FVWM: Re: Fvwm 2.5.4

From: Peter Moore <peter_at_sladen-moore.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:51:55 -0800

STOP sending these announcements to me. I have requested you to stop
several times.
Peter Moore



At 10:19 AM 10/29/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Fvwm is a powerful window manager. Version 2.5.4 is an
>experimental unstable release that includes new features and
>improvements over unstable 2.5.3 and stable 2.4.12 versions. You
>are welcome to upgrade and test the new features or help
>stabilizing the code. Please be aware that any features
>introduced in the 2.5.x development versions may be renamed,
>changed or removed without notice before the next stable release.
>
>The release is available at the fvwm home page: http://www.fvwm.org/
>
>Fixed:
>------
>
>* Fixed flickering in menus, icon title, FvwmButtons, FvwmIconMan
> and FvwmPager when xft font is used.
>
>* FvwmIconMan options PlainColorset, IconColorset, FocusColorset
> and SelectColorset are now strictly respected.
>
>* See ChangeLog for more fixes.
>
>Improved:
>---------
>
>* Alpha blending rendering is supported even without XRender
> support.
>
>* FvwmButtons redrawing improvement: colorsets are now usable with
> containers.
>
>* The HilightBack and ActiveFore menu styles are independent of
> each other. HilightBack without using ActiveFore does no longer
> hilight the item text.
>
>* Documentation.
>
>New features:
>-------------
>
>* FvwmTaskBar may now include mini launchbuttons using the Button
> command. Also has new options for spacing the buttons:
> WindowButtonsLeftMargin, WindowButtonsRightMargin, and
> StartButtonRightMargin. See man page for details.
>
>* Style switches can be prefixed with '!' to inverse their meaning.
> For example, "Style * Sticky" is the same as "Style * !Slippery".
> This works *only* for pairs of styles that take no arguments and
> for the Button and NoButton styles.
>
>* New button property Id in FvwmButtons. FvwmButtons now accepts
> dynamical actions using SendToModule, see the man page:
>
> ChangeButton <button-id> <properties-to-change>
> ExpandButtonVars <button-id> <command-to-expand>
>
>* New Colorset options bgTint, fgTint (which complete Tint), Alpha,
> IconTint and IconAlpha.
>
>* Enhanced commands [Add]ButtonStyle, [Add]TitleStyle. ButtonState.
> Titles and buttons now have 4 main states instead of 3: ActiveUp,
> ActiveDown, InactiveUp and InactiveDown, plus 4 Toggled variants.
> Several shortcuts added: Active means ActiveUp + ActiveDown,
> Inactive means InactiveUp + InactiveDown, similarly for shortcuts
> ToggledActive and ToggledInactive.
>
>* More shortcuts for button states added: AllNormal, AllToggled,
> AllActive, AllInactive, AllUp, AllDown. These six shortcuts are
> actually different masks for 4 individual states (from 8 total).
>
>* FPClickToFocus and FPClickToRaise work with any modifier by
> default.
>
>* Perl library API regarding event handlers is changed, so personal
> modules in Perl should be adjusted.
>
>* Allow the use of mouse buttons other than the first in
> FvwmWinList when invoked transient.
>
>* ImagePath now supports directories in form "/some/directory;.png"
> (where semicolon delimits a file extension that files in
> /some/directory have. This file extension replaces the original
> image extension (if any) or it is added if there is no extension.
> For example with: Style XTerm MiniIcon mini/xterm.xpm
> the file /some/directory/mini/xterm.png is searched.
>
>* New graphical debugger module FvwmGtkDebug.
>
>* New command NoWindow for removing the window context.
>
>* New FvwmIconMan option ShowTransient.
>
>* All conditions have a negation.
>
>* New FvwmBacker option RetainPixmap.
>
>* New WindowList option SortByResource; the previously added
> SortClassName option is renamed to SortByClass.
>
>* New command PrintInfo for debugging.
>
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Received on Tue Oct 29 2002 - 10:54:02 GMT

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