Introduction

This file contains significant user-visible changes for each version. For full changelog, use git log.

Summary of Releases

Date	All Changes	wlroots version	lines-of-code
2024-08-16	0.8.0	0.18.0	23320
2024-06-19	0.7.4	0.17.4	22746
2024-06-12	0.7.3	0.17.4	22731
2024-05-10	0.7.2	0.17.3	21368
2024-03-01	0.7.1	0.17.1	18624
2023-12-22	0.7.0	0.17.1	16576
2023-11-25	0.6.6	0.16.2	15796
2023-09-23	0.6.5	0.16.2	14809
2023-07-14	0.6.4	0.16.2	13675
2023-05-08	0.6.3	0.16.2	13050
2023-03-20	0.6.2	0.16.2	12157
2023-01-29	0.6.1	0.16.1	11828
2022-11-17	0.6.0	0.16.0	10830
2022-07-15	0.5.3	0.15.1	9216
2022-05-17	0.5.2	0.15.1	8829
2022-04-08	0.5.1	0.15.1	8829
2022-02-18	0.5.0	0.15.1	8766
2021-12-31	0.4.0	0.15.0	8159
2021-06-28	0.3.0	0.14.0	5051
2021-04-15	0.2.0	0.13.0	5011
2021-03-05	0.1.0	0.12.0	4627

0.8.0

The main focus in this release has been to port labwc to wlroots 0.18 and to grind out associated regressions. Nonetheless, it contains a few non-related additions and fixes as described below.

There are a couple of regression warnings when using wlroots 0.18:

There appears to be an issue with increased commit failures, particularly with intel drivers. If this turns out to be an issue for anyone please try running with WLR_DRM_NO_ATOMIC=1 or run the labwc v0.7 branch or its latest release until this is resolved.
Fullscreen VRR is broken but should be fixed once wlroots 0.18.1 is released. Again, if that is a problem we advise to stay with the v0.7 branch in the short term until fixed. PR #2079

A v0.7 branch has been created for bug fixes beyond 0.7.3 (built with wlroots 0.17).

A big thank you goes to @Consolatis for carefully crafting the commits to port across to wlroots 0.18.0. Many thanks also to the other core devs @ahesford, @jlindgren90, @johanmalm and @tokyo4j for reviewing, merging as well as contributing many patches with fixes and new features. And in this release we have some great contributions from @jp7677, @kode54, @xi and @heroin-moose which have been attributed with a 'Written-by' against each relevant log entry.

Added

Add options fullscreen and fullscreenForced for <core><allowTearing> Written-by: @jp7677 & @Consolatis PR #1941
Optionally allow keybindings when session is locked, which for example can be useful for volume settings. Written-by: @xi PR #2041

<keyboard><keybind key="" allowWhenLocked="">

Add resistance when dragging tiled/maximized windows with config option <resistance><unSnapThreshold>. PR #2009 #2056
Implement support for renderer loss recovery. Written-by: @kode54 PR #1997
Support xinitrc scripts to configure XWayland server on launch. PR #1963
Add theme option window.button.width to set window button size. Written-by: @heroin-moose PR #1965
Add cascade placement policy. PR #1890

<placement>
  <policy>cascade</policy>
  <cascadeOffset x="40" y="30"/>
</placement>

Support relative tablet motion. Written-by: @jp7677 PR #1962

<tabletTool motion="absolute|relative" relativeMotionSensitivity="1.0"/>

Fixed

Make tablet rotation follow output rotation. Written-by: @jp7677. PR #2060
Fix error when launching windowed Chromium. PR #2069
Fix empty XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT bug. PR #2061
Take into account CSD borders when unconstraining XDG popups. PR #2016
Choose xdg-popup output depending on xdg-positioner PR #2016
Fix wlroots-0.18 regression causing flicker with some layer-shell clients like fuzzel on launch. PR #2021
Fix incorrect condition in server-side-deco logic PR #2020
Fix flicker of snapped windows in nested session. PR #2010
Fix tearing with atomic mode setting. Written-by: @kode54 PR #1996
Handle initially maximized and fullscreen xdg-shell windows better. PRs #1956 and #2007
Set initial geometry of maximized and fullscreen XWayland windows in the map_request handler to avoid visual glitches with some apps. PR #1529
Disable pango glyph position rounding to avoid text geometry jump around when changing scale.

Changed

Make windows stay fullscreen when associated output is disconnected. PR #2040

0.7.4

Fixed

Make SSD borders respect snapped state on Reconfigure. PR #2003
Fix magnifier by disabling direct scanout when active. PR #1989
Fix crash triggered by pipemenu without parent <menu> element. PR #1988

0.7.3

Following a couple of big releases, this one feels like more steady with lots of focus on bug fixes and stability. In terms of new features the most noteworthy ones include improved tablet support (by @jp7677), Super_L on-release keybinds (by @spl237 from the Raspberry Pi teams) and the screen magnifier which was a joint effort by @spl237 and @Consolatis.

Added

Add config option <core><xwaylandPersistence> to support keeping XWayland alive even when no clients are connected. PR #1961
Support xdg-shell protocol v3 with popup repositioning. #1950 Also see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/merge_requests/3514 which adds support on the wlroots side.
Add action ToggleTabletMouseEmulation. Written-by: jp7677 PR #1915
Implement <resize><drawContents>. With thanks to @tokyo4j PR #1863
Add onRelease option to <keybind> in support of binding Super_L to a menu. Written-by: @spl237 PR #1888
Add initial support for security-context-v1 (user configurable blocklists are still missing). Written-by: @nesteroff PR #1817
Add support for tablet-v2-manager. Written-by: @jp7677 PR #1678 #1882
Add action UnMaximize. PR #1831
Support multiple IME popups. PR #1823
Add All context for mouse bindings which need to be handled irrespective of the mouse pointer location. This enables Super+mouse-scroll to change magnification. Written-by: @spl237 PR #1768
Add SetDecorations action. Written-by: @xi PR #1733
Add policy option to AutoPlace action. PR #1784
Add window type filter to If-actions. Written-by: @xi PR #1731
Add screen magnifier which can be controlled with the ZoomIn, ZoomOut and ToggleMagnify actions. Written-by: @spl237 PR #1774

