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# V1.4.0: I reject your truth and trumpstitute my own
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> This release contains some major changes. One of them being a new theme
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> engine. The migration from older versions to this version might not go
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> flawless.
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With more then 750 commits since the last version, this is one of the biggest
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releases so far. In this version we used the groundwork laid in v1.3.0 and went
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completely nuts with it. Hopefully this release should satisfy the die-hard
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desktop [ricers](https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/) with a brand new theme
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engine. Lot of different colors, border, multiple fonts everything is now
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possible.
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Because of The great work done by [SardemFF7](https://github.com/SardemFF7/) the
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code base is simplified and the key and mouse handling improved. The libraries
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provided by SardemFF7 also made it possible to add a often requested feature of
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icons (correctly using the icon-theme). A feature I never expected to be added.
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To top this off, SardemFF7 added support to build rofi using
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[meson](http://mesonbuild.com/).
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A last big addition and still in beta, is support for plugins. Allowing the
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addition of some weird/fancy features. Currently two plugins are available,
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[blezz](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-blezz) a quick launch menu with it own
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menu definition and [top](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-top/) displaying
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running processes.
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Beside these major changes, this release includes a lot of bug-fixes and small
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improvements. See the bottom of this release notes for a more complete list of
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changes.
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## Theme engine
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The biggest new feature of this release is the theme engine. Building on the
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changes made in v1.3.0 we implemented a new theme engine and it has a completely
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new theme format. While the themes are a lot more verbose now, it does allow for
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a lot of extra customizations.
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It is now possible to theme each widget in rofi independently:
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### Colors
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You can now set the color on each widget independent in most of the CSS
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supported color formats (hsl, cmyk, rgb, etc.) and each color can have a
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transparency. There are three colors that can be set on each widget:
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* **background-color**
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Used to draw the background of the widget. Each widget is drawn on top of it
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parent, if the background is transparent, you will see the parents widget.
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* **border-color**
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Used to draw the borders.
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* **text-color**
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Used to draw text. If not set the foreground color is used.
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### Borders
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On every widget we can now configure a border for each of the four sides, the
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color of the border, the style of the border (solid or dashed) and the radius of
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the corners can be set.
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This combined with (fake) transparency can make for a very nice looking, rounded
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rofi experience.
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### Fonts
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An often made request was support for different fonts for the entry box and the
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list. With the new theme, it is possible to change the font and size of all
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widgets.
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> Note that opening a fonts is one of the slowest operations during rofi
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> startup; having multiple fonts could have a significant impact on startup
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> times.
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### Flexible layout
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To top all these changes, as an advanced feature the whole layout of the window
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can be changed. Making it possible to mimic the original dmenu view, or make it
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appear as a minimal context menu.
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## Error reporting
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The new theme parser will also be more verbose when encountering parsing errors,
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hopefully helping debugging and modifying themes.
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For example when forgetting a trailing ';' will report where it failed, and what
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it expected (a ';').
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## Importing
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The new theme parser also support importing and overriding. This allow you to
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make make modifications to an existing theme, without having to completely copy
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it. For example, I want to use the `arthur` theme (shipped with rofi) but use
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fake transparency, change the font off the result list and import a set of
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overriding colors from `mycolors`.
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```css
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// Import the default arthur theme
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@theme "arthur"
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// Load in overriding of colors from mycolors.
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@import "mycolors"
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/* on the window widget, set transparency to use a screenshot of the screen. */
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#window {
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transparency: "screenshot";
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}
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/* Override the font on the listview elements */
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#element {
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font: "Ubuntu Mono 18";
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}
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```
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## Icons
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Another often made request, I never expected to be implemented, was icon
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support. With the help of SardemFF7 an implementation was possible that
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correctly follows the XDG icon specification and does not negatively impact the
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performance. Currently the drun and the window switcher can application icons.
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To enable icons, set the `show-icons` property to `true`.
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## More flexible key and mouse bindings
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Thanks to another great work of SardemFF7 you can now configure how the mouse
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behave and bind modifier keys. It also improves on error messages. For example
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it will now detect duplicate bindings.
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For example to select an entry on single click, instead of double click:
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```
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rofi -show run -me-select-entry '' -me-accept-entry 'Mouse1'
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```
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## Fuzzy Matching
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With thanks to Fangrui Song, the `fuzzy` matcher will now use a ranking similar
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to `fzf` to sort the results. This should hopefully to improve the results,
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something a lot of users will appreciate.
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Without:
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With:
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## Initial Plugin support
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> This feature is still in beta stage.
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It is now possible to add custom mode via C plugins. This is allows interactive
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modi to be added to rofi. For example it is possible to have `top` (display
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linux processes) mode:
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This mode allows sorting of the result on different keys (cpu usage, memory,
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etc.) to be selected, programs to be killed and refreshes the results every 2
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seconds.
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See [here](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-top).
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## Configuration File
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> This feature is in alpha stage.
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The new theme format can now (as an alpha) feature be used to set rofi's
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configuration. In the future, when we add wayland support, we want to get rid of
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the current Xresources (X11) based configuration format. You can see how this
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would look using: `rofi -dump-config`.
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## Detailed Changelog
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* Improved error messages
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* Theme parsing.
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* Keybinding. Duplicate bindings will now be reported.
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* Invalid commandline options.
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* Etc.
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* Customizable highlight, allowing underline, strikethrough, italic, bold, small
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caps and the color to be set.
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* Give up when keyboard is not grabbed in first 5 seconds.
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* Improve manpage
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* rofi (1)
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* rofi-themes (5)
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* Super-{1..10} hotkeys for selecting the first 10 rows.
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* Allow x-align/y-align on textbox.
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* Support matching bangs on multiple characters in combi mode. (#542)
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* Set WM_CLASS (#549)
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* Async pre-read 25 rows for improving user experience. (#550)
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* Improve handling in floating window manager by always setting window size.
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* DRun speedups.
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* Make lazy-grab default.
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* Remove extra layer in textbox. (#553)
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* Ignore fonts that result in a family name or size 0. (#554)
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* [Combi] Allow bang to match multiple modes. (#552)
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* Add detection of window manager and work around quirks.
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* Support dynamic plugins.
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* DMENU tty detection.
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* Support for icons in drun, combi and window mode.
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* Startup notification of launched application support.
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* Meson support.
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* Fuzzy matching with fzf based sorting algorithm.
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* Auto-detect DPI.
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* Set cursor at the end of the input field. (#662)
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* Meson support (thx to SardemFF7).
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* [Script] parse the command as if it was commandline. (#650)
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* Don't enable asan by meson. (#642)
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* Allow text widgets to be added in theme and string to be set.
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* [Dmenu] Support the -w flag.
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* Allow window (via window id) to be location for rofi window.
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* [Dmenu] Allow multi-select mode in `-no-custom` mode.
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* Flex/Bison based parser for new theme format.
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* Meson build support.
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* Initial plugin support, exporting of pkg-config file for rofi.
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* Improved positioning support for placing window on monitor.
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* Allow rofi to be placed above window based on window id.
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* Support different font per textbox.
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* Keep cache of previous used fonts.
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