[openbox] [RELEASE] Openbox 3.4.9 released

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Fri Dec 18 11:36:24 EST 2009


I present to you all Openbox version 3.4.9.

You can view all the detailed changes here:
http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Openbox:Changelog#3.4.9
and download it from here: http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Openbox:Download

This release is expected to be the last of the 3.4 series, with some
forward-looking changes coming in future releases.

We've improved interoperability with gnome-session so that
GNOME/Openbox should work correcly "out of the box" on newer
distributions again.

I got a second monitor, and so ended up spending a lot of time
improving behaviour for multi-monitor setups. This culminated in the
primaryMonitor option in the rc.xml config file. This option dictates
where Openbox will show popups such as the one for cycling windows
with Alt-Tab.

We've added _OB_ROLE, _OB_NAME, and _OB_CLASS hints on all windows, to
help with making application rules in the rc.xml. Also, we've added a
new "obprop" command to help you read these properties off of a
window.

And lastly, Openbox menus should be a little more friendly now, as
submenus do not hide immediately anymore, allowing you to skip across
items in a menu in order to reach the submenu.

Thank you to all the users who gave feedback in bug reports and tested
things. You all helped a lot in making this release.

Happy holidays, and happy Openboxing.


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