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<h3>Version 0.95.1 released</h3>
<p>Window Maker 0.95.1 was released on January 29th 2012.</p>
<p>The last official Window Maker release was version 0.92.0 from 2006, and version 0.95.1 contains many bug fixes and
also a few new features. Window Maker 0.92.0 was already very stable, so most of the bug fixes are related to odd or
not very frequent situations. One random example is the fix which avoids a segfault when creating more than 81
workspaces, as reported on youtube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNJZvKwmhE">here</a>.</p>
<p>Another bug-fix of peculiar nature is this <a href=
"http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c91bb1ba1360006c568db37438779e525868cf17">one</a>, which happened once every
49 days -- more precisely 2^32 milliseconds.</p>
<p>A lot of effort was put into cleaning up the code, with lots of code removal and tidying things up. The following
output should give you an idea of the development in the last cycle:</p>
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[mafra@Pilar:wmaker.git]$ git diff --shortstat wmaker-0.92.0+..wmaker-0.95.1
592 files changed, 118361 insertions(+), 133342 deletions(-)
[mafra@Pilar:wmaker.git]$ git diff --shortstat 688a56e8ab67b..wmaker-0.95.1
566 files changed, 37676 insertions(+), 41817 deletions(-)
</pre>The first shortstat is really everything, including the (huge) patch generated in this <a href=
"http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/688a56e8ab67b56550e2874d9d7423f0d435bfd9">commit</a> from 2009, which changed the old
sources to the linux kernel coding style. The second shortstat contains the summary of development after that patch.
<h2>New features and highlights</h2>
<p>This list is really very incomplete, but should give a first-order approximation to what are the new features in
this release. For a bit more of details see the NEWS file included in the sources, although it also misses a lot of
things. For the truly curious among you, reading through <code>git log</code> is the complete source of
information.</p>
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<p>Left/right window maximization, making them occupy the left/right area of the screen</p>
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<p>Maximus (a.k.a tiled) maximization. Maximizes windows such that it occupies the largest area without overlapping
other windows</p>
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<p>New mouse-resizing functionality. Windows can now be resized vertically (horizontally) using MOD+Wheel
(CTRL+Wheel)</p>
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<p>History and TAB completion in the run dialog</p>
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<p>A WPrefs option to make icons bounce when their respective applications want attention</p>
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<p>New applications (wmgenmenu and wmmenugen) to generate the root menu automatically by looking which applications
you have on your $PATH</p>
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<p>Automatic detection of configuration changes. Linux users whose kernel supports the <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify">inotify</a> mechanism no longer can have their configuration changes
detected automatically without polling, which reduces the number of CPU wakeups</p>
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<p>Dockapps can now receive special treatment by setting their WM_CLASS to "DockApp"</p>
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<p>And many trivial things which reduce little annoyances one might have. For example, an option was added to
control whether or not Window Maker should do automatic workspace switching to satisfy a focus request from a
window located in another workspace.</p>
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<img src="v0_95_1.png" alt="Info v0.95.1" width="382" height="257" /></p>
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