| 1 | v0.0.5 (2008-11-02) |
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| 2 | =================== |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | This release primarily contains cleanups and bugfixes for xpra. |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | General: |
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| 7 | -- Logging cleanup -- all logging now goes through the Python |
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| 8 | logging framework instead of using raw 'prints'. By default |
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| 9 | debug logging is suppressed, but can be enabled in a fine- or |
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| 10 | coarse-grained way. |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | Xpra: |
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| 13 | -- Protocol changes; v0.0.5 clients can only be used with v0.0.5 |
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| 14 | servers, and vice-versa. Use 'xpra upgrade' to upgrade old |
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| 15 | servers without losing your session state. |
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| 16 | -- Man page now included. |
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| 17 | Important bug fixes: |
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| 18 | -- Qt apps formerly could not receive keyboard input due to a focus |
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| 19 | handling bug; now fixed. |
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| 20 | -- Fedora's pygtk2 has mysterious local hacks that broke xpra; |
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| 21 | a workaround is now included. |
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| 22 | UI improvements: |
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| 23 | -- 'xpra attach ssh:machine' now works out-of-the-box even if xpra |
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| 24 | is not present in the remote machine's PATH, or requires |
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| 25 | PYTHONPATH tweaks, or whatever. (The server does still need to |
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| 26 | be running on the remote machine, though, of course.) |
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| 27 | -- Commands that connect to a running xpra server ('attach', 'stop', |
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| 28 | etc.) now can generally be used without specifying the name of |
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| 29 | the server, assuming only one server is running. (E.g., instead |
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| 30 | of 'xpra attach :10', you can use 'xpra attach'; ditto for remote |
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| 31 | hosts, you can now use plain 'xpra attach ssh:remote'.) |
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| 32 | -- Mouse scroll wheels now supported. |
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| 33 | -- 'xpra start' can now spawn child programs directly (--with-child) |
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| 34 | and exit automatically when these children have exited |
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| 35 | (--exit-with-children). |
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| 36 | Other: |
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| 37 | -- More robust strategy for handling window stacking order. |
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| 38 | (Side-effect: the xpra client no longer requires you to be using |
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| 39 | an EWMH-compliant window manager.) |
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| 40 | -- The xpra client no longer crashes when receiving an unknown key |
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| 41 | event (e.g. a multimedia key). |
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| 42 | -- Very brief transient windows (e.g., tooltips) no longer create |
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| 43 | persistent "litter" on the screen. |
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| 44 | -- Windows with non-empty X borders (e.g., xterm popup menus) are |
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| 45 | now handled properly. |
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| 46 | -- Withdrawn windows no longer reappear after 'xpra upgrade'. |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | Wimpiggy: |
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| 49 | -- Do not segfault when querying the tree structure of destroyed |
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| 50 | windows. |
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| 51 | -- Other bugfixes. |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | Parti: |
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| 54 | -- No changes. |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | v0.0.4 (2008-04-04) |
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| 57 | =================== |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | Xpra: |
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| 60 | -- Protocol changes break compatibility with 0.0.3, but: |
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| 61 | -- New command 'xpra upgrade', to restart/upgrade an xpra server |
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| 62 | without losing any client state. (Won't work when upgrading from |
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| 63 | 0.0.3, unfortunately, but you're covered going forward.) |
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| 64 | -- Fix bug that left stray busy-looping processes behind on server |
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| 65 | when using ssh connections. |
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| 66 | -- Export window class/instance hints (patch from Ethan Blanton). |
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| 67 | -- Hack to make backspace key work (full support for keyboard maps |
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| 68 | still TBD). |
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| 69 | -- Added discussion of xmove to README.xpra. |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | Wimpiggy: |
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| 72 | -- Make compatible with current Pyrex releases (thanks to many |
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| 73 | people for reporting this). |
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| 74 | -- Work around X server bug #14648 (thanks to Ethan Blanton for help |
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| 75 | tracking this down). This improves speed dramatically. |
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| 76 | -- Reverse-engineer X server lifetime rules for NameWindowPixmap, |
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| 77 | and handle it properly. Also handle it lazily. This fixes the |
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| 78 | bug where window contents stop updating. |
