terminator 1.90 (note: includes most of the 0.98 release fixes too):
Features
* Layout launcher with option or shortcut (Steve Boddy)
* An all-new manual! Default to F1 key (Steve Boddy)
* Now uses GTK3 + up-to-date VTE thanks to initial port by Egmont
Koblinger, and fixup by various people
* Thanks to a few patches we should also work under Wayland, with
a few limitations
Enhancements
* Layout launcher reloads config when opened to be sure it has the
latest layouts (Steve Boddy)
* Reload the config before we write to it or we could overwrite
something from another instance (Steve Boddy)
* When saving, a layout now remembers:
* maximised and fullscreen status (Steve Boddy)
* window titles (Steve Boddy, LP#1192960)
* which tab was active (Steve Boddy)
* which terminal was active (Steve Boddy, LP#858268)
* working directory for each terminal (MoMaT, LP#1157422) plus
additional GUI code (Steve Boddy)
* Add vertical scrollbars to the Profiles and Layouts tabs in
Preferences (LP#1396843)
* Pull in updated translations from trunk
* Remove pointless horizontal scrollbar from Layout Launcher
* Merge Activity Watcher plugin improvements from Joseph Crosland
(with additional GTK3 fixes)
* Add Ctrl+MouseWheel Zoom in/out and Shift+MouseWheel page scroll
up/down
* Show application if --new-tab passed, although needs currently
broken dbus (LP#1367680)
* Merge search bar wrap toggle (Christophe Bourez)
* Add Ctrl+Shift+mousewheel and Ctrl+Super+mousewheel actions to
zoom receivers or all terminals
* Default broadcast behaviour toggle by (Jiri/jtyr, #1288835)
* setup.py: Allow running tests via `python setup.py test`
* Major cleanup and reorganisation of the preferences window.
* Global setting for changing the titlebar font (partially from
Eli Zor branch), but expanded and improved (docs/GUI), plus some
minor fixup from this.
* Add shortcuts for next/prev profile (Peter E Lind, LP#1314734)
* Dual solution for cwd based on comments 36 & 37 by Egmont
Koblinger in LP#1030562
* Add 'Save' button for saving to the selected Layout (Ariel
Zelivansky)
* Preselect the current layout when opening Prefs window, and also
save config after using the layout 'Save' button (Steve Boddy)
* Set some default shortcuts based on my preference (Steve Boddy)
* Add high contast icons, make the main window icon loading work
better, and respect the theme changes (Steve Boddy, LP#305579)
* Additional windows icon loading works better, and respect the
theme changes (LP#305579)
* Adjust the config section name to InactivityWatch for
InactivityWatch class
* Add a new setting for ActivityWatch to set the time between
activty notifications
* BIG update to translations, due to additions and changes.
* Make the random default group names translatable
* Add and improve the mnemonics in the group menu
* Slight change to how the zoomed font is calculated.
* setup.py can install the manual (and by extension do can
debuild)
* setup.py has (inactive) code for generating the html from the
source but this will break if rtd theme is not available
* A few changes to doc strings to make the autodoc prettier
* Added help shortcut, by default F1 to open the local manual
* Added button to About tab (in Prefs window) to launch manual
* Small tweak to setup.py to seperate build and install, and
always attempt to install manual by default.
* Sort entries in config file, so they don't jump around every
time config is saved for easier troubleshooting
* Start 'New Layout #' from 1. Looked strange starting at 2
* Add fallback to psutils to discover the cwd of a terminal (Heon
Jeong)
* Add an internationalised AppData file for software installers
* Adjustment to the way alternatives are set up that should cure
blurry/incorrect icons in task switchers
* Some updates to the hicolor version of other window icons to
remove placeholders, and add svg versions of the status and
action icons
* As part of GTK3 fixup, some improvements to the DBus interface,
and remotinator (Steve Boddy)
* Can now open a window or tab using remotinator
* Can get the window uuid, or title using remotinator
* Moved new tab key handling into the terminal for consistency
* Standardise response when a new term is created (split, win
or tab) to reply with new terms uuid
* For GTK3 gave the DBus a slightly different name so they it
can run at same time as GTK2
* remotinator now uses argparse for commandline option handling,
vastly improving the option handling
* remotinator help strings are translatable now
* Update the translations to include the new strings in the
improved remotinator command
* Reimplement visual flash that got removed from libvte, reusing
the DnD overlay to flash the terminal (gtk2->gtk3)
* Set window geometry hints to off by default. The constant
trickle of problems it causes are annoying (LP#1498833)
* Actually set the DBUs interface to on by default. For some
reason it wasn't active by default.
