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Toshy v24.10.1

06 Oct 03:09
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  • Fix the incorrect handling of the window closed event from ext_foreign_toplevel_list_v1. Only state change events for each toplevel window come from zcosmic_toplevel_info_v1 now.
  • CosmicTerm font size shortcut remap
  • Dolphin dialog fix for "Enter to Rename" functionality
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Toshy v24.10.0

04 Oct 04:00
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  • Fix the completely broken COSMIC window context method, after a COSMIC Wayland protocol was updated from version 1 to version 2 and incorporated ext_foreign_toplevel_list_v1 for handling app_id and title change events. This protocol change showed up as COSMIC alpha 2 was released and made the keymapper nonfunctional in COSMIC. There is currently a strange bug in the behavior of the COSMIC compositor regarding activated state updates, that I can't really do anything about. If shortcuts seem to stop working correctly try switching to another window and back, or toggling the maximize button.
  • Add Ptyxis as terminal option for tray icon item to show services log
  • Version bump various things and improve toshy-versions output
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Toshy v24.09.1

18 Sep 05:01
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Minor updates:

  • Add support for Miracle window manager (see Fedora 41 MiracleWM spin)
  • Improve the "How to Install" instructions in README
  • Some cleanup work in setup script
  • Introduce some better versioning of prominent Toshy components
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Toshy v24.09.0

10 Sep 03:53
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The main change here is some reworking of the environment detection module for maintainability, and to add the ability to try to identify not just the "desktop environment" but also the specific "window manager" in use. With many DEs you don' t need to know this because the same window manager is always in use. But some DEs like LXQt are very flexible and work with multiple possible window managers. Since the window context methods are specific to certain window managers, where the session type is Wayland, it's necessary to get the window manager context separately.

Some other changes:

  • Added distro support for Oreon Project (AlmaLinux-based)
  • Allow the apply-tweaks installer command to do --fancy-pants tweaks
  • Third-party extensions have been updated for GNOME 47
  • Blocked some odd Firefox zoom shortcuts
  • Fixed item label in tray icon menu
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Toshy v24.08.1

10 Aug 21:43
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  • COSMIC and Wlroots solutions automated to intelligently start on login when appropriate, like the KDE Plasma solution.
  • Various config updates for Hyprland and COSMIC.
  • Improved detection of Qtile environment.
  • Fixed shortcuts for "Find Next/Previous" and "Go to Line" in KWrite
  • Synced the "barebones" config file with changes in default config.
  • Add 'cosmic-term' as terminal for opening services log from tray indicator menu.
  • List of known compositors compatible with wlroots window context method will be developed in the config file, then later possibly moved into the keymapper when/if the list stabilizes.
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Toshy v24.08.0

01 Aug 03:02
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  • Added preliminary support for a wlroots protocol. See the Wiki article for more information on how/where this might be usable.
  • Added preliminary support for the upcoming Pop!_OS COSMIC desktop environment. See the same Wiki article for 'wlroots' above.
  • Added detection logic for Qtile, Niri window managers
  • Disabled the Option-key special characters layout by default, for slightly better performance and due to limited usefulness to most users.
  • Added a script that can translate Plasma shortcuts to integers and back, for use with D-Bus commands (plasma_shortcuts_converter.py).
  • Added a script to simplify using a specific D-Bus interface in Plasma (org.kde.KGlobalAccel).
  • Added multiple scripts for manually tweaking various Plasma 6 app settings. (See ~/.config/toshy/scripts/plasma-*.sh).
  • Added new, shorter verbose output alias for toshy-config-verbose-start: toshy-debug.
  • Fixed Dolphin "refresh view" shortcut remap from Cmd+R.
  • Added "lock keys" functions that can optionally generate a notification dialog when pressing CapsLock or NumLock, showing the ON/OFF state of the lock key LED. (Requires custom remaps in a general keymap to use the functions.)
  • Made notifications show up with the name "Toshy" instead of "notify-send".
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Toshy v24.07.1

10 Jul 03:04
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Better fixes for the CentOS end-of-life repo update issue were implemented in an external shell script that can be run prior to attempting to install Toshy on CentOS 7 or CentOS Stream 8. To avoid all the mirror errors, run this before running the main Toshy setup script:

./prep_centos_before_setup.sh

On CentOS 7 this shell script will also install the SCL repos, fix the SCL repo files that get installed (again), and then install Python 3 and DNF (and clean the DNF cache to make sure it's not using the defunct mirrorlist.centos.org or mirror.centos.org URLs). All in preparation for being able to run the main Toshy setup script.

The script can probably be used entirely independently of Toshy, as a way to fix the repo files of a CentOS 7 or CentOS Stream 8 system installed from old ISOs. (I don't even know if there will be a version of the CentOS 7 ISO anywhere that won't have the defunct URLs in the repo files that get initially installed, so this may come in handy.)

