fix unresponsive taskbar when PassFirstClickToClient=0
1.2.35: 2008-01-05
Application tray bug fixes
Add encoding/language to about dialog
1.2.34: 2007-12-27
fix gmplayer switching to fullscreen
popup dialog focus fixes
fix screen change with xrandr 1.2
1.2.33: 2007-11-04
build fixes (Bert Wesarg)
fix FocusOnRaise
tray fixes
fix taskbar popup in fullscreen mode
1.2.32: 2007-08-07
fix session shutdown when logging out (Stanislav Maslovski)
tweaks to taskbar auto-hide in fullscreen mode
1.2.31: 2007-07-27
auto-hide like taskbar activation in full screen mode
fix raise/lower of windows of java6 apps
fix iconic app startup
1.2.31pre1: 2007-05-20
fix crash when using battery status applet without ACPI (flitsch)
fix CPU status applet with long uptime
zh_CN translation update (LI Daobing)
zh_TW translation update (Wei-Lun Chao)
added missing ShowSettingsMenu and ShowFocusModeMenu settings (Evgenii Terechkov)
Czech translation update
cross compilation fix (Lucas Correia Villa Real)
fix --enable-lite + --enable-gradients (Lucas Correia Villa Real)
binding to raise window with mouse (MouseWinRaise=Ctrl+Alt+Mouse1) (Thomas Holder)
Russian translation update (Evgenii Terechkov)
1.2.30: 2006-12-24
battery status cleanups
new option BatteryPollingPeriod (default 10 seconds)
1.2.30pre1: 2006-12-17
fix focus after minimizing all windows
moved Themes selection to Settings menu
added Settings -> Focus menu (config saved to ~/.icewm/focus_mode as FocusMode=1,2 or 0)
startMinimized window option fixed
new setting MapInactiveOnTop (default 1)
new setting RequestFocusOnAppRaise (when FocusOnAppRaise=0)
1.2.29: 2006-12-03
Spanish translation updated (Eulogio Serradilla)
1.2.29pre1: 2006-11-12
reduce slow down when drawing in GIMP (repeated titlebar update)
fix relayout when screen rotates
fix crash with qt4 apps
German translation fixes
altgr_binding_support by Jörg Sommer
Apple PMU support by Jörg Sommer
1.2.28: 2006-09-10
fix potential crash with layer/z-order changes
Spanish translation update (Eulogio Serradilla)
1.2.28pre2: 2006-08-31
fix smart placement
warning fixes
1.2.28pre1: 2006-08-24
start menu pixmap now named: taskbar/start.xpm
fix zOrder in ShowDesktop action
fix occasional keyboard navigation malfunction in the start menu
try to mouse focus only when mouse actually moves to another window
prevent focusing taskbar with mouse focus
use locale strings in 'icewm-menu-gnome2'
also search for .png icons when only basename is specified (Manuel Carrasco)
change mouse cursor when dragging the taskbar (Manuel Carrasco)
major focus cleanups and improvements
icewmtray: catch HUP signal to reload theme and other fixes (Manuel Carrasco)
new preferences option: WinMenuItems (default=rmsnxfhualyticw) (Manuel Carrasco/Marko Macek)
1.2.27: 2006-08-06
Danish translation (by Ole Carlsen)
added 'Look=flat' (oscarello)
added TaskbarButtonWidthDivisor (lysanderslair)
minor workspace switching optimization - Ramunas Lukosevicius \<lukoramu@parok.lt>
new FSF address added in COPYING
1.2.26: 2006-04-16
fix icesh workspace switching (Thomas Holder)
Polish translation fix (Pawel Chwalowski)
fix focus after closing fullscreen window
new option: TaskBarShowTransientWindows (default = 1, for now)
1.2.25: 2006-02-03
fix resize of maximized windows when taskbar set to AutoHide
fix support for screens 0.1 and up
1.2.25pre1: 2006-01-31
fix format in window size/position display (Bert Wesarg)
fix configure to use pkg-config for xft (Marius Feraru)
fix build with Sun Forte C++ (Grant McDorman)
icewmtray crash fixes (Grant McDorman)
1.2.24: 2006-01-22
option to --replace an extisting window manager
change menu scroll wheel direction (Thomas Holder)
paint desktop tray background (Thomas Holder)
gcc 4.1 build fixes (Hanno Boeck)
fix gcc strict aliasing errors (Pavel Nemec)
1.2.24pre1: 2005-12-04
restore Dutch translation from Ton Kersten
zh_TW translation from Wei-Lun Chao
fix TaskBarKeepBelow=1 preference
fix problems in horizontal maximization
implemented support for --replace option
Make shaped decorations work in 21 bit graphics cards (like those common in sparcs) -- Bernhard R. Link
1.2.23: 2005-08-14
make taskbar pop out even when collaped
Slovak translation update (Zdenko Podobny)
1.2.23pre1: 2005-07-31
fix crash when hiding the taskbar and "collapse" button is hidden
fix repeated drag over taskbar icon not working
fix problems with Unmap events being handled incorrectly
customizable placement order options for minimized window icons (MiniIconsPlaceHorizontal, MiniIconsRightToLeft, MiniIconsBottomToTop) - (Konstantin Korikov - lostclus)
