rofi/releasenotes/1.5.0/release-1.5.0.markdown

V1.5.0: The Hoff uses it.

After the large previous release, we are hopefully back to more regular smaller releases. This release is focused on squashing some bugs and hopefully improving the user experience. But to satisfy people hunkering for new things, we also included a few new features.

Big thanks to SardemFF7, without his help and contributions this release would not have been possible.

New features

Specify matching field

What field rofi should match on the drun view has been a source of long discussions. Some people only want to match the name, others want to include the field with the tooltip text. In this release you can now set what fields are used for matching for both the drun as window browser.

-drun-match-fields field1,field2,...

When using drun, match only with the specified Desktop entry fields. The different fields are:

• name: the application's name

• generic: the application's generic name

• exec: the application's executable

• categories: the application's categories

• comment: the application comment

• all: all of the above

  Default: name,generic,exec,categories

-window-match-fields field1,field2,...

When using window mode, match only with the specified fields. The different fields are:

• title: window's title
• class: window's class
• role: window's role
• name: window's name
• desktop: window's current desktop
• all: all of the above

Default: all

Pass extra properties in script mode

As a first step in improving script mode, support for passing properties where added. You can now, from the script, set the prompt, a message, if the row contain markup and active, urgent.

For example to set the prompt from a bash mode script:

echo -en "\x00prompt\x1ftesting\n"

Or to mark the first 4 rows urgent and add message:

echo -en "\x00urgent\x1f0-3\n"
echo -en "\0message\x1fSpecial <b>bold</b> message\n"

The urgent and active syntax is identical to the dmenu command-line argument.

Negated matching

The matching engine has been extended so, part of, queries can be negated. Searching for deconz -sh will list all fields that match deconz but do not contain sh.

Hashtag rofi?

We have updated the theme format so that the '#' prefix before the element name is now optional. Beside being unneeded, it made the multi-selector look weird.

Example:

entry,prompt {
    background-color: DarkRed;
    text-color:       White;
}

Backward incompatible changes

Mouse bindings

Mouse button and scroll bindings are now separated, and names have changed.

For the 3 base buttons:

• Mouse1 is now MousePrimary
• Mouse2 is now MouseMiddle
• Mouse3 is MouseSecondary

For the scroll wheel:

• Mouse4 is ScrollUp
• Mouse5 is ScrollDown
• Mouse6 is ScrollLeft
• Mouse7 is ScrollRight

For extra buttons:

• Mouse8 is MouseBack
• Mouse9 is MouseForward
• Above 10, you have to use the platform-specific MouseExtra<number> (replace <number>). Under X11, these buttons will go on from 10.

Bug fixes

Prompt colon

This is a controversial one, being the cause of heated issues in the past. The prompt string of rofi is now left unmodified. Themes, like the default theme, can re-add the colon if desired.

inputbar {
    children:   [ prompt,textbox-prompt-colon,entry,case-indicator ];
}
textbox-prompt-colon {
    expand:     false;
    str:        ":";
    margin:     0px 0.3em 0em 0em ;
}

Results in:

History size

On frequent request, you can now tweak the size of the history each modi keeps. While not recommended to change as it can cause performance issues, this allows power users to tweak it to their liking.

rofi.max-history-size: 500

Full Changelog

• Rofi 1.4.2 doesn't capture ←, ↑, →, ↓ binding to keys to work in combination with Mode_switch (#744)
• Add konsole to list of sensible terminals. (#739)
• Allow drun to filter based on comment field. (#733)
• Add prompt widget to default theme.
• Add manpage for rofi-theme-selector.
• Dump theme without # prefix and separator .
• Fix issue with xnomad and -4 placing. (#683)
• DRun obey OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn properties.
• Store default theme in rofi binary using GResources.
• Add extra margin between prompt and entry.
• Remove colon from prompt. (#637)
• Add support for passing extra properties in script mode.
• Better error message on invalid argb syntax.
• Fix default theme border.
• Make '#' in the parser optional.
• Update themes.
• Add -drun/window-match-fields option (thx to Askrenteam) for drun/window menu. (#690/#656)
• Implement negated match. (#665)
• Fix parsing of non-existing fields. (#700)
• rofi-theme-selector fixes.
• Fix spelling error (thx to jmkjaer)
• Fix test on i686/arm. (#692)
• Fix error in theme manpage. (#686)
• Allow history size to be specified. (#613)
• Fix drun history implementation. (#579)
• Add gentoo install instruction. (#685)