Notes on these CentOS distros on the "Supported Linux distros" Wiki page were updated with admonitions/alerts/callouts reminding the user to run the prep script. A note about this is also part of the "How to Install" section of the README now.

Lots of housekeeping was done in the setup script, and in the README and Wiki.

A new Wiki page was made for a more detailed exploration of how to "Toshify" a Linux app by making a keymap that applies remaps to it. The brief section in the README now links to the Wiki article.

Fixed the tray indicator app to work again on distros like Void with no systemctl command available due to lack of systemd.

Enhanced some logging during setup, and implemented a more robust check for the terminal supporting color codes.

Auto-generated full release notes (click to expand): ## What's Changed * Clearer formatting of initial section of README by @RedBearAK in https://github.com//pull/307 * Update notes on supported distros, DEs/WMs by @RedBearAK in https://github.com//pull/308 * Add new note about not changing default shortcuts by @RedBearAK in https://github.com//pull/309 * Housekeeping in setup, tray menu, CentOS EOL fixes by @RedBearAK in https://github.com//pull/310 * Update notes in Requirements section by @RedBearAK in https://github.com//pull/311 * Update more Requirements notes by @RedBearAK in https://github.com//pull/312

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Toshy v24.07.0

07 Jul 13:09
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  • Fixed a serious install error that started happening with the release of xkbcommon v1.5 on July 5th, which brought breaking API changes. This was resolved by pinning the installed version of xkbcommon to be anything less than v1.1. Should work on all supported distros for the foreseeable future.
  • Installer will now edit repo files on CentOS 7 and CentOS Stream 8 to use CentOS Vault URLs instead of the non-existent mirrorlist.centos.org URL, to avoid a bunch of mirror, 404, 500 and curl errors. This makes it possible to continue installing on those distros even though both are past end of life.
  • Added new speed optimizations to the config file, once again reducing CPU usage while typing. See note below.

How is the performance now?

On a Celeron J4125 quad-core mini PC, running Fedora 40 with KDE Plasma 6.1.1, it is now difficult to push the keymapper to use 3-4% of the CPU, even while rapidly mashing keys at faster than normal typing speed. More modern CPUs should show less than 1-2% CPU usage during typing. Before all previous optimizations the keymapper could easily saturate a full thread of a 4-core/8-thread Ryzen 3700u CPU, using up around 12.5% CPU with only moderate typing. It was probably worse on older CPUs with fewer cores and no hyper-threading. That should no longer be the case.

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Toshy v24.06.1

28 Jun 20:51
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Changes (highlights)

  • Optimized many of the modmap/keymap conditional expressions in the config file for speed, reducing CPU usage significantly while typing. This is in addition to the earlier fix for excess CPU usage in the keymapper when repeating (non-modifier) keys, and the optimizations of the matchProps() context matching function, which also substantially reduced CPU usage while evaluating keystrokes. Toshy should work much better on older, low-powered machines with all these optimizations working together.
  • Hopefully made a pip package build problem less likely to occur on RHEL 8 or similar.
  • Added a keymap for Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor) with a remap for opening the settings dialog with Cmd+Comma, and a dialog fix for closing the settings dialog with Cmd+W.
  • Added i3 window manager to the desktop environments that get automatically identified.
  • Added xkbcommon to the list of pip Python packages installed in the virtual environment.
  • Modified the settings class to store a selected keyboard layout/variant tuple. (Not useful yet!)
  • Beta layout selector tool to support eventual future solution for keymapper not working well with non-US (QWERTY) keyboard layouts. (Not useful yet!)
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Toshy v24.06

07 Jun 22:56
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  • Migrated to xwaykeyz fork of keyszer keymapper utility
    • xwaykeyz v1.1.0 has fix for high CPU usage when holding non-modifier keys
  • Allow unprivileged users to install (if an admin account can do prep-only command)
  • Make GNOME tweaks (e.g., overlay-key mod) apply to GNOME 45 and later
  • Added option to control tray icon autostart from tray icon menu
  • Enhanced diagnostic dialog info and layout
  • Added "virtualized" modifier aliases to verbose logging (e.g., "VCmd")
  • Smarter choice of terminal app for opening log from tray icon
  • Default config updates
    • Ptyxis added to terminals list
    • Peony file manager added to Finder Mods
    • Back/forward shortcuts in IntelliJ
    • More Cmd+W fixes
  • Many FAQ updates, FAQ section of README moved to a dedicated Wiki page
  • Updates to supported distros, moved entire section from README to a Wiki page
    • Ubuntu Kylin 24.04 supported
  • Many README updates
  • Improved Fantasque Sans Mono Nerd Font available (with --fancy-pants option)
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