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title: News
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News
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Version 0.95.8 released
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Window Maker 0.95.8 was released on March 11th 2017.
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* See the [NEWS](http://repo.or.cz/wmaker-crm.git/blob/HEAD:/NEWS) file
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and/or the git logs for an overview of the changes.
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Version 0.95.7 released
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Window Maker 0.95.7 was released on August 2nd 2015.
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* Window [snapping](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/df49061) feature
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has been added, which allows one to "snap" a window to one side of the screen
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by dragging it to that side (Doug Torrance).
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* New mouse actions configuration were
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[added](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/0d0169a) to WPrefs (David
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Maciejak).
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* New button and wheel mouse
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[actions](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/f40095a) (David Maciejak).
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* Many code cleanups and refactoring by Christophe Curris.
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Version 0.95.6 released
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Window Maker 0.95.6 was released on August 30th 2014.
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* Window Maker can now load WebP images and support ImageMagick library to
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support even more formats like SVG, BMP, TGA, ... (David Maciejak)
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* Add mini-window [apercu](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c6c7652),
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a small preview of window contents (David Maciejak)
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* Support for up to 9-buttons mouse added (David Maciejak)
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* Many configuration options added to WPrefs.app (Doug Torrance)
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* Add wmiv, an image viewer application (David Maciejak)
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* Bug fixes and code cleanups by various people.
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Version 0.95.5 released
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Window Maker 0.95.5 was released on August 29th 2013.
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* Window Maker can now maximize windows to the top/bottom halves of the
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screen as well as to the corners (top left, top right etc). The keyboard
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shortcuts to do that can be configured via WPrefs (Renan Traba).
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* Support for [drawers](http://www.dechelotte.com/en/wmaker.php) in the dock
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has been added (Daniel Dechelotte).
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* Keyboard shortcuts to move windows between workspaces (Iain Patterson).
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* Window border colours and width are now configurable (Iain Patterson).
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* The menu is now able to parse command-generated
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[proplist style menus](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c21ae6b).
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WPrefs support for this has been added too (Andreas Bierfert).
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* Plus a few other new features and a lot of bug fixes and code cleanups by
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various people.
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Version 0.95.4 released
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Window Maker 0.95.4 was released on January 3rd 2013. There was a major code
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cleanup related to icons, some changes in WPrefs, the addition of a new
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"Center" placement strategy, support for _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS, the removal of CPP
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dependency to process menu files and small fixes and improvements all around.
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Version 0.95.3 released
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Window Maker 0.95.3 was released on May 16th 2012. This release fixes a
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regression which would cause more than one instance of an application to start
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(under some circumstances) when using menu shortcuts. The window maximization
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procedures now have a more intuitive behavior with respect to remembering the
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old geometry and going back to it. Furthermore, there are some other small
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fixes and cleanups.
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Version 0.95.2 released
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Window Maker 0.95.2 was released on February 14th 2012, and it contains just a
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few commits on top of 0.95.1. They were necessary to fix a few issues like
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'make dist' not compiling. Furthermore a few more code cleanups slipped in.
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Version 0.95.1 released
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Window Maker 0.95.1 was released on January 29th 2012.
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The last official Window Maker release was version 0.92.0 from 2005, and
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version 0.95.1 contains many bug fixes and also a few new features.
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### New features and highlights
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The following list is incomplete, but should give a first-order approximation
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to the new features in this release. For the truly curious among you, reading
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through `git log` is the only complete source of information.
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* [Left Half/Right Half
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Maximize](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/6924454).
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* [Maximus: tiled
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maximization](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/cf62d15).
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Maximizes a window such that it occupies the largest area without overlapping
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others.
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* [New mouse-resizing
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functionality](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a063338).
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Windows can now be resized vertically (horizontally) using MOD+Wheel
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(CTRL+Wheel).
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* [History and TAB completion in
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dialogs](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/05720d9). To use this new
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functionality in your old WMRootMenu, replace %a by %A in the relevant entry.
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It will look like this `(Run..., SHEXEC, "%A(Run, Type command:)")`. Or use
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`wmgenmenu` to generate a new menu.
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* [Bouncing appicon effect](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a257e16).
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* New applications
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([wmgenmenu](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/1861880) and wmmenugen)
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to generate the root menu automatically by looking which applications you have
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on your $PATH. Translations to German, [Spanish and
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French](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/077a2ea) of menus generated
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by wmgenmenu.
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* [Automatic detection of configuration
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changes](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/56d8568). Linux users whose
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kernel supports the [inotify](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify) mechanism
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have their configuration changes detected automatically without polling,
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reducing the number of CPU wakeups.
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* [Improved dockapp
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recognition.](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/9318a7f)
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* And many trivial things which reduce little annoyances one might have. For
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example, an option was added to control whether or not Window Maker should do
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[automatic workspace
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switching](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/d6c134f) to satisfy a
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focus request from a window located in another workspace.
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* (For developers).
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The [addition](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/442e387) of a debian/
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folder which allows the creation of a debian package for wmaker using the git
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sources.
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* [Added keyboard shortcut to uncover/cover the
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dock](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/b6689a0).
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* [Mac OS X-style window
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cycling](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/18408ff).
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* [Preliminary XRandR
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support](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c201e16) (needs a bit more
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work to be bug-free; not compiled in by default. Use --enable-xrandr if you
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want to test it).
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### Bug fixes
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Window Maker 0.92.0 was already very stable, but many bugs were fixed in this
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release. A **very** incomplete list is given below, and as time permits it will
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be updated (including links to the commits) in the future. But the message now
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is that if you don't like bugs, use version 0.95.1.
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* [Fix loading saved states on 64-bit
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systems](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/37829a7)
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* Fix to avoid a segfault when creating more than 81 workspaces, as reported on
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youtube [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNJZvKwmhE).
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* [Periodic focus bug](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c91bb1b).
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### Summary of changes
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A lot of effort was put into cleaning up the code, with lots of code removal and
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tidying things up. The following output should give you an idea of the
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development in the last cycle:
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git diff --shortstat wmaker-0.92.0+..wmaker-0.95.1
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592 files changed, 118361 insertions(+), 133342 deletions(-)
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git diff --shortstat 688a56e8ab67b..wmaker-0.95.1
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566 files changed, 37676 insertions(+), 41817 deletions(-)
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The first shortstat is really everything, including the (huge) patch generated
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in this [commit](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/688a56e) from 2009,
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which changed the old sources to the linux kernel coding style. The second
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shortstat contains the summary of development afterwards -- but included is the
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addition of a debian folder with files summing around ~20k lines. The full
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diffstat for the second command can be seen [here](fulldiffstat.html).
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