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# Release 0.15.12
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The 0.15.12 release of **rofi** focusses on improving overall user experience. These improvements mostly focussed on
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three things, first we (tried to) fix the problems with complex keyboard layouts, second we tried to make theming of
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**rofi** easier. Also we added several speedups. Below I will highlight these bigger changes in more details
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Now that **rofi** reached an acceptable maturity level, we will start using more common
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version numbering. Right now rofi uses `0.year.month` for version numbers.
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Starting with next version the widely used `major.minor.bugfix` scheme will be used.
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This means, that next rofi version will either be
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* 0.15.13 (bugfix release)
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* 0.16.0 (minor release) or (if no major bugs are discovered)
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* 1.0.0 (major release)
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## Keyboard Layouts
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**Rofi** used to have problems with keyboard layouts that used modifier keys to switch between different layers.
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These problems should now be a thing of the past.
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**Note** the syntax for binding keys has slightly changed. The *Mod1*, *Mod2*, etc. keywords are no longer available.
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There was no good way to detect how these keys where mapped and if they could be used as modifiers.
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E.g. if the right alt (say *Mod3*) is configured to switch between layouts, it cannot work as modifier key to make a `Mod3-p` keybinding.
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**Rofi** will now check if the current layout has the *SuperR*,*SuperL*,*AltGr*,*HyperL*,*HyperR* keys available.
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If they are available they can be used for keybindings, if not, the user gets a warning.
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## Speedups
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### DMenu reading from stdin
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**Rofi** used to have a custom `fgets` implementation that supported custom separators. The first version was
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slow but got improved. Learning about Posix 2000' `getdelim` this is now used and is almost as fast as the latest custom implementation.
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Overall this gave a speedup of 6x (from 648 ms for 202000 lines down to 108ms).
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### Multi-Core power
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Still disabled by default, **rofi** can now spawn multiple threads for filtering rows. Depending on the underlying
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hardware we saw a 1.5x speedup running on a dual core ARM and up to a 3.5x speedup on a quadcore (8 threads) i7 CPU.
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It uses Glib's GThreadPool and will therefore spawn threads as needed and clean them up again afterwards.
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To enable this option pass the `-threads 0` option, this will autodetect the number number of hw-threads. Pass `-threads 4`
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to force it to use 4 threads. Setting the number to 1, disables it.
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## Themes
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**Rofi** color themes can be specified in a lot of detail, including the use of transparency to get desired results.
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However color syntax proved to be difficult and testing it can be a hassle. To solve this we added a web frontend for writing
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themes (with live preview) and a themes repository.
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To make things even easier, you can now take screenshots of **rofi** from within **rofi** with a simple keybinding.
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### Theme repository
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This has been requested several times and rofi's website actually has a theming page.. This however got outdated quickly and neither
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the themes or the screenshots are correct anymore. The newly added rofi-themes git repository allows you to add themes easily:
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Fork the repository and export your current color theme with **rofi -dump-xresources-theme**. Place it in the theme directory
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of the repository and run the update script. This will automatically generate screenshots and update the page.
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Update your fork and send a pull request. This way your theme will appear on official themes page, once it's merged.
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The repository can be found [here](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi-themes/)
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### Themenator
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The second tool is a website allowing you to easily create themes and preview all changes life, the [themenator](https://davedavenport.github.io/rofi/generator.html)
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Big thanks to [SardemFF7](https://github.com/sardemff7) who got tired of me complaining, took the very rough prototype and turned it into
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something beautiful.
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Hopefully people will make beautiful themes and submit them to the [theme repository](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi-themes/).
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## Full ChangeLog
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### New features:
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- Initial `-dump` command for dmenu mode. (#216)
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- Threading support.
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- Parallel checking for ASCII.
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- Parallel string matching.
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- Autodetect number of HW-threads.
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- Disabled by default.
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- Highlight multiple selected rows (#287,#293)
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- Dmenu can read from file instead of stdin.
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- Regex matching (#113)
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- Take Screenshot of rofi using keybinding.
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- Hotkey for sorting: (#298)
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- Option to set scrollbar width.
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### Improvements:
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- Fix return code of multi-select.
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- Update manpage (#289, #291)
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- Improve speed of reading stdin in dmenu mode.
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- Correctly handle modifier keys now. Should now support most weird keyboard layouts and switching between them.
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(#268, #265, #286)
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- Correctly set locale, fixing issues with entering special characters. (#282)
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- DRun mode support `NoDisplay` setting (#283)
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- Pango markup is matched when filtering. (#273)
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### Bug fixes:
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- Improve error message (#290)
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- Correctly switch to next entry on multi-select when list is filtered (#292)
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- Switch __FUNCTION__ for __func__. (#288)
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- Fix segfault on empty list and moving through it. (#256,#275)
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- Fix one off of colors (#269)
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- Drun fix uninitialized memory (#285)
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