MAN! This is such good stuff. bbkeys 0.8.0 is hereby released on
y'all's heads </texan>. I'll paste from the ChangeLog below, 'cause I'm
tired. =:)
Erm. You still here? What are you waiting for?!?!? GO GET IT!!
http://movingparts.thelinuxcommunity.org/bbkeys.shtml !!! Available now
in tarball, rpm, deb, and tootie-frootie flavors....
Okay, from the ChangeLog....
version 0.8.0 --
- BIG changes!!! w00T!!! There's some very significant improvements in
this version, and as such, I'm calling this version 0.8.0 for various
reasons....
1) I feel like it
2) I'm thinking we're about "there", and 0.8.0 sounds like more of a
non-beta product than 0.3.8
3) I feel like it =:)
- xOr (see below) has done some majorly good coding with bbkeys. He's
implemented a different window-cycling scheme that's more
"Windows"-like (think <alt+tab> popup window with list of things you're
cycling through)... Verrrry slick. Umm. Did I say Verrrrry?
Why, yes I did. You are just going to have to see it to believe it. Blackbox
has just again become my favorite window manager for X, with the help
xOr has given to me. The window cycling methodology has changed, and
believe me, this is a change for the better. There's now two methods
of window cycling--both use the same keybindings, so don't get yer
panties tied in knots. xOr has implemented a newer, better "old-style"
window cycling, called linear cycling. It's basically what
blackbox/bbkeys has done up until this point, but with a few
significant improvements. But the really exciting new feature in this
release of bbkeys is the other way--a "stacked" cycling method. It
makes much more sense than the old way. And it's purtier, because you
can see what you're window-changing to before you actually go there.
And when you hit <alt+tab> (example keybinding--you can have it be
whatever you want it to be), it goes back to the window you were on
right before this one.
It's way cool, uber-neato, and excellently implemented. I'll expand on
this more in README, so look there for more details.
- xOr has also fixed a bug in LinkedList.cc (as posted to the blackbox
mailing list) that affected how the windows were put into the cycling
stack.
- I'm considering xOr a co-developer now (as long as he has the time and
desire, of course), but we've a project available on sourceforge.net at
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=32563 . Of course, this means
that all the usual sourceforge advantages are there, like CVS access,
etc. The project is bbconf.sourceforge.net for the time being, so
CVS access looks like this:
cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/bbconf login
<hit enter for password>
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/bbconf co bbkeys
I've imported the bbkeys tree (0.8.0 will be pulled directly from it),
and I've also imported a bbconf module. bbconf will be the new
all-in-one blackbox configuration utility (if I get some help). =:)
To get read-only access to it, do this...
cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/bbconf login
<hit enter for password>
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/bbconf co bbconf
- adding ToggleDecor as an option to toggle ummmm, window decor.... (duh).
*** BIG HONKING NOTE ***
This doesn't currently work. =:\ The code is in bbkeys, but can't
actually do anything until blackbox is changed to tell us what the
decorated state of the window is. Hopefully this will be included in
blackbox soon....
- changing order of configurator launch again, thanks to a bug report
from David Lawrence Ramsey (I had " black" instead of "black")--so we
now try rxvt before xterm, and rxvt should actually work now....
- hopefully fixing strcasecmp issue for AIX boxen--it's in strings.h
instead of string.h. Adding check for strings.h.... PLEASE let me
know if this doesn't actually fix anything. I'd like to put this guy
to bed....
- Applying patches from Ben Jansens <xor at x-o-r dot net>. His comments
are below....
I've removed all the functionality from the wminterface class that bbkeys
does not use, and reorganised the header files for wminterface and bbkeys,
adding comments for all of the class members. With this patch, bbkeys not
longer calls the blackbox cycling routines, but maintains its own list of
windows, and cycles them itself. One thing to note is that the cycling does
not occur in the same order as the buttons on the toolbar cycle. I personally
dont think this will be a big issue, and i think the new way is nicer. When a
new window opens, its added to the list right *after* the focused window,
so that hitting PrevWindow would take you back to the window that was
previously focused.
....
* VERY nice work, Ben. Thanks for your work! *
- Bug squashing and fixing galore... Thanks again to Ben for pointing
these out. The issue was that we were doing stuff to windows without
making sure the window wasn't our root window. Doh! So now we make
sure 1) we have a focus_window and 2) that focus_window isn't
PointerRoot. Hopefully that will do the trick....
You STILL HERE??? GIT GOIN' ALREADY, DUDELIE!!
http://movingparts.thelinuxcommunity.org/bbkeys.shtml
Dont' MAKE me come over there and kick you!
=:)
bbkeys. do it 'cause it's neato....
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