Re: [wmii] [ANN] wmii 3.6 released

Hi!

I'm glad to see progress again on the wmii side after all!
Actually it was really a long time since the last official one.

So keep up the good work and thanks for your efforts!

Kind regards,
     Anselm

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:56:29AM +0900, sqweek wrote:
> Greetin's,
> After much procrastination and sitting around on our asses, suckless
> has released wmii 3.6!
> You'll find it at http://suckless.org/download/wmii-3.6.tar.gz
> Changes:
> * New colour scheme!
>
> Yep, that's all. Hey, it worked for pokémon!
> ...Just kidding. We also broke fullscreen support.
>
> Okay seriously, new features since 3.5.1:
> * Move and resize windows with the mouse[1]
> * Make clients visible in multiple tags[2]
> * Move floating windows partially off screen
> * Application independent fullscreen functionality[3]
> * Support for the aspect ratio window hint
> * Support for urgent window hints[4]
> * Drag and drop in GTK apps and xprop support[5]
>
> [1] Resize columns by dragging the triangle dividers at the top of the
> screen or the [tiny] border between columns. Move/resize clients by
> dragging their grabbox (the box at the top left of the window).
> [2] Tag a client as 1+2+www and it will appear in tags 1, 2 and www.
> Tag it with +www and it will appear in the "www" tag in addition to
> what it was already tagged, or -www to remove it from the www tag.
> [3] MOD-f to toggle, or right click a client's title and select
> Fullscreen (you need MOD-f to get back).
> [4] Urgent hints change the colour of the client's grabbox and
> generate an UrgentTag event, which the default wmiirc uses to mark the
> tag with a *.
> [5] Thanks wabu!
>
> Finally, there are a couple of filesystem/wmiirc interface changes.
> Now, everything is similar enough that the CONFVERSION hasn't changed,
> so wmii-3.6 still looks in ~/.wmii-3.5, but if you've got custom
> scripts there's a couple of things to watch out for:
> * X11 window ids are now used to identify clients instead of an internal wmii id
> * /tag/*/ctl contains information about the focused column/client and
> column modes instead of just the tag name
> * /colrules doesn't cause new columns to be created on client creation
> anymore, it just specifies the % size of each column when they get
> created
> * WMII_MENU, WMII_TERM and WMII_9MENU are now quoted and need to be
> eval'd, so that everything still works when WMII_FONT contains spaces
>
> Alright. It's been a long time coming, and could certainly be better
> (see NOTES for a list of known bugs), but here we are. Let us know of
> any problems.
> -sqweek

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