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# V1.4.0: I reject your truth and trumpstitute my own
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> This release contains some major changes. One of them being a new theme engine. The migration from older versions to
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> this version might not go flawless.
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> This release contains some major changes. One of them being a new theme
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> engine. The migration from older versions to this version might not go
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> flawless.
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With more then 750 commits since the last version, this is one of the biggest releases so far.
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In this version we used the groundwork laid in v1.3.0 and went completely nuts with it. Hopefully this release should
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satisfy the die-hard desktop [ricers](https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/) with a brand new theme engine.
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Lot of different colors, border, multiple fonts everything is now possible.
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With more then 750 commits since the last version, this is one of the biggest
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releases so far. In this version we used the groundwork laid in v1.3.0 and went
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completely nuts with it. Hopefully this release should satisfy the die-hard
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desktop [ricers](https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/) with a brand new theme
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engine. Lot of different colors, border, multiple fonts everything is now
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possible.
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Because of The great work done by [SardemFF7](https://github.com/SardemFF7/) the code base is simplified and the
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key and mouse handling improved. The libraries provided by SardemFF7 also made it possible to add a often requested
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feature of icons (correctly using the icon-theme). A feature I never expected to be added. To top this off, SardemFF7
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added support to build rofi using [meson](http://mesonbuild.com/).
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Because of The great work done by [SardemFF7](https://github.com/SardemFF7/) the
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code base is simplified and the key and mouse handling improved. The libraries
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provided by SardemFF7 also made it possible to add a often requested feature of
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icons (correctly using the icon-theme). A feature I never expected to be added.
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To top this off, SardemFF7 added support to build rofi using
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[meson](http://mesonbuild.com/).
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A last big addition and still in beta, is support for plugins. Allowing the addition of some weird/fancy features.
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Currently two plugins are available, [blezz](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-blezz) a quick launch menu with it own
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menu definition and [top](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-top/) displaying running processes.
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A last big addition and still in beta, is support for plugins. Allowing the
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addition of some weird/fancy features. Currently two plugins are available,
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[blezz](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-blezz) a quick launch menu with it own
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menu definition and [top](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-top/) displaying
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running processes.
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Beside these major changes, this release includes a lot of bug-fixes and small improvements. See the bottom of this
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release notes for a more complete list of changes.
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Beside these major changes, this release includes a lot of bug-fixes and small
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improvements. See the bottom of this release notes for a more complete list of
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changes.
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## Theme engine
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The biggest new feature of this release is the theme engine. Building on the changes made in v1.3.0 we implemented a new
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theme engine and it has a completely new theme format. While the themes are a lot more verbose now, it does allow for a
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lot of extra customizations.
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The biggest new feature of this release is the theme engine. Building on the
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changes made in v1.3.0 we implemented a new theme engine and it has a completely
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new theme format. While the themes are a lot more verbose now, it does allow for
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a lot of extra customizations.
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It is now possible to theme each widget in rofi independently:
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### Colors
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You can now set the color on each widget independent in most of the CSS supported color formats (hsl, cmyk, rgb, etc.)
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and each color can have a transparency. There are three colors that can be set on each widget:
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You can now set the color on each widget independent in most of the CSS
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supported color formats (hsl, cmyk, rgb, etc.) and each color can have a
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transparency. There are three colors that can be set on each widget:
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* **background-color**
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Used to draw the background of the widget. Each widget is drawn on top of it parent, if the background is
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transparent, you will see the parents widget.
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Used to draw the background of the widget. Each widget is drawn on top of it
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parent, if the background is transparent, you will see the parents widget.
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* **border-color**
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Used to draw the borders.
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* **text-color**
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### Borders
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On every widget we can now configure a border for each of the four sides, the color of the border, the style of the
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border (solid or dashed) and the radius of the corners can be set.
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On every widget we can now configure a border for each of the four sides, the
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color of the border, the style of the border (solid or dashed) and the radius of
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the corners can be set.
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This combined with (fake) transparency can make for a very nice looking, rounded rofi experience.
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This combined with (fake) transparency can make for a very nice looking, rounded
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rofi experience.
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### Fonts
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An often made request was support for different fonts for the entry box and the list. With the new theme, it is possible
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to change the font and size of all widgets.
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An often made request was support for different fonts for the entry box and the
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list. With the new theme, it is possible to change the font and size of all
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widgets.
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> Note that opening a fonts is one of the slowest operations during rofi startup; having multiple fonts could have a
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> significant impact on startup times.
