This is release 1.5.0 of the IceWM carry-on fork. Compared to the previous release 1.4.2, it has a large number of new features, improvements and bug fixes. See the NEWS and ChangeLog files in the release for details. See INSTALL for autoconf build and INSTALL.cmakebuild for cmake build in the release. A big thank-you to all of the contributors for keeping IceWM alive and vibrant. We hope you enjoy.
Compared to version 1.4.2 (2017-07-30), this release contains many bugfixes, many portability fixes and updated translations. A new quickswitch, new hotkeys, new focus behavior FocusCurrentWorkspace, new theme option TaskbuttonIconOffset which is used in theme Outside-ice, SVG support for gdk-pixbuf. Change focus model without restart. Change preferences via menus. Improved locating and loading of icons. Extended window list menus. Switch windows of same class. Monitoring applet options. MouseWinLower hotkey. Omit borders for shaped applications. Shuffle and cycle backgrounds periodically. A new website ice-wm.org. Quickswitch can be either horizontal or vertical. Easily change focus or workspaces by mouse wheel. A gui to select RandR settings. A new compliant menu generator. The monitoring applets require a lot less processor time. The improved system tray supports more applications. Mailbox monitoring was overhauled and now supports TLS/SSL connections to POP and IMAP servers, Gmail and Maildirs. Support for 32-bit visuals and compositing managers was added. The order of buttons and icons on taskbar, tray bar and system tray is now fully configurable. Many new manual pages have been written and documentation is fully updated. The addressbar now has a recallable history of previous commands. PagerShowPreview is now the default. IceWM now supports _NET_WM_PING, _NET_REQUEST_FRAME_EXTENTS, _NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED and _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY protocols. Support for sounds on guievents was updated.