% xmobar - Release notes
## Version 0.21 (Jul 1, 2014)
_New features_
- Vertical bar indicators using unicode available for most monitors,
by Eric Mrak.
- `CoreTemp`: support for linux 3.15, by Tomáš Janoušek.
- New `CatInt` monitor, displaying integer values read from a file,
by Nathaniel Wesley Filardo.
- New `<raw>` tag for safer input parsing, also by Nathaniel.
- New `UnsafeXMonadLog` monitor (by Eric Mrak) and their xproperty
counterparts, `UnsafeXPropertyLog` and `UnsafeNamedXPropertyLog`.
_Bug fixes_
- `Network` now reports status for ppp connections (see
[issue #89]).
- Fix for very long running `Cpu` monitors, by Robert J Macomber.
[issue #89]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/89
## Version 0.20.1 (March 13, 2014)
_New features_
- Back to picking by default the first available screen, with a new
configuration option, `pickBroadest`, for choosing the broadest
(see [issue #158]).
[issue #158]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/158
## Version 0.20 (March 10, 2014)
_New features_
- Mouse actions now support multiple buttons, by Marcin Mikołajczyk.
- Non supported monitors are ignored in configuration files (see
[issue #139]), by Adam Vogt.
_Bug fixes_
- `Disk` monitor now ignores non-existent devices (Reto Hablützel).
- `Weather` is now non-blocking and doesn't use curl (Ben Boeckel).
- Fix for `Memory` monitor in 3.14 kernels (Ben Boeckel).
- Fix for infinite loops in `AutoMPD` ([issue #76], [issue #111]).
- More robust AC readings in `BatteryP`.
- Fix for `Top` monitor's readings for processes whose name contains
blanks.
- Fixes for geometry computation on multihead (Dmitry Malikov).
- Fixes for missing XDG configuration (Thiago Negri and James McCoy,
see [issue #133]).
- Compatibility with latest `directory` (1.2.0.2).
[issue #76]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/76
[issue #111]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/111
[issue #133]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/133
[issue #139]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/133
## Version 0.19 (October 27, 2013)
As of this release, the old bug tracker at Google code is deprecated.
Please use [Github's tracker] for new bugs.
_New features_
- New monitor `BatteryN`, a variant of `BatteryP` that lets you
specify the name of the monitor in the template.
- Support for configuration file living in `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` (see
[github #99]).
- `Com` uses safer `runInteractiveProcess` instead of spawning a
shell (David McLean). If you're using shell expansion in your
`Com` (e.g. "~/bin/script") here's a workaround: `Run Com
"/bin/bash" ["-c", "~/bin/script"]` (cf. [github #127]).
- New plugin `UnsafeStdinReader` that allows actions from stdin.
Now it's possible to have clickable workspaces!
(Thiago Negri, see [github #125]).
- New monitor configuration option (`-x` or `--nastring`) that allows
specifying what string to display when a monitor is not available
(defaulting to "N/A"). Cf. [github #119].
_Bug fixes_
- Using the width options `-w`, `-m` and `-M` in battery monitors
watts display ([github #118]).
- Using the `-d` option in `CoreTemp` ([github #115])
- Fix for systems not supporting PCRE regular expressions: we use
now BCEs, so regex-compat should be enough everywhere (see
[github #117]).
- Weather monitor: support for stations without name (Sergei
Trofimovich, [issue #65]).
[Github's tracker]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues
[github #99]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/115
[github #115]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/115
[github #117]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/117
[github #125]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/125
[issue #65]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=65
[github #118]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/118
[github #119]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/119
[github #127]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/127
## Version 0.18 (June 5, 2013)
_New features_
- All extra argument monitors taking a string (e.g. `-O` for
`BatteryP`) accept now template variables (see [github #109] and
[#110]). Thanks to Todd Lunter.
- New battery monitor extra argument, `-i`, for the idle status.
_Bug fixes_
- Safer standard input parsing, avoiding <action> injections.
[github #109]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/109
[#110]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/110
## Version 0.17 (May 5, 2013)
_New features_
- Icons support: it's now possible to insert bitmaps in the template
(Edward O'Callaghan, Alexander Polakov and Tomáš Janoušek).
- Initial support for reacting to mouse clicks (Alexander Polakov).
- New `TopP` and `BottomP` alignments, taking left and right
paddings (thanks to Dmitry Malikov).
- New `<freeratio>` field for memory monitor (Peter Simons).
- New `allDesktops` and `overrideRedirect` configuration options,
providing dock behaviour in tiling WMs (when set to True and False
respectively). Cf. discussion at [github #105].
- Experimental `-d` (start as a dock) option, may address [github #67]
in some window managers.