1.2.22: 2005-07-17
AutoShowDelay setting (opposite of AutoHideDelay)
use Workspace status window instead of showing the taskbar when workspace changes if taskbar autohide is enabled
1.2.22pre3: 2005-07-15
fix focusing after window minimized or hidden
1.2.22pre2: 2005-07-10
Remember last focused window per-workspace
Enable the LockCommand functionality only if command found (Eduard Bloch)
new Korean translation (Ken Yeo)
1.2.22pre1: 2005-06-28
Latvian translation (Kristaps Kaupe)
Double click activates workspace in window list
Fixes to taskbar layout when only tasks visible
Made network status applets show/hide dynamically again
Add image to taskbar collapse button
Fix MinimizeToDesktop windows getting out of desktop area
Added key binding: KeySysCollapseTaskBar
Fixed UTF-8 input support in AddressBar
1.2.21: 2005-05-31
1.2.21pre2: 2005-05-16
translation: Vietnamese (Phan Vinh Thinh)
translation: Indonesian (Arif E. Nugroho)
translation update: Simplified Chinese (Hiweed Leng)
translation update: French (Frederic Bothamy)
APM applet support for NetBSD (Iain Hibbert (plunky))
add new winoption: noFocusOnMap
fix ClientWindowMouseActions for Window-Drag combination
1.2.21pre1: 2005-03-20
improve selection of "urgent" windows with alt+tab
fix possible crash (Grant McDorman)
fix 64bit usage of Xft (Marcus Meissner)
cleanup warning on still-open file descriptors
disabled some Ctrl+Alt+Del commands by default since they need some configuring to work on all systems
fix desktop layer setting for nautilus
1.2.20: 2005-01-09
fix+revert default binding for MouseWinMove an MouseWinSize
fix 1 pixel border when taskbar at top of screen
fix themes not loading from user directory
1.2.19: 2004-12-26
fix crash/build failure when taskbar disabled
fix build/link with some gcc/g++ versions
1.2.18: 2004-12-18
changed icedesert colors (Hanspeter Roth)
1.2.18pre1: 2004-12-05
disable SupportsSemitransparency by default, this makes icewmbg exit after setting the image and reduces memory usage
fix Meta key handling typo
fix CPU waste in icewm-session and icewmtray
fix some Win+x key combinations
new settings MouseWinMove (=Alt+Ctrl+Pointer_Button1) and MouseWinSize (=Alt+Ctrl+PointerButton3). The default bindings have changed from Alt+button drag to Ctrl+Alt (or Super).
1.2.17: 2004-11-07
fix: windows were not expanding when taskbar was hidden
fix: reused (hidden) application windows popped up on original workspace
fix: build with --disable-taskbar
fix: maximize/restore for rxvt
fix: reboot/shutdown functionality (default configuration changed to use 'sudo')
1.2.17pre2: 2004-10-31
fix crash on startup when mailbox or net status disabled
fix build with gcc > 3.3
fix gray lines on taskbar bottom
major changes in window geometry/layout handling
fix "tray icon"
1.2.17pre1: 2004-10-24
fix \ quoting in configuration files (Eduard Bloch)
fix "win" key when NumLock active
more weird modifier map fixesa
updated Slovenian translation (Jernej Kovacic)
add the button to collapse the task bar
rewrite of taskbar layout code
force Imlib to use default visual (fix xorg visual mess)
vertical layout for Alt+Tab (Eduard Bloch)
1.2.16: 2004-08-16
fullscreen fix for _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN (affects mplayer)
use our own replacement for basename
ACPI battery status fix (gicco)
fix bug 984427 (addressbar ignores backspace when numlock pressed)
Polish translation update
1.2.15: 2004-08-09
enable locale for icesh
1.2.15pre4: 2004-08-05
fix crash/lockup at startup in ACPI status applet when ac module not loaded
tray icon sizing cleanups
fix bug 883518: keyboard gets locked until icewm menu is activated
double buffering fixes
French translation update
Finnish translation update (Taisto Kuikka)
menuprogreload menu keyword added (Konstantin Korikov) syntax: menuprogreload title icon timeout command ...
battery status display for FreeBSD (Hanspeter Roth)
smart snap window positioning triggered by C+S+A+numpad (Bert Wesarg)
key to show desktop (Super+D)
1.2.15pre3: 2004-08-01
icesound gcc 2.95.3 compile fix (Thomas Zajic)
net status support for OpenBSD (Hanspeter Roth)
FreeBSD build fix (Hanspeter Roth)
basename cleanups for FreeBSD
systray cleanups for wine, ...
battery status uses design capacity (Hanspeter Roth)
1.2.15pre2: 2004-07-18
Slovak translation (Radovan Stas)
fix activation from gnome-2.6 panel to properly raise window
fix transparency support (caused crashes in xchat...)