* Add option to toggle the rewrap on resize (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1518077)
* Add word chars back in if VTE is 0.40+ (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1518078)
* Make Zoom/Maximize inactive if a single terminal (Egmont
Koblinger, LP#1518081)
* Add dimming for 256 colour palettes (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1518111)
* Update TERM/COLORTERM to more modern values (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1518557)
* Change the scroll_on_output default to false (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1392822)
* PuTTY paste mode (Nemilya, LP#1416682) with some alterations
(Steve Boddy)
* Updated and grouped default shortcuts in man page (Steve Boddy)
* Added smart copy mode switch to prefs (Steve Boddy, LP#1223129)
* Merge feature branch for tab/terminal title editing (Haim
Daniel, LP#1417747)
* Added radio options to the Cursor colour to make it easier to
go back to the XOR'd foreground colour (Steve Boddy,
LP#1512317)
* Move manual online, as distro packagers were stripping it out,
and remove associated scripting (Steve Boddy)
* Remotinator now uses the same version number as terminator
(Steve Boddy)
Bug Fixes
* Fix <Mod>+double-click to not rebalance splitters (Steve Boddy,
LP#1192679)
* Fix closing a group to no longer leaves strays (Steve Boddy,
LP#1193484)
* Fix shader so it works for background images too (Steve Boddy,
LP#1202109)
* Fix x-terminal-emulator option (Neal Fultz, LP#366644)
* Fix lost geom when using -H option (Steve Boddy, LP#1035617)
* Fix maximise in Fluxbox. Possibly also Windows w/Xming too
(Steve Boddy, LP#1201454)
* Fix lack of focus on unhide with patch from (Pavel Khlebovich,
LP#805870)
* Fix the Group All/Tab shortcuts where titlebars were not updated
(Steve Boddy, LP#1242675)
* Fix splits not being central mith multiple tabs (Justin
Ossevoort, LP#1186953)
* Fix startup error (undefined variable) on non-composited
displays
* Fix titlebar label preventing scaling down titlebars by wrapping
whole box in a viewport.
* Fix Custom Commands Dialog from David Chandler + fixes for GTK3
* Fix custom commands broadcast to grouped terminals (Mauro S M
Rodrigues, LP#1414332)
* Fix focus grabbing from the GTK3 port.
* Remove old flag based HAS_FOCUS usage from unused method of
terminator class
* Fix the scroll up/down key bindings to use gtk3 method
* Fix getting the handle size (gtk2->gtk3 diff)
* Fix scrollbar doubleclick rebalancing (LP#1423686)
* Fix allocations (no longer an attribute) when balancing
(gtk2->gtk3 diff)
* Fix allocations not having the x,y position just w,h (gtk3 bug?
gtk2->gtk3 diff?)
* Fix pid for spawning now forking is deprecated, but returns are
different (vte 0.36 -> 0.38)
* Fix xterm color palette to match xterm (LP#1260924)
* Fix for moving between terminals, checks for overlap. So far
never selects wrong terminal (LP#1433810)
* Fix search broken by port because returns are now different
(gtk2->gtk3 and vte 0.36 -> 0.38)
* Fix for confirm close dialog (judgedreads)
* Fix in get_allocation override to prevent exceptions/hung
process on exiting with close button.
* Fix distcheck and improvements to tests
* Fix debugserver work with two or more -d flags, not three or
more.
* Fix URL opening. Little too much removed in original port,
meaning one click = two copies of page opened.
* Fix the drag-and-drop of terminals/text back to pre-port
functionality - a real pain this one (gtk2->gtk3)
* Fix drag and drop of files (Schplurtz le Déboulonné, LP#1311481)
and some tweaks (Steve Boddy)
* Fix a few prefs widget alignments as per GNOME visual guidelines
* Fix slightly uneven splits on shortcut due to handle size,
though this will make previously saved layouts off by a few
pixels (Steve Boddy, LP#1089162)
* Fix typo in man page (Michael Eller, LP#1296725)
* Fix font lookups for people with unpopulated gconf database
(i.e. KDE) (Steve Boddy, LP#1476072)
* Fix the preferences window to be translated (LP:#1245806)
* Fix a default shortcut that was a bit garbled
* Fix the group radio buttons after mnemonics additions broke them
* Fix for setting urgent flag on window for highlight in task bar
(gtk3)
* Fix the problem with tabs not being named where a window with
splits creates a new tab
* Fix slider widget in Prefs>Global, which was filling the whole
trough, unlike the one right above it.