_Bug fixes_
- Partial (as reports go) fix for [github #77].
- Safer volume plugin (Dmitry Malikov).
- Battery percentage capped at 100% (RJ Regenold).
[github #67]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/67
[github #77]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/77
[github #105]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/105
## Version 0.16 (Dec 3, 2012)
_New features_
- New monitor `AutoMPD`, which uses asynchronous events to display
MPD status (thanks to Ben Boeckel).
- New monitor `BufferedPipeReader` displaying data from multiple
pipes (thanks to Jochen Keil).
- New monitor `DynNetwork`, which detects the active interface
automatically, by Reto Hablützel
- New monitor, `Locks`, displaying the status of lock keys, by
Patrick Chilton.
- Extension for DBUS signal handling (Jochen Keil)
- Hide/Reveal: one can send signals to xmobar and make it (un)hide
itself (Jochen again).
- `PipeReader`'s default text is now configurable, by Reto Hablützel.
- Dependencies updated to latest mtl and libmpd (thanks to Sergei
Trofimovich).
- Dependencies on the deprecated dbus-core removed in favour of
dbus 0.10 (thanks to Jochen Keil).
- MPris2 now includes genre and composer among its fields.
_Bug fixes_
- `DiskIO` now can report overall activity in all partitions of a device
which is not mounted itself (e.g., sda when sda1, sda3, etc. are
the mounted partitions). Thanks to John Soros. See [github #73].
- `DiskU`, the disk usage monitor, works again correctly on Linux,
instead of randomly crashing every now and then, and reporting
wrong used size.
- When using antialiased fonts, we were causing a memory leak in the
X server by repeatedly allocating colors that, apparently, the
server doesn't know how to get rid of (even when told so!). We're
caching them now and X server memory doesn't grow.
- Compilation errors and warnings with GHC 7.6 removed (thanks to
Raghavendra D Prabhu for his reports in [github #71]).
_Known problems_
Some users have reported problems with xmobar compiled with GHC 7.6 in
ArchLinux: see [github #78] and pointers therein. Please, send
reports of any problems or successes in that regard so that we can fix
any remaining issues. Thanks!
[github #71]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/71
[github #73]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/73
[github #78]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/78
## Version 0.15 (June 4, 2012)
_Incompatible changes_
- `Batt` monitor no longer uses `-c` to specify the charge file: it
should figure things out by itself (cf. [issue 69]).
_New features_
- New command line option, `-C`, that allows *adding* commands to
those specified in the configuration file (Ben Boeckel).
- Dependency on GHC's threaded runtime has been eliminated.
- New MPRIS (versions 1 and 2) monitor, by Artem Tarasov.
- New monitor option `-d` to specify the number of decimal places to
display for float numbers. Defaults to 0. See [issue 58].
- New compilation option `--with_threaded`, to use GHC's threaded
runtime to compile xmobar. Disabled by default (cf. discussion in
[github #36]).
_Bug fixes_
- Stricter build dependencies versioning in cabal file.
- [issue 56] vertical alignment of text improved.
- [issue 64] display of `watts` in `Batt` monitor fixed.
- [issue 69] miscellaneous battery reporting issues.
- [issue 67] compilation in DragonFly.
- DiskIO works also when device path in mtab are symbolic links
to the real device file.
- Wireless monitor honours padding settings for ESSID names.
- CoreTemp monitor fixed for newer kernels ([github #38]).
[issue 56]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=56
[issue 58]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=58
[issue 64]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=64
[issue 67]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=67
[issue 69]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=69
[github #36]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/36
[github #38]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/38
## Version 0.14 (Dec 10, 2011)
_New features_
- New brightness monitor, courtesy of Martin Perner.
- New DateZone plugin, for configurable timezone and localized
datetimes, also by Martin.
- New keyboard layout monitor (Kbd). Yes, by Martin.
- Rewrite of the event handling ([issue 53], [issue 57]), you
guessed it.
- Cpu monitor now also reports `iowait` field ([issue 55]).
- Battery monitor: the full charge file is now settable in the
monitor arguments (olpc systems use `charge_full_design`; see
[issue 62]).
_Bug fixes_
- [issue 45] Fix for crashes with AC status changes in battery monitor.
- [issue 48] The <quality> field of Wireless behaves like a percentage.
- [issue 50]/[issue 61]: `MPD` monitor now works with libmpd 0.6.
- [issue 60] Fixes for crashes on power resume for battery monitor.
- Template sections without fields are now correctly displayed.
- Catch errors when reading battery status (Ben Boeckel).
- Compilation issues with ghc 7.x (Sergei Trofimovich).
