Qtile 0.6 release notes¶

May 11th, 2013

Config Breakage!¶

This release breaks your config file in several ways:

The Textbox widget no longer takes a name positional parameter, since it was redundant; you can use the name kwarg to define it.
manager.Group (now _Group) is not used to configure groups any more; config.Group replaces it. For simple configurations (i.e. Group(“a”) type configs), this should be a drop in replacement. config.Group also provides many more options for showing and hiding groups, assigning windows to groups by default, etc.
The Key, Screen, Drag, and Click objects have moved from the manager module to the config module.
The Match object has moved from the dgroups module to the config module.
The addgroup hook now takes two parameters: the qtile object and the name of the group added:
```
@hook.subscribe
def addgroup_hook(qtile, name):
    pass
```
The nextgroup and prevgroup commands are now on Screen instead of Group.

For most people with basic configs, you should be able to just:

sed -i -e 's/libqtile.manager/libqtile.config/' config.py

...dgroups users will need to go to a bit more work, but hopefully configuration will be much simpler now for new users.

New widgets: task list,
New layout: Matrix
Added ability to drag and drop groups on GroupBox
added “next urgent window” command
added font shadowing on widgets
maildir widget supports multiple folders
new config option log_level to set logging level (any of logging.{DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL})
add option to battery widget to hide while level is above a certain amount
vastly simplify configuration of dynamic groups
MPD widget now supports lots of metadata options

don’t crash on restart when the config has errors
save layout and selected group state on restart
varous EWMH properties implemented correctly
fix non-black systray icon backgrounds
drastically reduce the number of timeout_add calls in most widgets
restart on RandR attach events to allow for new screens
log level defaults to ERROR
default config options are no longer initialized when users define their corresponding option (preventing duplicate widgets, etc.)
don’t try to load config in qsh (not used)
fix font alignment across Textbox based widgets