CHANGELOG.md

MoonWM - CHANGELOG

Table of Contents

• 8.1.0
• 8.0.0
• 7.3.3
• 7.3.2
• 7.3.1
• 7.3.0
• 7.2.1
• 7.2.0
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.0
• 7.0.4
• 7.0.3
• 7.0.2
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.0

8.1.0

• Adding swallow command
• Fixing systray hiding for togglebar
• Copying screenshots to clipboard
• Adding extra color setting for system tray (moonwm.trayBg)
• Deprecating moonwm-utils launch-minimal
• Adding (pmenu)[https://github.com/phillbush/pmenu] as binding for middle click on desktop
  • It will show your favorites (same as middle click on menu)
  • pmenu will not be added as a dependency for now; if you want to use it just install it
• Improving positioning of floating windows when adding monitors
• Removing handling for _KDE_NET_WINDOW_TYPE_OVERRIDE

8.0.0

• Merging wmcommons back into the project
• Dropping the following functions of moonwm-utils:
  • brightness, launch, monitors screenlayouts, screenstup, setup-keyboard, setwallpaper, start, volume
• Integrating pademelon-tools for volume, backlight and wallpaper
• Adding keybindings:
  • Increase and decrease nmaster (MOD + a / MOD + x)
• Removing keybindings:
  • Screen locking
• Dropping support for setxkbmap options and custom modmap
• Redoing the main menu
• Adding options for insets to make space for external bars etc
• Launching status only when MOONWM_LAUNCH_STATUS is specified (temporary workaround)
• Removing xdg-xmenu
• Adding closeswallowed option

7.3.3

• Fixing cursor warping
• Fixing window activating across monitors
• Fixing window placing by mouse for multiple monitors

7.3.2

• Respecting _KDE_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_OVERRIDE
• Quickfix for cursor jumping

7.3.1

• Hotfix for wmcommons

7.3.0

• Initial compatibility with pademelon
• Improved resource management with lockscreen image generating
• Borderwidth now always respects smartgaps
• Pipewire for a more efficient implementation of playing sounds
• Fixed behavior for _NET_WM_DESKTOP

7.2.1

• Fixing built-in status
• Fix smartgaps for monocle layout
• Adding command to list all windows: windows
• Adding commands borrow, steal and restore to quickly get windows onto your current tags:
  • borrow borrows a window from its tags until it looses focus
  • steal permanently takes a window from its tags
  • restore reverts any of the two actions listed above

7.2.0

• Move windows with your mouse even when they are fullscreen
• Spawn floating windows where the mouse is
• Pulling windows to first monitor if theirs got disconnected
• Configuration is now done in the xres format
• Making a lot of stuff optional via options:
  • rules and tagrules
  • enable/disable NerdFont icons via env variable (MOONWM_NERDFONT)
• Navigation and organisation by direction:
  • added movedir
  • improved focusdir algorithm
• Support for feh as wallpaper-setter
• Improved drun (with ! and ? modifier)
• Improving the 'expose' feature
• Compiler optimizations enabled by default
• Splitting stuff of to wmcommons

7.1.1

• Better implementation for the hiding of windows
• Better window centering
• Config option for a default layout
• Better multi-monitor support (moonwm-util monitors/MOD+Shift+M)
• MOD + space now cycles through the open windows

7.1.0

• Replacing moonie with moonctl (also replaces some dependencies)
• Adding an expose feature to replace skippy-xd
• Implementing cfacts
• Drag mfact/cfacts with mouse
• Additional Xorg atoms: _MWM_CURRENT_TAGS, _MWM_CLIENT_TAGS and _MWM_CLIENT_MONITOR
• Using MWM* atoms to restore state after reload

7.0.4

• Help messages for menu
• Improved EWMH and WindowRole/WindowType support
• Keybinding to focus floating/tiled windows
• Adding center functionality to menu
• Wallpaper can now be set with moonwm-util setwallpaper <file> or via your file manager
• More config options

7.0.3

• Grid layout
• More config options exposed via env/config variables
• Highly improved version of xdg-xmenu
• Improved layout handling in scripts
• Loading moonwm xres values as defaults for xmenu

7.0.2

• Changed config option names
• Config file in ~/.config/moonwm/config.env
• Moving modmap file to ~/.config/moonwm/modmap
• Reloading config when restarting in place
• Use picom's experimental backends (MOONWM_PICOMEXP)
• Multiple fixed bugs and memory leaks

7.0.1

• Modkey configurable via MOONWM_MODKEY
• Improved support for Steam (especially Proton)
• Kill menu (Mod + Shift + right click)

7.0.0

• Wrapper script to ensure out-of-the-box usability
• Barmenu
• Clickable statusbar
• Gaps between windows
• Rio-like resizing
• Rio-like context menu
• Terminal swallowing
• Multiple additional layouts
• Simple IPC
• Xrdb support
• Improved compatibility
• Other improvements

See also README.md#patches-implemented.