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| 79 | -- Avoid crashing when acknowledging damage against an |
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| 80 | already-closed window. |
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| 81 | -- Improve server extension checking (thanks to 'moreilcon' for the |
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| 82 | report). |
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| 83 | -- Remove spurious (and harmless) assertion messages when a window |
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| 84 | closes. |
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| 85 | -- Make manager selection handling fully ICCCM-compliant (in |
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| 86 | particular, we now pause properly while waiting for a previous |
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| 87 | window manager to exit). |
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| 88 | -- Make algorithm for classifying unmapped client windows fully |
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| 89 | correct. |
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| 90 | -- Reduce required version of Composite extension to 0.2. |
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| 91 | |
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| 92 | Parti: |
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| 93 | -- Remove a stale import that caused a crash at runtime (thanks to |
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| 94 | 'astronouth7303' for the report). |
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| 95 | |
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| 96 | General: |
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| 97 | -- Error out build with useful error message if required packages |
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| 98 | are missing. |
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| 99 | |
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| 100 | Parti 0.0.3 (2008-02-20) |
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| 101 | ======================== |
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| 102 | |
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| 103 | Massive refactoring occurred for this release. |
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| 104 | |
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| 105 | wimpiggy: The WM backend parts of Parti have been split off into a |
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| 106 | separate package known as wimpiggy. As compared to the corresponding |
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| 107 | code in 0.0.2, wimpiggy 0.0.3 adds: |
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| 108 | -- Compositing support |
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| 109 | -- Model/view separation for client windows (based on compositing |
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| 110 | support) |
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| 111 | -- Improved client hint support, including icon handling, strut |
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| 112 | handling, and more correct geometry handling. |
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| 113 | -- Keybinding support |
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| 114 | -- Event dispatching that doesn't leak memory |
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| 115 | -- Better interaction with already running window managers (i.e., a |
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| 116 | --replace switch as seen in metacity etc.) |
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| 117 | |
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| 118 | parti: This package will eventually become the real window manager, |
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| 119 | but for now is essentially a testbed for wimpiggy. |
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| 120 | |
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| 121 | xpra: This is a new, independent program dependent on wimpiggy (which |
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| 122 | is why wimpiggy had to be split out). It implements 'screen for X' -- |
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| 123 | letting one run applications remotely that can be detached and then |
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| 124 | re-attached without losing state. This is the first release, but |
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| 125 | while not perfect, it is substantially usable. |
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| 126 | |
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| 127 | general: The test runner was hacked to share a single X/D-Bus session |
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| 128 | across multiple tests. This speeds up the test suite by a factor of |
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| 129 | ~3, but seems to be buggy and fragile and may be reverted in the |
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| 130 | future. |
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| 131 | |
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| 132 | Parti 0.0.2 (2007-10-26) |
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| 133 | ======================== |
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| 134 | |
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| 135 | This release adds a mostly comprehensive test suite, plus fixes a lot |
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| 136 | of bugs. Still only useful for experimentation and hacking. |
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| 137 | |
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| 138 | 'python setup.py sdist' sort of works now. |
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| 139 | |
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| 140 | Parti 0.0.1 (2007-08-10) |
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| 141 | ======================== |
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| 142 | |
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| 143 | Initial release. |
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| 144 | |
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| 145 | Contains basic window manager functionality, including a fair amount |
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| 146 | of compliance to ICCCM/EWMH, focus handling, etc., and doesn't seem to |
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| 147 | crash in basic testing. |
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| 148 | |
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| 149 | Doesn't do much useful with this; only a simple placeholder layout |
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| 150 | manager is included, and only skeleton of virtual desktop support is |
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| 151 | yet written. |
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