NetBSD support for NetStatus (Iain Hibbert)
net modifier setup code to cope with weird xorg modifier setup
1.2.15pre1: 2004-06-27
fix ppp applet isdn online status
fix focusing new+maximized windows
fix some alt+tab pref combinations (hidden + all/group workspaces)
some more gcc 3.4 fixes (morfic)
1.2.14: 2004-05-22
minor tweak to alt+tab behavior when selecting from all workspaces
1.2.14pre16: 2004-05-09
netwm modal state broken, disabled
make menu/config file parsing behave more like sh (handle both single and double quotes) -- Eduard Bloch
Italian translation update
Czech translation update
fix build with gcc-3.4
1.2.14pre15: 2004-05-02
add new theme yellowmotif (Andreas Leitgeb (avl42))
fix in window mapping code for Citrix client
bug fixes in xft clipping
1.2.14pre14: 2004-04-20
Solaris fixes to configure.in (Damjan Perenic)
implement EWMH "modal" state
show themable preferences in ~/.icewm/preferences
fix order in CPU Status (Hanspeter Roth)
1.2.14pre13: 2004-04-12
fix antialiasing of menu icons
fix raising of new window when in fullscreen
Linux Kernel 2.6 iowait,irq,softirq cpu status support (Hanspeter Roth)
improved support for NetWM hints (state: above, below, ...)
fix delayed mouse focus with fast keyboard desktop switches
1.2.14pre12: 2004-03-21
fixed icon antialiasing with IMLIB
fix crash with XPM icon loading
Solaris fixes (Damjan Perenic)
1.2.14pre11: 2004-03-16
minor bug fixes and build fixes
1.2.14pre10: 2004-02-29
fix comile with --enable-lite
CPUStatus fix for FreeBSD 5.2 / gcc 3.3.3 (Hanspeter Roth)
fix crash in CPU status (L10N related, translations need to be updated)
made ShowMenuButtonIcon setting themable again
KeyWinMaximizeHoriz binding (no default key yet)
Italian translation update (Yuri Bongiorno)
Finnish translation update (Taisto Kuikka)
Turkish translation (CoÅku Erdem)
1.2.14pre9: 2004-01-19
improve maximized window position handling on workspace switches
1.2.14pre8: 2004-01-11
add Xft font specification for Infadel2 theme
image support for the "show desktop" icon
change startup order in icewm-session (icewm now first, startup last)
minimize all / show desktop should not minimize unminimizable windows
improvements to icehelp
fix winoptions icon override behavior
keep theme history in ~/.icewm/themes (Eduard Bloch)
1.2.14pre7: 2004-01-03
fix reaping of children in icewm-session
initial mapping code cleanup
1.2.14pre6: 2003-12-30
fix "lost focus when maximizing" in mouse-focus mode
fix "Super+key" bindings again
remove line/string length limits for preferences file
1.2.14pre5: 2003-12-25
fix problem with replaying Super+X when not activating menu
build fixes for FreeBSD
build fix for Xrandr \< 1.0 (not tested)
*bsd cpu status support (Hanspeter Roth)
1.2.14pre4: 2003-12-23
movesize-fx obsoleted
wm-session obsoleted
header cleanups
fix monitor for linux 2.0 (Miroslav Stibor)
fix focus/click with multiple emacs frames
all font preferences now have a ...Xft variant that can be set to fontconfig pattern specification. example: MenuFontNameXft=sans-serif:size=12:bold
enabled shaped window decorations by default (configure)
1.2.14pre3: 2003-12-22
debian fixes (Eduard Bloch)
fixes and cleanups
1.2.14pre2: 2003-12-20
compile fixes for egcs-2.91.66 (Miroslav Stibor)
icewm-session explicitly terminates icewm and icewmtray (Hanspeter Roth)
code refactoring and cleanup
1.2.14pre1: 2003-11-01
initial support for XRANDR
enable alt+Tab in LITE
only allow a restricted set of prefs to be set in a theme
fix shutdown in logout menu (was a reboot)
fix crash on startup when TaskBarShowWindowListMenu=0 and TaskBarDoubleHeight=1 set (Alexander Portnoy - alexpor)
icesound fixes (some variants need testing)
nested themes menus (Eduard Bloch)
support for rollover titlebar buttons (Rob Costello)
CPU status fixes. New option: TaskBarCPUDelay (Miroslav Stibor)
Net status fixes. New options: TaskBarNetSamples, TaskBarNetDelay (Miroslav Stibor)
fixes to icewm-session
Ctrl+Alt+Numpad moves window (Bert Wesarg)
1.2.13: 2003-09-27
build fixes
