Nabble - Gnome - Sawfish

New Debian installation

2009-12-23T09:44:27Z

Just installed Sawfish on my Debian testing - but for some reason
picking it from the GDM menu results only in a blank screen which
doesn't respond to anything, including middle clicks on the mouse.
Can anyone help ?

Thanks

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Frank<beacon@...>

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T08:44:30Z

Ok, my bad, my rc file wasn't encoded in UTF-8...

This problem is solved ;^)

But now another: my popup doesn't show even though I bound it to a key
combination.

Here is the relevant part of my rc:

; at the beginning
(require 'sawfish-defaults)

(defvar menu-the
'(("1 minute" (system "small_RXvt -iconic -n Thé -e thé 1m&"))
("2 minutes" (system "small_RXvt -iconic -n Thé -e thé 2m&"))
("3 minutes" (system "small_RXvt -iconic -n Thé -e thé 3m&"))
("4 minutes" (system "small_RXvt -iconic -n Thé -e thé 4m&"))
("5 minutes" (system "small_RXvt -iconic -n Thé -e thé 5m&"))
))

(define (popup-pour-le-the)
"Popup pour le th'e"
(popup-menu menu-the))

(define-command 'popup-pour-le-the popup-pour-le-the)

then in the UI configurator I bind the "Popup pour le the" that shows in the
command list to Alt+F7 (shows as M-F7 when I grab it), but nothing happens
when I push Alt+F7, even after restarting sawfish.

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Fabrice DELENTE

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T08:03:35Z

> Strange. in this order:
>
> librep 0.90.4 (release)
> rep-gtk 0.90.1 (release)
> sawfish 1.6.0 (release)

Yes, in that order.

> they have been compiled? If so and if you used either the GIT from
> yesterday or the release tarballs, then that should not happen.

Well it happens anyway :^).

And I always uninstall the old package before I compile and install the new
one. I didn't uninstall librep or rep because their versions didn't change;
I only uninstalled 1.5.0 and compiled then installed 1.6.0.

I've just tried recompiling and reinstalling librep 0.90.4 then sawfish 1.6
but I still don't see my é in the menu.

Maybe if I reboot :^) ?

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Fabrice DELENTE

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T07:58:55Z

Am Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:55:02 +0100
schrieb Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...>:

> > ... you may also consider
> >
> > `rm -rf /usr/libexec/sawfish'
> > `rm -rf /usr/libexec/rep'
> >
> > and restart. Both reside in /usr/lib/ now.
>
> Will try.

> > Perhaps sawfish has been linked against old ones/old sawfish-menu
> > beeing used?
>
> No, I did an updatedb to verify, and I have only one sawfish-menu
> installed:
>
> /usr/local/lib/sawfish/1.6.0/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sawfish-menu
>

Strange. in this order:

librep 0.90.4 (release)
rep-gtk 0.90.1 (release)
sawfish 1.6.0 (release)

they have been compiled? If so and if you used either the GIT from
yesterday or the release tarballs, then that should not happen.

Chris

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T07:55:02Z

> ... you may also consider
>
> `rm -rf /usr/libexec/sawfish'
> `rm -rf /usr/libexec/rep'
>
> and restart. Both reside in /usr/lib/ now.

Will try.

> Perhaps sawfish has been linked against old ones/old sawfish-menu
> beeing used?

No, I did an updatedb to verify, and I have only one sawfish-menu installed:

/usr/local/lib/sawfish/1.6.0/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sawfish-menu

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Fabrice DELENTE

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T07:47:29Z

Am Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:37:08 +0100
schrieb Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...>:

> > So did you first install sawfish 1.6.0 or librep 0.90.4 first?
>
> First librep, then sawfish 1.5, replaced by 1.6 yesterday.
>
> I'll try recompiling librep then.
>

... you may also consider

`rm -rf /usr/libexec/sawfish'
`rm -rf /usr/libexec/rep'

and restart. Both reside in /usr/lib/ now.

Perhaps sawfish has been linked against old ones/old sawfish-menu
beeing used?

Chris

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T07:37:08Z

> So did you first install sawfish 1.6.0 or librep 0.90.4 first?

First librep, then sawfish 1.5, replaced by 1.6 yesterday.

I'll try recompiling librep then.

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Fabrice DELENTE

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T07:28:34Z

Am Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:10:26 +0100
schrieb Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...>:

> > I just tried and it's working here, I guess you use older versions.
> > The issue should have been fixed in Sawfish 1.5.0 and librep 0.90.2
> > (NOTE: you need both together).
>
> Ok, a problem with my setup then. My LC_ALL is en_GB.utf-8, could it
> be the cause?