Fixed

When looking for menu.xml, go through all paths rather than just giving up if not found in the first path searched. This makes it consistent with how other config/theme files are handled. PR #1971
Fix memory leaks in theme.c and menu.c. PR #1971
Fix session-lock bugs related to keyboard focus. PR #1952
- Clear focused surface on lock
- Restore focused view on unlock
Fix memory leak in ssd/ssd-shadow.c PR #1954
Respect menu.overlap.x when using pipemenus. PR #1940
Do not try to restore windows to very small width/height on unmaximize. This fixes a bug with Thonny (Python IDE made with Tk). PR #1938
Conditially set squared server-side decoration (SSD) corners when a view is tiled. Written-by: @jp7677 PR #1926
Remember initial direction when starting window-cycling with PreviousView. Also make the toggling of direction when shift is pressed relative to the initial direction. For example if W-j is bound to PreviousWindow, subsequent key presses will continue to cycle backwards unless shift is also pressed. Written-by: @droc12345 PR #1919
Show dnd icon above layer-shell surfaces. PR #1936
Initialize locale after reading environment files so that client-menu items and workspace names follow the env var LANG should that be set in ~/.config/labwc/environment (which is not recommended, but we prefer to handle it properly if it is). PR #1927
Fix crash on menu.xml containing <item> without a parent <menu>. PR #1907
Reset XWayland cursor image on cursor theme reload to avoid trying to read destroyed pixel data. PR #1895
Prevent child views from opening outside of usable area. PR #1878
Fix IME popups issues (flicker when popup surface is initially mapped and incorrectly showing multiple popups). PR #1872
Rate-limit cursor-driven resize events based on monitor's refresh rate. This fixes the lag when resizing windows of some apps on XWayland, for example Chromium and Steam. PR #1861
Session-lock: fix flashing & update cursor shape. PR #1858
Remove tearing-controller listeners on destroy. PR #1853
Handle invalid ForEach and If action cofigs. PR #1838
Delay startup of applications until event loop is ready. This avoids race conditions when using autostart scripts that trigger a labwc SIGHUP. #1588
With SendToDesktop action follow=no option, ensure the topmost window is focused. #1800
Prevent XWayland from using incorrect keymap. #1816
Allow keybinds containing the hyphen key to be defined with -. Written-by: @toast #1811
Show/hide top layer more smartly. Before this commit, top layers were hidden whenever there was a fullscreen window in the corresponding output. With this commit, top layers are hidden only when there is a fullscreen window without other windows above it in the corresponding output.

Changed

Remove subprojects/seatd.wrap as no longer needed
Action MoveToCursor is deprecated in favour of: <action name="AutoPlace" policy="cursor"/>.

0.7.2

This release shaped up to be the second in a row that is larger than usual in terms of both fixes and new features. Significant additions include input-methods, pipemenus, snap-to-edge overlays and optionally drop-shadows.

As usual, most of the commits are by the core devs: @ahesford, @Consolatis, @jlindgren90, @johanmalm and @tokyo4j, but we also have many great contributions from others as noted in the log.

Added

Add <menu><ignoreButtonReleasePeriod> to prevent clicks with small movements from inadvertantly closing a menu or selecting a menu item. This is the equivalent of <menu><hideDelay> on Openbox. #1760
Support drop-shadows (disabled by default) for windows using server-side decorations. Written-by: @cillian64

<theme>
  <dropShadows>yes|no</dropShadows>
</theme>

window.active.shadow.size: 60
window.inactive.shadow.size: 40
window.active.shadow.color: #00000060
window.inactive.shadow.color: #00000040

Add window-rule ignoreConfigureRequest to ignore X11 client-side configure requests (positioning and resizing). #1446
Support window-rules based on window type: <windowRule type="">, where type can be for example NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP for an XWayland window. Written-by: @xi @txgk
Add none branch to the ForEach action. Written-by: @nicolas3121 #1298

<action name="ForEach">
  <query identifier="foo"/>
  <then>
    <!-- carry out some action on match -->
  </then>
  <none>
    <!-- carry out some action if there were no matches at all -->
  </none>
</action>

Add -S|--session <command> option to start <command> on startup and to terminate the compositor when exits. This is useful for session management as it allows the session client (for example lxqt-session) to terminate labwc when exiting itself.
In theme setting color definitions, support inline alpha encoding like #aabbccff
Add window-switcher custom field inspired by printf formatting. #1670 Written-by: @droc12345 and @Consolatis

<windowSwitcher>
  <fields>
    <field content="custom" format="foobar %b %3s %-10o %-20W %-10i%t" width="100%" />
  </fields>
</windowSwitcher>

Support defining window-switcher width as a percentage of output (display) width. Written-by: @droc12345

osd.window-switcher.width: 75%

Support Openbox compatible pipe-menus. See labwc-menu(5) for usage.
Add snap-to-edge overlay. Written-by: @tokyo4j. PR #1652 #1702 This includes the following new config and theme settings:

<snapping>
  <overlay>
    <enabled>yes|no</enabled>
    <delay inner="500" outer="500"/>
  </overlay>
</snapping>

snapping.overlay.[region|edge].bg.enabled: yes|no
snapping.overlay.[region|edge].border.enabled: yes|no
snapping.overlay.[region|edge].bg.color: #8080b380
snapping.overlay.[region|edge].border.width: 1
snapping.overlay.[region|edge].border.color: #ffffff,#000000,#ffffff

Add theme settings listed below for window-switcher preview border. Written-by: @tokyo4j

osd.window-switcher.preview.border.width: 2
osd.window-switcher.preview.border.color: #ffffff,#00a2ff,#ffffff

Support libinput config option for calibration matrices. <libinput><device><calibrationMatrix>. Written-by: @SnowNF
Add new window-switcher field content types workspace, state, type_short and output. Written-by: @droc12345 PR #1623

<windowSwitcher allWorkspaces="yes">
  <fields>
    <field content="workspace" width="5%" />
    <field content="state" width="3%" />
    <field content="type_short" width="3%" />
    <field content="output" width="9%" />
    <field content="identifier" width="30%" />
    <field content="title" width="50%" />
  </fields>
</windowSwitcher>

Support input methods (or input method editors, commonly abbreviated IMEs) like Fcitx5, using protocols text-input-v3 and input-method-v2. This includes IME popups. Written-by: @tokyo4j
Add atCursor attribute to action ShowMenu so that a window's "client-menu" could optionally be launched at the pointer using a keybind as follows:

<action name="ShowMenu" menu="value" atCursor="yes" />

Support workspace-prefix (<desktops><prefix>) for workspace-switcher onscreen display when naming workspaces by digits, for example 1, 2, 3 Written-by: @droc12345
Process all *.env files in an environment.d directory alongside and in the same way as each potential environment file.
Allow empty variables in environment files. In other words, respond to variable declarations of the form "VARIABLE=", with no following value, by setting the corresponding environment variable as an empty string.
Add optional headless fallback output that is automatically created when no other output exists. Enable this by setting the environment variable LABWC_FALLBACK_OUTPUT to the desired output name. The feature benefits applications like wayvnc the most by ensuring that there is always an output available to connect to. #1618 Co-Authored-By: Simon Long simon@raspberrypi.com
Optionally show windows on all workspaces in window-switcher.

<windowSwitcher allWorkspaces="yes">

Handle touch on headerbar using cursor emulate events. Issue #1550 Written-by: @spl237
Updated dbus activation environment with more environment variables (XCURSOR_SIZE, XCURSOR_THEME, XDG_SESSION_TYPE, LABWC_PID) Written-by: @winerysearch Issue #694
Run shutdown script on exit (equivalent to autostart on startup)
Add wrap argument to action MoveToOutput. Wrap is disabled by default to keep the user interface consistent. Example usage:

<action name="MoveToOutput" direction="right" wrap="yes" />

Fixed

Prevent Chromium from crashing when started after a virtual keyboard is destroyed. #1789
Fix top-layer not showing when there is a minimized full-screen window Written-by: @fberg
Prevent the following whilst window-switcher cycling (#1640):
- Cursor actions on the window previews
- Request-xdg-activation
- Foreign toplevel request-activate
- XWayland request-activate
Prevent shaded XWayland windows from getting cursor events. #1753
Fix menu-parser use-after-free bug. #1780
Update top layer visibility on map to fix bug with Steam's Big Picture Mode window which requests fullscreen before mapping. #1763
Do not update server-side-decoration if window is too small. #1762
Fix crash on Kill action with XWayland windows. #1739
Update workspaces on --reconfigure. Written-by: @tokyo4j
Notify idle manager when emulating cursor movement.
Fix GrowToEdge/ShrinkToEdge action bug caused by clients ignoring the requested size, for example a terminal honouring size-hints.
Fix assert() on VT switch. Issue #1667
Ensure titlebar has consistent look when using transparency. #1684
Fix dnd bug where dnd does not finish properly on cursor-button-release if there is no surface under the cursor such as on the desktop when no background client is running. #1673
Send cursor-button release event to CSD client before finishing window dragging to avoid a bug whereby the release event is incorrectly sent to a layer-shell client at the end of a drag.
Validate double-click against SSD part type because clicks on different parts of a client in quick succession should not be interpreted as a double click. #1657
Fix bug that region overlay is not shown when a modifier key is re- pressed.
Fix workspace-switcher on-screen-display positioning of text using right-to-left (RTL) locales. Written-by: @micko01 Issue #1633
Unconstrain xdg-shell popups to usable area (rather than full output) so that popups do not cover layer-shell clients such as panels. Written-by: @tokyo4j
Exclude unfocusable XWayland windows (for example notifications and floating toolbars) from being processed by wlr-foreign-toplevel protocol as these windows should not be shown in taskbars/docks/etc.
Render text buffers with opaque backgrounds because subpixel text rendering over a transparent background does not work properly with cairo/pango. PR #1631 issue #1684
Fallback on layout 'us' if a keymap cannot be created for the provided XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT. If keymap still cannot be created, exit with a helpful message instead of a segv crash.
Reload cursor theme and size on reconfigure. This gives instant feedback, but only works for server side cursors or clients using the cursor-shape protocol. Written-by: @spl237 and @Consolatis. #1587 #1619
Fix a number of surface-focus related short-comings:
- Handle cursor-button-press on layer-shell subsurfaces and fix bug in get_cursor_context() which resulted in layer-surfaces not being detected correctly. PR #1594
- Overhaul the logic for giving keyboard focus to layer-shell clients. PR #1599 Issue #1653
Fix move/resize bug manifesting itself on touchpad taps with <tapAndDrag> disabled because libinput sends button press & release signals so quickly that interactive_finish() is never called. Written-by: @tokyo4j
Include always-on-top windows in window-switcher.
Make resize flicker free again when running labwc nested (it was a regression caused by wlroots 0.17).
Clean up dbus and systemd activation environments on exit
Fix view_get_adjacent_output() bug resulting in often returning an incorrect output when using more than two outputs. Issue #1582

Changed

Support press-move-release when interacting with the labwc root-menu. #1750
In theme settings, mark color definitions in the format #rrggbb aaa as deprecated (still supported, but will removed in some future release) in favor of the more commonly used #rrggbbaa.
If your rc.xml contains a keybind to show menu "client-menu", it will be launched at pointer rather than the top-left part of the window. To keep the old behaviour, redefine it as follows:

<keybind key="A-Space">
  <action name="ShowMenu" menu="client-menu" atCursor="No"/>
</keybind>

Change action MoveToOutput argument 'name' to 'output' (because 'name' is already used by the action itself). Issue #1589

<action name="MoveToOutput" output="HDMI-A-1"/>

Do not deactivate window when giving keyboard focus to a non-view surface such as a popup or layer-shell surface. This matches Openbox behavior.
Treat Globally Active XWayland windows according to type to fix focus issues with IntelliJ IDEA and JDownloader 2. Issues: #1139 #1341 Also revert f6e3527 which allowed re-focus between Globally Active XWayland windows of the same PID.
Only update dbus and systemd activation environments when running on the DRM backend or by explicit request using environment variable LABWC_UPDATE_ACTIVATION_ENV.

0.7.1

Added

Support libinput option sendEventsMode to allow enabling/disabling devices. Co-Authored-By: @Sachin-Bhat

<libinput>
  <device>
    <sendEventsMode>yes|no|disabledOnExternalMouse</sendEventsMode>
  </device>
</libinput>

Add click method libinput option. Written-by: @datMaffin

<libinput>
  <device>
    <clickMethod>none|buttonAreas|clickfinger</clickMethod>
  </device>
</libinput>

Add data/labwc.svg & data/labwc-symbolic.svg, and specify icon name in labwc.desktop to enable Display Managers to show an icons for labwc.
Expose output configuration test to clients. For example, this enables wlr-randr --dryrun
Add window-edge resistance for interactive moves/resizes and support negative strengths to indicate attractive snapping. Written-by: @ahesford

<resistance>
  <screenEdgeStrength>-20</screenEdgeStrength>
  <windowEdgeStrength>-20</windowEdgeStrength>
</resistance>

Set keyboard layout on reconfigure. Issue #1407
Reset keyboard-layout group (index) for each window on reconfigure if the keymap has changed.
Support merging multiple config files with the --merge-config command line option. Issue #1406
Add config option to map touch events to a named output (display). Optionally, make this only apply to specific named devices. Written-by: @jp7677

<touch mapToOutput=""/>
<touch deviceName="" mapToOutput=""/>

Add tablet support including:
- Mapping of tablet to output (display)
- Emulation of cursor movement and button press/release
- Configuration of area and rotation Written-by: @jp7677 @Consolatis

<tablet mapToOutput="HDMI-A-1" rotate="90">
  <area top="0.0" left="0.0" width="0.0" height="0.0" />
  <map button="Tip" to="Left" />
  <map button="Stylus" to="Right" />
  <map button="Stylus2" to="Middle" />
</tablet>

Add tearing support. #1390. Written-by: @Ph42oN @ahesford
Add configuration support for mouse buttons Side, Extra, Forward, Back and Task. Written-by: @jp7677
config: allow <libinput><device> without category attribute to define a default profile because it is more user-friendly and intuitive.
Add a configuration option to enable adaptive sync only when an application is in fullscreen mode. Written-by: @Ph42oN
Add touchpad libinput device type to increase configuration flexibility, for example allowing naturalScroll on touchpads, but not on regular pointer devices such as mice. Written-by: @jmbaur
Add actions:
- AutoPlace (by @ahesford)
- MoveToOutput, FitToOutput (by @jp7677)
- Shade, Unshade, ToggleShade (by @ahesford @Consolatis)
Add config option <placement><policy> with supported values center, cursor and automatic. The latter minimizes overlap with other windows already on screen and is similar to Openbox's smart window placement. The placement policies honour <core><gap>. Written-by: @ahesford #1312

<placement>
  <policy>center|automatic|cursor</policy>
</placement>

Fixed

Delay popup-unconstrain until after first commit in response to a changed wlroots 0.17 interface and to get rid of the error message below. Issue #1372