only handle KDE tray protocol when icewmtray running
1.2.13pre3: 2003-09-14
ShowDesktop button added (someone make a nice icon, please)
fix defunct icewmbg processes on theme selection
fix setting themes with a SPACE in the name
KDE system tray support (experimental)
support for scaled backgrounds (experimental)
fix crash on option parsing in icesound
remove "xftdummy" foundry from default fonts (Pavel Roskin)
add reboot/shutdown to logout menu (Hanspeter Roth)
sort theme menu by name
1.2.13pre2: 2003-09-05
fix icewmbg not setting the background when started before icewm
1.2.13pre1: 2003-08-31
fix ~/.icewm/theme file permissions
fix drawing of checkboxes in menus
fix display corruption in network status
fix memory leak in icewmbg on workspace switches
fix menu behavior with xinerama
Italian translation updated
new preference "DoubleBuffer" (default: 1)
experimental: icewm-session (runs icewmbg. icewmtray, icewm and restarts icewm on crash)
1.2.12: 2003-08-24
MAJOR CHANGE: reverted preferences/theme order to same as before 1.2.10. Added "prefoverride" file for overriding theme preferences.
icewmbg is only re/started when already running
fix build with --disable-taskbar
fix build with --disable-shape
fix ShowMoveSizeStatus with OpaqueMove/Resize
1.2.11: 2003-08-19
added forcedClose window option (Hanspeter Roth)
added recent average in network monitor
fix icewmbg not setting theme background
fix spelling of _NET_WORKAREA hint (Jeff Pohlmeyer (tgeek))
fix spelling of --client-id option name (YAMAMOTO, Taku \<taku@cent.saitama-u.ac.jp>)
fix random restart failures
fix codeset handling on FreeBSD
Czech translation update (Jan Horak)
Bulgarian translation (Pavel Pyuter)
fix painting of exposed icons
1.2.10: 2003-08-11
added "Default" to Themes submenu
documentation updates
1.2.10pre11: 2003-08-10
theme selector now writes the selected theme in ~/.icewm/theme
theme selector now restarts icewmbg automatically
minor cleanups in apm applet
build fixes
Infadel2 theme cleanups (Hanspeter Roth)
1.2.10pre10: 2003-08-01
fixed icewmbg semtransparency support. icewmbg will no longer exit when semitransparency is enabled
major focus cleanups
1.2.10pre9: 2003-07-30
double buffering performance optimizations
1.2.10pre8: 2003-07-27
FIXED: taskbar tray location off by one pixel
FIXED: rendering of icons on big-endian systems when
enable-antialiasing
1.2.10pre7: 2003-07-26
FIXED: shaped windows when --enable-shaped-decorations
FIXED: icewmbg prefs now added to default preferences file
1.2.10pre6: 2003-07-25
FIXED: theme local font path with Xft/fontconfig
disabled movement of maximized windows offscreen (use shift to override)
corefonts now enabled when Xft major version = 1
1.2.10pre5: 2003-07-24
FIXED: compile with --enable-corefonts
FIXED: compile with Xft v1
Dutch translation update by Reinout van Schouwen
added internal border to taskbar
1.2.10pre4: 2003-07-19
FIXED: problem with --enable-shaped-decorations and full-screen windows (mplayer)
Italian translation update by Yuri Bongiorno
1.2.10pre3: 2003-07-13
implement support for depth 1 window icons
FIXED build with some compilers
painting is now double buffered (TODO: optional) and faster
Russian translation update (Anton B. Farygin)
1.2.10pre2: 2003-07-05
MAJOR CHANGE: the theme needs to be specified in the ~/.icewm/theme file, like this: Theme=icedesert/default.theme
Theme settings are now loaded before ~/.icewm/preferences
FIXED network monitor crash with "pl" locale (Pawel Warowny)
partial Korean translation (Hwang, Sang-Jin / Make Fabian)
LDFLAGS fix (Robert Klein)
fix problem with menufile items not having mnemonics (_)
initial implementation of NETWM system tray
1.2.7: 2003-03-08
minor bug fixes
1.2.7pre3: 2003-03-02
new option QuickSwitchGroupWorkspaces (if QuickSwitchToAllWorkspaces=1)
Italian translation update
more menu tweaks
implement NetWM window type SPLASH
ACPI status patch from Klaus Schneider
Made Alt+\<left,right mouse button> behave in more standard manner
DoNotFocus window option added.