I don't know. Doesn't it support those accents? I'm no de_DE.UTF-8 and
all is working. (...) You know that the library dir has changed? So did
you first install sawfish 1.6.0 or librep 0.90.4 first?

> I'm using sawfish-1.6.0, librep-0.90.4 and rep-gtk-0.90.1.
>

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T07:10:26Z

> I just tried and it's working here, I guess you use older versions. The
> issue should have been fixed in Sawfish 1.5.0 and librep 0.90.2 (NOTE:
> you need both together).

Ok, a problem with my setup then. My LC_ALL is en_GB.utf-8, could it be the
cause?

I'm using sawfish-1.6.0, librep-0.90.4 and rep-gtk-0.90.1.

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Fabrice DELENTE

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T06:48:02Z

Am Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:30:40 +0100
schrieb Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar@...>:

> Am Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:01:34 +0100
> schrieb Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...>:
>
> > Isn't there a problem with accentatued characters in a popup? I
> > tried putting "Thé" in my menu, but the entry shows blank; if I put
> > "Th'e" instead it appears ok?
> >
>
> Which versions of librep/rep-gtk/sawfish?

I just tried and it's working here, I guess you use older versions. The
issue should have been fixed in Sawfish 1.5.0 and librep 0.90.2 (NOTE:
you need both together).

Chris

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T06:30:40Z

Am Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:01:34 +0100
schrieb Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...>:

> Isn't there a problem with accentatued characters in a popup? I tried
> putting "Thé" in my menu, but the entry shows blank; if I put "Th'e"
> instead it appears ok?
>

Which versions of librep/rep-gtk/sawfish?

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T05:01:34Z

Isn't there a problem with accentatued characters in a popup? I tried
putting "Thé" in my menu, but the entry shows blank; if I put "Th'e" instead
it appears ok?

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Fabrice DELENTE

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T04:11:21Z

Am Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:47:19 +0100
schrieb Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...>:

> Hello.
>
> I'd like to bind a key sequence to the apperance of a self-defined
> apps menu (not the one that appears in tne root menu).
>
> Is there a way to do that? I looked at the bindings in the UI
> configurator, and found "call-command", but it prompts for a command
> on the screen; I'd like to be able to call uninteractively a command
> that I could define in my .sawfish/rc.
>
> Is it possible?
>
> Thanks!
>

(define (popup-delente-menu)
"Popup Fabrice Delentes Menu."
(popup-menu delente-menu))

(define-command 'popup-delente-menu popup-delente-menu)

Re: Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T04:04:53Z

> (define (popup-delente-menu)
> "Popup Fabrice Delentes Menu."
> (popup-menu delente-menu))
>
> (define-command 'popup-delente-menu popup-delente-menu)

Excellent, thanks!

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Fabrice DELENTE

Binding to a self-defined popup menu

2009-12-23T03:47:19Z

Hello.

I'd like to bind a key sequence to the apperance of a self-defined apps menu
(not the one that appears in tne root menu).

Is there a way to do that? I looked at the bindings in the UI configurator,
and found "call-command", but it prompts for a command on the screen; I'd
like to be able to call uninteractively a command that I could define in my
.sawfish/rc.

Is it possible?

Thanks!

--
Fabrice DELENTE

Re: [PATCH] spec file in Sawfish 1.6.0

2009-12-22T10:53:47Z

Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:51:33 +0200
schrieb "Kim B. Heino" <b@...>:

Thanks. I've just commited it.

Chris

> Here's one small patch to Sawfish 1.6.0. With this patch applied it
> compiles and runs fine on Fedora 12.
>
>
> --- sawfish-1.6.0/sawfish.spec.in.orig 2009-12-22
> 20:46:50.000000000 +0200 +++ sawfish-1.6.0/sawfish.spec.in
> 2009-12-22 20:46:32.000000000 +0200 @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
> @KDEDIR@/ksmserver/windowmanagers/sawfish.desktop
> %{_datadir}/xsessions/sawfish.desktop
> %{_datadir}/man/man1/sawfish*.gz
> -%{_datadir}/pixmaps/sawfish*.png
> +%{_datadir}/sawfish/sawfish.png
> %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/sawfish.pc
> %{_libdir}/sawfish/%{version}/%{_host}
> @REP_EXECDIR@/sawfish

[PATCH] spec file in Sawfish 1.6.0

2009-12-22T10:51:33Z

Here's one small patch to Sawfish 1.6.0. With this patch applied it
compiles and runs fine on Fedora 12.

