herbstluftwm

The geometry based detection of panels now is only active if the setting panels.geometry_fallback is activated. In order to restore the old behaviour, put

in your autostart.

The command smart_frame_surroundings is no longer a boolean, and as such it is now incompatible with the toggle command. Use cycle_values instead:

Instead of always_show_frame, the new show_frame_decorations setting should be used.

The command cycle_value now expects an attribute path instead of a settings name. For compatibility reasons, passing settings name directly (without the prefix settings.) is still supported.

In ipc commands, herbstclient prints error messages always on stderr and normal output always on stdout. Before, both were printed to the same channel, either to stdout or stderr depending on the command’s exit status. This mainly affects combined commands.

In the rules, toggle can not be used anymore in rule consequences. Moreover, invalid arguments to rule consequences now will be reported during rule creation, already.

Only for people using the git-version: During the development of 0.9.3, the content_geometry attribute of clients initially had the name geometry_reported.

The tag_renamed hook has changed. The hook now emits two parameters. The first parameter contains the old name of the tag and the second parameter is the new name of the tag.

The behaviour of swap_monitors_to_get_tag = 0 has changed. If swap_monitors_to_get_tag is set to 0, then focus the other monitor if the desired tag is shown on another monitor. Previously nothing has been done.

The herbstclient completion options changed for bash. If you manually setup the completion — e.g. for an alias like hc — then update the complete line as follows:

herbstclient now returns the exitstatus 9 (HERBST_NEED_MORE_ARGS) instead of 3 (HERBST_INVALID_ARGUMENT) if a command needs more arguments. If an error occurs, it now outputs an error message to stderr.

The padding arguments have been removed from add_monitor and a monitor name has been added instead. If you add a monitor with padding, instead of hc add_monitor 1024x768+0+0 1 2 3 4 now use hc add_monitor 1024x768+0+0; hc pad N 1 2 3 4.

As a result from adding monitor names, the output of list_monitors and stack changes a bit for named monitors. list_padding only outputs the padding for one monitor now.

The setting focus_follows_shift has been removed. The behaviour now is set like it were set to 1; the focus always follows the shift now.

The setting window_gap is now called frame_gap. Simply replace all occurrences of window_gap by frame_gap in your old scripts (and autostart).

The setting ignore_class is removed, because this also can be done by rules. You can replace a line like set ignore_class "$foo" in your autostart by rule class~"$foo" manage=off