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> Note that opening a fonts is one of the slowest operations during rofi
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> startup; having multiple fonts could have a significant impact on startup
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> times.
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### Flexible layout
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To top all these changes, as an advanced feature the whole layout of the window can be changed. Making it possible to
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mimic the original dmenu view, or make it appear as a minimal context menu.
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To top all these changes, as an advanced feature the whole layout of the window
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can be changed. Making it possible to mimic the original dmenu view, or make it
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appear as a minimal context menu.
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## Error reporting
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The new theme parser will also be more verbose when encountering parsing errors, hopefully helping debugging and
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modifying themes.
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The new theme parser will also be more verbose when encountering parsing errors,
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hopefully helping debugging and modifying themes.
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For example when forgetting a trailing ';' will report where it failed, and what it expected (a ';').
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For example when forgetting a trailing ';' will report where it failed, and what
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it expected (a ';').
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## Importing
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The new theme parser also support importing and overriding. This allow you to make make modifications to an existing
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theme, without having to completely copy it. For example, I want to use the `arthur` theme (shipped with rofi) but use
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fake transparency and change the font off the result list.
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The new theme parser also support importing and overriding. This allow you to
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make make modifications to an existing theme, without having to completely copy
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it. For example, I want to use the `arthur` theme (shipped with rofi) but use
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fake transparency, change the font off the result list and import a set of
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overriding colors from `mycolors`.
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```css
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// Import the default arthur theme
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@import "arthur"
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@theme "arthur"
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// Load in overriding of colors from mycolors.
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@import "mycolors"
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/* on the window widget, set transparency to use a screenshot of the screen. */
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#window {
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## Icons
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Another often made request, I never expected to be implemented, was icon support. With the help of SardemFF7 an
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implementation was possible that correctly follows the XDG icon specification and does not negatively impact the
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Another often made request, I never expected to be implemented, was icon
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support. With the help of SardemFF7 an implementation was possible that
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correctly follows the XDG icon specification and does not negatively impact the
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performance. Currently the drun and the window switcher can application icons.
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To enable icons, set the `show-icons` property to `true`.
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## More flexible key and mouse bindings
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Thanks to another great work of SardemFF7 you can now configure how the mouse
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behave and bind modifier keys. It also improves on error messages. It will now
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detect duplicate bindings.
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behave and bind modifier keys. It also improves on error messages. For example
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it will now detect duplicate bindings.
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For example to select an entry on single click, instead of double click:
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## Fuzzy Matching
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With thanks to Fangrui Song, the `fuzzy` matcher will now use a ranking similar to `fzf` to sort the results.
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This should hopefully to improve the results, something a lot of users will appreciate.
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With thanks to Fangrui Song, the `fuzzy` matcher will now use a ranking similar
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to `fzf` to sort the results. This should hopefully to improve the results,
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something a lot of users will appreciate.
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Without:
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> This feature is still in beta stage.
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It is now possible to add custom mode via C plugins. This is allows interactive modi to be added to rofi.
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For example it is possible to have `top` (display linux processes) mode:
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It is now possible to add custom mode via C plugins. This is allows interactive
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modi to be added to rofi. For example it is possible to have `top` (display
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linux processes) mode:
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This mode allows sorting of the result on different keys (cpu usage, memory, etc.) to be selected, programs to be killed
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and refreshes the results every 2 seconds.
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This mode allows sorting of the result on different keys (cpu usage, memory,
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etc.) to be selected, programs to be killed and refreshes the results every 2
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seconds.
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See [here](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-top).
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> This feature is in alpha stage.
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The new theme format can now (as an alpha) feature be used to set rofi's configuration. In the future, when we add
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wayland support, we want to get rid of the current Xresources (X11) based configuration format.
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You can see how this would look using: `rofi -dump-config`.
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The new theme format can now (as an alpha) feature be used to set rofi's
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configuration. In the future, when we add wayland support, we want to get rid of
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the current Xresources (X11) based configuration format. You can see how this
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would look using: `rofi -dump-config`.
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## Detailed Changelog
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* Keybinding. Duplicate bindings will now be reported.
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* Invalid commandline options.
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* Etc.
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* Customizable highlight, allowing underline, strikethrough, italic, bold, small caps and the color to be set.
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* Customizable highlight, allowing underline, strikethrough, italic, bold, small
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caps and the color to be set.
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* Give up when keyboard is not grabbed in first 5 seconds.
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* Improve manpage
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* rofi (1)
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