[types/xdg_shell/wlr_xdg_surface.c:169] A configure is scheduled for an uninitialized xdg_surface
Notify clients about configuration errors when changing output settings. Issue #1528.
Fix output configuration bug causing compositor crash when refresh rate is zero. Issue #1458
Fix disappearing cursor bug on view destruction. Issue #1393
Use used specified config-file (using -c command line option) on reconfigure.
Assign outputs to new views on surface creation instead of mapping, and notify the client of the preferred output scale when doing so. This fixes an issue with foot: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1579 Written-by: @ahesford
Cancel key repeat on vt change to fix crash on VT change on FreeBSD. Issue #1424
Fix crash when a minimized fullscreen window closes. Written-by: @bi4k8
Execute menu actions after closing menus so that menu entries can issue wtype commands to the surface with keyboard-focus. Issue #1366
Try to honor original window geometry on layout changes.
Fix virtual keyboard bug experienced with wlrctl keyboard type xyz. Do not process virtual keyboard keycodes (just the keysyms). Issue #1367
Sync xdg-shell client view->pending when applying geometry to fix issue caused by applications choosing not respond to pending resize requests either by ignoring them or substituting alternative sizes (for example, when mpv constrains resizes to keep its aspect ratio fixed). Written-by: @ahesford

Changed

Make MoveToCursor honour <core><gap>. Issue #1494
Add Roll Up/Down client-menu entry for ToggleShade
When a Wayland-native window is snapped to a screen edges or user-defined region, labwc will notify the application that it is "tiled", allowing the application to better adapt its rendering to constrained layouts. Windows with client-side decorations may respond to these notices by squaring off corners and, in some cases, disabling resize abilities. This can be disabled with:

<snapping>
  <notifyClient>never</notifyClient>
</snapping>

or limited to only edge-snapped or only region-snapped windows. See the labwc-config(5) manual page for more information.

When a window is dragged from a snapped position (either a screen edge or a user-defined region), the snapped state is now discarded as soon as the dragging begins. This means that dragging from a snapped position to a maximized state (with the topMaximize option enabled) and then un-maximizing the window will restore the window to its size and position before it was snapped. In previous releases, un-maximizing would restore the window to its snapped state. To preserve the snapped state of a window when maximized, use the Maximize window button or the ToggleMaximize action.
The new windowEdgeStrength setting makes windows resist interactive moves and resizes across the edges of other windows. This can be disabled with:

<resistance>
  <windowEdgeStrength>0</windowEdgeStrength>
</resistance>

Run menu actions on button release instead of press.
Constrain window size to that of usable area when an application is started. Issue #1399
Support showing the full app_id in the window switcher. Users with a custom windowSwitcher configuration should use the trimmed_identifier field label to preserve existing behavior; the identifier field now refers to the full app_id. Consult the labwc-config(5) manual page for more details. Issue #1309

0.7.0 - 2023-12-22

The main effort in this release has gone into porting labwc to wlroots 0.17 and tidying up regressions. Nonetheless, it contains a significant number of additions and fixes as described below.

Should bug fixes be required against 0.6.6 (built with wlroots 0.16), a 0.6 branch will be created.

Added

Support titlebar hover icons. Written-by: @spl237
Add theme options osd.workspace-switcher.boxes.{width,height} Written-by: @kyak
Add actions VirtualOutputAdd and VirtualOutputRemove to control virtual outputs. Written-by: @kyak (#1287)
Teach MoveToEdge to move windows to adjacent outputs. Written-by: @ahesford
Implement <font place="InactiveWindow">. Written-by: @ludg1e (#1292)
Implement cursor-shape-v1 protocol to allow Wayland clients to request a buffer for a cursor shape from a compositor. Written-by: @heroin-moose
Implement fractional-scale-v1 protocol to allow Wayland clients to properly scale on outputs with fractional scale factor. Written-by: @heroin-moose
Add ResizeTo action (#1261)
Allow going backwards in window-switcher OSD by using arrow-up or arrow-left. Written-by: @jp7677
Add ToggleOmnipresent action and add an "Always on Visible Workspace" entry for it in the client-menu under the Workspaces submenu. Written-by: @bnason
Account for space taken up by XWayland clients with _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL property in the usable_area calculation. This increases inter-operability with X11 desktop components.
Set XWayland's _NET_WORKAREA property based on usable area. XWayland clients use the _NET_WORKAREA root window property to determine how much of the screen is not covered by panels/docks. The property is used for example by Qt to determine areas of the screen that popup menus should not overlap.

Fixed

Fix xwayland.c null pointer dereference causing crash with JetBrains CLion. (#1352)
Fix issue with XWayland surfaces completely offscreen not generating commit events and therefore preventing them from moving onscreen.
Do not de-active windows when layer-shell client takes keyboard focus, to fix sfwbar minimize action. (#1342)
Move layer-shell popups from the background layer to the top layer to render them above normal windows. Previously this was only done for the bottom layer. In support of Raspberry Pi's pcmanfm --desktop. (#1293)
Calculate usable_area before positioning clients to ensure it is correct before non exclusive-zone layer-shell clients are positioned or resized. (#1285)
Prevent overriding XWayland maximized/fullscreen/tiled geometry to fix an issue where some XWayland views (example: xfce4-terminal) do not end up with exactly the correct geometry when tiled.

Changed

Treat XWayland panel windows as if fixedPosition rule is set
Use the GTK3 notebook header color as the default active title color (small change from #dddad6 to #e1dedb). Written-by: @dimkr

0.6.6 - 2023-11-25

We do not normally call out contributions by core devs in the changelog, but a special thanks goes to @jlindgren90 in this release for lots of work relating to surface focus and keyboard issues, amongst others.

Added

Add fixedPosition window-rule property to avoid re-positioning windows on reserved-output-space changes (determined by settings or exclusive layer-shell clients) and to disallow interactive move or resize, for example by alt+press.
Add Unfocus action to enable unfocusing windows on desktop click. Issue: #1230
Add config option <keyboard layoutScope="window"> to use per-window keyboard layout. Issue #1076
Support separate horizontal and vertical maximize by adding a direction option to actions Maximize and ToggleMaximize.
Add actions GrowToEdge and ShrinkToEdge. Written-by: @digint
Add snapWindows option to MoveToEdge action. Written-by: @digint
Add MoveToCursor action. Written-by: @Arnaudv6
Add config option <keyboard><numlock> to enable Num Lock on startup.
Support Meta (M), Hyper (H), Mod1, Mod3, Mod4 and Mod5 modifiers in keybind definitions. Fixes: #1061
Add themerc 'titlebar.height' option. Written-by: @mozlima
Add If and ForEach actions. Written-by: @consus
Allow referencing the current workspace in actions, for example:

