mangowm/mango 0.17.0

V0.17.0

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This is a milestone release for Mango. All originally planned features have been fully implemented, and the project has been reorganized into a standard LSP-friendly C project structure. Thanks to @Wateir @Greensky-gs.

🔄 Breaking Changes

• Dropped tablet_map_to_mon; devicerule can now bind each tablet map output.
• Dropped touch_map_to_mon; devicerule can now bind each touch map output.

✨ New Features

• Special Floating Workspace (Special Tag): A flexible and readily summonable special floating workspace.

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  2026-09-12_08-46-55.mp4

• Dwindle Layout Enhancements: Added focus memory and move_client dispatch support.

  Click to view demo 1

  2026-09-11_19-20-17.mp4
  Click to view demo 2

  2026-09-11_17-00-08.mp4

• Scratchpad Animation Support:

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  2026-09-11_22-05-45.mp4

• Smooth Follow Gesture Support:

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  2026-09-12_08-41-07.mp4

• No Modifier Key Dragging: Allow dragging without a modifier key in mousebind and gesturebind.

• One-Time Window Rules: Added windowrule-once to apply a window rule only once.

• Game: Add windowrule option confine_pointer to limit pointer in game window, avoid the pointer slide out to another screen when play game.

• Overview: Add global option hotarea_disable_on_fullscreen to limit hotarea reach(defautl enable).

⚡ Optimizations

• Layer Ordering: Floating, fullscreen, and top layers now follow the standard ordering: fullscreen > top > floating.
• Overcircle Tag Filtering: overcircle now supports iterating only the current tag.
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  2026-09-12_09-06-17.mp4

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Releasing a single-modifier keybinding no longer triggers other keybindings.
• Scratchpad links no longer include hidden clients.
• Fixed groupbar drawing error in the vertical scroller.
• Accept keycode-only modifiers in parse_mod.