1.2.7pre2: 2003-02-26
Major improvement in percieved speed of menus
Dutch translation by Ton Kersten
add new options: ShowRun, ShowAbout, ShowWindowList, ShowLogoutSubMenu, AllowFullscreen (Ton Kersten)
support WM_WINDOW_ROLE, too
fix detection of netwm hints for some apps
fix AutoReloadMenus bug
1.2.7pre1: 2003-02-23
fix .order file handling for gnome menus (Thomas Zajic)
changed default theme to icedesert (Nehal Mistry)
fix crash in alt+tab when window closes
rewrite icewm.spec.in Christian W. Zuckschwerdt (zany@triq.net)
Belarussian translation by Hleb Valoska (el_globus@tut.by)
tweaked character set (CODESET) detection
'Programs' menu is now invoked from menu file, not from the code
fixed fonts in Infadel2 theme when Xft is used
1.2.6: 2003-01-19
Slovenian translation by Jernej Kovacic
improve focus handling on non-xinerama multihead displays
another submenu/icon handling fix for gnome menus (Thomas Zajic)
added nonICCCMconfigureRequest window option workaround for non ICCCM compliant applications
WINDOW_ROLE handling for winoptions (Stanislav Svirid)
fix crash in mail status checker in pop/imap configuration
implement startMinimized window option, similiar to startMaximized
1.2.5: 2003-01-05
fix lockup when doing operations through window list
fix compile problem --with-xpm
fix icesh.cc focus handling (by Todd R. Eigenschink)
update workaround for some TK issues
slow startup fix (caused by broken lazy menu loading)
1.2.4: 2003-01-03
fixed submenu/icon handling for gnome menus (Thomas Zajic)
acpi optimization (Michal Ceresna)
fix crash in "Tile ..."
fix submenu deactivation problem (reported by Bernhard Walle)
fix focus loss on xmms exit (reported by Bernhard Walle)
fix problem with restarting the wm (when icewm-menu-gnome1 not present)
1.2.3: 2002-12-26
IMPORTANT: system configuration directory changed to /etc/icewm (from /etc/X11/icewm or /usr/local/etc/X11/icewm). icewm now installs it's data files in /usr/local/share/icewm.
added --disable-winmenu and --disable-taskbar configure options
bug fixes in menu code
fixed lockup when running under session manager (GNOME2)
1.2.3pre2: 2002-12-15
support for Xinerama
rewritten RPM packaging
new "menuprog" statement in menu files for reading a submenu from a pipe
Italian translation update
moved gnome menu support into an external utility (icewm-menu-gnome1) (used trough "menuprog", requires gnome 1.x)
added keybinding for showing the window list menu (KeySysWinListMenu)
1.2.3pre1: 2002-10-20 + soon
some small fixes for the swedish translation (tucker)
new APM/ACPI monitor code by Michal Ceresna (cemi)
Norwegian translation by Petter Johan Olsen
the Address Bar in the taskbar now works even without TaskBarDoubleHeight (Ctrl+Alt+Space)
new APM/ACPI battery monitoring code
rewritten the work area implementation (doNotCover should now work much better)
new "preferences" setting: focusOnAppRaise - focus the window when application requests to raise it
cleaned up the icewmbg implementation (TODO: config file for it)
fixed the Reboot vs Shutdown issue
Alt+Left Button drag now used for window move and resize (no more Ctrl+Alt)
fixed configure option: --enable-depend now used for make depend
1.2.2: 2002-09-06
fixed icewm.spec file for building RPMs
fixed CHANGES file
1.2.1: 2002-08-31
TaskBar and root menu is no longer disabled under Gnome (adjust your ~/.icewm/preferences manually: ShowTaskBar=0; UseRootButtons=0)
feature: partial support of the Enhanced Window Manager Specification (NETWM) needed for GNOME2 and KDE3 compliance flux - feature: scriptable menus (as found in WindowMaker)
feature: execute "startup" or "restart" script found in resource path ($ICEWM_HOME, $ETCDIR, $LIBDIR) after initialization
bugfix: added --help switch to icewm, allow GNU stylish long options
feature: the directory for user preferences can be selected by the ICEWM_PRIVCFG variable now (default still is and will forever be ~/.icewm, but think about the beauty of setting ICEWM_PRIVCFG to "$HOME/.etc/icewm"...)
bugfix/feature: menu parser is case-insensitive now
bugfix/feature: normal users won't need GNU make anymore
cleanup of lib/.../*.xpm by Andrey Smagin
FocusChangesWorkspace option by Daniel Pittman -- determines if a new window open on another workspace switches to that workspace
PointerRaiseDelay focusing fix by Thomas Linder
bugfix: enable menu items in window list popup only when appropriate (closes bug 217168)
change the ppp status applet to decrease the scale when the troughput goes down.