<action name="SendToDesktop" to="current"/>

Fixed

Do not reset XWayland window SSD on unminimize
Keep XWayland stacking order in sync when switching workspaces
Update top-layer visibility on workspace-switch in order to show top-layer layer-shell clients correctly when there is a window in fullscreen mode on another workspace. Issues: #1040 #1158
Make interactive window snapping with mouse more intuitive in multi-output setups. Written-by: @tokyo4j
Try to handle missing set_window_geometry with Qt apps which occasionally fail to call set_window_geometry after a configure request, but correctly update the actual surface extent. Issue: #1194
Update XWayland stacking order when moving a window to the front/back.
Prevent switching workspaces for always-on-bottom windows. Fixes: #1170
Fix invisible cursor after wlopm --off && wlopm --on.
When a session is locked using 'session-lock' protocol, reconfigure for output layout changes to avoid incorrect positioning
Account for window base size in resize indicator so that the displayed size exactly matches the terminal grid, for example 80x25.
The following focus related issues:
- Allow re-focusing xwayland-unmanaged surfaces in response to pointer action (click or movement if focus-follow-mouse is enabled). This enables clients such as dmenu, rofi and jgmenu to regain keyboard-focus if it was lost to another client.
- Fix code paths which could lead to a lock-screen losing focus, making the session impossible to unlock or another surface to gain focus thus breaching the session lock.
- Only focus topmost view on unmap if unmapped view was focused.
- Fix xwayland_surface->data bug relating to unmanaged surfaces.
- Fix layer subsurface focus bug to make waybar's minimize-raise work. Fixes: #1131
- Ignore focus change to unmanaged surface belonging to same PID to fix an issue with menus immediately closing in some X11 apps.
- Avoid focusing xwayland views that do not want focus using the ICCCM "Globally Active" input model.
- Allow re-focus between "globally active" XWayland views of the same PID.
- Assume that views that want decorations also want focus
The following keyboard and keybind related issues:
- Send pressed keys correctly when focusing new surface.
- Refactor handling of pressed/bound keys to send (to client) the release events for any pressed key that was not part of a keybind, typically because an unrelated non-modifier key was pressed before and held during a keybind invocation. Fixes #1091 #1245
- Fix keyboard release event bug after session lock. Fixes: #1114
Raise xdg and xwayland sub-views correctly relative to other sub-views, by letting the relative stacking order between them change.
Honor initially maximized requests for XWayland views via _NET_WM_STATE.
For initially maximized XWayland views, set the stored natural geometry to be output-centered.
Fix regions rounding error sometimes resulting in incorrect gaps between regions.

Changed

Move floating windows in response to changes in reserved output space (determined by settings or exclusive layer-shell clients such as panels). Users with window-rules for panels and/or desktops should add the fixedPosition property to avoid regression. Issue: #1235
Restore SIGPIPE default handler before exec. Fixes: #1209
With the introduction of directional Maximize, right-click on the maximize button now toggles horizontal maximize, while middle-click toggles vertical maximize.
Make MoveToEdge snap to the next window edge by default rather than just the screen edge.
Comment out variables in docs/environment to avoid users using the file without editing it and ending up with unwanted settings. Fixes: #1011
Set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 unless already set.
This release has seen significant refactoring and minor improvements with respect to window and surface focus (particular thanks to @jlindgren). This work has helped uncover and fix some hard-to-find bugs. We don't believe that there are any regressions, but can't say for sure.
Set Num Lock to enabled by default on start up
Allow switching VT when locked
Use fnmatch() for pattern matching instead of g_pattern_match_simple() because it is a POSIX-compliant function which has a glob(7) manual page for reference.
Title context is used instead of TitleBar for the default client-menu on click. This means that if a button is right-clicked, the client-menu will not appear anymore.
Always switch to the workspace containing the view being focused.

0.6.5 - 2023-09-23

Added

Support png and svg titlebar buttons
Support on/off boolean configuration values (in addition to true, false, yes and no). Written-by: @redtide
keybinds
- Allow non-english based keybinds
- Make keybind agnostic to keyboard layout. Fixes #1069
- Add optional layoutDependent argument to only trigger if the configured key exists in the currently active keyboard layout. <keybind key="" layoutDependent="">
- Fallback on raw keysyms (as if there were no pressed modifier) for bindings which do not match against translated keysyms. This allows users to define keybinds such as "S-1" rather than "S-exclam". It also supports "W-S-Tab". Fixes #163 #365 #992
window-rules: add ignoreFocusRequest property
config: support libinput <tapAndDrag> and <dragLock>. Written-by: @tokyo4j
Handle keyboard input for menus. Fixes #1058
Server-side decoration:
- Make corners square on maximize
- Disable border on maximize. Fixes #1044
Add window resize indicator and associated <resize><popupShow> config option
Add <theme><keepBorder> to give ToggleDecoration three states: (1) disable titlebar; (2) disable whole SSD; and (3) enables whole SSD When the keepBorder action is disabled, the old two-state behavior is restored. Fixes #813
Minimize whole window hierarchy from top to bottom regardless of which window requested the minimize. For example, if an 'About' or 'Open File' dialog is minimized, its toplevel is minimized also, and vice versa.
Move window's stacking order with dialogs so that other window cannot be positioned between them. Also position xdg popups above their parent windows.This is consistent with Gtk3 and Qt5. Fixes #823

Fixed

Clarify in labwc-config(5) that keyboard modifiers can be used for mousebinds. Fixes #1075
Ensure interactive move/resize ends correctly for CSD clients. Fixes #1053
Fix invalid value in <accelProfile> falling back as "flat"
Fix touch bug to avoid jumping when a touch point moves off of a surface Written-by: @bi4k8
Prevent crash with theme setting osd.window-switcher.width: 0. Fixes #1050
Cancel cursor popup grab on mouse-press outside client itself, for example on any part of the server side decoration or the desktop. Fixes #949
Prevent cursor press on layer-subsurface from cancelling popup grab Fixes #1030
xwayland: fix client request-unmap bug relating to foreign-toplevel handle
xwayland: fix race condition resulting in map view without surface
Limit SSD corner radius to the height of the titlebar
Fix rounded-corner bug producing weird artifacts when very large border thickness is used. Fixes #988
Ensure string_prop() handlers deal with destroying views. Fixes #1082
Fix SSD thickness calculation bug relating to titlebar. Fixes #1083
common/buf.c:
- Do not expand $() in buf_expand_shell_variables()
- Do not use memcpy for overlapping regions

Changed

Use identifier for window-switcher field rather than app_id to be consistent with window rules.

<windowSwitcher>
  <fields>
    <field content="identifier" width="25%"/>
  </fields>
</windowSwithcer>

Do not expand environment variables in Exec action <command> argument (but still resolve tilde).

0.6.4 - 2023-07-14

Added

Add support for ext_idle_notify protocol.
Window-switcher: #879 #969
- Set item-height based on font-height
- Add theme option:
  - osd.window-switcher.width
  - osd.window-switcher.padding
  - osd.window-switcher.item.padding.x
  - osd.window-switcher.item.padding.y
  - osd.window-switcher.item.active.border.width
Actions:
- Add MoveTo, ToggleAlwaysOnBottom.
- Add MoveRelative, ResizeRelative. Written-by: @Ph42oN
- Add option wrap for GoToDesktop and SendToDesktop
Add config options <margin> to override usable area for panels/docks which do not support layer-shell protocol.
Add number attribute to <desktops> to simplify configuration. Written-by: @Sachin-Bhat
Window rules: #787 #933
- Add properties: skipTaskbar and skipWindowSwitcher
- Add criteria title and matchOnce

Fixed

Support XML CDATA for <menu><item><action><command> in order to provide backward compatibility with obmenu-generator #972
Call wlr_xwayland_surface_set_minimized() on xwayland window (un)minimize to fix blank surface after minimizing fullscreen Steam windows. #958
Fix focus at the end of drag-and-drop operation respecting <focus><followMouse> if enabled. #939 #976
Render xdg-popups above always-on-top layer.
Do not render On-Screen-Displays on disabled outputs. #914

Changed

Make ToggleKeybinds applicable only to the window that has keyboard focus when the action is executed.

