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# Release 0.15.12
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The 0.15.12 release of **rofi** focussed on improving overal user experience.
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This includes fixing problems with complex keyboard layouts, locale aware matching and more. This release also include
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(some experimental) speedups. If enabled, **rofi** will make full use of all available cores to speedup searching.
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The final improvement, it related to creating and distributing of themes. Thanks to the great work of SardemFF7 we now
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have an online themenator.
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Below I will highlight some of the bigger changes in more details
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The 0.15.12 release of **rofi** focussed on improving overall user experience. These improvements mostly focussed on
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three things, first we tried to fix the problems with complex keyboard layouts, secondly we tried to make themeing of
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**rofi** easier and last we added several speedups. Below I will highlight these bigger changes in more details
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## Keyboard Layouts
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**Rofi** used to have problems with keyboard layouts that used modifier keys to switch between different layouts (unsure
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how this is called). These problems should now belong to the past.
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**Note** the syntax for binding keys has slightly changed. The *Mod1*, *Mod2*, etc. keywords are no longer available.
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There was no good way to detect how these keys where mapped and if they could be used as modifiers. E.g. if the right
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alt (say *Mod3*) is configured to switch between layouts, it cannot work as modifier key to make a `Mod3-p` keybinding.
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**Rofi** will now check if the current layout has the *SuperR*,*SuperL*,*AltGr*,*HyperL*,*HyperR* keys available. If they
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are available they can be used for keybindings, if not, the user gets a warning.
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*screenshot warning*
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## Speedups
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### DMenu reading from stdin
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**Rofi** used to have a custom `fgets` implementation that supported custom separators. The first version in here was
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slow and was improved. After a hint of it existence it has now been replaced by the Posix 2008 `getdelim`, this one is
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almost as fast as the new custom implementation.
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Overall this gave a speedup of 6x.
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*check speedup against previous release*
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### Multi-Core power
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Still disabled by default, **rofi** can now spawn multiple threads for filtering rows. Depending on the underlying
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hardware we saw a 1.5 times speedup running on a dual core ARM and up to a 3.5 speedup on a quadcore (8 thread) i7.
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It uses Glib's GThreadPool and will therefor spawn threads when needed, and clean them up again when unused.
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To enable this option pass `-threads 0` option, this will autodetect the number number of hw-threads. Pass `-threads 4`
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to force it to use 4 threads. Setting the number to 1, disables it.
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## Themes
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**Rofi** color theme can be specified in a lot of detail, using transparency to get the desired results. However this is
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not always the easiest to write down and testing it can be a hassle. To solve this we added a webgui for writing (and
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live previewing) themes and a theme repository.
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To help with this, you can now take screenshots of **rofi** from within **rofi** with a simple keybinding.
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*Add screenshot*
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### Theme repository
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This has been requested several times and started somewhat on the website. This however got outdated quickly and neither
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the themes or the screenshots are correct anymore. To ease this the new repository allows themes to be easily added: you
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can export your current configuration directly using **rofi --dump-xresources-theme**, place it in the theme directory
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of the repository and the update script will automatically generate screenshots and update the page.
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The repository can be found [here](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi-themes/)
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*add screenshot*
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### Themenator
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### Dump themes
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The second tool is a website allowing you to easily create themes and preview all changes life, the [themenator]()
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Big thanks goes to `SardemFF7` who got tired of me complaining, took the very rough prototype and turned it into
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something beautiful.
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To be removed:
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0.15.12 (unreleased):
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New features:
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- Initial `-dump` command for dmenu mode. (#216)
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- Threading support.
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- Parallel checking for ASCII.
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- Parallel string matching.
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- Autodetect number of HW-threads.
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- Disabled by default.
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- Highlight multiple selected rows (#287,#293)
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- Dmenu can read from file instead of stdin.
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- Regex matching (#113)
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- Take Screenshot of rofi using keybinding.
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- Hotkey for sorting: (#298)
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- Option to set scrollbar width.
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Improvements:
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- Fix return code of multi-select.
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- Update manpage (#289, #291)
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- Improve speed of reading stdin in dmenu mode.
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- Correctly handle modifier keys now. Should now support most weird keyboard layouts and switching between them.
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(#268, #265, #286)
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- Correctly set locale, fixing issues with entering special characters. (#282)
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- DRun mode support `NoDisplay` setting (#283)
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- Pango markup is matched when filtering. (#273)
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Bug fixes:
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- Improve error message (#290)
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- Correctly switch to next entry on multi-select when list is filtered (#292)
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- Switch __FUNCTION__ for __func__. (#288)
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- Fix segfault on empty list and moving through it. (#256,#275)
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- Fix one off of colors (#269)
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- Drun fix uninitialized memory (#285)
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Hopefully people will make beautiful themes and submit them to the [theme
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repository](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi-themes/).
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## Full ChangeLog
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### New features:
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- Initial `-dump` command for dmenu mode. (#216)
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- Threading support.
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- Parallel checking for ASCII.
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- Parallel string matching.
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- Autodetect number of HW-threads.
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- Disabled by default.
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- Highlight multiple selected rows (#287,#293)
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- Dmenu can read from file instead of stdin.
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- Regex matching (#113)
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- Take Screenshot of rofi using keybinding.
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- Hotkey for sorting: (#298)
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- Option to set scrollbar width.
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### Improvements:
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- Fix return code of multi-select.
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- Update manpage (#289, #291)
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- Improve speed of reading stdin in dmenu mode.
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- Correctly handle modifier keys now. Should now support most weird keyboard layouts and switching between them.
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(#268, #265, #286)
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- Correctly set locale, fixing issues with entering special characters. (#282)
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- DRun mode support `NoDisplay` setting (#283)
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- Pango markup is matched when filtering. (#273)
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### Bug fixes:
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- Improve error message (#290)
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- Correctly switch to next entry on multi-select when list is filtered (#292)
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- Switch __FUNCTION__ for __func__. (#288)
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- Fix segfault on empty list and moving through it. (#256,#275)
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- Fix one off of colors (#269)
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- Drun fix uninitialized memory (#285)
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