feature: improved icesh's worth by adding support for window classes
ui-change: added fullscreen window menu action; changed default key binding for hide, rollup and undoArrange action
added startMaximized{,Vert,Horz} winoptions
initial UrgencyHint implementation
added "menufile" statement for menu files
configure script defaults changed: imlib, i18n, nls are now default
1.2.0: 2002-06-30
Czech translation by Jan Horak
Lithuanian translation updated (Martynas Jocius)
1.2.0pre3: 2002-06-12
updated configure platform coverage
really fix --with-guievents / compile w/ ESD
several memory leaks fixed
1.2.0pre2: 2002-05-26
bugfix: TaskBarDoubleHeight has incorrect layout
workaround: doNotCover option removed from default winoptions (seems to have problems with GKrellM)
bugfix: --with-guievents; esd compile fix
1.2.0pre1: 2002-05-12
bugfix: fix syntax error when HAVE_BASENAME is defined (under cygwin for example)
bugfix: updated Catalan translation (thanks Toni Cunyat i Alario)
bugfix: updated config.guess in order to allow autodetection of more recent architectures
bugfix: the network load indicator field `transferred' overflew when > 2Go. Now make use of 64 bits value for the network load (See: bugs.debian.org/118728, thanks Eduard Bloch)
bugfix: fix for sefault when TrayDrawBevel=1 (thanks Julien Lemoine)
bugfix: fix for a window position which marches up the screen, noticeable when launching Galeon and Xchat (thanks Julien Lemoine)
bugfix: fix display of taskbar(in hide mode)
bugfix: fix logout problem (in icewm-lite)
bugfix: height and width problem in maximized mode (difference of 2 pixels)
bugfix: fix problem with xawdecode (in fullscreen mode)
bugfix: POP3 mailcheck breaks with some server (Thanks Rob Funk)
feature: new translation: Simplified Chinese (Thanks Li Wei Jih)
bugfix: crash when handling the application icons
bugfix: layout taskbar to the edge of the window
several options have been deprecated. Look for warning messages on the console at startup
bugfix: memory leak in hasColormap (needs performance tweak)
bugfix: close extra file handles before running apps
bugfix: force layer for dialogs above the parent window
bugfix: fix handling of window gravitu
bugfix: winoptions geometry option fixed
bugfix: handling of win95 keys (XK_Super_L, XK_Super_R) ...
1.0.9-2: 2001-10-09
bugfix: show application supplied frame icons even if without icon mask
bugfix (for binary distribution): determinate the langinfo codeset item id on runtime
bugfix: remove icons from icon cache when destroyed
bugfix/compatiblity hack: fallback to linux.xpm when provided by the current theme
bugfix: window menu crashed when tray completely disabled
bugfix: tray crashed when compiled without gradient support
bugfix: #469081 Java cause IceWM to crash on mapping
feature: new translations: Croatian (Vlatko Kosturjak), Italian (Riccardo Murri), Lithuanian (Gediminas Paulauskas), Polish (Przemyslaw Sulek), Romanian (Tiberiu Micu)
bugfix: killed dangling WindowOptions::icon pointer in combineOptions
bugfix: limitSize still was broken (Max Kirillov)
bugfix/feature: ColorScrollBarInactiveArrow
feature: continuous edge switching
bugfix: colored edge switching cursors
bugfix: COMPOUND_TEXT handling (Florin)
feature: HorizontalEdgeSwitch and VerticalEdgeSwitch
feature: LowerOnClickWhenRaised lower the active window when clicked again
bugfix: #445264 CenterMaximizedWindows=0 was broken
bugfix: dynamic chaning of client icons
bugfix: reparenting (aka. swallowing) should work now
bugfix: comments into config examples about discarding of changes
bugfix/feature: massive I18N cleanup: fallback to C locale; proper dectection of multibyte mode; unicode conversion; clean, C++ stylish font handling; ...
feature: added icesh - a command line window manager
bugfix: mailbox monitor falls back to /var/spool/mail/$LOGIN when neither MailBoxPath nor $MAIL are set.
bugfix: use argv[0] to build the themes menu
enhanced "Starting icewm" section of INSTALL and added a section describing how to setup Xft
experimental feature: antialiasing for icons and text; configure with --enable-antialiasing and --enable-xfreetype;
enable-antialiasing attempts to activate XFreeType support implicitly; use the XFreeType option to disable XFreeType support on runtime. Xnest (XFree86 4.1.0) crashes on startup when Xnest is invisible - why? Are there other X servers with this problem?
feature: allow to toggle between environment and root property base GNOME autodetection on compile time; configure with --with-gnome-root-property[=atom] and
without-gnome-root-property
feature: menu item to toggle doNotCover flag; due some internas the window has to be sticky (allWorkspaces flag) to let this option take effect.
