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Release Notes |
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This document includes a summary of major changes for each revision of Eterm. |
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Changes made to rxvt 2.21 include |
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- Better (read: working) implementation of utmp logging and added security; |
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needs to be tested on different platforms; |
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- Support for Rasterman's Imlib - used for loading and scaling the background |
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pixmaps; |
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- The command line option -pixmap now takes '@' as the delimiter between |
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the pixmap name and geometry. The old delimiter, ';', is NOT supported |
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any more. It was UGLY. Period. <g> ; |
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- A new command line option, --scale or -@, was added. It will scale the background |
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pixmap "to fit"; to fill the whole background of the Eterm window; |
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- The binary was renamed to Eterm; |
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- Several bug/annoyance fixes. For example, fixed a problem with DEBUG_UTMP |
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that printed garbage when running with the debugging messages enabled. |
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See also #define NDEBUG in feature.h; |
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- Minor speedups. |
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More changes for 0.3 (included in some 0.2 versions), as described by Michael: |
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- Installs signal handlers that, among other things, make core |
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dumps secure by revoking privs and changing its umask to 077. |
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It also prompts for whether or not it should dump core, timing |
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out after 10 seconds or if it gets a SIGT(STP|TIN|TOU) |
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- Changes stuff that said rxvt to Eterm (most places, but I probably |
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missed a few). |
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- Fixes SVR4/utmpx compile under HP-UX 10.X |
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Utmp logging support was fixed to work on FreeBSD (tested on 2.1.5 and 2.2.2) |
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for 0.3a. Thanks to Brian Gottlieb for doing it. |
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Changes made to 0.3b include a few portability additions and fixes (HP-UX, |
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OSF/1) and a few changed (commented out) #define's in feature.h. |
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Eterm DR-0.4x included a number of patches for bold fonts, security, |
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utmp logging, etc. |
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Several bugs were fixed for DR 0.5. Thanks to Michael Kellen for his |
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Solaris patch. |
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Thanks go to Steve <steve@rage.org> for his help with security. |
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Changes in DR-0.6: |
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- Finally got the distribution tree cleaned up to remove most all traces |
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of left-over rxvt SPAM(tm). For now, however, credit for most of the |
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docs still remains with the rxvt people. |
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- No more .Xdefaults support. The X Resource Manager (Xrm) code has |
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several known security holes which make any program making |
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XGetDefault() calls insecure. Since Eterm generally runs as root, |
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this is unacceptable. So too is reading .Xdefaults directly, which |
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it had been doing up until now. From DR-0.6 on, it will read (in |
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proper Enlightened fashion) ~/.Eterm/MAIN, which will be a very |
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E-like config file. See doc/MAIN.dist for a sample. |
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- The config files support $ variable expansion, ~ expansion, single/double |
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quotes, and (if #defined) backquotes. PLEASE read the accompanying |
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notes in src/feature.h before #defining ALLOW_BACKQUOTE_EXEC. Also |
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supported is the %include macro. |
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Changes in DR-0.6a: |
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- Lots of bug fixes: |
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- The font options now accept font names starting with '-' |
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- Intense colors are no longer off by one. |
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- Scrollbar and cursor color configuration options now work properly. |
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- Eterm now changes back to the original directory after searching for |
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a config file. |
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- Command line options now take precedence over config file options |
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- -h and --help now work properly, instead of asking for a string value |
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- MAIN.dist.in now contains a value for cut_chars that works right when |
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ALLOW_BACKQUOTE_EXEC is #defined. |
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- The "video reverse" in MAIN.dist.in is now "video normal", because I |
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got sick of people saying there was a bug in Eterm that caused their |
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foreground and background colors to be swapped. :^) More of a |
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cl00bie-didn't-read-the-comments fix than a bug fix.... ;) |
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- New features: |
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- A "magic number"-like identifier that will prevent Enlightenment config |
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files from being read by Eterm. See doc/MAIN.dist for details. |
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- Secure execution of backquote commands in config files, even if Eterm |
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runs setuid/setgid. |
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- Invalid contexts are skipped entirely with only one error message. For |
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example, if you don't compile in kanji support, you'll only get one |
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warning instead of 5 or 6. |
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- -H and --home-on-echo options, which will cause Eterm to jump to the |
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bottom of the screen when something is echoed there, if you're viewing |
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the scrollback buffer. There is also a new attribute "home_on_echo" in |
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the toggles context of the config file for this option. Thanks to Casey |
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<casey@netcomi.com> for his help with this. Just in time, Casey. :) |
