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libxfce4windowing 4.20.5 released

2025-12-29T17:19:18+01:00

libxfce4windowing 4.20.5 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.5.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.5.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.5.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.20.5
========================
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- build: Fix typo in optimization level
- XfwWorkspaceWayland: Add missing sanity check
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- XfwWindowX11: Readjust entire monitor list when one is added/removed
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- autotools-build: Add *-docs.xml.in to EXTRA_DIST
- Translation Updates:
  Arabic, Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan
  (post 1500), Portuguese (Brazil), Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Uyghur,
  Vietnamese

libxfce4windowing 4.20.4 released

2025-08-14T09:20:00+02:00

libxfce4windowing 4.20.4 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.4.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.4.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.4.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.20.4
========================
- XfwMonitorWayland: Delay monitor finalization until gdk data are set
- XfwSeatWayland: Store global name for matching when seat is removed
- XfwMonitorWayland: Fix release order in _global_removed()
- XfwMonitorManagerWayland: Use g_hash_table_iter_remove when iterating
- XfwMonitorWayland: Store global name for matching when output is
removed
- XfwScreenWayland: Rename id to name in registry_global(_remove)?
- XfwMonitorWayland: Don't make XfwScreen emit signal with null monitor
- XfwWorkspaceGroupWayland: Connect to
XfwScreen::monitor-(added|removed)
- Add mnemonics for workspace names in workspace menu
- Revert "Update README after switchover to meson"
- Update README after switchover to meson
- Destroy wl_output & xdg_output together when wl_output global removed
- XfwWorkspaceWayland: Fix typo
- XfwWorkspace: Fix id property management
- Defer binding to the workspace manager until after we have the
outputs
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- meson-build: Add Vala language bindings option
- Translation Updates:
  Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Dutch, English (United
  Kingdom), Estonian, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Lithuanian,
  Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Serbian, Spanish,
  Ukrainian

libxfce4windowing 4.20.3 released

2025-05-21T10:22:05+02:00

libxfce4windowing 4.20.3 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.3.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.3.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.3.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.20.3
========================
- Support absolute icon paths
- meson-build: Add GNU visibility files to sources
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- autotools-build: Search for xdt-gen-visibility also in the working
tree
- build: Automate copyright year management
- docs: Fix warnings
- XfwWindowX11: Fix memory leak
- Try to match the app id in lower case to find the .desktop file
- XfwWindowX11: Keep a ref on workspace
- XfwWnckIcon: Fix wrong compare func
- meson-build: Add missing conditional for ext-workspace
- meson-build: Reintroduce tests option
- meson-build: Use SPDX license expression
- meson-build: Specify wayland-scanner as a native dependency
- meson-build: Update debug/optimization flag management
- Translation Updates:
  Georgian

libxfce4windowing 4.20.2 released

2025-02-02T20:28:43+01:00

libxfce4windowing 4.20.2 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.2.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.2.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.2.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.20.2
========================
- autotools-build: Unconditionally add ext-workspace-v1.xml to
EXTRA_DIST

libxfce4windowing 4.20.1 released

2025-02-02T17:51:19+01:00

libxfce4windowing 4.20.1 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.1.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.1.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.1.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.20.1
========================
- Update copyright year
- Sanity-check the dimensions of the icon data in _NET_WM_ICON
- meson-build: Use meson built-in tests
- XfwMonitorX11: Fix connector for virtual output
- Use wnck_class_group_get_id() to attempt .desktop file icon fallback
- meson-build: Let pkg.generate() fill in required libs
- meson-build: Fix pkgdatadir definition
- meson-build: Gobject introspection cleanup
- meson-build: Use relative path in gtk-doc
- meson-build: Improve maintainability of multi-dependency features
- Removed extra ';' in source code.
- build: Remove ununsed conditional
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- docs: Don't run gtkdoc-check
- XfwWorkspaceWayland: Ensure active workspace is initialized
- XfwWorkspaceManagerWayland: Fix typo
- XfwWorkspaceWayland: fix ext-workspace activate
- XfwWorkspaceWayland: Store name property
- XfwWorkspaceWayland: Properly set id property
- XfwWorkspaceGroupWayland: Fix wrong list element removal
- Update ext-workspace protocol version
- XfwWorkspaceWayland: Add missing sanity check
- XfwWorkspaceManagerWayland: Fix typo
- XfwWorkspaceGroupWayland: Add missing property and private struct
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Translation Updates:
  Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak

