What's new in Window Switch 0.12.21
May 20, 2015
- improved compatibility with newer versions of xpra
- fix loading of desktop files with multiple entries
- remove bashism from script
New in Window Switch 0.12.20 (Nov 8, 2013)
- better compatibility with newer versions of xpra
- update application workaround database
New in Window Switch 0.12.18 (Nov 8, 2013)
- support shadowing via xpra (v0.8 or later)
- don't try to rotate logs error when not logging to file
- refactor and cleanup exec code
- refresh list of users connected when connection state changes
- relax preloaded session parameter matching
New in Window Switch 0.12.19 Beta (Jul 4, 2013)
- binary builds library updates all around
- binary builds include latest Xpra 0.9.6
- fix local display session detection with python-utmp
- fix local display detection when running server separately from applet
- fix error handling for VirtualBox session detection
New in Window Switch 0.12.16 Beta (Sep 11, 2012)
- fix log file rotation (prevented auto-start on KDE, and other problems)
- fix missing icon for system tray on some platforms/desktops
- fix pre-loading and pre-connection of Xpra sessions
- fix error notifications shown when stopping or disconnecting from a server
- fix NX keyboard mapping
- preserve Xpra session options when capturing them
- select more suitable server for start session dialogs
- packaging fixes: dependencies updates, version and change detection
- offer to install mDNS support via packagekit on Linux
- source RPMs fixed
New in Window Switch 0.12.15 Beta (Aug 30, 2012)
- fix startup crash on osx
- fix NX and ssh sessions support on MS Windows (would stop working after last session exited)
- fix Xpra "force stop" (now needs password)
- fix GStreamer video: try to use the default video plugin if preferences are not set
- fix mDNS warning on startup (dialog was making the UI unresponsive)
- fix default protocol options were ignored when not using dialogs to start sessions
- fix SELinux warning counter: honour it and only shown the warning 3 times
- support for Xpra 0.5 (new log file format, automatic xvfb settings)
- osx GStreamer fixes: add support for menu, use SDL output (no need for x11)
- osx now includes the Xpra launcher as an embedded application
- use packagekit for installing new protocols easily
- if sshd is not installed, assume that ssh mode will not work
- avoid warning that "xpra is too old" when it is not installed
- various cleanups
New in Window Switch 0.12.14 Beta (Jun 5, 2012)
- fix osx x11 server status detection
- xpra osx keyboard fix (missing 'a')
- xpra use x264 or vpx encoding by default for video applications
- drop compatiblity for xpra versions older than 0.1
- drop compatiblity for winswitch versions older than 0.12.8
- osx build update: vpx 1.1, pycrypto 2.6
New in Window Switch 0.12.13 Beta (Apr 24, 2012)
- Upgrade to latest Python 2.7.3 for osx and win32 builds
- Support for latest xpra features (x264 and vpx encoding)
- Rotate log files by default
- fix error when trying to save preferences
- parse user's application launchers from ~/.local/share/applications if present
- fix icon loading for menu categories
New in Window Switch 0.12.10 Beta (Feb 10, 2012)
- fix laptop suspend bug: ensure we can always re-connect to a server
- fix VNC/NX full desktop sessions start dialog
- upgrade xpra sessions running older versions
- grab existing xpra sessions started externally
- don't bother running the idle check timer when the option is not enabled (or not available)
- in window mode allow enter "enter" and "space" keys to be used to activate buttons in dialogs
- MS Windows clients: disconnect xpra sessions cleanly and remove the system tray
New in Window Switch 0.12.3 Beta (Jun 16, 2011)
- mDNS readers are now removed correctly - was causing segfaults on exit
- exit cleanly on all platforms, freeing all resources and waiting if needed
- VNC full desktop sessions can be started more than once
- fix segfaults in the X11 session detection code
- fix file descriptor leaks in X11 code and screen capture
- support many more KDE applications using the "--nofork" parameter
- avoid sending really big icon files!
New in Window Switch 0.11.4 Beta (Apr 10, 2011)
- The ability to open files on remote servers (without using SFTP),
- Xpra JPEG mode has been fixed on MS Windows,
- better detection for stale connections,
- the ability to easily restrict remote commands, documentation updates, man pages, a --help page for commands,
- tray icon animation,
- easier seamless integration into .desktop files, and the ability to retry failed connections.
- There are some bugfixes and cleanups.