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- There is now a script which randomly chooses a pixmap from ~/.Eterm/pix |
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that can be executed in your config file. This script requires the |
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dorand program (source provided) and can be found in doc/random_pixmap.sh |
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Changes in DR-0.7: |
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- Theme support. The options were changed to -t and --theme. Consult the FAQ for |
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more info on themes. |
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- Alternate config file option. This has been integrated into theme support, but |
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can also work independently thereof. If you don't like the name MAIN for your |
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config file, or want to run a certain Eterm with a different config file, use |
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the -X or --config-file option. |
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- Borderless Eterm windows. Use the -x or --borderless option to get a borderless |
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Eterm. Remember, you'll want to specify a geometry, since you won't be able to |
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move it, and something to exec. If your window manager supports it, it is |
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recommended that you use that functionality rather than Eterm's built-in option. |
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- Built-in functions. Several functions have been added to facilitate the building |
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of more robust config files. The currently-supported functions are: |
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- %appname() Returns the current application name. "Eterm-DR-0.7" as of |
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Eterm 0.7. |
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- %version() Returns the numeric version. |
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- %random(...) Randomly chooses one of its parameters and returns that. |
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- Other new options (consult the MAIN file and the --help screen for more info): |
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- -E and --home-on-refresh |
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- --pointer-color |
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- --scrollbar-right |
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- --scrollbar-floating |
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- -M and --menu (Menubar code is beta, so use it at your own risk) |
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- --term-name |
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- Config file support for all the above. Also: |
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- exec (context misc) For use with themes.... |
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- Some major and minor bug fixes. Nobody noticed, so I won't go into details. :) |
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- Support for Window Maker's "docking", thanks to CmdrTaco (Rob Malda) |
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(http://slashdot.org/malda/) |
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Changes in DR-0.8: |
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- Several experimental features are in, like active tags, fake transparency, |
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and threads support. Use them at your own risk; they are unsupported and |
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known not to work right. We chose not to fix them since we're going to |
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rewrite the whole thing anyway (see http://ganja.tky.hut.fi/resurrection/) |
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- The FORCE_BACKSPACE feature introduce in 0.7 PL5 has been disabled for now; |
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you can't succesfully start Eterm as a background process with it |
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- The new fake transparency option, -O/trans, only works OK with a pixmap |
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the size of your root window / resolution. Test it with an exact image |
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of your root window for a neat effect :) Note that escape sequences for |
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changing the background pixmap will be ignored. |
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- Two new config file options, "trans" and "save_under", have been added. |
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Read themes/Eterm/MAIN for more information. The corresponding new |
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command line options are -O and --save-under. |
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- Fixed the pixmap handling code so that the menubar stuff works right now. |
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Thanks to Cliff Wright <cliff@vixen.itdl.ds.boeing.com> and keebler |
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<keebler@ncal.verio.com> for their help with finding and fixing this. |
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- The Xterm-style scrollbar feature (defined in src/feature.h) will actually |
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compile and run properly. The restriction on size to 15 pixels has |
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been removed as well. Thanks to Peter Norby <norby@inktomi.com> and |
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Hal Black <hal@hablack.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> for supplying patches for |
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this. |
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- Made several changes to the configure script so that hopefully it will |
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work for a larger percentage of the populace. :-) Some of the changes |
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were suggested by John Reese <jtr@pyro.ugcs.caltech.edu> and Hal Black |
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<hal@hablack.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>. |
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- Added MIN_ANCHOR_SIZE to src/feature.h which allows you to specify a minimum |
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size for the scrollbar anchor. Good for large scrollback buffers and/or |
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small windows. Still a mite flaky at the bottom of the scrollbar, but it |
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works. Credit for the idea goes to Stephen Farrell <stephen@farrell.org>, |
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though the actual code was largely rewritten. |
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- Added CHANGE_SCROLLCOLOR_ON_FOCUS to src/feature.h which makes the |
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scrollbar "disappear" (i.e., become the background color) when the window |
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loses focus. This feature was suggested by Scott Heavner |
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<sdh@falstaff.MAE.cwru.edu>. |
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- Added option --menu-text-color and config file attribute menu_text, |
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which allow you to change the color of the menubar text. This feature |
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was suggested by Scott Heavner <sdh@falstaff.MAE.cwru.edu>. |
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- Fixed a bug for FreeBSD that only allowed Eterm to open 16 tty's at |
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once. Thanks to Christopher Mann <r3cgm@cdrom.com> for finding this |
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one. |
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- PL1 |
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- Fixed bug which caused scrollbar not to redraw properly |