0.6.3 - 2023-05-08

Added

Add focus.followMouseRequiresMovement to allow a stricter focus-what-is-under-the-cursor configuration. #862
Support window-rules including properties and on-first-map actions. Any actions in labwc-actions(5) can be used. Only 'serverDecoration' has been added as a property so far. Example config:

<windowRules>
  <windowRule identifier="some-application">
    <action name="Maximize"/>
  </windowRule>
  <windowRule identifier="foo*" serverDecoration="yes|no"/>
</windowRules>

Support configuration of window switcher field definitions. Issues #852 #855 #879

<windowSwitcher show="yes" preview="yes" outlines="yes">
  <fields>
    <field content="type" width="25%" />
    <field content="app_id" width="25%" />
    <field content="title" width="50%" />
  </fields>
</windowSwitcher>

Add actions:
- 'Lower' Written-by: @jech
- 'Maximize'
Support ext-session-lock protocol. Helped-by: @heroin-moose
Handle XWayland unmanaged surface requests for 'activate' and 'override-redirect'. Fixes: #874
Add config support for scroll-factor. Fixes #846
Support 'follow' attribute for SendToDesktop action. Fixes #841

Fixed

Fix adaptive sync configuration. Helped-by: @heroin-moose #642
Ignore SIGPIPE to fix crash caused by Wayland clients requesting X11 clipboard but closing the read-fd before/while the X11 clipboard is being written to. Fixes #890
Ellipsize on-screen-display text
Validate PID before activating XWayland unmanaged surfaces to check that the surface trying to grab focus is actually a child of the topmost mapped window.
Respect cursor constraint hints when cursor movement occurs after unlocking the pointer. Written-by: @FuzzyQuills Fixes #872
Fix invisible cursor on startup and output loss/restore. Reported-by: @Flrian Fixes #820
Fix decoration protocol implementation
- Respect earlier decoration negotiation results via the xdg-decoration protocol. Previously setting <decoration> to client would cause applications which prefer server side decorations to not have any decorations at all. Fixes #297 #831
- Handle results of kde-server-decoration negotiations
Fix <focus><followMouse> cursor glitches and issues with focus switching via Alt-Tab. Issue #830 #849

Changed

Make <windowSwitcher> a toplevel element rather than a child of <core>
Default to follow="true" for SendToDesktop action as per Openbox 3.6 specification.

0.6.2 - 2023-03-20

This release contains refactoring and simplification relating to view-output association and xdg/xwayland configure/map events.

Unless otherwise stated all contributions are by the core-devs (@Consolatis, @jlindgren90 and @johanmalm).

Added

Add config option <core><windowSwitcher show="no" /> to hide windowSwitcher (also known as On Screen Display) when switching windows.
Enable config option <core><windowSwitcher preview="" /> by default.
Add ToggleKeybinds action to disable/enable all keybinds (other than ToggleKeybinds itself). This can be used to better control Virtual Machines, VNC clients, nested compositors or similar. (#738 and #810)
Implement cursor constraints (Written-by: @Ph42oN) and lock confinement.
Support xdg-activation protocol to allow applications to activate themselves (e.g. raise to the top and get keyboard focus) if they provide a valid xdg_activation token.
Allow clearing key/mouse bindings by using the 'None' action. This enables the use of <default /> and then selectively removing keybinds. For example the following could be used to allow using A-Left/Right with Firefox.

<keyboard>
  <default/>
  <keybind key="A-Left"><action name="None" /></keybind>
  <keybind key="A-Right"><action name="None" /></keybind>
</keyboard>

Fixed

Prevent cursor based region-snapping when starting a move with Alt-Left. If region-snapping is wanted in this situation, just press the modifier again. (#761)
Prevent rare crash due to layering move/resize/menu operations. (#817)
Fully reset config default values on Reconfigure if not set in config file.
Fix visual glitch when resizing xfce4-terminal from left edge caused by windows not accepting their request size exactly.
Fix issue with havoc not having a valid size on map.
Save natural_geometry.x/y with initially maximized xdg-view to fix an issue where, if Thunar was started maximized, it would un-maximize to the top-left corner rather than the center.

Changed

Change config option <cycleView*> to <windowSwitcher>. Use <core><windowSwitcher show="yes" preview="no" outlines="yes" /> instead of:

<core>
  <cycleViewOSD>yes</cycleViewOSD>
  <cycleViewOutlines>yes</cycleViewOutlines>
  <cycleViewPreview>yes</cycleViewPreview>
</core>

0.6.1 - 2023-01-29

As usual, this release contains lots of refactoring and bug fixes with particular thanks going to @Consolatis, @jlindgren90, @bi4k8, @Flrian and @Joshua-Ashton.

Added

Add <regions> config option allowing the definition of regions to which windows can be snapped by keeping a keyboard modifier pressed while dragging or by using the SnapToRegion action. Written-by: @Consolatis
Add <Kill> action to send SIGTERM to a client process. Written-by: @bi4k8
Add config option <core><reuseOutputMode> to support flicker free boot (issue #724). Written-by: @Consolatis
Enable single-pixel-buffer-v1
Support theme setting override by reading <config-dir>/themerc-override
Scale down SSD button icons if necessary to allow using larger ones for high and mixed DPI usecases. Issue #609. Written-by: @Consolatis
Handle client request for layer-change
Support setting color of client menu buttons. Written-by: @Flrian
Dynamically adjust menu width based on widest item. Written-by: @Consolatis
Add theme options menu.width.{min,max} and menu.items.padding.{x,y}

Fixed

Scale cursor correctly at startup and on output scale-change. Written-by: @bi4k8
Release layer tree when releasing output. Written-by: @yuanye
Ensure natural geometry is restored when no outputs available. Reported-by: @Flrian
Fixes memory leaks and prevent crashes associated with missing outputs Thanks to @Consolatis.
Update translations for new client menus strings. Thanks-to: @01micko and @ersen0
On un-fullscreen, restore SSD before applying previous geometry to avoid rendering offscreen in some instances. Written-by: @Consolatis
Allow snapping to the same edge. Thanks-to: @Consolatis and @Flrian
Send enter event when new layer surface appears under pointer. Issue #667
Prevent re-focus for always-on-top views when switching workspaces. Written-by: @Consolatis
Make sure a default libinput category always exists to avoid devices not being configured is some instances. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Update cursor if it is within the OSD area when OSD appears/disappears. Written-by: @bi4k8
Provide generic parsing of XML action arguments to enable the use of the direction argument in menu entries. Written-by: @Consolatis
Fix SSD margin computation. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Hide SSD decorations for fullscreen views to avoid rendering them on adjacent outputs. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Set inactive window button color correctly. Written-by: @ScarcelyThere
Fix positioning of initially-maximized XWayland views. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Check for modifiers when merging mousebinds. Issue #630.
Handle layer-shell exclusive and on-demand keyboard-interactivity correctly, and thus support xfce4-panel better. Issues #704 and #725.
Only overwrite wlroots's automatic layout when necessary.

Changed

Filter out wp_drm_lease_device from Xwayland to avoid Electron apps such as VS Code and Discord lagging over time. Issue #553. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
Do not switch output on SnapToEdge if view is maximized. Written-by: @Flrian

0.6.0 - 2022-11-17

This release contains significant refactoring to use the wlroots scene-graph API. This touches many areas of the code, particularly rendering, server-side-decoration, the layer-shell implementation and the menu. Many thanks to @Consolatis for doing most of the heavy lifting with this.

