorrect positioning
  • Account for window base size in resize indicator so that the displayed
    size exactly matches the terminal grid, for example 80x25.
  • The following focus related issues:
    • Allow re-focusing xwayland-unmanaged surfaces in response to pointer
      action (click or movement if focus-follow-mouse is enabled). This
      enables clients such as dmenu, rofi and jgmenu to regain
      keyboard-focus if it was lost to another client.
    • Fix code paths which could lead to a lock-screen losing focus, making
      the session impossible to unlock or another surface to gain focus thus
      breaching the session lock.
    • Only focus topmost view on unmap if unmapped view was focused.
    • Fix xwayland_surface->data bug relating to unmanaged surfaces.
    • Fix layer subsurface focus bug to make waybar's minimize-raise work.
      Fixes: #1131
    • Ignore focus change to unmanaged surface belonging to same PID to fix
      an issue with menus immediately closing in some X11 apps.
    • Avoid focusing xwayland views that do not want focus using the ICCCM
      "Globally Active" input model.
    • Allow re-focus between "globally active" XWayland views of the same
      PID.
    • Assume that views that want decorations also want focus
  • The following keyboard and keybind related issues:
    • Send pressed keys correctly when focusing new surface.
    • Refactor handling of pressed/bound keys to send (to client) the
      release events for any pressed key that was not part of a keybind,
      typically because an unrelated non-modifier key was pressed before
      and held during a keybind invocation. Fixes #1091 #1245
    • Fix keyboard release event bug after session lock. Fixes: #1114
  • Raise xdg and xwayland sub-views correctly relative to other sub-views,
    by letting the relative stacking order between them change.
  • Honor initially maximized requests for XWayland views via
    _NET_WM_STATE.
  • For initially maximized XWayland views, set the stored natural geometry
    to be output-centered.
  • Fix regions rounding error sometimes resulting in incorrect gaps
    between regions.

Changed

  • Move floating windows in response to changes in reserved output space
    (determined by settings or exclusive layer-shell clients such
    as panels). Users with window-rules for panels and/or desktops should
    add the fixedPosition property to avoid regression. Issue: #1235
  • Restore SIGPIPE default handler before exec. Fixes: #1209
  • With the introduction of directional Maximize, right-click on the
    maximize button now toggles horizontal maximize, while middle-click
    toggles vertical maximize.
  • Make MoveToEdge snap to the next window edge by default rather than
    just the screen edge.
  • Comment out variables in docs/environment to avoid users using the
    file without editing it and ending up with unwanted settings.
    Fixes: #1011
  • Set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 unless already set.
  • This release has seen significant refactoring and minor improvements
    with respect to window and surface focus (particular thanks to
    @jlindgren90). This work has helped uncover and fix some hard-to-find
    bugs. We don't believe that there are any regressions, but can't say
    for sure.
  • Set Num Lock to enabled by default on start up
  • Allow switching VT when locked
  • Use fnmatch() for pattern matching instead of g_pattern_match_simple()
    because it is a POSIX-compliant function which has a glob(7) manual page
    for reference.
  • Title context is used instead of TitleBar for the default client-menu
    on click. This means that if a button is right-clicked, the client-menu
    will not appear anymore.
  • Always switch to the workspace containing the view being focused.

