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Jwno 0.9.13 Released

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182 days ago byAgent Kilo

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See the release onGithub.

Change Log

BREAKING CHANGE: Refactor:ui-hint command to make it more generic. Please see thedocumentation for the new interface.
Newhinter implementations to be used with:ui-hint command:frame-hinter,gradual-uia-hinter, anduia-hinter.
Newjwno/layout-history module.
New:toggle-window-management command to pause window management.
New:shutting-down and:layout-changed hook.
Newrows automatic layout.
New:load,:dump and:clear-children methods for tree node objects.
Update Janet to 1.38.0.
Update Spork to 415f2ee9e6bb5ffd95f1d9f7ec682aa0af959661
Update Win SDK to 10.0.26100.0.
Update the example config to include latest features.
:split and:insert-sub-frame methods for frame objects now support absolute sizes.
Function closures in keymaps can now access global mutable states.
Fix a regression in:close-frame command, which may result in unresponsive frames.
More content in the documentation.
Other minor tweaks.

About the New Features

Layout History

The newjwno/layout-history module stores your layout history for each virtual desktop, either in memory or in a backing file, and restores them when needed.Documentation

Hinters

The:ui-hint command now useshinters to gather the info it needs for showing on-screen hints. Users can extend:ui-hint command by implementing their own hinters.

Jwno provides these built-in hinters:

ui-hint/frame-hinter: Handles visible frames;
ui-hint/gradual-uia-hinter: Handles UI elements, by gradually walking the UI tree;
ui-hint/uia-hinter: Handles UI elements.

Please see thefull documentation for more details.

Next Release

Now that Jwno has become a little window manager with quite a few features packed in, I will dedicate the next release cycle to improving existing code and paying my tech debts 😅.

It may be time to push Jwno towards a 1.0 release, but there’s still the scrolling mode (a.k.a. “Niri mode”) in the backlog, and Jwno’s API may still have breaking changes. Let’s see how it goes 😊.