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Way Cooler v5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-02-21 // about 7 years ago

  • 🚀 This release expands the graphical capabilities of Way Cooler, adding core features such as borders and bar support while also paving the way for more advanced features such as notifications.

    🚀 This is also the first release with a binary attached. It is an x86_64 ready-to-run version of Way Cooler statically linked to the latest wlc release (0.0.8).

    🆕 New Configuration format

    • The configuration format has changed significantly. This is a backward incompatible change. Please see the example configuration for more information.
    • In short, values must now be part of a category (e.g, no longer border_size it's way_cooler.windows = { borders = { size = 20 } }, for example).
    • 🔀 config object has been merged into way_cooler.

    👍 X11 Bar support

    • ➕ Added support for X11 bars, such as polybar and lemonbar
    • To enable, set the x11_bar variable under the programs category to the name of the window that the bar spawns (e.g, bar when running lemonbar as lemonbar -n "bar"
    • 👌 Support for more integrated bars will come in a later version.

    Borders

    • ➕ Added compositor/server side borders.
    • 🔧 Size and active/inactive color configurable through configuration option.
      • Color specified as a hexadecimal number
    • 🔧 Title bars are also independently configurable, e.g they have their own size and colors.

    Gaps

    • ➕ Added gap support between windows. You can think of these as transparent borders.

    D-Bus

    • Commands now block when locking the layout tree. This means that commands should fail much less often especially when in a tight loop.
    • ➕ Added ActiveWorkspace command to get the name of the current workspace.

    🐛 Bug Fixes

    • Context menus should stop disappearing/crashing the program.
      • Note that they may not be positioned correctly, this will be fixed in a later patch.
    • 🏁 Floating windows will now properly become fullscreen.
    • 🔧 Defaulting to the pre-compiled configuration file is now much more obvious in the log.
    • 🏁 Floating windows should now no longer snap back to their position.
    • Lua thread listener should now no longer die when restarting and having a bad config.
    • Floating a window in a sub container should no longer cause a crash.
    • The background should now resize when the output changes resolution.