Today the fluxbox team is very happy to announce a new release of fluxbox 1.3.2

After a very successful participation in GSOC2011 (we will report more soonish) and right before we are starting our (slow turning, point taken) engines to integrate the result of the two GSOC2011 projects into the main line (which might be a bit bumpy), we wanted something more stable for you.

Both Pavel and Gediminas, our GSOC2011 participants, contributed to this release all over the place. Most notably, Gediminas added ARGB32 visuals to fluxbox (so, yes, your cairo-dock now looks awesome again). And Gediminas cleaned up some gory old code mess and fixed some crashes along the road.

So, happy release and happy fluxboxing!

Your beloved and trusted windowmanager got accepted as a mentoring organization on the Google-Summer of Code. For those of you living under a rock, I will briefly describe the general idea of GSOC:

You work fulltime on a fluxbox related project over the summer
and get paid by Google. Yes, paid. Money.

At the moment we are working on filling out some related paper work (eg, application templates), but you can have a look at some project ideas we have. You can read more about the next steps for you and us at Google's blog.

This is the first time we tried to become part of SOC and we are very happy to see this happen.

Getting the 1.3.0 out of the door brought up some hidden bugs, we tried hard to catch most of them in the last week. Since that went very well, we have a new release for you:

Critical Bugfixes:

• Fix for not hiding submenus if menuDelay is set.
• Fix crash when moving transient windows (Dialogs) between Workspaces, #3088856.
• Fix crash when SystemTray was rotated 90/270 degree, #3188223.
• Fix potential crash when gettting an UnmapEvent before a FocusEvent.
• Fix potential crash on accessing NULL-pointer.

Other Bugfixes:

• Fix wrong width calculation of Systemtray, #3150939.
• Fix initial placement of WindowMenu, #2731524.
• Fix incorrectly shown alpha values in Menus, #3187373.
• Fix render 'sunken' Textures correctly.

Personal note from Mathias: This is the first time 'fluxgen' was not able to get this release out of the door himself. He has injured himself by trying something a real hacker should never be allowed: Leave the keyboard. So, best whishes from here towards Henrik!

Fluxbox 1.3 has arrived! A long long long time is over, and we finally decided to make a release.

• Added support for bidirectional text, #2801836.
• Allow to override 'Focus New Windows' via .fluxbox/apps
• New actions:
  • ActivateTab
  • ArrangeWindowsVertical
• New 'MoveN' and 'ClickN' action support for keys file
• New focus model 'StrictMouseFocus'. This will affect focus when closing, moving, lowering windows, changing desktops, etc, whereas the 'MouseFocus' model will only change focus when you move the mouse.
• New "background: unset" property for use in overlays.
• Allowing relative paths for background images in style files.
• Allowing matching screen number in ClientPattern.
• Removed rootcommand from init, as fbsetbg is run automatically nowadays.
• Removed line style resources from init file.

In any case, we hope to get more into the 'flux' way of doing things, aka release early and often. So, have fun with this release.

Personal note from Mathias: This one is dedicated to the first official 'fluxbaby' on the planet: my daughter Karo, born on 6th of November 2010. Which is, btw, the birthday of Henrik as well :)

As announced, we have started a new development cycle. So, it is time for
a new release: 1.1.1. It fixes some important issues discovered since the
last release. Go and grab it from the usual place and … happy fluxboxing!

This is the first release of the new development release cycle.
A lot has happened since 1.0.0 so check out all the new features in the NEWS
file.

http://fluxbox.org/download/

In case you can’t tell, we have a new website. Huzzah!

If you need some of the old content, go over to

http://old.fluxbox.org.

Many thanks fly over to famous tenner who
made the redesign.

The fluxbox team has decided to switch over to git
for version control. You can surf the official repository at

http://git.fluxbox.org

and can grab your own copy of the whole project by cloning it via

git clone git://git.fluxbox.org/fluxbox.git fluxbox.git

We hope to bring up a new version of the homepage soonish (planning first
month of the next year). Aside from all this “meta” stuff Mark did
an excellent job by hunting down lots of bugs while the rest of the crew
is a bit busy with real life jobs, so the team wants to send a big hug
over to Mark :)

For the rest of you: we wish you a good time with your family and a happy
new year.

A new fbdesk release. This release fixes the flickering issue with the
latest fluxbox release and parsing of the icon file.

Check it out here.

A new stable release! Finally after almost four and a half years with
0.9.x release we got to 1.0.0! This release includes a lot of bugfixes,
new styles, updated language support, better shaped corners and much more.

Grab it here!

More info about the release here

We will soon update the entire webpage, so stay tuned!