Noteworthy, related changes include:

The use of a buffer implementation instead of using wlr_texture. It handles both images and fonts, and scales according to output scale.
The use of node-descriptors to assign roles to wlr_scene_nodes in order to simplify the code.
Improving the "Debug" action to print scene-graph trees

A large number of bugs and regressions have been fixed following the re-factoring, too many to list here, but we are grateful to all who have reported, tested and fixed issues. Particular mentions go to @bi4k8, @flrian, @heroin-moose, @jlindgren90, @Joshua-Ashton, @01micko and @skerit

Added

Set environment variable LABWC_PID to the pid of the compositor so that SIGHUP and SIGTERM can be sent to specific instances.
Add command line options --exit and --reconfigure.
Support setting keyboard repeat and delay at runtime. Written-by: @bi4k8
Add support for mouse-wheel bindings. Set default bindings to switch workspaces when scrolling on the desktop. Written-by: @Arnaudv6
Implement key repeat for keybindings. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Support smooth scroll and horizontal scroll. Written-by: @bi4k8
Implement virtual keyboard and pointer protocols, enabling the use of clients such as wtype and wayvnc. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
Add github workflow CI including Debian, FreeBSD, Arch and Void, including a build without xwayland.
Support keybind "None" action to clear other actions for a particular keybind context. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Support font slant (itliacs) and weight (bold). Written-by: @jlindgren90
Support <default /> mousebinds to load default mousebinds and provide a way to keep config files simpler whilst allowing user specific binds. Issue #416. Written-by: @Consolatis
Add config option <core><cycleViewOutlines> to enable/disable preview of outlines. Written-by: @Flrian
Render submenu arrows
Allow highest level menu definitions - typically used for root-menu and client-menu - to be defined without label attribute, for example like this: <openbox_menu><menu id="root-menu">...</menu></openbox>. Issue #472
Allow xdg-desktop-portal-wlr to work out of the box by initializing dbus and systemd activation environment. This enables for example OBS Studio to work with no user configuration. If systemd or dbus is not available the environment update will fail gracefully. PR #461 Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton and @Consolatis
Workspaces. Written-by: @Consolatis
presentation-time protocol
Native language support for client-menus. Written-by: @01micko
Touch support. Written-by: @bi4k8
drm_lease_v1 for VR to work and leasing of desktop displays. Written-by: Joshua Ashton
ToggleAlwaysOnTop action. Written-by: @Consolatis
Command line option -C to specify config directory
Theme options osd.border.color and osd.border.width. Written-by: @Consolatis
Menu <separator /> and associated theme options: menu.separator.width, menu.separator.padding.width, menu.separator.padding.height and menu.separator.color
Adjust maximized and tiled windows according to usable_area taking into account exclusive layer-shell clients. Written-by: @Consolatis
Restore natural geometry when moving tiled/maximized window Fixes #391. Written-by: @Consolatis
Improve action implementation to take a list of arguments in preparation for actions with multiple arguments. Written-by: @Consolatis

Fixed

Remove unwanted gap when initially (on map) positioning windows larger than output usable area (issue #403).
Prevent setting cursor icon on drag. Written-by: @Consolatis (issue #549)
Fix bugs relating to sending matching pairs of press and release keycodes to clients when using keybinds. Also fix related key-repeat bug. (Issue #510)
Fix wlr_output_cursor initialization bug on new output. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Show correct cursor for resize action triggered by keybind. Written-by: @jlindgren
Fix bug which manifest itself when keeping button pressed in GTK3 menu and firefox context menu. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Enable tap be default on non-touch devices (which some laptop trackpads apparently are)
Handle missing cursor theme (issue #246). Written-by: @Consolatis
Fix various surface synchronization, stacking, positioning and focus issues, including those related to both xwayland, scroll/drag events and also #526 #483
On first map, do not center xwayland views with explicitly specified position. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Give keyboard focus back to topmost mapped view when unmapping topmost xwayland unmanaged surfaces, such as dmenu. Written-by: @Consolatis.
Fix mousebind ordering and replace earlier mousebinds by later ones Written-by: @Consolatis
Fix various bugs associated with destroying/disabling outputs, including issue #497
Hide Alt-Tab switcher when canceling via Escape. @jlindgren90
(Re)set seat when xwayland is ready (because wlroots reset the seat assigned to xwayland to NULL whenever Xwayland terminates). Issues #166 #444. Written-by: @Consolatis. Helped-by: @droc12345
Increase File Descriptor (FD) limit to max because a compositor has to handle many: client connections, DMA-BUFs, wl_data_device pipes and so on. Fixes client freeze/crashes (swaywm/sway#6642). Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
Fix crash when creating a cursor constraint and there is no currently focused view.
Gracefully handle dying client during interactive move. Written-by: @Consolatis
Dynamically adjust server-side-decoration invisible resize areas based on usable_area to ensure that cursor events are sent to clients such as panels in preference to grabbing window edges. Fixes #265. Written-by: @Consolatis
Always position submenus inside output extents. Fixes #276 Written-by: @Consolatis
Do not crash when changing TTY. Written-by: @bi4k8
Set wlroots.wrap to a specific commit rather than master because it enables labwc commits to be checked out and build without manually having to find the right wlroots commit if there are upstream breaking changes.
Increase accuracy of window center-alignment, taking into account usable_area and window decoration. Also, top/left align if window is bigger than usable area.
Handle view-destruction during alt-tab cycling. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
Survive all outputs being disabled
Check that double-clicks are on the same window. Written-by: yizixiao
Set xdg-shell window position before maximize on first map so that the unmaximized geometry is known when started in maximized mode. Fixes issue #305. Reported-by: @01micko
Support <menu><item><action name="Execute"><execute> <execute> is a deprecated name for <command>, but is supported for backward compatibility with old menu-generators.
Keep xwayland-shell SSD state on unmap/map cycle. Written-by: @Consolatis
Prevent segfault on missing direction arguments. Reported-by: @flrian
Fix keybind insertion order to restore intended behavior of keybinds set by <default />. Written-by: @Consolatis
Ensure client-menu actions are always applied on window they belong to This fixes #380. Written-by: @Consolatis
Keep window margin in sync when toggling decorations. Written-by: @Consolatis
Fix handling of client-initiated configure requests. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Always react to new output configuration. Reported-by @heroin-moose and Written-by: @Consolatis
Fix bug in environment variable expansion by allowing underscores to be part of the variable names. Issue #439
Fix parsing bug of adaptiveSync setting and test for support

Changed

src/config/rcxml.c: distinguish between no and unknown font places so that <font> with no place attribute can be added after other font elements without over-writing their values. Written-by: @bi4k8
theme: change window.label.text.justify default to center
Redefine the SSD "Title" context to cover the whole Titlebar area except the parts occupied by buttons. This allows "Drag" and "DoubleClick" actions to be de-coupled from buttons. As a result, "Drag" and "DoubleClick" actions previously defined against "TitleBar" should now come under the "Title" context, for example: <mousebind button="Left" action="Drag"><action name="Move"/></mousebind>
Remove default alt-escape keybind for Exit because too many people have exited the compositor by mistake trying to get out of alt-tab cycling or similar.

