Add the -m|--merge-config command line option to iterate backwards over
XDG Base Dir paths and read config/theme files multiple times.
For example if both ~/.config/labwc/rc.xml and /etc/xdg/labwc/rc.xml
exist, the latter will be read first and then the former (if
--merge-config is enabled).
When $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is defined, make it replace (not augment)
$HOME/.config. Similarly, make $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS replace /etc/xdg when
defined.
XDG Base Dir Spec does not specify whether or not an application (or a
compositor!) should (a) define that only the file under the most important
base directory should be used, or (b) define rules for merging the
information from the different files.
ref: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
In the case of labwc there is a use-case for both positions, just to be
clear, the default behaviour, described by position (a) above, does NOT
change.
This change affects the following config/theme files:
- rc.xml
- menu.xml
- autostart
- environment
- themerc
- themerc-override
- Theme buttons, for example max.xbm
Instead of caching global config/theme directories, create lists of paths
(e.g. '/home/foo/.config/labwc/rc.xml', '/etc/xdg/labwc/rc.xml', etc).
This creates more common parsing logic and just reversing the direction
of iteration and breaks early if config-merge is not wanted.
Enable better fallback for themes. For example if a particular theme does
not exist in $HOME/.local/share/themes, it will be searched for in
~/.themes/ and so on. This also applies to theme buttons which now
fallback on an individual basis.
Avoid using stat() in most situations and just go straight to fopen().
Fixes#1406
This builds on the work of @Consolatis in #1018.
Co-authored-by: Consolatis <35009135+Consolatis@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrew J. Hesford <ajh@sideband.org>
- typos: LINGUAS manually, rest with help of aspell(1)
- whitespace: some trailing spaces/tabs, one utf-8 NBSP (#xC2 #xA0)
- made most text in docs/ fit in max 80-column wide lines
- consistent trailing periods in sentences in labwc-actions.5.scd and
labwc-config.5.scd; labwc-theme.5.scd had different consistency,
changed it follow these other files with sentence-ending periods
- and ", respectively" (comma often used to separate)
It is nice to have finer granularity for device types to allow for
configurations such as using `naturalScroll` on touchpads, but not on
regular pointer devices such as mice.
The AutoPlace action will apply placement_find_best() to an active view,
moving it to a position on its output that will minimize overlap with
other views.
Support showing full application
identifier or the trimmed variant in window switcher OSD.
Regression notice: For anyone using ‘identifier’ in window-switcher field configuration, change it to ‘trimmed_identifier’.
...so that svg and png icons only support the max_toggled_hover format.
There is no need to support max_hover_toggled because there are no
backward compatibility considerations as Openbox does not handle png and
svg icons.
...and treat max_hover_toggled.xbm as an alternative name supported for
compatibility reasons.
Use the following button filename schema: "BUTTON [TOGGLED] [STATE]"
with the words separted by underscore and with the following meaning:
- BUTTON can be one of 'max', 'iconify', 'close', 'menu'
- TOGGLED is either 'toggled' or nothing
- STATE is 'hover' or nothing.
This is consistent with the openbox.org wiki and it is believed that this
is how the vast majority of extant openbox themes out there are written.
But please be aware that it is actually different to vanilla Openbox which
uses: "BUTTON [STATE] [TOGGLED]" following a commit in 2014 which broke
themes and led to some distros patching Openbox:
35e92e4c2a
Arch Linux and Debian patch Openbox to keep the old syntax (the one that
this commit aligns us with).
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/openbox/-/blob/main/debian-887908.patch?ref_type=heads
...to address regression introduced by 57075ce and enables panel/desktop
clients which rely on window rules to remain in the same position when
the usable-area changes (normally because an exclusive layer-shell
clients is started/finished).
Also disallows interactive move/resize, for example by alt +
mouse-press.
Fixes: #1235
Fixes#1076
It can be enabled with a config like
~/.config/labwc/rc.xml:
<keyboard layoutScope="window">
~/.config/labwc/environment:
XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=de,us
XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS=grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll
With a configuration like this each window should now remember
the active keyboard layout when switching between windows.
By default, the keyboard layout keeps being a global state.
This is a useful (if lesser-known) feature of at least a few popular X11
window managers, for example Openbox and XFWM4. Typically right-click on
the maximize button toggles horizontal maximize, while middle-click
toggles vertical maximize.
Support in labwc uses the same configuration syntax as Openbox, where the
Maximize/ToggleMaximize actions have an optional "direction" argument:
horizontal, vertical, or both (default). The default mouse bindings match
the XFWM4 defaults (not sure what Openbox has by default).
Most of the external protocols still assume "maximized" is a Boolean,
which is no longer true internally. For the sake of the outside world,
a view is only "maximized" if maximized in both directions.
Internally, I've taken the following approach:
- SSD code decorates the view as "maximized" (i.e. hiding borders) only
if maximized in both directions.
- Layout code (interactive move/resize, tiling, etc.) generally treats
the view as "maximized" (with the restrictions that entails) if
maximized in either direction. For example, moving a vertically-
maximized view first restores the natural geometry (this differs from
Openbox, which instead allows the view to move only horizontally.)
v2: use enum view_axis for view->maximized
v3:
- update docs
- allow resizing if partly maximized
- add TODOs & corrections noted by Consolatis
