CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.9.1 - 2023-04-10

Fixed

• Fixed broken line spacing for some fonts with the HarfBuzz backend.

0.9.0 - 2023-04-09

Added

• Added support for a text cursor. This can be enabled with the text-cursor option, the style of cursor chosen with text-cursor-style, and themed similarly to other text.
• Added support for fractional scaling, correcting the behaviour of percentage sizes when fractional scaling is used.
• Added Ctrl-n, Ctrl-p, Page-Up and Page-Down keybindings.
• Added auto-accept-single option, to automatically accept the last remaining result when there is only one.

Changed

• The font option now performs home path substitution for paths starting with ~/.

Fixed

• Fixed some more potential errors from malformed config files.
• Fixed some potential memory leaks when generating caches.
• Fixed rounded corners when a background padding of -1 is specified.
• Fixed broken text rendering with some versions of Harfbuzz.
• Fixed some man page typos.

0.8.1 - 2022-12-01

Fixed

• Stop debug logs printing in release builds.

0.8.0 - 2022-12-01

Deprecated

Text styling has been overhauled in this update, and as a result the selection-padding option has been replaced with selection-background-padding, to avoid ambiguity and match the other available options. selection-padding is therefore deprecated, and will be removed in a future version of tofi, so please update your configs.

Added

• Added placeholder-text option.

• Overhaul text styling. Each piece of text in tofi is now styleable in a similar way, with foreground and background colours. The pieces of text that can be individually styled are:

  • prompt
  • placeholder
  • input
  • default-result
  • alternate-result
  • selection

  Each of these pieces of text now has the following options available:

  • <text>-color
  • <text>-background
  • <text>-background-padding
  • <text>-background-corner-radius

  See man 5 tofi or the example config file for more information.

• Added ability to paste from the clipboard with ctrl-v.

• Added history-file option. This both allows changing the history file location, and when combined with history=true (the default), enables history sorting in plain tofi mode.

• Added font-features option, allowing the specification of OpenType font features in a similar way to CSS font-feature-settings.

• Added font-variations option, allowing customisation of variable fonts in a similar way to CSS font-variation-settings.

• Added clip-to-padding option, to allow drawing text outside the specified padding.

Changed

• Due to the number of available options, the usage info now only contains a short list of the most important ones and directs the user to man 5 tofi.
• If -h was passed, print usage info to stdout rather than stderr.
• Improved performance of most text handling operations.
• Improved performance of selection-background and others, so drawing backgrounds is no longer an expensive operation.

Fixed

• Invalid values in config options no longer set the option to a default value.
• Fix various potential errors due to malformed config files.
• Fixed a compilation error on FreeBSD (from @jbeich).
• Fixed a compilation error with musl libc (from @akdjka).

0.7.0 - 2022-11-01

Added

• Added include option, allowing config files to include other files.
• Added hide-input and hidden-character options for sensitive input.
• Added exclusive-zone option, to control interaction with menu bars etc.
• Added terminal option to allow tofi-drun to launch terminal apps.
• Added a couple of extra keybindings.

Changed

• Searching is now Unicode aware, so case-insensitive matching of non-Latin characters should work.
• Fuzzy matching will now use a simpler algorithm when matching lines more than 100 characters in length to avoid slowdowns.
• By default, tofi will now refuse to start if another instance is already running, preventing accidental double launches. This can be changed with the multi-instance option.
• Tofi will now show up on top of fullscreen windows.

Fixed

• Keyboard shortcuts are now bound to physical keys rather than characters, so should not change places when changing keyboard layouts.
• Fix crash when attempting to change the selection while no results are displayed.
• Fixed a rare issue where input could become out of sync with the display.

0.6.0 - 2022-09-08

Warning - HiDPI config change

In the 0.5.0 release, the scale option was added to enable scaling of pixel values by the display's scale factor. In this release, the default value of scale has changed to be true, and fonts are no longer scaled if scale is set to false. This makes tofi's behaviour match that of e.g. Sway, and makes configs work more reliably on monitors with different scale factors.

If you use tofi on a HiDPI display, you may need to change your config's pixel values to make things look right again.

Added

• Added require-match option, to allow printing of input even when there are no matching results.
• Added prompt-padding option for more flexible spacing between the prompt and other text.
• Added a new example theme, dark-paper.

