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v1.1.0-dev.96: Snapping is yours to ask for, and WLM stops grabbing focus
Pre-releasev1.1.0-dev.96: Snapping is yours to ask for, and WLM stops grabbing focus
Pre-release off the dev branch. Builds on v1.1.0-dev.95.
Clicking in another program no longer pulls WLM to the front
Reported as clicking something in a completely different app focusing
WLM. It happened while one of WLM's dialogs was open, and only when that
app overlapped WLM's window.
A dialog disables the window behind it. That is what makes it modal, and
it is also why a click on that window cannot be noticed the ordinary way,
so WLM watched the mouse button and checked whether the pointer was over
its own window's rectangle. A rectangle is not the same question. Another
program sitting on top of WLM covers the same rectangle, so a click inside
that program looked identical to a click on WLM.
WLM now asks Windows which window the click actually landed on before it
does anything. If it wasn't ours, nothing happens.
Monitors snap when you ask them to
Dragging a monitor in Display settings always snapped it onto its
neighbour's edge. That sounds helpful and got in the way: the pull reaches
100 pixels, so a 200 pixel band around every edge could not be landed in
at all. If you wanted a display at a particular offset, the picker
wouldn't let you have it.
Hold Shift while dragging to snap. Let go and the monitor stays
exactly where you put it, with only the rules Windows itself enforces
(nothing overlapping, nothing floating free) able to move it. The
alignment line appears while Shift is down and goes when you release it,
so you can press and release mid-drag and watch it come and go.
Shift is already the key for nudging a selected display with the arrow
keys, and the two never get in each other's way.
The Position fields moved, and read better
They were a row on the monitor's settings card, describing the picture
drawn a long way above them and sized like the dropdowns they sat between.
They are now on the arrangement row directly under that picture, beside
the chip that says whether the arrangement is saved with the profile.
Smaller things
Hovering the resolution dropdown drew an enormous chevron across the whole
control. It also changed colour, and sank a pixel when pressed, neither of
which the two dropdowns either side of it do. All three are fixed.
The Display settings window opens wider and taller. Its old minimum size
was set for a version that had neither a picture of your desk nor a full
settings card in it.
Install
Auto-updates from dev.53 and later. Otherwise unzip and run.