0.6.5

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Added

  • Support png and svg titlebar buttons
  • Support on/off boolean configuration values (in addition to true, false,
    yes and no). Written-by: @redtide
  • keybinds
    • Allow non-english based keybinds
    • Make keybind agnostic to keyboard layout. Fixes #1069
    • Add optional layoutDependent argument to only trigger if the
      configured key exists in the currently active keyboard layout.
      <keybind key="" layoutDependent="">
    • Fallback on raw keysyms (as if there were no pressed modifier) for
      bindings which do not match against translated keysyms. This allows
      users to define keybinds such as "S-1" rather than "S-exclam". It also
      supports "W-S-Tab". Fixes #163 #365 #992
  • window-rules: add ignoreFocusRequest property
  • config: support libinput <tapAndDrag> and <dragLock>.
    Written-by: @tokyo4j
  • Handle keyboard input for menus. Fixes #1058
  • Server-side decoration:
    • Make corners square on maximize
    • Disable border on maximize. Fixes #1044
  • Add window resize indicator and associated <resize><popupShow> config
    option
  • Add <theme><keepBorder> to give ToggleDecoration three states:
    (1) disable titlebar; (2) disable whole SSD; and (3) enables whole SSD
    When the keepBorder action is disabled, the old two-state behavior is
    restored. Fixes #813
  • Minimize whole window hierarchy from top to bottom regardless of which
    window requested the minimize. For example, if an 'About' or 'Open File'
    dialog is minimized, its toplevel is minimized also, and vice versa.
  • Move window's stacking order with dialogs so that other window cannot be
    positioned between them. Also position xdg popups above their parent
    windows.This is consistent with Gtk3 and Qt5. Fixes #823

Fixed

  • Clarify in labwc-config(5) that keyboard modifiers can be used for
    mousebinds. Fixes #1075
  • Ensure interactive move/resize ends correctly for CSD clients. Fixes #1053
  • Fix invalid value in <accelProfile> falling back as "flat"
  • Fix touch bug to avoid jumping when a touch point moves off of a surface
    Written-by: @bi4k8
  • Prevent crash with theme setting osd.window-switcher.width: 0.
    Fixes #1050
  • Cancel cursor popup grab on mouse-press outside client itself, for
    example on any part of the server side decoration or the desktop.
    Fixes #949
  • Prevent cursor press on layer-subsurface from cancelling popup grab
    Fixes #1030
  • xwayland: fix client request-unmap bug relating to foreign-toplevel handle
  • xwayland: fix race condition resulting in map view without surface
  • Limit SSD corner radius to the height of the titlebar
  • Fix rounded-corner bug producing weird artefacts when very large border
    thickness is used. Fixes #988
  • Ensure string_prop() handlers deal with destroying views. Fixes #1082
  • Fix SSD thickness calculation bug relating to titlebar. Fixes #1083
  • common/buf.c:
    • Do not expand $() in buf_expand_shell_variables()
    • Do not use memcpy for overlapping regions

Changed

  • Use identifier for window-switcher field rather than app_id to be
    consistent with window rules.

    <windowSwitcher>
      <fields>
        <field content="identifier" width="25%"/>
      </fields>
    </windowSwithcer>
    
  • Do not expand environment variables in Exec action <command>
    argument (but still resolve tilde).

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Added

  • Add support for ext_idle_notify protocol.
  • Window-switcher: #879 #969
    • Set item-height based on font-height
    • Add theme option:
      • osd.window-switcher.width
      • osd.window-switcher.padding
      • osd.window-switcher.item.padding.x
      • osd.window-switcher.item.padding.y
      • osd.window-switcher.item.active.border.width
  • Actions:
    • Add MoveTo, ToggleAlwaysOnBottom.
    • Add MoveRelative, ResizeRelative. Written-by: @Ph42oN
    • Add option wrap for GoToDesktop and SendToDesktop
  • Add config options <margin> to override usable area for panels/docks
    which do not support layer-shell protocol.
  • Add number attribute to <desktops> to simplify configuration.
    Written-by: @Sachin-Bhat
  • Window rules: #787 #933
    • Add properties: skipTaskbar and skipWindowSwitcher
    • Add criteria title and matchOnce

Fixed

  • Support XML CDATA for <menu><item><action><command> in order to provide
    backward compatibility with obmenu-generator #972
  • Call wlr_xwayland_surface_set_minimized() on xwayland window (un)minimize
    to fix blank surface after minimizing fullscreen Steam windows. #958
  • Fix focus at the end of drag-and-drop operation respecting
    <focus><followMouse> if enabled. #939 #976
  • Render xdg-popups above always-on-top layer.
  • Do not render On-Screen-Displays on disabled outputs. #914

Changed

  • Make ToggleKeybinds applicable only to the window that has keyboard focus
    when the action is executed.

