The lightweight window manager IceWM 4.0.0 is now available. IceWM provides full control through keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, the taskbar and application menus, and you can use tabs to group windows. The window manager is configured through a fairly simple configuration file, it is possible to use themes. Supports combining windows in the form of tabs. Built-in applets are available for monitoring CPU, memory, traffic. Separately, several third-party GUIs for customization, desktop implementations, and menu editors are being developed. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license.
The significant version number change is a natural continuation of the project's version numbering system (4.0 was created after the release of 3.9). The new version features an improved Alt+Tab interface for quickly switching between windows, which can now handle multiple windows in both horizontal and vertical modes. After activating the Alt+Tab interface, new features are available, such as pressing the first letter of an application class name to switch to the next window in that class, pressing number keys or clicking the mouse to select an application, navigating between windows using the cursor keys, and pressing the "menu" button to open the system menu.
The new version also includes alphaBlending enabled by default (alphaBlending=true) and 32-bit RGBA. A QuickSwitchPreview setting has been added, enabling application thumbnails in the window switching interface. The DoubleBuffer setting has been removed. Icon sizes have been standardized (16, 22, 24, 32, 48, 64, 128, 256). Icon rendering has been accelerated using caching. The text size in window templates is limited to 128 bytes. The getWorkspaceName and getWorkspaceNames options have been added to the icesh utility.
Source: opennet.ru