feature: Move/Resize FX (experimental bloat); options: MoveSizeFXFontName (string), MoveSizeInterior, MoveSizeDimensionLines, MoveSizeGaugeLines, MoveSizeDimensionLabels, MoveSizeGeometryLabels (bitmasks); configure with --enable-movesize-fx; problem: Expose problems in other windows with opaque mode. Need to grab XServer. Better solutions?
feature: TitleBarHorzOffset/TitleBarVertOffset
feature: TimeFormatAlt option (Jan Krupa)
feature: icon tray (Jan Krupa) options: TaskBarShowTray, TrayDrawBevel, TrayShowAllWindows window option: tray (Ignore: no icon on tray (default); Minimized: icon on tray and if not minimized also on task pane; Exclusive: icon on tray only (and not on task pane))
bugfix: renamed START_PIXMAP from linux.xpm to icewm.xpm
bugfix: #427048 compatibility issues in Makefile.in
bugfix: #424194 ellipsis for long labels on mini icons
feature: pixmap for workspace buttons: create a "workspace" subdirectory and name your workspaces accordingly to the pixmaps in this directory
feature: allow transparent menu selection (ColorActiveMenuItem="")
feature/bugfix: support taskbar/taskbutton* pixmap for all pixmap looks (not only gtk)
feature/bugfix: corner pixmap can have another size than specified by CornerSizeX/Y now
experimental feature: gradient support the option "Gradients" lists the pixmaps to scale; titlebar gradients can be adjusted with TitleBarJoinLeft and TitleBarJoinRight; configure with --enable-gradients
feature: transparent applets (clock, net/cpu status): use an empty string for their background/idle color
bugfix/feature: DisableImlibCaches
bugfix: reduce warnings with Intel's C++ compiler for Linux
feature DesktopTransparencyColor/Image: fast, but memory consuming static effects for semi-transparent windows -- I love it
optional (and experimental) feature: /proc/wm-session support (mainly useful for X-PDAs, details in README.wm-session)
feature: mouse wheel support for menus, holding shift increases velocity by factor 2.5 (should UseMouseWheel be respected?)
bugfix/feature: support for runonce hotkeys
feature: show all icons in quickswitch and more. new options: QuickSwitchShowIcons, QuickSwitchTextFirst, QuickSwitchSmallWindow, QuickSwitchHugeIcon, QuickSwitchFillSelection, QuickSwitch{Horz,Vert,Icon}Margin, QuickSwitchIconBorder, QuickSwitchSeparatorHeight, ColorQuickSwitchActive (inspired by Andrew Oliver´s and Marius Gedminas´s patches #400421 and #400635)
feature: added support for menusep.xpm, menusel.xpm pixmap to improve themes using menubg.xpm
bugfix: provide consistence behaviour in resource priority for absolutely and relatively specified themes (reported by Helmut Pitters)
feature: new keybindings: KeySysCascade, KeySysArrange, KeySysTileVertical, KeySysTileHorizontal, KeySysUndoArrange KeySysArrangeIcons, KeySysMinimizeAll, KeySysHideAll (inspired by Liav Asseraf)
bugfix: #420404 superfluous separator for empty menu files
feature: ShowGNOMEAppsMenu, ShowGNOMEUserMenu, ShowKDEMenu (inspired by Liav Asseraf, Chmouel Boudjnah)
feature: improved net status tooltip, multiline tooltips (inspired by Marius Gedminas)
bugfix: ctrl-double click resets net monitor graph (Marius Gedminas)
feature: additional keys to move/resize windows (use combinations of shift and ctrl to speed up, KP_Begin (5 on keypad) to center) (#400633: Marius Gedminas)
feature: multiple mailbox and network monitors
feature: added mkbuilddir.sh
feature: MailClassHint, ClockClassHint, CPUStatusClassHint NetStatusClassHint and default values
feature: TaskBarLaunchOnSingleClick command
1.0.8-6: 2001-05-07
bugfix: #419977 icewm-default-1.0.8-5 used invalid --prefix
feature: improved handling of the Penguin/Win_L/Win_R key
feature: MenuMaximalWidth option
feature: TitleBarCentered replaced by TitleBarJustify option
bugfix: autotracking was broken for submenus
feature: TaskBarShowWindowIcons option
bugfix/feature: themeable scrollbars
feature: ShowLogoutMenu option
bugfix: attempt to fix globally active input mode (focus problems with Nautilus)
feature: option
bugfix: when reading \xnn sequences very next char was ignored
feature: DontRotateMenuPointer option (cteg, du nervst ;-))
bugfix: consider horiz/vert border when moving maximized windows
bugfix: item selection in window listbox (focusVisible)
bugfix: dragging of scrollbars broken when modifiers were active
bugfix: renamed "Infadel2/All Buttons.theme" to "Infadel2/Overloaded.theme" (some shells do not like "creative" file names containing space characters)