--- sawfish-1.6.0/sawfish.spec.in.orig 2009-12-22 20:46:50.000000000 +0200
+++ sawfish-1.6.0/sawfish.spec.in 2009-12-22 20:46:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
@KDEDIR@/ksmserver/windowmanagers/sawfish.desktop
%{_datadir}/xsessions/sawfish.desktop
%{_datadir}/man/man1/sawfish*.gz
-%{_datadir}/pixmaps/sawfish*.png
+%{_datadir}/sawfish/sawfish.png
%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/sawfish.pc
%{_libdir}/sawfish/%{version}/%{_host}
@REP_EXECDIR@/sawfish

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sawfish 1.6.0 "Sound Of Thunder"

2009-12-22T10:49:44Z

O.K.

a fixed sawfish-pager package (wrong installdir of the pager
binary) and sawfish 1.6.0 are now available in my repo.

Janek, just go fast-forward :)

Chris

Re: Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T10:43:06Z

Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:36:58 +0100
schrieb Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...>:

> > Well, I guess from time to time we also actually use it rather than
> > configuring it, don't we?
>
> I do both at the same time :^)

Yes. So many :^) is there something to celebrate?

> Happy holidays!
>

Thanks.

Hmmmm... your clock seems not be correct... it says 18:36 on UTC +0100,
though it's actually 19:36 UTC +0100. I'm living in the same timezone,
that's why I noticed that.

Chris

Re: Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T10:35:29Z

Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:26:39 +0100
schrieb Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...>:

> > You mean something like a new window-matcher `window-icon'?
>
> Yes, something that would match by default the icon provided by the
> application, but give the possibility to use an icon defined by the
> user.

That shouldn't be all to difficult. Just one more release of mine and
I'll be in `development-holidays' at least until 28th. So no extra
christmast-present here.

>
> > That would be configuration-intensive, but do as you wish. :)
>
> Isn't sawfish all about configuration? :^)
>

Well, I guess from time to time we also actually use it rather than
configuring it, don't we?

Regards,
Chris

Re: Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T10:33:23Z

Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:28:25 -0800
schrieb dmg <dmg@...>:

> Dear Santa,
>
> It would be really nice to create the icons on demand, so the actual
> contents are displayed.
>
> --dmg

Then we would at first need a screenshotter, that creates the icon,
plus the icon size must be increased (128x128? 256x256?), in addition
you need a machine that handles that, I guess for most of us that is
not a problem, but some may have 500 - 800MHz machine, so the current
behaviour should still be the default.

Plus, I guess this years Santa won't be able to deliver it, though. :)

Chris

>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Fabrice DELENTE
> <fdelente@...> wrote:
> > Thanks for the extremely fast answer!
> >
> >> AFAIK not, as it uses the icon, that is setup for the application
> >> and therefore hardcoded into the given application.
> >
> > Then I'll have to look into sawfish's source to modify that... I'll
> > do that when I'll have time!
> >
> > --
> > Fabrice DELENTE
> >
> >
>
>
>

Re: Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T10:28:25Z

Dear Santa,

It would be really nice to create the icons on demand, so the actual
contents are displayed.

--dmg

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...> wrote:

> Thanks for the extremely fast answer!
>
>> AFAIK not, as it uses the icon, that is setup for the application and
>> therefore hardcoded into the given application.
>
> Then I'll have to look into sawfish's source to modify that... I'll do that
> when I'll have time!
>
> --
> Fabrice DELENTE
>
>

--
--dmg

---
Daniel M. German
http://turingmachine.org

Re: Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T10:26:04Z

Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:19:43 +0100
schrieb Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...>:

> Thanks for the extremely fast answer!
>
> > AFAIK not, as it uses the icon, that is setup for the application
> > and therefore hardcoded into the given application.
>
> Then I'll have to look into sawfish's source to modify that... I'll
> do that when I'll have time!
>

You mean something like a new window-matcher `window-icon'?
That would be configuration-intensive, but do as you wish. :)

Chris

Re: Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T10:19:03Z

Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:15:00 +0100
schrieb Fabrice DELENTE <fdelente@...>:

> Hello.
>
> I'd like to change the icon that appears next to the windows name
> when I cycle through windows with the Alt-TAB binding. Is there a way
> to do that?
>
> Thanks.
>

AFAIK not, as it uses the icon, that is setup for the application and
therefore hardcoded into the given application.