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Added

  • Add focus.followMouseRequiresMovement to allow a stricter
    focus-what-is-under-the-cursor configuration. #862

  • Support window-rules including properties and on-first-map actions.
    Any actions in labwc-actions(5) can be used. Only 'serverDecoration'
    has been added as a property so far. Example config:

    <windowRules>
      <windowRule identifier="some-application">
        <action name="Maximize"/>
      </windowRule>
      <windowRule identifier="foo*" serverDecoration="yes|no"/>
    </windowRules>
    
  • Support configuration of window switcher field definitions.
    Issues #852 #855 #879

    <windowSwitcher show="yes" preview="yes" outlines="yes">
      <fields>
        <field content="type" width="25%" />
        <field content="app_id" width="25%" />
        <field content="title" width="50%" />
      </fields>
    </windowSwitcher>
    
  • Add actions:

    • 'Lower' Written-by: @jech
    • 'Maximize'
  • Support ext-session-lock protocol. Helped-by: @heroin-moose

  • Handle XWayland unmanaged surface requests for 'activate' and
    'override-redirect'. Fixes: #874

  • Add config support for scroll-factor. Fixes #846

  • Support 'follow' attribute for SendToDesktop action. Fixes #841

Fixed

  • Fix adaptive sync configuration. Helped-by: @heroin-moose #642
  • Ignore SIGPIPE to fix crash caused by Wayland clients requesting X11
    clipboard but closing the read-fd before/while the X11 clipboard is
    being written to. Fixes #890
  • Ellipsize on-screen-display text
  • Validate PID before activating XWayland unmanaged surfaces to check that
    the surface trying to grab focus is actually a child of the topmost
    mapped window.
  • Respect cursor constraint hints when cursor movement occurs after
    unlocking the pointer. Written-by: @FuzzyQuills Fixes #872
  • Fix invisible cursor on startup and output loss/restore.
    Reported-by: @Flrian Fixes #820
  • Fix decoration protocol implementation
    • Respect earlier decoration negotiation results via the
      xdg-decoration protocol. Previously setting <decoration> to
      client would cause applications which prefer server side
      decorations to not have any decorations at all.
      Fixes #297 #831
    • Handle results of kde-server-decoration negotiations
  • Fix <focus><followMouse> cursor glitches and issues with focus
    switching via Alt-Tab. Issue #830 #849

Changed

  • Make <windowSwitcher> a toplevel element rather than a child of
    <core>
  • Default to follow="true" for SendToDesktop action as per Openbox 3.6
    specification.

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0.6.2 - 2023-03-20

This release contains refactoring and simplification relating to
view-output association and xdg/xwayland configure/map events.

Unless otherwise stated all contributions are by the core-devs
(@Consolatis, @jlindgren90 and @johanmalm).

Added

  • Add config option <core><windowSwitcher show="no" /> to hide
    windowSwitcher (also known as On Screen Display) when switching windows.

  • Enable config option <core><windowSwitcher preview="" /> by default.

  • Add ToggleKeybinds action to disable/enable all keybinds (other than
    ToggleKeybinds itself). This can be used to better control Virtual
    Machines, VNC clients, nested compositors or similar. (#738 and #810)

  • Implement cursor constraints (Written-by: @Ph42oN) and lock confinement.

  • Support xdg-activation protocol to allow applications to activate
    themselves (e.g. raise to the top and get keyboard focus) if they
    provide a valid xdg_activation token.

  • Allow clearing key/mouse bindings by using the 'None' action. This
    enables the use of <default /> and then selectively removing keybinds.
    For example the following could be used to allow using A-Left/Right with
    Firefox.