Changed

• The scale option now defaults to true, as noted above. The example themes have been updated to account for this change.
• Spaces are now allowed as part of normal input. Similarly to dmenu, tofi will split the input into words, and only show results for which every word matches individually.
• Split tofi(5) manpage into behaviour and style options to make finding options easier.

Fixed

• Fixed build failure when link-time optimisation is disabled.

0.5.0 - 2022-08-21

Warning - HiDPI config change

In previous versions of tofi, pixel values were always treated as device pixels, ignoring the display's scale factor. This allows pixel-perfect sizes, but means you have to make different configs for differently scaled displays, and isn't how e.g. Sway does things. Additionally, fonts currently are scaled by the scale factor, making things a little complex.

This release adds a scale boolean option, which currently defaults to false. Setting this to true will make pixel values scale with the display's scale factor.

In the next version of tofi, scale will default to true (but still be around if you want the old behaviour). Setting scale to false will also start causing fonts to not be scaled by the scale factor.

If you use tofi on a HiDPI display, you should explicitly set scale to your desired setting now (or at least be aware that you'll need to change some theme dimensions in the next version).

Added

• Fuzzy matching can now be enabled with the fuzzy_match option.
• Added scale option, as described above.
• Added Ctrl-u and Ctrl-w readline keybindings.
• Added this changelog.

Changed

• Improved performance when neither selection-match-color or selection-background-color are specified.
• Improved performance on systems with Transparent HugePages enabled for shared memory (none that I know of for now, but may be relevant in the future).

0.4.0 - 2022-08-07

Deprecated

In the 0.3.0 release, the drun-print-exec option was added to enable fixed tofi-drun behaviour. This release changes this to be the default, as this is how it should have been done from the start. Consequently, the drun-print-exec option is now obsolete, and may be removed in the future, so you can safely delete it from your configs.

Added

• A full example config file is included in doc/config, and is installed to /etc/xdg/tofi/config
• Added selection-padding option, to make the selected item background wider.
• Added selection-match-color option, to highlight the matching portion of the selected result.
• Added key-repeat.
• Added result pagination.

Removed

• tofi-compgen is no longer installed, as it's really just a debugging utility and not needed.

Changed

• drun-print-exec is now always set to true, and the option is deprecated.
• The output and late-keyboard-init options are no longer command-line only, and so can be specified in the config file.

Fixed

• Fixed slanted fonts being cut off if they extend back towards the prompt.
• The selection background now correctly wraps slanted fonts.
• Enable compilation with some older Wayland versions (specifically that found on Ubuntu 20.04).

0.3.1 - 2022-07-28

Fixed

• Fix some program arguments not working in drun mode.

0.3.0 - 2022-07-27

Deprecated

Previously, tofi-drun would print the filename of the selected .desktop file to stdout. This could then be passed to xargs swaymsg exec gio launch to be executed.

The problem is that this ends up defeating the purpose of passing the command to swaymsg exec, and the workspace the command was selected on may not be the one that it starts up on, if for example it takes a long time and the user switches workspaces in the meantime.

The solution is to instead print the Exec= line from the .desktop file, and pass that directly to xargs swaymsg exec -- for execution.

To avoid too much breaking of configs for the few people who use tofi currently, this release adds a new option, --drun-print-exec, to enable the fixed behaviour. The next release will change this to be the default, as this is how it should have been done from the start.

Added

• Tofi will now automatically detect how many results can be displayed if --num-results=0 is set (the new default).
• When running in drun mode, keywords will also be matched along with the name (so e.g. searching for "web" will return "firefox")
• Add --drun-print-exec option, as noted above.

Fixed

• Fixed percentage values passed to margin options not behaving correctly when output scaling is enabled.
• Fix tofi not grabbing keyboard focus on River.
• Correct --font option name in man page.
• Fix percentage values on vertical monitors.
• Fix drun mode weirdness when history is enabled

0.2.0 - 2022-07-25

Added

• tofi-drun mode for launching apps from .desktop files.
• Navigation keybindings for Ctrl-j, Ctrl-k and Tab.

Changed

• Search results now prioritise matches early in a word, e.g. a search for fire yields firefox before aafire.

Fixed

• Fixed input / display sometimes going out of sync.
• Add dependency on librt for systems that require that (from @sktt).
• Allow for a count of more than 128 program launches in the history file.

0.1.1 - 2022-06-28

Fixed

• Fix typo in meson.build.

0.1.0 - 2022-06-27

Initial release. Good enough to use, but still some jank.