Chris

[ANNOUNCE] Sawfish 1.6.0 "Sound Of Thunder"

2009-12-22T09:47:40Z

Hi folks!

In the name of the sawfish coreteam, I'm pleased to announce the
immediate availabilty of:

Sawfish 1.6.0 "Sound Of Thunder"

Some cherrypicks:

* Project Ridley: finished, as LibAudioFile and ESounD requirements have been dropped
* Viewport: dynamic viewport-boundary-mode (creates a new viewport then hitting the edge)
* Viewport: windows are restored on the correct Viewport from now on
* Bug fix: Prevent crashing of sawfish under heavy load and fast window destruction
* Bug fix: Prevent window crashing (at least that part sawfish is fault of, bugs in video drivers of course still may cause that)
* Thanks to librep 0.90.2+ all UTF-8 issues are gone
* Thanks to rep-gtk 0.90.0+ SawfishConfig (ex SawfishUI) began to refresh and undeprecate
* Trimmed down GNOME Integrationmodule (minimum) and new KDE4 Integrationmodule
* A set of new window-matchers and an improved window-matching architecture
* and of course a lot changes more.

Get your favourite windowmanager from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sawmill/files/sawfish/1.6.0/

This release is brought to you by:

Christopher 'The Flashrider' Bratusek [Maintainer]
Janek 'The Re-Animator' Kozicki [Ex-Maintainer]
Timo Korvola [Coreteam Member]
Guillermo S. Romero [Coreteam Member]
Teika 'Mister X' Kazura [Coreteam Member]
Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz [Debian Packager]
Jeremy Hankins [Coreteam Member]
Matthew Love [Contributor]
Nolan Leake [Contributor]

In addition to the above people, librep and rep-gtk releases are also courtesy of:

Jürgen Hötzel [Contributor]
Alexey I. Froloff/ALT Linux [Contributor / Distributor]
And anyone else I forgot to mention.

Big shouts to the whole Sawfish-Posse! Stay Tuned!

Happy Installing, a lots of christmas-presents and a happy new year,
Chris

Last but not least the complete NEWS from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0:

1.6.0
=====

* The 1.6.0 release has new features and bugfixes

* Build and installation changes
- New/Updated requirements:
+ librep 0.90.0 -> 0.90.4

+ rep-gtk 0.18.4 -> 0.90.0

- Removed requirements: LibAudioFile and ESounD

- Mouse buttons 6 - 9 support is now optional

Support for 6 - 9 mouse buttons is now optional.
X.Org/XFree86 headers only define up to 5 buttons, and we use
a working but somewhat hackish workaround for getting buttons
6 - 9 which is suspected to cause some problems with
modifiers. Support for them is enabled by default. If you
want to disable it, add the following flag to configure:

`--without-nine-mousebuttons'

If you drop it, then you can't use mouse button 8 to, for
example, drag windows.

- Installation directory change

Directory `libexec' is not used anymore for library files
installation. Instead, they go into `lib' by default.

* Incompatible user visible changes:
- Configurator's binary, `sawfish-ui', is renamed to
`sawfish-config' [Christopher Bratusek]

Its window class is changed to `sawfish-configurator' /
`Sawfish-Configurator', too. The lisp module is renamed from
`sawfish.ui' to `sawfish.cfg'.

- Infinite Desktop boundary behavior and option

In `infinite-desktop', the option to specify the boundary
behavior has changed. If `viewport-boundary-mode' is
`dynamic', then you can go as far as you like. Otherwise, it
stops at the workspace boundary of which size is specified by
`viewport-dimensions'. Now the latter is the default. See also
"dynamic viewport" described below.

The previous variable,
`infinite-desktop.stop-at-workspace-borders', which is used
for this purpose, no longer exists.

- User config file changes

In Sawfish < 1.6, `sawfish.wm.defaults' is loaded by default,
only if the `~/.sawfishrc' lacks. Now, it is always read, so
you don't have to `require' it. It sets up GNOME or KDE
support if found running, and does load the error-handling
module.

Since Sawfish 1.5 `~/.sawmillrc' is no longer a valid
configuration- file. From this version on, Sawfish will
rename `~/.sawmillrc' to `~/.sawfishrc', if the former does
exist on your system, but the latter doesn't.

- In configurator, the "Matched Windows" group has been renamed
to "Window Rules"

- Sound support has changed. [Christopher Bratusek]

Sawfish used to rely on ESounD and LibAudioFile to play
sound, but we dropped that. If you want sound, set the
variable `play-sample-program' to the path of the program
capable of playing *.wav file. You can set the variable from
the Configurator, too. By default `paplay' is beeing used.

