labwc/NEWS.md

NEWS

This file contains significant user-visible changes for each version. For full changelog, use git log

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• The config option <lab><xdg_shell_server_side_deco> has changed to <core><decoration>
• Add support for the following wayland protocols:
  • pointer_constraints and relative_pointer - mostly for gaming. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
  • viewporter - needed for some games to fake modesets. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
  • wlr_input_inhibit. This enables swaylock to be run. Written-by: @telent
  • wlr_foreign_toplevel. This enables controlling windows from clients such as waybar.
• Support fullscreen mode.
• Support drag-and-drop. Written-by: @ARDiDo
• Support libinput configuration. Written-by: @ARDiDo
• Add the following config options:
  • Load default keybinds on <keyboard><default />
  • <keyboard><repeatRate> and <keyboard><repeatDelay>
  • Specify distance between views and output edges with <core><gap>
  • <core><adaptiveSync>
  • Set menu item font with <theme><font place="MenuItem">
  • Allow <theme><font> without place="" attribute, thus enabling simpler config files
• Support for primary selection. Written-by: @telent
• Support 'alt-tab' on screen display when cycling between windows
• Add the following theme options:
  • set buttons colors individually (for iconify, close and maximize)
  • window.(in)active.label.text.color
  • window.label.text.justify
  • OSD colors
• Show application title in window decoration title bar
• Handle double click on window decoration title bar
• Support a 'resize-edges' area that is wider than than the visible window decoration. This makes it easier to grab edges to resize windows.
• Add window actions 'MoveToEdge', 'ToggleMaximize', 'Close', 'Iconfiy', 'ToggleDecorations', 'ToggleFullscreen', 'SnapToEdge'
• Add labwc.desktop for display managers
• layer-shell:
  • Take into account exclusive areas of clients (such as panels) when maximizing windows
  • Support popups
• Handle alt + mouse button to move/resize windows
• Handle xwayland set_decorations and xdg-shell-decoration requests. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
• Implement going backwards in OSD by pressing shift Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
• Handle view min/max size better, including xwayland hint support. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
• Handle xwayland move/resize events. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
• Support audio and monitor-brightness keys by default
• Catch ctrl-alt-F1 to F12 to switch tty

0.3.0 (2021-06-28)

Compile with wlroots 0.14.0

• Add config options <focus><followMouse> and <focus><raiseOnFocus> (provided-by: Mikhail Kshevetskiy)
• Do not use Clearlooks-3.4 theme by default, just use built-in theme
• Fix bug which triggered Qt application segfault

0.2.0 (2021-04-15)

Compile with wlroots 0.13.0

• Support wlr-output-management protcol for setting output position, scale and orientation with kanshi or similar
• Support server side decoration rounded corners
• Change built-in theme to match default GTK style
• Add labwc-environment(5)
• Call wlr_output_enable_adaptive_sync() if LABWC_ADAPTIVE_SYNC set

0.1.0 (2021-03-05)

Compile with wlroots 0.12.0 and wayland-server >=1.16

• Support xdg-shell and optionally xwayland-shell
• Show xbm buttons for maximize, iconify and close
• Support layer-shell protocol (partial)
• Support damage tracking to reduce CPU usage
• Support very basic root-menu implementation
• Re-load config and theme on SIGHUP
• Support simple configuration to auto-start applications, set environment variables and specify theme, font and keybinds.
• Support some basic theme settings for window borders and title bars
• Support basic actions including Execute, Exit, NextWindow, Reconfigure and ShowMenu