    <keyboard>
      <default/>
      <keybind key="A-Left"><action name="None" /></keybind>
      <keybind key="A-Right"><action name="None" /></keybind>
    </keyboard>
    

Fixed

  • Prevent cursor based region-snapping when starting a move with Alt-Left.
    If region-snapping is wanted in this situation, just press the modifier
    again. (#761)
  • Prevent rare crash due to layering move/resize/menu operations. (#817)
  • Fully reset config default values on Reconfigure if not set in config
    file.
  • Fix visual glitch when resizing xfce4-terminal from left edge caused by
    windows not accepting their request size exactly.
  • Fix issue with havoc not having a valid size on map.
  • Save natural_geometry.x/y with initially maximized xdg-view to fix an
    issue where, if Thunar was started maximized, it would un-maximize to
    the top-left corner rather than the center.

Changed

  • Change config option <cycleView*> to <windowSwitcher>.
    Use <core><windowSwitcher show="yes" preview="no" outlines="yes" />
    instead of:

    <core>
      <cycleViewOSD>yes</cycleViewOSD>
      <cycleViewOutlines>yes</cycleViewOutlines>
      <cycleViewPreview>yes</cycleViewPreview>
    </core>
    

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As usual, this release contains lots of refactoring and bug fixes with
particular thanks going to @Consolatis, @jlindgren90, @bi4k8, @Flrian and
@Joshua-Ashton.

Added

  • Add <regions> config option allowing the definition of regions to which
    windows can be snapped by keeping a keyboard modifier pressed while dragging
    or by using the SnapToRegion action. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Add <Kill> action to send SIGTERM to a client process. Written-by: @bi4k8
  • Add config option <core><reuseOutputMode> to support flicker free boot
    (issue #724). Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Enable single-pixel-buffer-v1
  • Support theme setting override by reading <config-dir>/themerc-override
  • Scale down SSD button icons if necessary to allow using larger ones for high
    and mixed DPI usecases. Issue #609. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Handle client request for layer-change
  • Support setting color of client menu buttons. Written-by: @Flrian
  • Dynamically adjust menu width based on widest item. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Add theme options menu.width.{min,max} and menu.items.padding.{x,y}

Fixed

  • Scale cursor correctly at startup and on output scale-change.
    Written-by: @bi4k8
  • Release layer tree when releasing output. Written-by: @Yuanye
  • Ensure natural geometry is restored when no outputs available.
    Reported-by: @Flrian
  • Fixes memory leaks and prevent crashes associated with missing outputs
    Thanks to @Consolatis.
  • Update translations for new client menus strings. Thanks-to: @01micko and
    @ersen0
  • On un-fullscreen, restore SSD before applying previous geometry to avoid
    rendering offscreen in some instances. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Allow snapping to the same edge. Thanks-to: @Consolatis and @Flrian
  • Send enter event when new layer surface appears under pointer. Issue #667
  • Prevent re-focus for always-on-top views when switching workspaces.
    Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Make sure a default libinput category always exists to avoid devices not
    being configured is some insances. Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Update cursor if it is within the OSD area when OSD appears/disappears.
    Written-by: @bi4k8
  • Provide generic parsing of XML action arguments to enable the use of the
    direction argument in menu entries. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Fix SSD margin computation. Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Hide SSD decorations for fullscreen views to avoid rendering them on
    adjacent outputs. Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Set inactive window button color correctly. Written-by: @ScarcelyThere
  • Fix positioning of initially-maximized XWayland views.
    Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Check for modifiers when merging mousebinds. Issue #630.
  • Handle layer-shell exclusive and on-demand keyboard-interactivity
    correctly, and thus support xfce4-panel better. Issues #704 and #725.
  • Only overwrite wlroots's automatic layout when necessary.