You can't set any arguments to pass from this variable. If
you want to give arguments or redirect output, write a wrapper
program. (*note FAQ::, "Sound support" section.)

- GNOME integration updates [Christopher Bratusek]

GNOME support is trimmed down. All we offer now is as follows:

If GNOME runs, in `session' submenu under Sawfish root menu,
logout and shutdown from GNOME are added. Don't remove `quit'
and `restart' from menu now. GNOME help is available in menu.

Unless set by user, gnome-terminal.wrapper and
gnome-www-browser are used for user options `xterm-program'
and `browser-program'.

Most of dropped GNOME integrationcode is ancient, mainly for
1.x and early 2.x. Files `lisp/sawfish/wm/commands/gnome.jl'
and `lisp/sawfish/wm/state/gnome.jl' are deleted.

GNOME-Detection has been updated for recent versions. [Alexey
I. Froloff]

- xterm and browser changes

Module `sawfish.wm.commands.xterm' is renamed to
`sawfish.wm.commands.launcher'. Option `xterm-args' is
dropped. If you use it, simply append its value to
`xterm-program'.

Customization-group is changed from `misc' to `External
Applications'.

The functinon `display-url' is renamed to `browser', now
defined in the module cited above. Variable
`display-url-command' is renamed to `browser-program'.

- Sawfish pager

If you've been using Sawfish-pager, then you have to
recompile it, due to library files location change.

- Deletion of `user-level' property

(This affects almost none.) There has been a defcustom
property `user-level'. It has been deprecated for years, and
it's now deleted.

* Bugs fixed:
- Prevents crashes for quick window destructions, especially
under high load

There have been crashes if a window is destroyed soon after
its creation. It happens in `add_window' function, and the
cause is guessed to be garbage collection following window
destruction before the object access.

Now most parts of `add_window' are protected from garbage
collection with `rep_PUSHGC' / `rep_POPGC'. It also prevents
`add_window_hook' from being called with uninitialised
argument. [Timo Korvola, Janek Kozicki]

- Random window disapperance prevention

There're reports of sudden, random window disapperance, under
Xinerama and some other drivers. It is partly prevented, but
not completely, as this may also be caused by other libraries
or buggy video drivers.

Now in error_handler() in src/display.c, when a window sends
request_code 12 (X_ConfigureWindow), don't auto-assume it to
be unmapped. [Janek Kozicki]

- Build and Installation:
+ Library check: Fix in `SMlib' and `libICE' check on
x11r7 [Christopher Bratusek]

+ `.desktop' files fixes: typos fixed and unneeded entries
removal [Christopher Bratusek]

+ In spec file, repexecdir definition is fixed
[Christopher Bratusek]

+ In `po/Makefile.in', a wrong call of make-pot is fixed
[Christopher Bratusek]

+ Always build the FAQ upon make [Christopher Bratusek]

+ Expand REP_ENVIRON in scripts/Makefile.in [Luis Rodrigo
Gallardo Cruz]

+ Add `--tag=CC' to libtool where necessary. It unbrakes
compilation on some arches [Gentoo Linux]

+ Use $prefix/lib instead of $prefix/libexecdir, to
satisfy the FHS [Christopher Bratusek]

- In configurator,

Strings are now fully translatable [Alexey I. Froloff]

SpinButton listens to manual value change. (It's now
connected to the correct signal.) [Christoper Bratusek]

Position parameters can be negative [Christopher Bratusek,
Teika Kazura]

- Fixed Focus issues with KDE4 Menu/Run-Dialog [Timo Korvola]

- Fix cursor-warping in conjuction with Infinite-Desktop
[Jeremy Hankins]

- Fixed group of the stagger options [Christopher Bratusek]

- Fixed a call of `select-workspace-from-first' [Michal Maruška]

- In `Simple' theme, windows are now resizable from the right
border [Christopher Bratusek]

- Missing exports are now supplied, for shrink-yank functions
and `send-to-workspace'. [Christopher Bratusek]

- Commands `maximize-window-fullscreen' and
`maximize-window-fullxinerame' work. [Teika kazura]

- Variable `this-command' is `nil' outside of command call.