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- PL2 |
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- Rewrote the string functions in src/misc.c to be faster. Also, support |
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for "\C" and "C-" to represent the Ctrl-key modifier was added. |
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- Added MENU_TEXT_FLOATING to src/feature.h which puts the menubar text |
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in the middle of the menubar buttons (which is, IMHO, where it belongs, |
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but apparently someone disagrees :-) -- mej). |
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- The pre-release stuff in RELNOTES.Eterm has been removed. |
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- Added an "emacs" theme for GNU Emacs or XEmacs in a text window. |
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- Got rid of that damned annoying preedit type error. :-) |
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- Added call counting for the malloc routines in libmej/mem.* thanks to |
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Michael Wolf (Elessar) <mawolf@concentric.net>. |
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- PL3 |
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- Changed themes/Makefile.in so that existing themes in |
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${prefix}/lib/Eterm/themes do not get overwritten by the "make install" |
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routine. Sorry, stupid oversight on my part. :( -- mej |
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- New "chooser" theme. Read the comments at the top of |
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themes/chooser/chooser.menu for more details. :) |
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- New extended command "echo" in the ESC ] 10 ; set. See the chooser |
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theme for implementation examples. Basically, it echoes its parameters |
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and tacks a carriage return on the end. |
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- Fixed the bug introduced in PL2 which caused a border width < the shadow |
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width to not properly display the menubar. This was only noticeable in |
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the mutt theme or to users who specifically set border_width to 0 or 1. |
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- Eterm now sets the environment variable ETERM_THEME_ROOT to point to the |
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root directory of the theme it is currently using. |
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- PL4 |
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- Made several portability improvements in the configure script and its |
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associated files. |
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- Moved the active.tags file into the themes directory, which is the |
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location from which it is installed. |
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- The configure script now builds src/feature.h instead of the make process |
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so that it will be there before the make is done. If src/feature.h.in is |
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updated, however, src/feature.h will still be generated from it by a make. |
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- The installed Eterm binary will be Eterm-<version_number>, and Eterm will |
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be created as a soft-link to that file in the $bindir directory. |
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- Eterm will now guess the install prefix (${prefix}) based on where gcc is |
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located, unless you give a --prefix on the command line. This keeps me |
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from having to use it. If it makes you have to use it, tough break. =P |
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- Added the --with-imlib option to configure. If you specify |
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--with-imlib=/some/path, the compiler will look in /some/path/include |
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for Imlib's header files and in /some/path/lib for Imlib itself. You can |
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also specify --without-imlib, which will disable pixmap support entirely. |
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- PL5 |
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- Fixed the problem with the Eterm -> Pixmap -> None menu item. |
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- IMPORTANT NOTE: One of the src/feature.h defines added in version 0.8 was |
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the MIN_ANCHOR_SIZE #define. There are KNOWN PROBLEMS with using this feature |
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and trying to scroll up from the bottom using Shift-Prior, the up arrow on the |
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scrollbar, etc. If this bothers you, COMMENT OUT that line in src/feature.h. |
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Fixing this problem will require a redesign of how Eterm looks at scrolling |
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and positioning the terminal window relative to the scrollbar and vice versa. |
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This may or may not happen in the current development cycle. |
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- Added the CTRL_CLICK_RAISE #define to src/feature.h which allows a mouse |
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click in the terminal window while holding the Ctrl key to raise the window |
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and steal keyboard focus. This is useful if you are stuck without a window |
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manager for one reason or another or for using Eterm as an X session manager. |
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- Also added an escape sequence, ESC ] 5 ; BEL, to perform the same task, and |
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added a menu item called "Steal Focus" to send that escape sequence. |
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- Fixed the "bug" that made command-line paths relative to the current theme |
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as well as paths in theme config files. Searching relative to the current |
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directory takes place after searching the directories in the "path" line |
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(from the config file). (I have "bug" in quotes because it wasn't really |
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a bug -- all paths were interpreted relative to the theme used -- but it |
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applied to command-line variables too, which was very confusing to some.) |
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Changes in 0.8.6: |
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- For starters, we changed the naming convention. No more "DR" and "PL" stuff. |
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We got asked too many stupid questions. ("What's the P 15 mean?") Starting |
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with this release, we'll be using numbers only. The third number will still |
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indicate the patch level, however. |
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- Added support for imlib-config script supplied with Imlib 1.8 and up. This |
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speeds and simplifies the calculation of CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for proper |
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linking with Imlib. |
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- Fixed problems with compilation on NetBSD thanks to Clifford Wright |
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<cliff@snipe444.org>. |
