bug.n Changelog

What's new in bug.n 8.4.0

Jan 30, 2015
  • Session auto-save and restore. Layout and Window information is stored periodically so that it may be recovered after a restart.
  • Toggling the overflow window of the 'notify icons' by hotkey.
  • Manual tiling.
  • Increasing MFactor Resizing Over Time
  • Bar transparency
  • Reading in the sound volume and mute status and displaying it in the status bar.

New in bug.n 8.3.0 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Improved view arranging runtime.
  • Fixed bug #18641: Freezing problem. In most cases, bug.n will no longer hang when one of its managed windows hangs.
  • Fixed bug: Sometimes cycling through the windows in a view would get stuck on a particular window.
  • Fixed bug: Activating a window on a non-active view on a non-active monitor could cause both monitors to change views.
  • Gap widths are now treated identically on both "tile" and "monocle" layouts.
  • Fixed bug #18650: Unexpected monitor focus changes
  • Fixed bug in 'Manager_setWindowMonitor(d)' and Manager_setViewMonitor(d)'
  • Fixed bug, which prevented bug.n from Main_reload, if the number of monitors changed.
  • Fixed bug: Closing Bar_cmdGui and activating the next to last window.
  • Fixed bug: Vertical position of Bar_cmdGui, if
  • Config_verticalBarPos=tray and the task bar is at the top of the monitor.
  • Fixed bug: On Main_reload() and Config_verticalBarPos=tray.
  • Changed the command line argument from specifying 'the path to the config.ini' to 'the path to the general data directory containing the config.ini and log.txt'.
  • Multi-dimensional tiling of the master area. The user may now specify X and Y dimensions independently up to 9 x 9.
  • Initially assign windows to the monitor on which they appear if nothing is specified in the configuration.
  • Created bug.n log to record major and debugging events and window information.
  • View margins' allowing a layout to occupy a limited space of the monitor.
  • Single window action', which allows to close or maximize windows based on rules.
  • Reload' hotkey, which reloads the whole script.
  • Re-Setting the 'Reload' and 'ExitApp' hotkey in 'config.ini'-
  • Added the configuration variable "Config_viewNames", with which views can be named and the number of views can be set. The configuration variable "Config_viewCount" therewith becomes obsolete.
  • Removed the configuration variable "Config_viewCount".
  • Removed the explicit listing of commands in the Bar_cmdGui.
  • Removed the default rules for Gimp, since from version 2.8 onwards
  • Gimp can use a single application window instead of three and more.

New in bug.n 8.2.1 (Jan 9, 2012)

  • feature #005446: Reload function (reloading bug.n without changing
  • the current association of windows to views/tags)
  • workaround bug #018364: (Evernote: new note) Introducing the
  • configuration variable "Config_onActiveHiddenWnds" to set the
  • behavior of bug.n for already existing but hidden windows on redraw
  • Update of the Manager_getWindow*-functions to allow copying of the
  • text to the clipboard.
  • fixed bug #18356: Missing bar elements on Windows XP. (calculation
  • of the element width depending on the font size)
  • fixed bug: Support for saving another AutoHotkeyGUI as the active
  • window of a view.
  • fixed bug #018431: Immediate run-time errors running bug.n built
  • from source with AutoHotkey_L version 1.1.05.03 onwards
  • debugging related to AutoHotkey_L and 32-/64-Bit-Windows