- Customization option `uniconify-to-current-viewport' has been
undeprecated. [Teika kazura]

* New features:
- New application menu [Matthew Love, Timo Korvola]

Sawfish now generates application menu automatically, by
reading `/usr/share/applications/*.desktop' files. If you
manually set `apps-menu', then it won't be. If you like to
have both your own applications menu and auto the generated
one, then refer back to `user-apps-menu' rather than
`apps-menu'. In addition you can use the variable
`desktop-directory' to specify a different directory to look
for *.desktop files, or a set of directories, if desired.

Root, and Window-Operations menus are revamped, too.
[Christopher Bratusek]

- Added options to change the font color of window title,
independent of the theme in use [Matthew Love, Christopher
Bratusek, Timo Korvola]

Internally, a new function `remove-frame-part-value' which
allows to change/remove values from frame-parts is used.
[Timo Korvola]

- Sawfish does now support theme-tarballs compressed with XZ
(aka LZMA2) and LZMA [Christopher Bratusek]

- Xinerama support for Grow/Pack [Nolan Leake]

Make grow/pack Xinerama aware. The support still remains
basic, as it only supports up to 3 displays. Shrink-yank
hasn't been changed at this point.

- Window rules can be set by lisp

Window rules (former "matched windows") can easily be set from
configurator, but it can now be set by lisp, too, with
`add-window-matcher' function. For the details, *Note Window
Rules by Matching::. An example usage is like this:

(add-window-matcher '((WM_NAME . "^root$")
(WM_CLASS . "^XTerm/xterm$"))
'((ignore-program-position . t)
(maximize . vertical)))

In fact, this function has already existed, but now it can
now specify both windowname and -class, also the grammar has
changed. The old syntax is still allowed, but deprecated.

- Keymap translation [Scott Scriven]

Sawfish can "translate" keymaps for each window. Suppose you
have the following lines in your `~/.sawfish/rc':

(add-window-matcher
'((WM_NAME . "^Terminal$"))
'(keymap-trans . (("C-n" "C-S-t")
("C-w" "C-S-w"))))

Then, when you press `C-n', any windows with name "Terminal"
receive `C-S-t', and so on.

This is part of window rules, but it cannot be exposed in the
configurator yet.

- New window rules
+ Maximizations `fullscreen' and `full-xinerama' are
available now (*note Maximizing Without Borders::)
[Jeremy Hankins]

+ Window position can also be specified by the direction,
like north or east, instead of the coordinates. [Jeremy
Hankins]

+ New window rules `new-workspace' and `new-viewport',
which place a window on the first empty Workspace or
Viewport (if there's none, one will be generated), have
been introduced [Jeremy Hankins]

If `new-workspace' is chosen, then the window is put in
an empty workspace, or a new workspace is created if
none. A workspace with sticky windows only are
considered empty. `new-viewport' is the same but an
empty viewport is chosen. If none is, the workspace is
enlarged, and the window is put in a new viewport.

+ `window-name' can change the window's name. [Christopher
Bratusek]

- New commands [Christopher Bratusek]

5 new move-cursor commands, 4 diagonals and 1 to center.
(*note Pointer Functions::

Three window manipulation commands, `double-window-size',
`halve-window-size', and `move-window-center'. The former
two are based on the `resize-by-factor' metafunction.

`browser' invokes a browser instance.

- New functions `rename-window' changes the window name. [from
"mmc" fork, Christopher Bratusek]

In practice, it works, but technically speaking, the window
name is not supposed to be changed in ICCCM, by the
Window-Manager.

`viewport-windows' returns windows in a viewport. [Jeremy
Hankins]

`get-window-by-class' and `get-window-by-class-re'
[Christopher Bratusek]

- Dynamic Viewport-Boundary-Mode [Jeremy Hankins]

When you set `viewport-boundary-mode' to `dynamic', then the
workspace grows and shrinks dynamically so that it contains
all windows and the current viewport. For the details, *Note
Dynamic Viewport::.

- KDE4 integration module [Christopher Bratusek]

KDE4 is automatically detected. KDE help, and KDE logout,
shutdown, and reboot are provided in the menu. In KDE4 WM
Selector, Sawfish is added.

Unless set by user, konsole and konqueror are used for user
options `xterm-program' and `browser-program'.

- Poweroff from menu

Added poweroff commands in menu for non KDE/GNOME users.
There are reboot, halt, suspend and hibernate. The used shell
commands can be set from configurator, under "Misc" ->
"External Applications". If you don't want it, set
`want-poweroff-menu' to nil.

User needs the appropriate privilege. For a way to do so, see
*Note FAQ::, "Shutdown privilege" section.

Reboot and halt call `before-exit-hook' and do
`delete-window' to each window before actually rebooting or
halting, to ensure everything is fine on the next startup.

