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# 1.7.4: Preshellected Optimizations
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Another maintenance and small features expansion release. A lot of small
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annoyances have been fixed and ignored errors are now more visually flagged to
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the user. In the past typos in the theme could result into broken themes
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without any warning to the user (except in debug mode), if an unknown link is
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found it will now throw an error. To help the user find the right
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documentation, the manpages are further split up into sub-pages and are
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expanded
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We now have:
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* rofi(1)
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* rofi-theme-selector(1)
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* rofi-keys(5)
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* rofi-theme(5)
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* rofi-debugging(5)
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* rofi-dmenu(5)
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* rofi-script(5)
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Another improvement made that can have huge impact on the user-experience is a
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significant speedup in the async input reading of dmenu. It turned out glib's
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GInputStream async methods are very slow. On large input sets where it was
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supposed to improve the user experience, it made it unusable. To resolve this a
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custom implementation has been made. Background loading is now close to the
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same speed as loading at start before displaying. A million item list is now
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near instant. On very large lists, the instant filtering automatically changes
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to be postponed until the user stops typing. This severely reduces system load
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and interface blocking.
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A few long standing feature requests and bug reports have been implemented or fixed:
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* Listview flow. You can now change the flow in the listview from vertical first
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to horizontal first. Making it mimic tables.
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```bash
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for i in {1..90}; do echo $i; done | rofi -dmenu -no-config -theme-str 'listview { columns: 3; flow: vertical; }'
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```
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```bash
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for i in {1..90}; do echo $i; done | rofi -dmenu -no-config -theme-str 'listview { columns: 3; flow: horizontal; }'
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```
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* You can set a custom fallback icon for each mode.
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```css
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configuration {
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run,drun {
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fallback-icon: "application-x-addon";
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}
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}
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```
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* In dmenu mode (and script) you can now make (some) changes to the theme, for
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example modifying the background color of the entry box.
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```bash
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echo -en "\0theme\x1felement-text { background-color: red;}\n"
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```
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* User scripts (for script mode) into `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rofi/scripts` directory
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are automatically available in rofi.
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```bash
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rofi -h
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<snip>
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Detected user scripts:
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• hc (/home/qball/.config/rofi/scripts/hc.sh)
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</snip>
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```
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This script can now by shows by running `rofi -show hc`.
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* You can now render text as icons, this allows you to use glyphs icon fonts as
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icons.
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```bash
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echo -en "testing\0icon\x1f<span color='green'>Test</span>" | rofi -dmenu
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```
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* Hide listview when unfiltered. (#1079)
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```css
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listview {
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require-input: true;
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}
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```
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* You can now add a separate icon or textbox widget to the UI that displays the
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current selected item. As an example see the included `sidebar-v2`.
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* A bug was fixed that caused problems with newer xkeyboard-config versions and
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different keyboard layouts.
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Below is a more complete list of changes:
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# Changelog
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* [Doc] Add `-config` to `-help` output. (#1665)
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* [Dmenu] Fix multi-select, use text as indicator.
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* [filebrowser] Fix building on Mac. (#1662,#1663)
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* [textbox] Implement text-transform option. (#1010)
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* [script] Add `new-selection` (#1064).
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* [Script] Add keep-selection flag that keeps the current selection. (#1064)
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* [Debug] Add '-log' flag to redirect debug output to a file.
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* [XCB] Try to deduce rotated monitors.
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* [Doc] Add rofi-dmenu to 'See also' in rofi(1).
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* [Options] Mark offset(s) as deprecated.
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* [Modes] Support loading multiple icon sizes.
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* [View] Add textbox|icon-current-entry widget.
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* [Doc] Add ascii manpage to rofi-script(5).
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* [Script] Print user-scripts in -h
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* [Script] Look into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rofi/scripts/ for user scripts.
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* [Dmenu|Script] Allow (some) theme modification from script/dmenu.
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* [Textbox] Fix some pango alignment.
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* [FileBrowser] Bind 'kb-accept-custom-alt' to directory up.
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* [Build] Add desktop files as per complaint (rofi theme selector and rofi itself).
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* [Dmenu] Code cleanups.
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* [Themes] Remove broken themes.
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* [Modes] Allow fallback icon per mode. (#1633)
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* [View] Fix broken anchoring behaviour. (#1630)
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* [Rofi] Move error message on commandline to UI.
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* [Listview] Option to hide listview elements when not filtered. (#1622,#1079)
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* [DMenu] Speed up reading async in of large files from stdin.
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* [FileBrowser] Make accept-alt open folder if selected.
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* [Helper] Add XDG_DATA_DIRS to the theme search path. (#1619)
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* [Doc] Split up manpages and extend them with examples.
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* [Doc] Highlight use of `-dump-config` in config. (#1609)
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* [Config] Workaround for in data type passed to string option.
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* [Listview] Allow flow of elements to be set. (#1058)
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* [Script] Add data field that gets passed to next execution. (#1601)
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* Change modi to modes to avoid confusion.
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* [Theme] When links are unresolvable throw an error to the user.
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* [DMenu] Document the `display-columns` and `display-column-separator` option.
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* [Theme] Media now supports `enabled` that supports an environment variable.
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* [IconFetcher] Support rendering fonts as icon.
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* [xcb] Remove work-around to fix use with new xkeyboard-config (#1642)
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# Thanks
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Big thanks to everybody reporting issues.
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Special thanks goes to:
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* Iggy
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* Morgane Glidic
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* Danny Colin
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Apologies if I mistyped or missed anybody.
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