icewm-4.0.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New major version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

icewm-4.0.0 released 2026-01-01

• Drop XPM from rebuild.sh.
• Report failure on /proc/net/dev at most once.
• Resolve warning on USHRT_MAX for Android.
• Decode UTF-8 codepoints and recognize combining_marks.
• When truncating a title in icesh, ignore combining_marks.
• Limit window titles to 128 bytes.
• Let the Alt+Tab quick switch handle very large numbers of application windows.
• Navigate the Alt+Tab ten times faster with PageUp/PageDown. Support navigating the quick switch with keypad keys.
• The third button on Alt+Tab opens the system menu for that frame.
• Also support the keypad keys in the WindowList window.
• Add missing include.
• Update new quick switch features.
• When a clock led pixmap is missing, construct it using the clock font.
• In Alt+Tab, pressing the first letter of the application class name, selects the next such application window.
• QuickSwitch support for very many application windows in both modes.
• Improve QuickSwitch hinting in horizontal mode.
• Add workspace separators to QuickSwitch in horizontal mode.
• Put accellerator on O in OccupyAll menu entry
• Update the potfiles after the _OccupyAll accellerator change.
• Trim trailing whitespace from window titles.
• Lock the work area when unmanaging a client.
• Prevent a crash when a dock layer window exits.
• Mark nextKey as override.
• Speedup icon drawing by caching its Pictures server side.
• Improve PagerShowPreview positions and icon drawing.
• Simplify icon drawing in WindowList.
• On startup force icon sizes to be standard icon sizes.
• Change minimum icon size from 8 to 16.
• Set the default value for Alpha blending to 1. Drop DoubleBuffer.
• Correct that YDesktop has defaults for depth/visual/colormap.
• Remove getGraphics from YWindow to save 16 bytes. Add createPixmap with sizes.
• Add createPicture to YXApplication.
• Add clang pragma "-Wc++11-narrowing"
• Print diagnostic messages for icesh loadicon and saveicon. Also show the win_gravity of WM_NORMAL_HINTS in icesh. State that icesh loadicon requires a window to have a _NET_WM_ICON property.
• Clock text leds should use the same font within a word.
• Fix off by one error in string list.
• In icesh addWorkspace first add the workspace before setting the desktop count.
• Read extra workspace names from the desktop on startup.
• Fix bug where the tasks pane overlaps with the workspaces pane. This may happen when the taskbar is higher, when big fonts are used.
• Limit the loading extra workspace names from the desktop, limit that by the total number of desktops.
• Update workspace name on taskbar when changed externally.
• Add getWorkspaceName and getWorkspaceNames to icesh.
• enable sponsoring
• Improve the handling of systray icons with a depth of 24 when the icewm system tray has a depth of 32.
• Prefer a gradient background for systray icons.
• Only use composing for a systray icon when its depth is 32.
• Fix keyboard layout switching for OpenBSD which lacks wordexp
• Add isUp() and setPointerMotion() to YPopup.
• Add easy createPixmap. Register the property name before a XGetTextProperty.
• Delete the taskbar menu after popdown and track it with fMenuShown.
• Automatically convert a YColor to XRenderColor.
• Fix spelling of WM_WINDOW_ROLE.
• Revert "Make menu arrow size relative to icon size". Not 'roughly similar size' but _exactly_. Unclear what means 'afac'? Don't repeat the same calculation in the next paragraph. Lacks cast from float to int.
• Don't manage plank.
• Track the use of nanosvg in image_library.
• Increase the maximum icon size to 256 for LargeIconSize and HugeIconSize.
• Add QuickSwitchPreview for a new quick switch with application previews.
• Add switcher.h.
• Add QuickSwitchPreview. Drop DoubleBuffer.
• Consistently use the work area of the frame for the desktop mini icon
• Adjust the size of the submenu indicator triangle with MenuIconSize.
• Use placed() instead of priority when testing for active previews
• Adjust WM_ICON_SIZE to announce support for high-resolution icons 128x128.
• Preferably use high-resolution icons in preview.
• Use override consistently in Switcher.
• Fix empty active color. Fix multi-screen setup. Handle very wide/tall monitors. Try to get at least two rows.
• For clients without WM_CLASS use WM_COMMAND.
• Check for an empty YPixel in XRenderColor.
• Accept minimal margin in order to get at least two rows of previews.
• Prefer the organisational repository for new issues.
• Add preview.h to distributable files.
• Update the preferred issues location to the ice-wm organisation.
• Update pot files.
• Avoid autoreconf failure on existence of nasty tags
• Eliminate dead code
• Make menu arrow size relative to icon size
• Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6
• fdomenu: Initialize loc variable with user's default system locale

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

2f2e2416d7 Add --sysconfdir=/etc to bind utilities configure.
af433948f0 Update to libqmi-1.38.0.
194d60dfb2 Update to icewm-4.0.0.

[Bruce Dubbs]

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