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- Redid the themes to support the new pixmap mechanism I'm working on. Once |
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the new pixmap archive comes out, you'll want to remove your themes |
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directory ($prefix/lib/Eterm/themes by default) and install the themes |
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contained in this distribution. Get the new Eterm Backgrounds Collection |
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at http://www.tcserv.com/archive/E/ or a mirror near you. |
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- Reworked the transparency mechanism thanks to Gerald Britton |
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<gbritton@mit.edu> and Nat Friedman <ndf@mit.edu>. It now takes a copy |
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of the root window's pixmap and uses that. It responds to all moves and |
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resizes by updating the pixmap. No requests for changing pixmap are |
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honored by a transparent Eterm (the -O or --trans options). Furthermore, |
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this will probably only work in Enlightenment. And for the full effect, |
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you'll want to run it without scrollbar/menubar and borderless (the |
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latter being done either through Enlightenment or with the -x option). |
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- Added the Esetroot program, which sets the root pixmap atom for those |
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who don't use Enlightenment as their window manager. There has been |
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mixed feedback on whether or not this program works. YMMV. |
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- Added a theme to demo some of the pseudo-transparency features. Use |
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"Eterm -t trans" to invoke it. |
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- Some pseudo-transparency toys are in too. The option --shade will darken |
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the portion of the desktop "showing through" the Eterm window. Results |
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in a "smoked glass" effect. This option can also be used with the |
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--tint option to provide a colored glass effect. See the man page for |
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more information. Also be sure to check out the effect of the |
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--scrollbar-floating option with transparency. :) |
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- Fixed compilation without pixmap and/or menubar support. The options |
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--disable-menus and --without-imlib can, when passed to the configure |
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script, be used to automatically disable menubar and pixmap support, |
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respectively. |
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- NEW MAN PAGE!! At long last, the man page has been updated with the new |
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options. Many thanks to Shaleh <shaleh@debian.org> for doing this. |
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- The values "yes" and "no" can now be used as boolean values in options |
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and config file entries, along with 0/1, true/false, and on/off. |
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- Eterm now changes the color of the scrollbar when losing focus. If no |
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unfocused scrollbar color is specified in the config file or on the |
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command line, you will not notice it. See the man page and the default |
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config files for more info. |
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Changes in 0.8.7: |
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- The old libmej is now built as a shared library as well as a static one. |
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Also, everything but the main() function has been moved into a library, |
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libEterm. Since most people use lots of Eterms at once, creating a shared |
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library will reduce the text segment of each Eterm significantly, saving |
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quite a bit of memory per Eterm. |
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- Removed MIN_ANCHOR_SIZE and added -a (--min-anchor-size) option. It is 0 by |
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default so ppl won't complain about the scroll-up "bug". |
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- Lots of fixes to Esetroot |
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- CygWin32 support. May take a little bit of effort, but it works. |
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- Escape sequences to toggle transparency and shading, as well as set tint, |
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are in. Toggling transparency works. The others don't yet. |
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- Newer Linux versions required a hack to open the display. |
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- Cleaned up privileges toggling. |
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- Changed the --watch-bg option to --watch-pixmap, which will hopefully make it |
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less tempting for people to think it has something to do with transparency. |
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- Added the --watch-desktop option which causes a pseudo-transparent Eterm to |
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monitor the desktop pixmap for changes and update accordingly. |
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- Several various parser cleanups. |
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- Transparency can now be done via Imlib rather than Xlib. It is markedly slower |
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but offers more configureability, like shading by percentage (--shade-pct) and |
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tinting masks (--tint <24-bit mask>). |
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- Shading now works for 8bpp pseudo-color displays. This formerly generated an |
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error message about the X server not setting the visual info properly. It is |
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not fast by any means, but that's what you get for having an 8bpp video card. |
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- Fixed the menubar code so that the menus aren't clipped by the window or screen |
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edge. |
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- Changed the shell_expand() function in options.c so that \' within single quotes |
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would insert a single quote. This differs from the shell behavior, but I prefer |
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it. :) |
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- More *BSD utmp fixes. |
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- Added debugging features configureable at configure-time. Also added stack |
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tracing on crash. |
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- Fixed the bug with dragging a transparent Eterm across E's desktop dragbar. It |
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reparents to the root window for a bit, but once you drop the window, it changes |
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backdrops right on cue. Also works when moving Eterm windows between desktops. |
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Note that this requires the use of the -W (--watch-desktop) option. |
