ANNOUNCE: xfwm4 4.7.0 released

Nick Schermer nick at xfce.org
Sun Sep 5 15:07:28 CEST 2010


xfwm4 4.7.0 is now available for download from
  
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwm4/4.7/xfwm4-4.7.0.tar.bz2
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwm4/4.7/xfwm4-4.7.0.tar.bz2.md5
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwm4/4.7/xfwm4-4.7.0.tar.bz2.sha1

  SHA1 checksum: 8119e83d47dff04ca069cfd1356eadb79853c99d
   MD5 checksum: 0d04e782d47c08bb562f497106400967


What is xfwm4?
==============

Xfce's window manager.

Website: 
  http://www.xfce.org


Release notes for 4.7.0
=======================

This is a development release of xfwm4 for Xfce 4.8. Please report all
the regressions and bugs you find at bugzilla.xfce.org (and don't forget
to set the version to 4.7.0).

- Fix window positioning problem when output it removed (bug #6209).
- Do not clear the show desktop flag upon activation of
  already visible windows
- Transition fullscreen windows back to their original layer
  when another window is activated (bug #3551).
- Add new keyboard shortcut to switch between windows of the
  same application.
- Add new keyboard shortcut to switch between windows of different
  applications only.
- Port to libxfce4ui + GtkBuilder and drop libxfcegui4 dependency.
- Display an app switcher window per physical monitor (bug #5229).
- Fix opacity for newly mapped window not focused by default
  (bug #5706).
- Add new option "cycle_apps_only" to switch between regular
  toplevels only (avoiding dialogs - This option coupled with the
  new shortcut allows for faster window selection through keyboard)
- Implement prelinminary support for snap on resize.
- Implement a workaround to avoid loosing key release events.
- Add linkage to libm when compositor is used (bug #6231).
- Check for invalid type for GValue to avoid a crash (bug #6195).
- Don't save the settings dialogs when saving the session.
- Watch workspace changes in wnck and update treeview accordingly.
- Move helper-dialog to $libdir/xfce4/xfwm4.
- Build documentation in make dist.
- Various theme updates.
- Translation updates (ja, es, pl, uk, da, ro, ast, lv, sq, gl, ru,
  sk, pt, fi, hu, it, de, pt_BR, cs, kk, si, hr, id, zh_TW)



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