Changed

  • Filter out wp_drm_lease_device from Xwayland to avoid Electron apps such as
    VS Code and Discord lagging over time. Issue #553. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
  • Do not switch output on SnapToEdge if view is maximized. Written-by: @Flrian

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This release contains significant refactoring to use the wlroots
scene-graph API. This touches many areas of the code, particularly
rendering, server-side-decoration, the layer-shell implementation and the
menu. Many thanks to @Consolatis for doing most of the heavy lifting with
this.

Noteworthy, related changes include:

  • The use of a buffer implementation instead of using wlr_texture. It
    handles both images and fonts, and scales according to output scale.
  • The use of node-descriptors to assign roles to wlr_scene_nodes in order
    to simplify the code.
  • Improving the "Debug" action to print scene-graph trees

A large number of bugs and regressions have been fixed following the
re-factoring, too many to list here, but we are grateful to all who have
reported, tested and fixed issues. Particular mentions go to @bi4k8,
@Flrian, @heroin-moose, @jlindgren90, @Joshua-Ashton, @01micko and @skerit

Added

  • Set environment variable LABWC_PID to the pid of the compositor so that
    SIGHUP and SIGTERM can be sent to specific instances.
  • Add command line options --exit and --reconfigure.
  • Support setting keyboard repeat and delay at runtime. Written-by: @bi4k8
  • Add support for mouse-wheel bindings. Set default bindings to switch
    workspaces when scrolling on the desktop. Written-by: @Arnaudv6
  • Implement key repeat for keybindings. Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Support smooth scroll and horizontal scroll. Written-by: @bi4k8
  • Implement virtual keyboard and pointer protocols, enabling the use of
    clients such as wtype and wayvnc. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
  • Add github workflow CI including Debian, FreeBSD, Arch and Void,
    including a build without xwayland.
  • Support keybind "None" action to clear other actions for a particular
    keybind context. Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Support font slant (itliacs) and weight (bold). Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Support <default /> mousebinds to load default mousebinds and provide
    a way to keep config files simpler whilst allowing user specific binds.
    Issue #416. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Add config option <core><cycleViewOutlines> to enable/disable preview
    of outlines. Written-by: @Flrian
  • Render submenu arrows
  • Allow highest level menu definitions - typically used for root-menu and
    client-menu - to be defined without label attritube, for example like this:
    <openbox_menu><menu id="root-menu">...</menu></openbox>. Issue #472
  • Allow xdg-desktop-portal-wlr to work out of the box by initializing dbus
    and systemd activation environment. This enables for example OBS Studio
    to work with no user configuration. If systemd or dbus is not available
    the environment update will fail gracefully. PR #461
    Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton and @Consolatis
  • Workspaces. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • presentation-time protocol
  • Native language support for client-menus. Written-by: @01micko
  • Touch support. Written-by: @bi4k8
  • drm_lease_v1 for VR to work and leasing of desktop displays.
    Written-by: Joshua Ashton
  • ToggleAlwaysOnTop action. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Command line option -C to specify config directory
  • Theme options osd.border.color and osd.border.width. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Menu <separator /> and associated theme options:
    menu.separator.width, menu.separator.padding.width,
    menu.separator.padding.height and menu.separator.color
  • Adjust maximized and tiled windows according to usable_area taking
    into account exclusive layer-shell clients. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Restore natural geometry when moving tiled/maximized window
    Fixes #391. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Improve action implementation to take a list of arguments in preperation
    for actions with multiple arguments. Written-by: @Consolatis