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- \e[9n prints the pixmap filename in the title bar. In transparency mode, prints |
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transparency info to the title bar. |
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- New --home-on-input option which split off part of --home-on-echo |
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Changes in 0.8.8: |
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- Better, more detailed man page. Now if only people would read it.... |
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- Shading is now done by percentage, and tinting by hex mask. See the man page for |
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more info. |
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- Lots of new options: --menubar-move, --anim, --pause, --viewport-mode, |
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--xterm-select, and --select-line. See man page for details. |
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- FORCE_BACKSPACE and FORCE_DELETE have been fixed. |
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- KS_DELETE (the strings associated with pressing the Delete key) is now set to ^? |
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by default. If you don't like that, you can set it back, or use the keysym |
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attribute in the config file, or whatever. |
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- --with-cc=prog argument to ./configure to specify an alternative compiler. The |
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default looks for egcs, then pgcc, then gcc, etc. |
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- Eterm-specific escape sequences: |
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Syntax: ESC ] 6 ; <op> ; <arg> BEL |
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where <op> is: 0 toggle transparency |
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1 set shade percentage |
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2 set tint mask |
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3 forced update of pseudo-transparent background |
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30 Do not use |
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40 Do not use |
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and <arg> is an optional argument, depending |
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on the particular sequence being used. It |
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(along with its preceeding semicolon) may or |
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may not be needed. |
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- X errors are handled more gracefully and with more helpful information. |
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- The --disable-stack-trace option to ./configure, whose use is obvious. |
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- Added an icon and associated option/attribute. |
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- As always, lots of bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. |
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- The -center option for Esetroot. Centers the pixmap. |
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- Eterm is now FHS compliant, meaning that the theme and image directories are |
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now under ${prefix}/share/Eterm instead of ${prefix}/lib/Eterm. See the |
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move-themes script included in the distribution. |
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Changes in 0.8.9: |
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- Support for scrolling with mouse wheels. |
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- New --version switch to display compile-time configuration. |
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- Tinting and shading have been sped up by about 30% thanks to Michael Pearson |
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<alcaron@ozemail.com.au>. |
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- Scrollbar type and width is now customizeable at compile-time *and* run-time. |
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Support for NeXT-style scrollbars has also been added. |
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- Three *major* bugs have been fixed. Tiled desktop images no longer cause |
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crashes when tinting or shading. The resize crash bug has also been squished. |
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The secure system() call replacement which was accidentally removed has been |
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added back. |
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- Ctrl-Button1 now grabs input focus. Ctrl-Button2 toggles the scrollbar on and |
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off. Ctrl-Button3 toggles the menubar on and off. NOTE: If you used to |
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disable the menubar by commenting out the loading of the menubar file, or |
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loading a fake one (e.g., '-Mx' or '-M /dev/null'), don't. Simply add "off" to |
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the end of the menu line (e.g., 'menu Eterm.menu off'), or use the new boolean |
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command-line option --menubar (e.g., '--menubar off'). Then you can toggle the |
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menubar using Ctrl-Button3 like you would expect. |
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- Popup scrollbar support has been added. |
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- New -D (--desktop) option for choosing a desktop to start on. Your window |
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manager must be GNOME-compliant for this to work. See the documentation at |
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http://www.gnome.org/devel/gnomewm/ for info on the _WIN_WORKSPACE property. |
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- The Eterm Technical Reference has been completely rewritten. It is now an HTML |
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document located in the doc/ directory. |
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- Lots and lots and lots of new escape sequences. See the Technical Reference for |
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details on them. |
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- Oodles of small bug fixes, as always. :-) |
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- Debugging output is now runtime configurable. Use the --debug option and supply |
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a number. 0 (the default) gives no debugging output. 1-5 give increasingly |
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more output, up to 5 (which I don't recommend using) which synchronizes X events |
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(and slows things down bigtime). |
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- You can now save your current Eterm settings from the menu. |
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- New --app-keypad and --app-cursor options to set the startup mode for |
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application/normal mode for the keypad and cursor keys. |
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- Three new utilities in addition to Esetroot, all of which are located in the |
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utils/ directory. Etbg is a tool for manipulating Eterm's background image on |
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the fly. Etcolors.sh demonstrates all the different combinations of your |
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current color settings. Etmenu.sh lets you send menu commands to Eterm's |
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menubar subsystem without having to type the escape codes yourself. |
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- Borderless Eterms now attempt to use the Window Manager to become borderless |
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instead of bypassing it altogether. |
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