% xmobar - Release notes % Jose A. Ortega Ruiz ## Version 0.14 _New features_ - New brightness monitor, courtesy of Martin Perner. - New DateZone plugin, for configurable timezone and localized datetimes, also by Martin. - New keyboard layout monitor (Kbd). Yes, by Martin. - Rewrite of the event handling ([issue 53], [issue 57]), you guessed it. - Cpu monitor now also reports `iowait` field ([issue 55]). - Battery monitor: the full charge file is now settable in the monitor arguments (olpc systems use charge_full_design; see [issue 62]). _Bug fixes_ - [issue 45]: Fix for crashes with AC status changes in battery monitor. - [issue 48]: The <quality> field of Wireless behaves like a percentage. - [issue 50]/[issue 61]: `MPD` monitor now works with libmpd 0.6. - [issue 60]: Fixes for crashes on power resume for battery monitor. - Template sections without fields are now correctly displayed. - Catch errors when reading battery status (Ben Boeckel). - Compilation issues with ghc 7.x (Sergei Trofimovich). - Fixes for CoreTemp monitor in new kernels (Norbert Zeh). - Fix for pulseaudio problems in volume monitor (Martin Perner). - Fix for parsing errors when a `Run` entry ended in an array (Martin). - Fixed compilation in OpenBSD (Ivo van der Sangen). [issue 45]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=45 [issue 48]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=48 [issue 50]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=50 [issue 53]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=53 [issue 55]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=55 [issue 57]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=57 [issue 60]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=60 [issue 61]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=61 [issue 62]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=62 ## Version 0.13 (March 28, 2011) _New features_ - New `Volume` monitor displaying ALSA soundcards information, by Thomas Tuegel. - New `ThermalZone` plugin substituting `Thermal` and using linux's *sysfs* interface (you need this one if you're using a kernel version equal to or above 2.6.37). See [issue 44]. - xmobar app new has WM_CLASS, WM_NAME and _NET_WM_PID xprops ([issue 38]). _Incompatible changes_ - In the process of solving [issue 14], we've broken those configurations that rely on including alignment separators in the input fed to `StdinReader`. - The MPD plugin does not accept host and port options anymore: use the environment variables MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT instead. - The `Mail` plugin now takes a second parameter (a string) specifying its alias. As a side-effect, this solves [issue 30]. _Bug fixes_ - [issue 14]: `StdinReader` and other plugins accepting external input don't get confused anymore when characters from `alignSep` appear in their input. - [issue 27]: `BottomSize` placement now respects its width argument. - [issue 28]: Compilation in Mac OS X fixed. - [issue 30]: `Mail` plugin can be specified anywhere in commands list. - [issue 36]: Battery monitor now supports non-standard locations of the `/sys/class/power_supply/AC/online` file. - [issue 40]: Battery monitor now supports the new power_now, that replaces current_now in linux kernels for v. 2.36 and above. - [issue 42]: More accurate net monitor rates. - DiskIO, Cpu and MultiCpu monitors are also more accurate now. - Text is now correctly centered vertically. - `FullBM` border spec fixed. [issue 14]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=14 [issue 27]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=27 [issue 28]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=28 [issue 30]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=30 [issue 36]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=36 [issue 38]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=38 [issue 40]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=40 [issue 42]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=42 [issue 44]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=44 ## Version 0.12 (Dec 24, 2010) xmobar has a new [maintainer], a new [website], a new [mailing list] and uses a new [source code repository]. Many thanks to Andrea Rossato, xmobar's author and maintainer so far, for creating xmobar in the first place, and for giving me the chance to become its maintainer. And a big thanks to Ben Boeckel, Petr Rockai and Norbert Zeh for their patches. [website]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/ [mailing list]: http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmobar [source code repository]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar [maintainer]: http://hacks-galore.org/jao/ _New features_ - Window borders: configuration options `border` and `borderColor` allow drawing borders around xmobar's window. - New monitor, `Uptime`, showing the system uptime. - New monitor argument (`-S`) to enable displaying the `%` symbol in percentages or other suffixes (e.g., units in Uptime and Network); the symbol is now never included by default. - New 'run once' commands, by specifying a 0 refresh rate in `Run Com` ([issue 26]). - MPD monitor: updated to libmpd 1.5. New fields `ppos` (playlist position) and `remaining` (remaining time). New configuration options to specify MPD's host, user name and password. - Battery monitor: new `watts` and `timeleft` fields (Petr Rockai), and specific arguments to control coloring and thresholds of the former. - MultiCPU monitor: new `auto*` fields that automatically detect all present CPUs (Ben Boeckel). - CpuFreq monitor uses just one decimal digit for GHz values (Petr Rockai). - Mail plugin expands paths starting with "~/" (Ben Boeckel). Ditto MBox. - Weather monitor now skips not retrieved fields, instead of displaying a long error message. - New compilation flag, `all_extensions`. - Documentation and website updates. _Bug fixes_ - [issue 23]: Wireless monitor is now compatible with iwlib 29. - [issue 24]: Swap monitor's used ratio display fixed. - [issue 25]: Percentages only include `%` if requested using `-P`. - [issue 31]: MPD monitor now respects `-W` argument. - Fixes in CPU frequency formatting, string alignment and colour boxes in monitors (Norbert Zeh). - TopMem and TopProc now use the `-L` and `-H` options correctly for memory template fields. - MBox skips non-existent mbox paths instead of hanging. [issue 23]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=23 [issue 24]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=24 [issue 25]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=25 [issue 26]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=26 [issue 31]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=31