tofi

Fixed

• Fixed line spacing for some fonts with the HarfBuzz backend, that got broken
  in v0.9.0. Sorry about that!

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.

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. For an
  example theme using these new options, see themes/soy-milk.

• 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).

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.

Warning - HiDPI config change

In the previous 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.

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).

Warning - update your configs

In the previous 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).

Warning - update your configs

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

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.

Now with 100% more working meson.build.

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