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Introduction

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

The format is based on Keep a Changelog

Summary of Releases

Date All Changes wlroots version lines-of-code
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

0.6.5 - 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 artefacts 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-heigth
    • 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 insances. 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 attritube, 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 preperation 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 syncronization, 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-deccoration 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> <exectue> 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 incorrecly 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 irratically 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

Added

  • 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

Added

  • Support wlr-output-management protcol 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

Added

  • 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