- New Frame Classes [Christopher Bratusek]
A "frame class" defines frame component and are used by
themers to add buttons or frames to their theme in charge.
There are no user visible changes.

+ `sticky-button', a button to toggle window `sticky' or
`viewport-sticky'

+ `lock-button', a button to toggle window position `fixed'

+ `rename-button', a button to rename the window-title and
window-icon properties (not ICCCM compliant)

+ `move-resize-button', a button to perform various move
and resize actions on a window

+ `raise-lower-button', a button to perform various
raising and lowering actions on a window

* Widget Transistion [Christopher Bratusek]
- Custom make-url-widget replaced by GtkLinkButton

- Custom about-dialog replaced by GtkAboutDialog

- GtkButton + GtkPreview + GtkColorSelection trio replaced by
single GtkColorButton

* Other Changes:
- Startup window placement improvement [Jeremy Hankins]

At Sawfish startup including restart, maximized windows and
position specified windows used to mess up viewport, appearing
in wrong viewports. It's fixed now.

- Renamed `after-add-window' to `maxmize-after-add-window'
This function is only used in a hook [Teika Kazura]

- Don't let `cycle-class' and `cycle-class-backwards' ignore
WINDOW-ORDER [Daniel M. German]

- Docks/panels are unframed, and window type is set to `dock'
by default [Timo Korvola]

- You can exit from sawfish-client with `,quit' (also `C-d'),
unlike `C-c' it won't kill the WM [Teika Kazura, Timo Korvola]

- Number widget (GtkSpinButton) can take optional initial value
[Teika Kazura]

- Changing `raise-tabs-on-hover' takes effect immediately now
[Christopher Bratusek]

- Inactive windows in Crux theme do now have black text for
better readability [Christopher Bratusek]

- With new option `customize-redirect', configurator's output
can be redirected. [Teika Kazura]

- Grow/Pack and Shrink/Yank options are in the same group now
[Christopher Bratusek]

These commands are now available from window operation menu,
too.

- When moving a window the cursor shape is now `hand2', when
resizing `crosshair' [Christopher Bratusek]

- In the theme document in the configurator, the cursor is
invisible and the wrap mode is set to word-char [Christopher
Bratusek]

- Build, installation and source
+ Improved ebuild [Christopher Bratusek]

+ Encoding is unified to utf-8 for all distributed files
[Teika Kazura]

+ Squashed all bytecompiler warnings [Matthew Love]
Some warnings were superfluous, though.

+ To info file `dir' the section `sawfish' has been added
[Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz]

+ Distclean rule for po/Makefile.in [Christopher Bratusek]

+ Removed ancient sawmill removal fragments from Makefile
[Christopher Bratusek]

+ Block comments in lisp files are now semicolons
Sorry, without reason. Block comment remains allowed.

- Docs
+ Added man-pages for `sawfish', `sawfish-client' and
`sawfish-config' [Debian]

+ News items for 1.5.0 are rewritten in a more readable
fashion [Teika Kazura]

+ Info manual updates [Christopher Bratusek, Jeremy
Hankins, Teika Kazura]

+ Added new contributors to `THANKS' section of
`CONTRIBUTING' [Christopher Bratusek]

+ Updated OPTIONS and KEYBINDINGS [Christopher Bratusek]

+ Fixed the license header of tabbed-windowing files
[Christopher Bratusek]

Re: Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T09:36:58Z

> Well, I guess from time to time we also actually use it rather than
> configuring it, don't we?

I do both at the same time :^)

Happy holidays!

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Re: Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T09:28:55Z

> It would be really nice to create the icons on demand, so the actual
> contents are displayed.

Well don't hold your breath though :^)

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Re: Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T09:26:39Z

> You mean something like a new window-matcher `window-icon'?

Yes, something that would match by default the icon provided by the
application, but give the possibility to use an icon defined by the user.

> That would be configuration-intensive, but do as you wish. :)

Isn't sawfish all about configuration? :^)

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Re: Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T09:19:43Z

Thanks for the extremely fast answer!

> AFAIK not, as it uses the icon, that is setup for the application and
> therefore hardcoded into the given application.

Then I'll have to look into sawfish's source to modify that... I'll do that
when I'll have time!

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Changing icons in the cycling window

2009-12-22T09:15:00Z

Hello.

I'd like to change the icon that appears next to the windows name when I
cycle through windows with the Alt-TAB binding. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks.

