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• Added support for unmanaged windows. Use "!", "!+", "!-" with setxwintype for "unmanaged", "unmanaged above" and "unmanaged below" windows respectively. This is generally a last-resort option for misbehaving window managers and causes GLava to bypass it. "!- will run GLava on the desktop on a variety of window managers that do not obstruct the root window. This (should) fix two issues:

  • Users who wish for GLava to appear over fullscreen windows can use "!+", as it is generally not possible otherwise, see #65

  • i3 users who wish to position GLava on the desktop with "!-", see #6

  it also may be possible to combine reparenting with unmanaged windows for some interesting configurations.

• The bars module now has additional options, see #64

• Default buffer sizes in the PulseAudio server are now used when reading audio input to reduce the chance of buffer overruns when reading from certain audio devices, see #63

GLava is also now an official Arch package (starting from v1.5.1), thanks to @coderobe!

• GLava now properly destroys its own renderer, see #47

• Added a --desktop flag, which automatically detects the window manager and uses provided presets that override rc.glsl. Users are encouraged to switch to using this, although existing configurations will work fine.

• Added #request setclickthrough [true/false], which enables use of the XShape extension to click through windows. Only some window managers will work with this, and this option is enabled by default for "desktop" window types.

• Added #request setfullscreencheck [true/false], which enables the use of a check for fullscreen windows that should prevent GLava from rendering. Previously this was enabled by default.

• Added "pinned" option for addxwinstate. This keeps the window pinned on all desktops.

• Fixed issues with clickthrough not working previously on desktop windows, see #56

• Fixed issues when starting GLava without an active window manager. It now waits for one to be present, see #54

• Provided defaults for use with KWin and the --desktop flag that finally close #4.

• GLX functions are now loaded dynamically to properly handle cases with hybrid graphics, see #41

• Fixed an issue where desktop windows were not having the clickthrough workaround implemented due to case-sensitive string comparisons, see #37

• Fixed a memory leak associated with xlib usage, see #33

• Although unsupported, XWayland sessions will now use the glx backend by default, improving usability with Wayland compositors.

• Attempted to implement a clickthrough feature for "desktop" window types using the XShape extension, see #9 and #32. Credit to @Aaahh for the contributions required to implement this.

• Fixed various compile warnings that were displayed when using -Wall.

• Added RGBA color parsing for GLSL code and directives (does not wor… …k within #request directives). The behaviour converts #3ef708ff -> vec4(0.243, 0.967, 0.031, 1.0). If the alpha component is omitted, it is assumed to be 1.0. The parsing occurs during compile time, so it does not incurr any performance penalty.

• Fixed stray [DEBUG] messages that were errornously being printed

• Actually added support for GLFW 3.1, see issue #13

• Fixed issue with some WMs not responding to GLava's window types and hints, see #17

• Fixed alpha blending not working, radial and circle image quality should be drastically improved on xroot and none opacity settings.

• Added --version command line flag

• Attempted to add support for GLFW 3.1, see issue #13
• Added configurable solid background color, see #16
• Fixed issue with excessive file reads from ~/.Xauthority see #15

• Added circle module
• Added anti-aliasing to the radial module, written into the shader itself
• Default configuration values should create more appealing visualizers now
• Massive performance improvements, see issue #10