0.5.3 - 2022-07-15

Added

wlr-output-power-management protocol to enable clients such as wlopm Written-by: @bi4k8

Fixed

Call foreign-toplevel-destroy when unmapping xwayland surfaces because some xwayland clients leave unmapped child views around. Although handle_destroy() is not called for these, we have to call foreign-toplevel-destroy to avoid clients such as panels incorrectly showing them.
Handle xwayland set_override_redirect events to fix weird behaviour with gitk menus and rofi.
Re-focus parent surface on unmapping xwayland unmanaged surfaces Fixes #352 relating to JetBrains and Intellij focus issues Written-by: Jelle De Loecker
Do not segfault on missing drag icon. Written-by: @Consolatis
Fix windows erratically sticking to edges during move/resize. Fixes issues #331 and #309

0.5.2 - 2022-05-17

This is a minor bugfix release mostly to ease packaging.

Fixed

Properly use system provided wlroots. Written-by: @eli-schwartz

0.5.1 - 2022-04-08

Added

Honour size increments from WM_SIZE_HINTS, for example to allow xwayland terminal emulators to be resized to a width/height evenly divisible by the cell size. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Implement cursor input for overlay popups. Written-by: @Consolatis

Fixed

Do not raise xwayland windows when deactivating (issue #270). Written-by: @Consolatis
Restore drag mouse-bindings and proper double-click (issues #258 and #259). Written-by: @Consolatis
Implement cursor input for unmanaged xwayland surfaces outside their parent view. Without this menus extending outside the main application window do not receive mouse input. Written-by: @jlindgren90
Allow dragging scrollbar or selecting text even when moving cursor outside of the window (issue #241). Written-by: @Consolatis
Fix positioning of xwayland views with multiple queued configure events. Written-by: @Consolatis
Force a pointer enter event on the surface below the cursor when cycling views (issue #162). Written-by: @Consolatis
Fix qt application crash on touchpad scroll (issue #225). Written-by: @Consolatis

0.5.0 - 2022-02-18

As usual, this release contains a bunch of fixes and improvements, of which the most notable feature-type changes are listed below. A big thank you to @ARDiDo, @Consolatis and @jlindgren90 for much of the hard work.

Added

Render overlay layer popups to support sfwbar (issue #239)
Support HiDPI on-screen-display images for outputs with different scales
Reload environment variables on SIGHUP (issue #227)
Add client menu
Allow applications to start in fullscreen
Add config option <core><cycleViewPreview> to preview the contents of each view when cycling through them (for example using alt-tab).
Allow mouse movements to trigger SnapToEdge. When dragging a view, move the cursor outside an output to snap in that direction.
Unmaximize on Move
Support wlroots environment variable WLR_{WL,X11}_OUTPUTS for running in running nested in X11 or a wlroots compositor.
Support pointer gestures (pinch/swipe)
Adjust views to account for output layout changes

Changed

This release contains the following two breaking changes:

Disabling outputs now causes views to be re-arranged, so in the context of idle system power management (for example when using swaylock), it is no longer suitable to call wlr-randr {--off,--on} to enable/disable outputs.
The "Drag" mouse-event and the unmaximize-on-move feature require slightly different <mousebind> settings to feel natural, so suggest updating any local rc.xml settings in accordance with docs/rc.xml.all

0.4.0 - 2021-12-31

Compile with wlroots 0.15.0

This release contains lots of internal changes, fixes and new features. A big thank you goes out to @ARDiDo, @bi4k8, @Joshua-Ashton, @jlindgren90, @Consolatis, @telent and @apbryan. The most notable feature-type changes are listed below.

Added

Add support for the following wayland protocols:
- pointer_constraints and relative_pointer - mostly for gaming. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
- viewporter - needed for some games to fake modesets. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
- wlr_input_inhibit. This enables swaylock to be run. Written-by: @telent
- wlr_foreign_toplevel. This enables controlling windows from clients such as waybar.
- idle and idle_inhibit (Written-by: @ARDiDo)
Support fullscreen mode.
Support drag-and-drop. Written-by: @ARDiDo
Add the following config options:
- Load default keybinds on <keyboard><default />
- <keyboard><repeatRate> and <keyboard><repeatDelay>
- Specify distance between views and output edges with <core><gap>
- <core><adaptiveSync>
- Set menu item font with <theme><font place="MenuItem">
- Allow <theme><font> without place="" attribute, thus enabling simpler config files
- Support <mousebind> with contexts (e.g. TitleBar, Left, TLCorner, Frame), buttons (e.g. left, right), and mouse actions (e.g. Press, DoubleClick). Modifier keys are also supported to handle configurations such as alt + mouse button to move/resize windows. (Written-by: @bi4k8, @apbryan)
- <libinput> configuration. Written-by: @ARDiDo
- <resistance><screenEdgeStrength>
Support for primary selection. Written-by: @telent
Support 'alt-tab' on screen display when cycling between windows including going backwards by pressing shift (Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton) and cancelling with escape (Written-by: @jlindgren90)
Add the following theme options:
- set buttons colors individually (for iconify, close and maximize)
- window.(in)active.label.text.color
- window.label.text.justify
- OSD colors
Show application title in window decoration title bar
Handle double click on window decoration title bar
Support a 'resize-edges' area that is wider than than the visible window decoration. This makes it easier to grab edges to resize windows.
Add window actions 'MoveToEdge', 'ToggleMaximize', 'Close', 'Iconify', 'ToggleDecorations', 'ToggleFullscreen', 'SnapToEdge', 'Focus', 'Raise', 'Move', 'MoveToEdge', 'Resize', 'PreviousWindow', 'ShowMenu'
Add labwc.desktop for display managers
layer-shell:
- Take into account exclusive areas of clients (such as panels) when maximizing windows
- Support popups
Handle xwayland set_decorations and xdg-shell-decoration requests. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
Handle view min/max size better, including xwayland hint support. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
Handle xwayland move/resize events. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
Support audio and monitor-brightness keys by default
Catch ctrl-alt-F1 to F12 to switch tty
Support XCURSOR_THEME and XCURSOR_SIZE environment variables
Support submenus including inline definitions

Changed

The config option <lab><xdg_shell_server_side_deco> has changed to <core><decoration> (breaking change)

0.3.0 - 2021-06-28

Compile with wlroots 0.14.0

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Add config options <focus><followMouse> and <focus><raiseOnFocus> (provided-by: Mikhail Kshevetskiy)
Do not use Clearlooks-3.4 theme by default, just use built-in theme
Fix bug which triggered Qt application segfault

0.2.0 - 2021-04-15

Compile with wlroots 0.13.0

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Support wlr-output-management protocol for setting output position, scale and orientation with kanshi or similar
Support server side decoration rounded corners
Change built-in theme to match default GTK style
Add labwc-environment(5)
Call wlr_output_enable_adaptive_sync() if LABWC_ADAPTIVE_SYNC set

0.1.0 - 2021-03-05

Compile with wlroots 0.12.0 and wayland-server >=1.16

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Support xdg-shell and optionally xwayland-shell
Show xbm buttons for maximize, iconify and close
Support layer-shell protocol (partial)
Support damage tracking to reduce CPU usage
Support very basic root-menu implementation
Re-load config and theme on SIGHUP
Support simple configuration to auto-start applications, set environment variables and specify theme, font and keybinds.
Support some basic theme settings for window borders and title bars
Support basic actions including Execute, Exit, NextWindow, Reconfigure and ShowMenu

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0.4.0 - 2021-12-31

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