Version 0.3

This release mainly features support for transparency (contribution by Oliver Hattshire @Hattshire) in color specifications along with improvements to the pulseaudio watcher script provided in the documentation.

Added

• Support for transparency: color specification can now contain a value for the alpha channel.
• Automatic default sink index detection in the example pulseaudio watcher script. This should make the script work out of the box for most users.
• Ready to use screen brightness watcher script in the README.
• Quiet mode (-q).

Changed

• xob now depends on libxrender for the new transparency feature (this can be optionally disabled when building xob).
• Improved documentation of the named-pipe method.
• The documentation encourages users to use dedicated input programs instead of the named-pipe method (now presented as a fallback method).

Fixed

• Documentation used to advise to overwrite the content of named pipes which could lead to premature file endings. The documentation now recommends to append new values command >> named_pipe.
• Issue in the pulseaudio watcher script where pulseaudio sink indexes were abusively used as indexes of the internal pulsectl library's data structures.

Version 0.2

This release introduces more precise timeout specification (mind the new unit for -t) and an orientation option. This option makes it possible to chose between a new vertical style or the classic horizontal style.

Added

• New vertical mode to display a bar that fills up from bottom to top.
• New orientation option to choose between classic horizontal mode and new vertical mode.
• More precise timeout specification (millisecond). Values below one second are now allowed.

Changed

• Default style: the bar is now vertical near the right edge of the screen. This prevents the bar from overlapping two screens in typical horizontal dual-monitor setups.
• Unit for timeout -t is now the millisecond. xob will issue a warning when the specified value seems too low (e.g. after a migration from v0.1.x).

Fixed

• Integers (0 and 1) not accepted as values for rel options in configuration file .
• Typos in documentation.

Version 0.1.1

This release does not add any major new end-user feature. It corrects issues and improves the build process thanks to a revamped Makefile for easier packaging of the program in linux distributions. It also provides a default system configuration file.

Added

• WM_CLASS property for the xob windows
• Default system configuration file
• Configurable (during build) system configuration path: xob does not always fallback to /etc/xob/styles.cfg anymore, it adapts to the system configuration directory specified during the build process.
• Changelog
• New planned feature: configuration through X resources

Changed

• Naming conventions in types and include guards to avoid clash with possible reserved C and POSIX identifiers
• Naming conventions of the variables in the Makefile to fit the GNU Coding Standards

Fixed

• Build errors on certain configurations due to blunders in Makefile