Hi folks,
we finally did it, Sawfish 1.10 "Soundtropolis" is now available!
Special Thanks
- fuchur
- Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
- everyone else who contributed to this release
Highlights
- bugfixes in tabs / SawfishConfig and more
- tiling. Thanks to the awesome work done by Jose A. Ortega Ruiz Sawfish is now a stacking / tiling hybrid. The NEWS contains example configuration.
- sawfish.wm.prg: integration of external applications into Sawfish / SawfishConfig (trayer, xmobar, xmodmap, xsettingsd, xgamma, fehlstart, pancake), see docs/AUTOSTART for more information about them.
- compton integration. Thanks to fuchurs mind-reading capatibilities the compton compositing manager now neatly integrates with Sawfish / SawfishConfig, allowing you to change most options for compton directly from SawfishConfig.
For full NEWS see below and/or the NEWS file in the source tarball
Download
Source Tarballs
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Debian Packages
You can find Debian Packages (Debian, not Ubuntu) at
- http://apt.nanolx.org/
(dead link!)
for both AMD64 and i386, built on Unstable.
The latest version is now 1.12.90 which can be found here
☀https://nanolx.org/sawfish/sawfish
Conclusion
Have Fun testing the new features! Feel free to report any issues or just to trip out about the new awesomeness in Sawfish. :]
NEWS
1.10 "Soundtropolis"
====================
* Updated or New dependencies
- PangoX: no longer required
* Bug Fixes
- Always rebuild the list of marked windows in tabs when closing
a marked window. [fuchur]
- In 'sawfish-config' fix the 'make-choice-item' to properly
support settings for the 'Crux' theme. [Vedat Hallac]
- Only allow a window to be tabbed, if the parent window's
framestyle has support for tabs. (Note that in Sawfish
different windows can have different framestyles) [fuchur]
- 'window-ops-menu' was still calling
'resize-window-to-dimension' that didn't exist anymore since
Sawfish 1.7. Use 'resize-window-prompt' instead.
[Christopher Bratusek]
- Make "Sawfish Rootmenu" label an insensitive menu-item, so
that clicking it while the root-menu pops up doesn't make the
menu disappear immediately. [Christopher Bratusek]
- In SawfishConfig you can select different cursor shapes for
different buttons. Some of the definitions have been wrong
and could crash Sawfish when choosing them. This is fixed
now. [fuchur]
- When a windows 'max-width' or 'max-height' would exceed 32767
(X11's maximum) it would result in odd window-behaviour (for
example: no maximization button), this is fixed by capping the
value at 32767. Originally reported with Firefox and
Thunderbird 17.0 [Michael Panteleit]
- Fixed grabbing key-bindings in SawfishConfig. [Christopher
Bratusek]
- Fixed non-working '$height-content' and '$width-content' in
the mxflat theme [Robert Zenz]
- Fixed remembering all window properties after switching
workspaces [fuchur]
* New Features
- Tiling. [Jose A. Ortega Ruiz] [Christopher Bratusek] here are
still minor hickups, but both 'tall-tile' and 'col-tile' are
working (see also 'lisp/sawfish/wm/tile/readme.org'):
'tall-tile': one big (master) window on the left, small
windows on the right
'col-tile': tile windows as columns (recommended for
multi-head configurations)
;; Example Tiling configuration in Sawfish's resource file
(require 'sawfish.wm.tile.tile)
(tall-tiling 0 #:width 1.75 #:top 0 #:bottom 0 #:gap 3 #:max 3 #:right nil #:resize t)
(col-tiling 0 #:top 0 #:bottom 0 #:gap 3 #:cols 3 #:resize t)
(bind-keys global-keymap
"C-S-KP_Add" 'increase-max-windows
"C-S-KP_Subtract" 'decrease-max-windows
"C-M-KP_Add" 'increase-cols
"C-M-KP_Subtract" 'decrease-cols
"C-M-Right" 'tall-rotate-right
"C-M-Left" 'tall-rotate-left
"C-F11" 'next-tiling)
- Added full compton integration (including autostarting compton
with Sawfish). Compton is a fork of xcompmgr with many bug
fixes and many improvements compared to the original.
Using 'sawfish-config' it is also possible to change most
compton options directly from within Sawfish. [fuchur]
- Make 'focus-when-mapped' window-matcher chooseable from 'never
'maybe and 'always. 'never is suggested for KDE users to be
applied to Plasma in order to prevent notification popups to
take focus from currently active window (and possibly loosing
keyboard input) [fuchur]
- Completeley revised 'resize-window-prompt'. Now display
window's name and old width (respectively old height) when
prompt for new values. Shows an information, if one of the
given values is not actually a number. [Christopher Bratusek]
- External Application modules. Those modules allow handling,
setting-up and starting external applications during a sawfish
session. See 'doc/AUTOSTART' for additional notes on them.
++ 'trayer' module. Handles a 'trayer' (a system-tray)
instance during a sawfish session. [Christopher
Bratusek]
++ 'xmobar' module. Handles a 'xmobar' (an on-screen, very
flexible bar, monitoring whatever you like) instance
during a sawfish session. [Christopher Bratusek]
++ 'xmodmap' module. Allows reading '~/.Xmodmap' on
startup of Sawfish. Useful only if using Sawfish
standalone without a session-manager that already does
this. [Christopher Bratusek]
++ 'xsettingsd' module. Handles a 'xsettingsd' (a daemon
implementing XSettings to provide GTK+2 application with
information like what theme to use))instance during a
sawfish session. [Christopher Bratusek]
++ 'xgamma' module. Allows changing display's gamma
settings on startup of Sawfish. [Christopher Bratusek]
++ 'fehlstart' module. Handles a 'fehlstart' (a simple,
but yet flexible application launcher) instance during a
sawfish session. [Christopher Bratusek]
++ 'pancake' module. Handles a 'pancake' (a simple desktop
panel with pager, window-list, taskbar, tray) instance
during a sawfish session [Christopher Bratusek]
- Added 'force-tab' window-matcher, forcing a window to be
tabbed. [fuchur]
- Added 'window-type' window-matcher. This allows you to change
the '_NET_WM_TYPE' of a window. Specifications explicitly
state that the client (Sawfish in this case) is not allowed to
do so. Still, we provide this ability in case of bogus
applications and testing purposes, it is neither desired nor
required for normal work. [fuchur]
- Added 'tab-group-windows-hook', triggered when changing or
creating a tabgroup, returning all windows contained in the
current tabgroup. [fuchur]
* Removed Features
- Removed 'sawfish.wm.ext.expose' in favour of much more
advanced tiling-functions. [Christopher Bratusek]
* Miscellaneous Changes
- Updated 'Elberg-tabbed' and 'gradient-tabbed' for tab-system
as of Sawfish 1.9.1 [fuchur]
- Wallpaper setter now has an option for setting wallpaper on
startup. Image widget is now more robust. [Christopher
Bratusek]
- Improved default keymap for 'titlebar' and 'tabbar'. [fuchur]
- Revived 'decorate-transients', 'menus-include-shortcuts' and
'customize-show-symbols' defcustoms. These options are now
adjustable from 'sawfish-config' again. [Christopher
Bratusek]
- Give the 'root-window' the property ''WINDOW_MANAGER' on
startup with value 'sawfish'. [Christopher Bratusek]
- Updated 'ru' and 'pt_BR' translations via transifex.