G15Daemon 1.9.5.3 Released

2008-02-09T14:26:36Z

This release fixes random screen corruption with some clients, and adds the ability to control how G15Daemon sets the LCD backlight via cmdline option.

G15Daemon 1.9.5.2 Released

2008-01-26T01:34:00Z

G15Daemon 1.9.5.1 fixes bugs in the client API as used by G15Composer. Users of G15Composer are recommended to upgrade to this version of G15Daemon, and version 3.2 of G15Composer.

G15Daemon 1.9.5.1 Released

2008-01-24T08:42:34Z

This is a bugfix release. Some g15composer scripts exposed a problem in the display code where occasionally screens were not being updated correctly. This problem affected at least 1.9.3+, possibly 1.2 series is also affected. All users of g15composer and g15daemon-1.9x are advised to upgrade.

- BugFix: If lcd refresh is requested whilst processing, refreshes were missed.
- Optimisation: The delay between screen updates is no longer required. remove.

G15Daemon 1.9.5 Released

2008-01-24T04:15:49Z

This release adds a few debugging aids, a screendump feature, and a bugfix or two. It adds a function to the client API, which is used by G15Macro 1.0.3+ (if compiled with this version).

- Add example udev helper scripts to contrib directory.
- API: Add NEVER_SELECT cmd to client API to enforce non-display on client-switch. Used by G15Macro if available.
- Debug: Add segfault handler to libg15daemon_client to aid debugging clients.
- Feature: Add screendump ability. Pressing M1+M3 simultaneously will write a pbm format image of the currently displayed screen to /tmp/g15daemon-sc-?.pbm, where ? is an incremental number.
- BugFix: Only wakeup display thread if LCD buffer is visible.
- Packaging: Fix debian packaging to include plugins.

G15Macro 1.0.3 Released

2008-01-23T11:08:13Z

Version 1.0.3 fixes some build issues, and adds a feature or two.

ChangeLog:

- Switch to a textual configuration file. Auto-converts to new format from binary
config if it exists. Only Semi-readable, but better than a binary dump.
- Ensure each keypress is received by X11 in sequence.
- Add mutexes where appropriate.
- Apply patch from 'schitso' that fixes cancellation of an in-progress recording via
any of the M keys, and moves repeated code into their own functions.
- Add --help, --keysonly cmdline options. --keysonly configures keymaps
(including multimedia keys) then exits.

G15Stats 1.0 Released

2008-01-20T13:51:05Z

This is the first release of G15Stats, a
CPU/Mem/Swap/Network monitoring client for G15Daemon.

Features:
CPU Screen displays graphs of User/System/Nice and Idle
time, along with Load AVG and Uptime.

Memory Screen displays Memory Total & Free, and graph of
Used vs Buffered+Cached Memory.

Swap Screen displays Used, Free and Total swap space.

Network Screen displays Total bytes In/Out, history graph,
Peak speed.

G15Daemon 1.9.4 Released

2008-01-05T00:32:34Z

This release contains numerous bugfixes, a few speedups, and portability improvements. Users of G15Daemon WIP (1.9x) are recommended to upgrade.
See the ChangeLog for details.

G15Daemon 1.9.3 Released

2007-12-27T04:47:44Z

Major Bugfix release. 1.9.2 had a bug that stopped keypresses from being read correctly on some machines. Everyone who installed 1.9.2 should upgrade.

G15Macro 1.0.2 Released

2007-12-27T02:18:17Z

G15Macro 1.0.2 features enhanced debugging and the ability to dump macros to stdout in an almost human-readable format.

- Add --dump (-d) option to dump recorded macros in human-readable format
- Add --version (-v)
- Add --debug (-g) to add some debugging

If you are experiencing problems with G15Macro, please upgrade to this release. The additional debugging options will greatly assist in resolving issues.

G15daemon WIP 1.9.2 released

2007-12-23T08:47:19Z

A new Bugfix release. Changes from 1.9.1 include:

- Add exitfunc to net plugin for exit notification.
- Use pause() instead of sleeping
- Add NAME section to g15daemon_client manpages
- Tweak delay between successive keyboard reads. This reduces cpu load by 50% on my system.
- Bugfix: Ensure that all plugin exit functions are called on leaving.
- Bugfix: if keypress event is received (very early in the startup process,
the daemon would crash. Check that expected pointers are valid.
- Bugfix: Dont attempt compilation of uinput plugin if headers are
unavailable.
- Bugfix: Write a blank buffer to the LCD before exiting.

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