1.0.7: 2001-03-13
feature: consider horiz/vert border when maximizing (heiky, slow)
feature/bugfix: taught the clock applet to respect the user's current locale (if compiled with I18N support)
feature: native support of semitransparency (gkrellm, Eterm, aterm)
bugfix: respect user defined key bindings for window switching
bugfix: fixed a little show stopper in themes menu
feature: colored mouse pointers (inspired by Oleastre)
feature: simple online help (powered by Marko's icehelp)
bugfix: automatic resizing according to limited workarea
feature: advanced ESound support in icesound (Ch. W. Zuckschwerdt)
feature: YIFF support in icesound (Tara Malina)
bugfix: heavy code cleanup in icesound (Tara Malina)
feature: add the theme directory to the X server's font path it contains a file named fonts.dir
bugfix: new URL decoder (for mailbox monitor) handling escaped characters
bugfix: accept Courier-IMAP's STATUS responses
feature: support for IMAP subfolders
bugfix: documentation updates
bugfix: some bright parts of menus weren't themeable (white was used instead of a brighter version of the background color)
bugfix: improved handling of _WIN_WORKAREA property (allows applications like the GNOME panel to limit the workspace available for regular applications) (inspired by Coventive)
feature: runonce keyword in menu, toolbar and keys files (inspired by Coventive)
bugfix: destruction of transient windows created dangling pointers (gnomermind bug)
bugfix/feature: support for WIN_HINTS_DO_NOT_COVER (solves the trouble with opening drawers and the "Keep below windows" option of the GNOME Panel, LimitByDockLayer restores old behavior, added doNotCover winoption for applications like gkrellm)
feature: TaskBarKeepBelow option
bugfix: icesound: GNUish usage screen, cleanup/conversion into C++, NLS support
bugfix: cleaned up library dependencies (a little bit)
feature: two new titlebar pixmaps: title[JQ][AI].xpm, look into Infadel for reference
feature: well, some people will smack me: Invadel2 as new default theme
1.0.6: 2001-01-14
feature: theme menus lists theme source
feature: scaling of application supplied icons (Imlib only)
feature: spanish translation (Antonio de la Torre)
bugfix: "About" desktop menuentry for lite version
bugfix: malformed "NOTE" comment generated by genpref
bugfix: speparate build/install targets for icesound
bugfix/feature: more flexible compile time path configration
bugfix: ppp/net status on non linux/freebsd machines
feature: zh_TW.Big5.po (originally by Li Wei Jih)
bugfix: Proper handling of Shift-Motion in WinListBox
feature: new .spec file building different incarnations of icewm from one .src.rpm file (Alexander Skwar)
feature: distribution of window manager property file for GNOME
feature: French messages (Frédéric Dubuy)
feature: Finnish messages (Mika Leppänen)
feature: shadows for titlebar texts (slow) - since too much people couldn't wait for 1.0.7....
1.0.5: 2000-12-12
NLS support (Yoichi ASAI, Tomohiro Kubota, Mathias Hasselmann aka. tbf)
workspace switch status (tbf)
font guessing for non-latin1 fonts (Tomohiro Kubota)
infinite ToolTipTime (Marius Gedminas)
key to switch between current and previously active workspace (Marius Gedminas)
improved handling of transient windows which's parent was minimized/hidden (Markus Marcek + tbf)
improved GNOME menu handling (NLS, ordering, icons, toplevel menu) (tbf, inspired by oleastre)
support for KDE menus (with GNOME libraries) (tbf, inspired by oleastre)
minor icesound improvements (oleastre)
external logout signal (kill -QUIT) (tbf)
1.0.4: 2000-06-11
minor fix for tcl/tk apps (please report any more tcl/tk again)
fix -c option restart (tnx to Diego Zamboni)
auto-detect multiByte (by
exit Start menu with Alt or Win/...
1.0.3: 2000-03-19
empty taskbar window title fix
set pointer default for each toplevel window
mwm hints tweaking
multiple SIGHUP restart fix
1.0.2: 2000-02-19:
clock should not get stuck anymore
improved handling of wrong MWM hints set by netscape
fixed saving of rolled up window geometry
use $LOGNAME if $USER not set
APM \& PPP status improvements
1.0.1: 2000-01-13
ToolTipTime didn't actually work :)
fixed fontset loading problem
i18n (build), MultiByte (config) now enabled by default. If you use an 8-bit character set (most european users), be sure to set $LC_CTYPE correctly (I use sl_SI.iso88592).
1.0: 1999-12-26
minor doc changes
fix for overlap detection by Giuliano Pochini
new option: ToolTipTime (time before tooltip is hidden)