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window menu was: Customize root menu

2009-12-21T15:42:32Z

>> Well, your defvar is overidden by the menu.jls defvar,
>> setq/define-special-variable while overcome that. Just for the record.

Fabrice> Ok, thanks for that.

Just to complement the info you have gotten. I don't configure the root
menu, but the window menu. The advantage is that this way you can call
commands that take a window as a parameter

(setq window-ops-menu
`((,(_ "Mi_nimize") iconify-window
(insensitive . ,(lambda (w)
(not (window-iconifiable-p w)))))
(,(lambda (w)
(if (window-maximized-p w)
(_ "Unma_ximize")
(_ "Ma_ximize"))) maximize-window-toggle
(insensitive . ,(lambda (w)
(not (or (window-maximized-p w)
(window-maximizable-p w))))))
(,(_ "Toggle Maximize _Vertically") maximize-window-vertically-toggle w)
(,(_ "Toggle Maximize _Horizontally") maximize-window-horizontally-toggle w)
(,(_ "_Move") move-window-interactively)
(,(_ "Move _Inside") dmg-move-window-inside w)
(,(_ "Popup r_oot menu") popup-root-menu)
(,(_ "U_pdate to head") dmg-update-to-head)
(,(_ "_Resize") resize-window-interactively)
(,(_ "_Close") delete-window)
()
(,(_ "_Toggle") . window-ops-toggle-menu)
(,(_ "In _group") . window-group-menu)
(,(_ "_Send window to")
(,(_ "_Previous workspace") send-to-previous-workspace)
(,(_ "_Next workspace") send-to-next-workspace)
(,(_ "Copy to p_revious") copy-to-previous-workspace)
(,(_ "Copy to ne_xt") copy-to-next-workspace))
(,(_ "Stac_king")
(,(_ "_Raise") raise-window)
(,(_ "_Lower") lower-window)
(,(_ "_Upper layer") raise-window-depth)
(,(_ "Lo_wer layer") lower-window-depth))
(,(_ "Frame ty_pe") . frame-type-menu)
(,(_ "Frame sty_le") . frame-style-menu)))

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Re: Customize root menu

2009-12-21T10:31:47Z

> Well, your defvar is overidden by the menu.jls defvar,
> setq/define-special-variable while overcome that. Just for the record.

Ok, thanks for that.

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Re: Customize root menu

2009-12-21T10:16:49Z

Am Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:36:19 +0100
schrieb Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@...>:

> >> Btw, according to sawfish.texi from 1.6.0 it is documented.
> >
> > Well I'll upgrade to 1.6; but I looked in the wiki, and in the info
> > file, chap. 15, and it did say to use defvar to define it; it's
> > what's used in menus.jl too.

Well, your defvar is overidden by the menu.jls defvar,
setq/define-special-variable while overcome that. Just for the record.

> This is what I use for customizing root menu:
>
> (setq root-menu '(
> ("xterm" (system "xterm &"))
> ()
> ("firefox" (system "firefox &"))
> ("skype" (system "skype &"))
> ("vlc" (system "vlc &"))
> ()
> ("restart" restart)
> ("quit" quit)
> ("power off" (system "poweroff"))))

Daniel, if you're using Sawfish 1.6.0, you may consider

(poweroff halt)

instead of poweroff, as this does shutdown sawfish
cleanly, while

(system "poweroff")

doesn't.

By default this calls "sudo shutdown -h", but you can adjust it via

(define-special-variable halt-command "poweroff")

besides halt/halt-command, also reboot/reboot-command,
hibernate/hibernate-command and suspend/suspend-command are available
for poweroff as actions/options.

Chris

>
> HTH,
> Daniel
>

Re: Customize root menu

2009-12-21T09:38:59Z

> I mean the above is in ~/.sawfishrc

Ok, I'll try this too. Thanks!

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Re: Customize root menu

2009-12-21T09:37:10Z

>>> Btw, according to sawfish.texi from 1.6.0 it is documented.
>>
>> Well I'll upgrade to 1.6; but I looked in the wiki, and in the info file,
>> chap. 15, and it did say to use defvar to define it; it's what's used in
>> menus.jl too.
>
> This is what I use for customizing root menu:
>
> (setq root-menu '(
> ("xterm" (system "xterm &"))
> ()
> ("firefox" (system "firefox &"))
> ("skype" (system "skype &"))
> ("vlc" (system "vlc &"))
> ()
> ("restart" restart)
> ("quit" quit)
> ("power off" (system "poweroff"))))
>

I mean the above is in ~/.sawfishrc

HTH,
Daniel

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