- Fixes for CoreTemp monitor in new kernels (Norbert Zeh).
- Fix for pulseaudio problems in volume monitor (Martin Perner).
- Fix for parsing errors when a `Run` entry ended in an array
(Martin).
- Fixed compilation in OpenBSD (Ivo van der Sangen).
[issue 45]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=45
[issue 48]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=48
[issue 50]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=50
[issue 53]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=53
[issue 55]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=55
[issue 57]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=57
[issue 60]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=60
[issue 61]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=61
[issue 62]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=62
## Version 0.13 (March 28, 2011)
_New features_
- New `Volume` monitor displaying ALSA soundcards information, by
Thomas Tuegel.
- New `ThermalZone` plugin substituting `Thermal` and using linux's
*sysfs* interface (you need this one if you're using a kernel
version equal to or above 2.6.37). See [issue 44].
- xmobar app new has WM_CLASS, WM_NAME and _NET_WM_PID xprops
([issue 38]).
_Incompatible changes_
- In the process of solving [issue 14], we've broken those
configurations that rely on including alignment separators in the
input fed to `StdinReader`.
- The MPD plugin does not accept host and port options anymore: use
the environment variables MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT instead.
- The `Mail` plugin now takes a second parameter (a string)
specifying its alias. As a side-effect, this solves [issue 30].
_Bug fixes_
- [issue 14] `StdinReader` and other plugins accepting external
input don't get confused anymore when characters from `alignSep`
appear in their input.
- [issue 27] `BottomSize` placement now respects its width argument.
- [issue 28] Compilation in Mac OS X fixed.
- [issue 30] `Mail` plugin can be specified anywhere in commands list.
- [issue 36] Battery monitor now supports non-standard locations of
the `/sys/class/power_supply/AC/online` file.
- [issue 40] Battery monitor now supports the new power_now, that
replaces current_now in linux kernels for v. 2.36 and above.
- [issue 42] More accurate net monitor rates.
- DiskIO, Cpu and MultiCpu monitors are also more accurate now.
- Text is now correctly centered vertically.
- `FullBM` border spec fixed.
[issue 14]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=14
[issue 27]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=27
[issue 28]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=28
[issue 30]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=30
[issue 36]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=36
[issue 38]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=38
[issue 40]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=40
[issue 42]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=42
[issue 44]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=44
## Version 0.12 (Dec 24, 2010)
xmobar has a new [maintainer], a new [website], a new [mailing
list] and uses a new [source code repository].
Many thanks to Andrea Rossato, xmobar's author and maintainer so far,
for creating xmobar in the first place, and for giving me the chance
to become its maintainer. And a big thanks to Ben Boeckel, Petr Rockai
and Norbert Zeh for their patches.
[website]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/
[mailing list]: http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmobar
[source code repository]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar
[maintainer]: http://hacks-galore.org/jao/
_New features_
- Window borders: configuration options `border` and `borderColor`
allow drawing borders around xmobar's window.
- New monitor, `Uptime`, showing the system uptime.
- New monitor argument (`-S`) to enable displaying the `%` symbol in
percentages or other suffixes (e.g., units in Uptime and Network);
the symbol is now never included by default.
- New 'run once' commands, by specifying a 0 refresh rate in `Run
Com` ([issue 26]).
- MPD monitor: updated to libmpd 1.5. New fields `ppos` (playlist
position) and `remaining` (remaining time). New configuration
options to specify MPD's host, user name and password.
- Battery monitor: new `watts` and `timeleft` fields (Petr Rockai),
and specific arguments to control coloring and thresholds of the
former.
- MultiCPU monitor: new `auto*` fields that automatically detect all
present CPUs (Ben Boeckel).
- CpuFreq monitor uses just one decimal digit for GHz values (Petr
Rockai).
- Mail plugin expands paths starting with "~/" (Ben Boeckel). Ditto
MBox.
- Weather monitor now skips not retrieved fields, instead of
displaying a long error message.
- New compilation flag, `all_extensions`.
- Documentation and website updates.
_Bug fixes_
- [issue 23] Wireless monitor is now compatible with iwlib 29.
- [issue 24] Swap monitor's used ratio display fixed.
- [issue 25] Percentages only include `%` if requested using `-P`.
- [issue 31] MPD monitor now respects `-W` argument.
- Fixes in CPU frequency formatting, string alignment and colour
boxes in monitors (Norbert Zeh).
- TopMem and TopProc now use the `-L` and `-H` options correctly for
memory template fields.
- MBox skips non-existent mbox paths instead of hanging.
[issue 23]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=23
[issue 24]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=24
[issue 25]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=25
[issue 26]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=26
[issue 31]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=31