rofi/releasenotes/1.5.0/release-1.5.0.markdown

V1.5.0: The Hoff uses it.

After the last release turned out to be fairly large we are hopefully back to more regular, smaller releases. This release focuses on squashing some bugs and hopefully improving the user experience. Nevertheless this release also includes some new features.

Big thanks to SardemFF7, without whose 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, which resulted in new options to specify, which fields rofi should match against in either drun or window mode.

-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

To further improve script mode, support for passing properties has been added. You can now set the prompt, a message or use markup and active/urgent colors from the script itself.

E.g. to set the prompt from a bash mode script:

echo -en "\x00prompt\x1ftesting\n"

Or to mark the first 4 rows urgent and add a 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. It’s now possible to negate parts of the query. Searching for deconz -sh will list all fields that match deconz but do not contain sh.

Hashtag rofi?

In themes the '#' prefix before the element name is now optional. As well as not being needed, 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 naming has changed.

For the 3 base buttons:

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

For the scroll wheel:

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

For extra buttons:

• Mouse8 is now MouseBack
• Mouse9 is now MouseForward
• Above 10, you have to use the platform-specific MouseExtra<number> (replace <number>).

Bug fixes

Prompt colon

This is a controversial one, abeing the cause of heated discussions 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

By frequent request, you can now tweak the size of the history each modi keeps. While not recommended to change it 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)