Fixed

  • Remove unwanted gap when initially (on map) positioning windows larger
    than output usable area (issue #403).
  • Prevent setting cursor icon on drag. Written-by: @Consolatis (issue #549)
  • Fix bugs relating to sending matching pairs of press and release
    keycodes to clients when using keybinds. Also fix related key-repeat
    bug. (Issue #510)
  • Fix wlr_output_cursor initialization bug on new output.
    Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Show correct cursor for resize action triggered by keybind.
    Written-by: @jlindgren
  • Fix bug which manifest itself when keeping button pressed in GTK3 menu
    and firefox context menu. Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Enable tap be default on non-touch devices (which some laptop trackpads
    apparently are)
  • Handle missing cursor theme (issue #246). Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Fix various surface syncronization, stacking, positioning and focus
    issues, including those related to both xwayland, scroll/drag events
    and also #526 #483
  • On first map, do not center xwayland views with explicitly specified
    position. Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Give keyboard focus back to topmost mapped view when unmapping topmost
    xwayland unmanaged surfaces, such as dmenu. Written-by: @Consolatis.
  • Fix mousebind ordering and replace earlier mousebinds by later ones
    Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Fix various bugs associated with destroying/disabling outputs, including
    issue #497
  • Hide Alt-Tab switcher when canceling via Escape. @jlindgren90
  • (Re)set seat when xwayland is ready (because wlroots reset the seat
    assigned to xwayland to NULL whenever Xwayland terminates).
    Issues #166 #444. Written-by: @Consolatis. Helped-by: @droc12345
  • Increase File Descriptor (FD) limit to max because a compositor has to
    handle many: client connections, DMA-BUFs, wl_data_device pipes and so on.
    Fixes client freeze/crashes (swaywm/sway#6642). Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
  • Fix crash when creating a cursor constraint and there is no currently
    focused view.
  • Gracefully handle dying client during interactive move.
    Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Dynamically adjust server-side-deccoration invisible resize areas based
    on usable_area to ensure that cursor events are sent to clients such as
    panels in preference to grabbing window edges. Fixes #265.
    Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Always position submenus inside output extents. Fixes #276
    Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Do not crash when changing TTY. Written-by: @bi4k8
  • Set wlroots.wrap to a specific commit rather than master because it
    enables labwc commits to be checked out and build without manually
    having to find the right wlroots commit if there are upstream breaking
    changes.
  • Increase accuracy of window center-alignment, taking into account
    usable_area and window decoration. Also, top/left align if window is
    bigger than usable area.
  • Handle view-destruction during alt-tab cycling.
    Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
  • Survive all outputs being disabled
  • Check that double-clicks are on the same window. Written-by: yizixiao
  • Set xdg-shell window position before maximize on first map so that the
    unmaximized geometry is known when started in maximized mode.
    Fixes issue #305. Reported-by: @01micko
  • Support <menu><item><action name="Execute"><execute>
    <exectue> is a deprecated name for <command>, but is supported for
    backward compatibility with old menu-generators.
  • Keep xwayland-shell SSD state on unmap/map cycle.
    Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Prevent segfault on missing direction arguments. Reported-by: @Flrian
  • Fix keybind insertion order to restore intended behavior of keybinds
    set by <default />. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Ensure client-menu actions are always applied on window they belong to
    This fixes #380. Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Keep window margin in sync when toggling decorations.
    Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Fix handling of client-initiated configure requests.
    Written-by: @jlindgren90
  • Always react to new output configuration. Reported-by @heroin-moose and
    Written-by: @Consolatis
  • Fix bug in environment variable expansion by allowing underscores to be
    part of the variable names. Issue #439
  • Fix parsing bug of adaptiveSync setting and test for support

Changed

  • src/config/rcxml.c: distinguish between no and unknown font places so
    that <font> with no place attribute can be added after other font
    elements without over-writing their values. Written-by: @bi4k8
  • theme: change window.label.text.justify default to center
  • Redefine the SSD "Title" context to cover the whole Titlebar area except
    the parts occupied by buttons. This allows "Drag" and "DoubleClick"
    actions to be de-coupled from buttons. As a result, "Drag" and
    "DoubleClick" actions previously defined against "TitleBar" should now
    come under the "Title" context, for example:
    <mousebind button="Left" action="Drag"><action name="Move"/></mousebind>
  • Remove default alt-escape keybind for Exit because too many people have
    exited the compositor by mistake trying to get out of alt-tab cycling
    or similar.