* Fix issue with Super+double-click on a splitter failing if tabs
were in use
* Fix buttons in the layout tab to stop them from being hidden by
the slider
* Fix composed characters when broadcast is turned on to appear in
all receivers now (LP#1463704)
* Fix the zoom/maximise terminal function (gtk2->gtk3)
(LP#1485293)
* Remove the old_padding and allocation stuff from the zoom_scaled
function in terminal which isn't used anyway
* Remove another unneeded assignment in is_zoomed function in
terminal
* Fix for systems (i.e. my 12.04 LTS) that don't set LANGUAGE for
whatever reason. This breaks the manual lookup
* Fix launcher opening after a dbus enabled window is already open
(DBUS in GTK3 still FIXME)
* Crude workaround for the fact that debian wants to compress
fonts used by the manual
* Fix the high contrast icons, where I accidentally included a
grey, semi-transparent background
* Fix a lingering usage of GTK2 style constant when setting the
last resort icon.
* Fix Custom Commands to use the standard gerr function instead of
the broken local one
* Fix the DBus interface (gtk2-gtk3)
* Disable the wm_class feature. Seems not possible in GTK3, and
breaks the DBus call for new_window.
* Workaround intltools inability to cope with files that have no
extension, using temporary symlinks
* Fix flickering and intermittent failures to rebalance
(LP#1504560)
* Fix for newer GI wanting us to specify versions (LP#1513596)
* Fix to make sure the bell icon appears even when titlebar text
extends beyond terminals width (LP#1494977)
* Fix editable label distorting the layout until the splitter gets
moved (LP#1494979)
* Fix startup on Wayland because Keybinder seems to be X11 only
* Fix a GI version warning for Notify library (Mattias Eriksson)
* Fix warning trying to import the __init__.py file as a plugin
(Mattias Eriksson, LP#1518065)
* Fix deprecation warning in later GTK versions (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1518063)
* Fix separator sizing (Egmont Koblinger, LP#1518069)
* Fix positioning of group popup menu for later versions of GTK
(Egmont Koblinger, LP#1518058)
* Correct some British spelt translated strings to American
(Egmont Koblinger, LP#1518085)
* Fix double double-click on titlebar in later GTK3 (Egmont
Koblinger, LP#1518094)
* Fix the palette for inactive terminals after Prefs window
(Egmont Koblinger, LP#1518108)
* Fix copy on selection to work on already open terminals (Egmont
Koblinger, LP#1518109)
* Fix unwanted seperator size change, and increase granularity of
dim/transparent sliders (Egmont Koblinger, LP#1518114)
* Fix cwd when new term spawned from a symlinked directory (Egmont
Koblinger, LP#1518554)
* Correct terminator_config man page regarding scrollback (Egmont
Koblinger, LP#1518559)
* Fix exception when Ctrl-clicking the terminal when not over a
URL (Egmont Koblinger, LP#1518592)
* Fix Ctrl-click on URL if terminal has padding (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1518596)
* Fix right-click for mouse aware apps (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1518700)
* Fix rotate terminals under tabs, and (gtk3-only) focus loss on
rotate (Egmont Koblinger, LP#1520360)
* Remove unsupported utmp for now, till alternative solution
(Egmont Koblinger)
* Fix the "Run command as login shell" (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1520991)
* Fix the tab switching if a terminal on another tab exits (Steve
Boddy, LP#943311)
* Fix for those not running IBus, where the IBus workaround caused
broken keys in other keymaps set with non-IBus tools
(Steve Boddy, LP#1494606)
* Fix PuTTY paste mode so Ctrl-Right-Drag, and application mouse
handling in terminal still works (Steve Boddy)
* Fix middle-click insert primary selection for Wayland (N/A) to
insert from clipboard instead (Mattias Eriksson)
* Remove invalid double-quote (") from the pathchar for url regex
matching (Steve Boddy, LP#1514578)
* Remove the now unused posix regex code, and set the regex
boundary vars to the correct '\b' value (Matt Rose, Egmont
Koblinger, Steve Boddy, LP#1521509)
* Fix drag and drop of a link from Firefox / Chrome (Egmont
Koblinger, LP#1518705)
* Fix the editing of the window title (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1520371)
* Fix closing window using short-cut (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1520372)
* Fix profile re-use when opening new window (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1520705)
* Fix scrollbar position on current terminals when changed in
prefs (Egmont Koblinger, LP#1520761)
* Fix title edit shortcuts to hopefully not clash with console
programs so much (Steve Boddy, LP#1514089)
* Fix to re-add the dash as a default word char. Accidentally
dropped in libvte API flux (Steve Boddy, LP#1598800)
* Fix stale tab titles (Steve Boddy, LP#1520377)
* Fix zero-sized terminals after rotate (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1522542)
* Fix (mostly) double-click doesn't distribute area evenly
(Egmont Koblinger, LP#1520969)
