Fvwm is a powerful window manager. Version 2.5.20 is a beta release that adds a number of features and fixes some bugs. Please be aware that any features introduced in the 2.5.x development versions may be renamed, changed or removed without notice before 2.6.0.
Upgrading from earlier 2.5.x versions is recommended. This release is available at the home page: http://www.fvwm.org/. * New features: - New Style options: StippledIconTitle, !StickyStippledTitle, and !StickyStippledIconTitle. - Full support for menu context (M) key and mouse bindings. See the section Menu Bindings in the man page for details. - Hilighted menu backgrounds now use pixmaps gradients and transparency from their related colorset. - New window conditions: StickyIcon, StickyAcrossPagesIcon and StickyAcrossDesksIcon. * Changed features: - "Mouse n M N" is no longer used to disable or remap the builtin tear off menu button. See the section Tear Off Menus for details on replacement commands. * Bug Fixes: - FvwmWinList: fix problem with window name/button mixups during Init/Restart of fvwm. (bug #1393) - It is now possible to switch the viewport while resizing windows if "EdgeScroll 0 0" is set. - Fixed disappearing windows when aborting interactive resizing of maximized windows when unmaximizing them later. - Fixed disappearing windows when moving maximized windowsand unmaximizing them later. - Fixed calculation of final location with MoveToPage and MoveToScreen with windows to the left or top of the viewport. - 64-bit architecture fix in FvwmProxy. - FvwmForm now work with balanced quoted command for Timeout. - FvwmPager correctly updates on window desk change. - FvwmIconBox: fixed problem with IconColorset's background color change not being applied immediately. - Allow FvwmConsole to run a terminal via rxvtc or urxvtc. FvwmConsole dies if no client connects within one minute. - Expansion of variables in FvwmTaskBar launch button commands fixed. - Fixed a race condition with applixations raising their own transient windows in certain ways. (Apple Shake, kphotoalbum) - FvwmIdent reports the correct geometry if the window has its title at the left or right side. - Fixed an infinite loop when deiconifying windows in a group via a different window than the initially iconified.