Happy April everyone 🐦 🌷 (or alternatively "🥀 🍂" for my southern hemisphere friends). I am excited to announce release v0.2.0 of miracle-wm. As I mentioned in the previous release, all releases leading up to v1.0.0 are considered pre-releases, meaning that there may be some unexpected bugs or hitches on your particular platform that need fixing. Still, if you'd like to give the compositor a try - even if it's just to test if it runs on your machine and whatnot - I would very much appreciate it!
To install:
sudo snap install miracle-wm --classic
Features ⭐
- (#35)
sway/i3IPC support has been implemented to minimally support waybar - (#45) Added "floating window manager" support whereby individual windows can be made to float above the tiling grid and behave just as they would in a "traditional" floating window manager
- (#38) The user configuration now automatically reloads when a change is made to it
- (#37) A
terminaloption can now be specified in the configuration to decide which terminal is opened up by the keybind. We also do a much better job of deciding on a sane default terminal - Environment variables can now be specified in the configuration (e.g. I needed to set
mesa_glthread=falseto prevent a bunch of screen tearing on my new AMD card) - Upgrade to Mir v2.16.4 which brought in a few important bugfixes for
miracle-wm, namely:- Screenshots now respect clipping areas and rotated outputs (Fixes: canonical/mir#3236)
(Fixes: canonical/mir#3259) - Add hardware cursor support (Fixes: canonical/mir#3198)
- Screenshots now respect clipping areas and rotated outputs (Fixes: canonical/mir#3236)
Packaging 📦
I will personally be maintaining packages for the Fedora RPM and the Ubuntu deb. These packages will be updated within a few days of this release, so stay tuned. At that time, I will also update the README with installation instructions. If you don't want a snap, this is for you!
Bugs Fixed 🔧
- (#48) Fullscreened windows are now guaranteed to be on top
- (#34) Fixed a bug where panels could not be interacted with
- (#50) Keyboard events are now properly consumed when a workspace switch happens
- (#61) Outer gaps no longer include inner gaps
- (#66) Disabled moving fullscreen windows between workspaces
- (#67) Fixed a bug where resizing a window over and over again would make it progressively tinier due to rounding errors
- Refactored the tiling window system in a big way for readability. This solved a number of tricky bugs in the process so I am very happy about it
- (#81) Gaps algorithm no longer leaves some nodes smaller than others
- The project finally has meaningful tests with many more to come 🧪
What's up next?
It is animation season! I am currently working in Mir on this task which will enable us to right our own renderer for miracle-wm. I also want to implement the remaining of the sway/i3 IPC tasks, but that work will be secondary to the animation work.
Check out the roadmap for more info.