thank you very much for all your efforts. i'm looking forward to try out the next stable releases :)
keep up the great work! greets H.G. Kris Maglione schrieb: > Hi, > > In response to the last thread, and as a general announcement, here's > what's going on with the latest changes to the tree. First of all, > please report any bugs you find to the Google issue tracker. I'm least > likely to lose track of them that way. > > To start with, I've replaced dmenu with ‘wimenu’. It's very similar in > appearance and behavior, but has a few significant enhancements. The > biggest user-noticable change is the addition of an input caret. Now, > you can type entire command lines without fear of having to start from > scratch when you spot a typo. Second, it not supports command history. > The -h flag specifies a history file to load, and the -n flag, when > present, causes the menu to write back at most n history items to the > history file. Third, you no longer need (or even can) specify colors, > fonts, or positioning on the commandline. All such settings are read > directly from wmii's /ctl. The same now goes for wmii9menu, which has > also had its flags reduced to single letters. I hope not to make many > such backwards-incompatible changes in the future. The wimenu does, and > wmii9menu should in the future, support Xinerama and XRandR. At the > moment, it opens on the screen that holds the pointer, but that will > change to the screen with the focused client. > > I've also added Xinerama support, which is now usable, and seems to be > stable, but is far from complete. As some of you have noticed, there's > no way to modify the bar on the secondary screen. There's also only > limited support for managed mode on any but the first screen. You can > move clients into a column with the mouse, and basic keyboard > manipulation will work, but the rest is yet to come. Fullscreen mode > should now work fairly well. A fullscreen client will take whichever > screen most of its window initially resides on. Floating clients don't > yet care much which screen they open on. They'll pick whichever clear > region of the screen seems smallest. XRandR screen switching should also > work. For the moment, once you add a screen, there's no way to get rid > of it. If you remove a screen, wmii will move all of its managed clients > off-screen, and there's basically no way to get them back until you > re-add the screen. In the future, I intend for logical screens to be > independent of Xinerama screens. So, you'll be able to place any logical > screen onto any Xinerama screen, and you'll even be able to place > several logical screens onto one physical screen (so, the top may have > two columns, the bottom one, for instance). This should make it easier > to keep your managed area in order without worrying about clients > getting dumped willy-nilly when you remove a separate monitor. I may, > after some use, decide that we do, afterall, need a way to specify a > separate view for each logical screen, but we'll see. > > Comments welcome.