libxfce4windowing 4.20.0 released

2024-12-15T09:28:56+01:00

libxfce4windowing 4.20.0 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.0.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.0.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.0.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.20.0
========================
- Translation Updates:
  Finnish

libxfce4windowing 4.19.10 released

2024-12-01T05:50:22+01:00

libxfce4windowing 4.19.10 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.10.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.10.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.10.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.19.10
=========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Fix XfwMonitor leak in steal_monitor_by_connector
- Translation Updates:
  Czech, Galician

libxfce4windowing 4.19.9 released

2024-11-01T15:14:32+01:00

libxfce4windowing 4.19.9 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.9.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.9.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.9.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.19.9
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

- Fix leak of seats GList

libxfce4windowing 4.19.8 released

2024-10-22T23:16:05+02:00

libxfce4windowing 4.19.8 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.8.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.8.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.8.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.19.8
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

- Clean up xsettings client & work around GDK swallowing events
- Remove private sources from the public sources list

libxfce4windowing 4.19.7 released

2024-10-09T20:49:13+02:00

libxfce4windowing 4.19.7 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.7.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.7.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.7.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.19.7
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

- Fix missing parent instance in XfwSeatWayland
- Add XfwWindowListMenu widget
- Remove the "(constructor)" annotation on xfw_screen_get_default()
- Fix crash on workspace add/remove after XfwWindowActionMenu destroyed
- Make XfwWindowAction menu struct private

libxfce4windowing 4.19.6 released

2024-10-07T08:54:05+02:00

libxfce4windowing 4.19.6 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.6.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.6.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.6.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.19.6
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

NB
NB: There is an API/ABI break in this release.
NB: The xfw_window_activate() function now takes four arguments rather
than
NB: the previous three. The second argument is now a XfwSeat instance
(or NULL).
NB

- Actually export xfw_screen_get_seats from the library
- Add XfwSeat abstraction
- build: Adjust Wayland requirements for Xfce 4.20

libxfce4windowing 4.19.5 released

2024-10-03T15:11:09+02:00

libxfce4windowing 4.19.5 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.5.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.5.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.5.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.19.5
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

- Add more compiler flags to the meson build
- Use physical geometry when comparing X11 window geometry to monitor
- build: Bump requirements for Xfce 4.20
- Include meson build files in autotools dist tarball
- Set up GNU symbol visibility
- Ditch maintainer mode
- Suppress spurious uninitialized var warning
- Make window listener struct static
- Update meson build
- Bump C std from gnu99 to gnu11
- meson: fix missing checks for x11 and wayland feature detection
- Fix physical monitor height not getting set on X11
- Ensure private symbols don't end up in the introspection file
- autotools: don't build tests by default
- Print monitor ID in xfw-enum-monitors test app
- Try to make monitor IDs stable between X11 and Wayland
- Move xrandr event base into XfwMonitorManagerX11
- Fetch X11 scale factor from XSETTINGS, not GDK
- Fix monitor workarea setting when monitors appear

libxfce4windowing 4.19.4 released

2024-08-24T00:05:24+02:00

libxfce4windowing 4.19.4 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.4.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.4.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.4.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.19.4
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

NB:
NB: This release breaks API compatibility in a "silent" manner, with
NB: changes to signals and items stored in GList in some API returns.
NB: Please see:
NB: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/-/merge_requests/47
NB: for more information.
NB:

- Add tests/Makefile.am
- x11: refresh monitors in an idle function
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Add a couple small test programs
- Defer binding to the toplevel manager until after we have the outputs
- Add debug logging to toplevel output_enter/leave
- Add debugging when finalizing output properties
- Add a few more display synchronization points in the wayland code
- Reset XfwMonitorWayland output_done/xdg_output_done count on finalize
- Add XfwMonitor:fractional-scale
- Add primary monitor fallback guessing to X11 too
- Remove extra wl_registry for the wayland monitor management
- Remove extra wl_registry for the wayland workspace manager
- Fix missing wl_output & xdg_output assignment in XfwMonitorWayland
- Add workarea info and tracking to XfwMonitor
- Use XfwMonitor instead of GdkMonitor throughout
- Add XfwScreen::monitor-added and XfwScreen::monitor-removed
- Fix 'Since' doc tag typos
- Don't g_warning() if xrandr returns no monitors
- Add xfw_monitor_get_gdk_monitor()
- Fix bad doc comment for XfwMonitor:is-primary
- Add primary monitor concept to XfwMonitor
- Use system-relative include paths in public headers
- Fix bad property name (from a stray search-and-replace)
- Move monitors list into XfwScreen
- Make XfwScreen an abstract class instead of an interface
- wayland: Fix monitor ownership
- XfwMonitor: add object properties
- Add XfwMonitor
- Apply .clang-format file
- clang-format: Add file
- build: Complete use of XDT_VERSION_INIT
- Fix warnings about typedef redeclaration
- use -no-undefined so that libtool consumes it
- scan-build: Add false positive file
- build: clang: Fix -Wcast-align
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Revert "Add new CI builds to build without X11 and Wayland"
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Don't toggle show-desktop whenever wnck tells us it changed
- make sure bash is found non non-linux
- Add meson build files
- Add layout-row and layout-column properties to XfwWorkspace
- Implement workspace layout row/column for Wayland
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Translation Updates:
  Asturian, Czech, Greek, Kazakh

libxfce4windowing 4.19.3 released

2024-02-29T09:37:01+01:00

libxfce4windowing 4.19.3 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.3.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.3.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.3.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start


Release notes for 4.19.3
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

- Update copyright year
- Ensure workspace/group state is correct on X11 before emitting
signals
- Set initial workspace's group properly on X11
- Add XfwClientType to doc sections
- Add xfw_set_client_type() to doc sections
- Add xfw_set_client_type()
- Add an X11-specific header and xfw_window_get_xid()
- Remove xfw_(window|application)_get_id()
- build: Use AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
- Expose class ids in XfwWindow and XfwApplication
- Update ext-workspace protocol spec to current version
- XfwWindowX11: Improve monitor list management
- XfwWindowX11: Fix monitor management
- build: Search for bind_textdomain_codeset in libintl too
- build: Test if wlr-protocols dir is empty at configure time
- Use system wlr-protocols defs if avail, fall back to submodule if not
- Reduce verbosity
- Add missing G_END_DECLS
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- window-wayland: Set app_id only if it changes
- application: Fix window memory management (V2)
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- window-wayland: Ensure app always exists (Fixes #14)
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Add monitor-added and monitor-removed signals to XfwWorkspaceWayland
- Minor cleanup to wayland group monitor code
- Remove unused code from XfwWorkspaceGroupWayland
- Fix missing monitors-changed signal emission on x11/dummy
- x11: use workspace number as ID
- Use G_N_ELEMENTS()
- Fix previous commit
- XfwApplication: Fix window memory management
- Translation Updates:
  Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Danish, Estonian, Irish, Italian, Occitan
  (post 1500), Ukrainian

libxfce4windowing 4.19.1 released

2023-01-09T22:50:24+01:00

libxfce4windowing 4.19.1 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.1.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.1.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.1.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing


Release notes for 4.19.1
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

- Allow callers to determine if a returned icon is a fallback icon
- Remove duplicate _get_icon() code
- Return correct fallback icon for XfwWindowWayland
- Cache GIcon and GdkPixbuf in XfwApplication
- Cache GIcon and GdkPixbuf in XfwWindow
- Add xfw_(window|application)_get_gicon()
- XfwApplication: Make XfwApplicationInstance opaque
- Fix build when X11 disabled

libxfce4windowing 4.19.0 released

2023-01-03T01:18:37+01:00

libxfce4windowing 4.19.0 is now available for download from

  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.0.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.0.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.19/libxfce4windowing-4.19.0.tar.bz2?sha256


What is libxfce4windowing?
==========================

Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland

Website:
  https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing


Release notes for 4.19.0
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

- Initial release