The Sandbox Conundrum.
Features:
- Added new default Adwaita and Adwaita Dark color schemes - #157 thanks to @vixalien
- You can now customize the working directory for new tabs. It can be set to persist the last tab's directory, the user's home directory, or an arbitrary location - #122
- Closing a tab or a window that still has a running process will now prompt you for confirmation - fixes #201
- Black Box now uses the default Adwaita tab style. As consequence, some header bar options, including "Show Borders" have been removed from the preferences window - #112, #253
- Added the option to disable terminal bell - #106
- Added the option to make bold text bright - #203
- You can now get a desktop notification when a process completes on an unfocussed tab - #146
- Context-aware header bar: the header bar can now have special colors when the active tab is running sudo or ssh - #239 - co-authored by @foxedb
- Added open and copy link options to the right-click menu - #141
- You can now rename tabs with the new tab right-click menu, or with a new
shortcut
Shift + Control + R- #242 - Added a quick application style switcher to the window menu - #147
Improvements:
- Some configuration options have been grouped together in the preferences window - #254
- Application title is now bold when there's a single tab open - #235
- Performance and bundle size optimizations - #283, #284
- Black Box now has more Flatpak permissions to overcome errors reported by users - #186, #215
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue that caused terminals not to be destroyed when their tabs were closed - #261
- The window title is now centered when there's only one tab - #199
- Improved keybinding validation, allowing more valid key combinations to be used - #245
- Sixel is now disabled for VTE builds that don't support it. This primarily affects non-Flatpak users, as all Flatpak builds ship VTE with Sixel support - #273
- Fixed an issue that caused windows launched with custom commands to not have a title - #237
- Black Box will now show an error banner if spawning a shell or custom command failed and will no longer close immediately - #97, #121, #259
Second 0.13 patch release.
Features:
- Added support for setting multiple shortcuts for the same action - #212
- You can now reset one, or all custom shortcuts back to default - #211
- A warning is displayed if a user selects "Unlimited" scrollback mode - #228
Bug fixes:
- Added workaround for a Vala error that would cause Black Box to crash
First 0.13 patch release.
Features:
- New Scrollback Mode allows you to set scrollback to a fixed number of lines, unlimited lines, or disable scrollback altogether - #197
- Allow setting font style (regular, light, bold, etc) - #170
Improvements:
- Updated French, Italian, and Turkish translations
Bug fixes:
- Added missing "Open Preferences" shortcut to help overlay - @sabriunal
- Header bar and tabs are now properly colored when the app is unfocussed
- Fixed regression in window border color when "Show Borders" is enabled
- Window border is no longer displayed when Black Box is docked left, right, or maximized #181
- Improved keybinding validation, allowing more valid key combinations to be used - #214
- Tab navigation shortcuts now work as expected - #217
- Fixed default "Reset Zoom" keybinding
- Fixed issue that prevented development builds of Black Box from running when installed via Flatpak - #210
The latest version of Black Box brings much-awaited new features and bug fixes.
Features:
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Background transparency - thanks to @bennyp
- Customizable cursor blinking mode - thanks to @knuxify
- Experimental Sixel support - thanks to @PJungkamp
Bug fixes:
- Manually set VTE_VERSION environment variable - fixes compatibility with a few terminal programs - #208
- Copying text outside the current scroll view now works correctly - #166
- Scrolling with a touchpad or touchscreen now works as intended - #179
Features:
- Added Turkish translation - thanks to @sabriunal
Improvements:
- UI consistency - thanks to @sabriunal
- Clear selection after copying text with easy copy/paste - thanks to @1player
Bug fixes:
- Text selection was broken - #177
Features:
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation - thanks to @ciro-mota
Improvements:
- Updated French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Swedish translations
Bug fixes:
- Flatpak CLI
1.13>=had weird output - #165
Features:
- Added support for searching text from terminal output - #93
- Open a new tab by clicking on the header bar with the middle mouse button - #88
- Customizable number of lines to keep buffered - #92
- Added option to reserve an area in the header bar to drag the window
- Added Spanish translation - thanks @oscfdezdz
Improvements:
- Greatly improved performance, thanks to an update in VTE
- Theme integration now uses red, green, blue, and yellow from your terminal theme to paint the rest of the app
- Theme integration now uses a different approach to calculate colors based on your terminal theme's background color. This results in more aesthetically pleasing header bar colors
Bug fixes:
- The primary clipboard now works as intended - #46
- The "Reset Preferences" button is now translatable - #117
- High CPU usage - #21
- Fix right-click menu spawn position - closes #52
- Fix long loading times - fixes #135
- Ctrl + click can now be used to open URLs - #25
- Updated translations
- Added Simplified Chinese translation
- Black Box now sets the COLORTERM env variable to
truecolor- #98
Features:
- Black Box will set the BLACKBOX_THEMES_DIR env variable to the user's theme folder - #82
Bug fixes:
- Fix opaque floating header bar
- User themes dir is no longer hard-coded and will be different for host vs Flatpak - #90 thanks @nahuelwexd
Features:
- The preferences window has a new layout that allows for more features/customization to be added
- Added support for the system-wide dark style preference - #17
- Users can now set a terminal color scheme for dark style and another for light style
- Black Box now uses the new libadwaita about window
- New themes included with Black Box: one-dark, pencil-dark, pencil-light, tomorrow, and tommorrow-night
- Black Box will also load themes from
~/.var/app/com.raggesilver.BlackBox/schemes- #54 - You can customize which and how your shell is spawned in Black Box - #43
- Run command as login shell
- Set custom command instead of the default shell
Deprecations:
- The Linux and Tango color schemes have been removed
- All color schemes must now set
background-colorandforeground-color
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that prevented users from typing values in the preferences window - #13
- Middle-click paste will now paste from user selection - #46
- Color scheme sorting is now case insensitive
- Long window title resizes window in single tab mode - #77
- Drag-n-drop now works with multiple files - #67
- Improved theme integration. Popovers, menus, and lists are now properly styled according to the user's terminal color scheme - #42
Features:
- Improved German translation - thanks @konstantin.tch
- Added Czech translation - thanks @panmourovaty
- Added Russian translation - thanks @acephale
- Added Swedish translation - thanks @droidbittin
Bug fixes:
- Black Box now sets the TERM_PROGRAM env variable. This makes apps like neofetch report a correct terminal app in Flatpak - #53
- "Remember window size" will now remember fullscreen and maximized state too - #55
Features:
- New single tab mode makes it easier to drag the window and the UI more aesthetically pleasing when there's a single tab open - #31
- Added middle-click paste (only if enabled system-wide) - #46
- Added French translation - thanks @rene-coty
- Added Dutch translation - thanks @Vistaus
- Added German translation - thanks @ktutsch
Bug fixes:
- Buttons in headerbar are no longer focusable - #49
- Labels and titles in preferences window now follow GNOME HIG for typography - !21 thanks @TheEvilSkeleton
- Disable unimplemented
app.quitaccelerator - #44
Use patched VTE to enable copying.
Features:
- Added cell spacing option #36
- i18n support #27 - thanks @yilozt
Bug fixes:
- Fixed floating controls action row cannot be activated (!19) - thanks @TheEvilSkeleton
- New custom headerbar fixes unwanted spacing with controls on left side #38
- Flathub builds will no longer have "striped headerbar" #40
- A button is now displayed in the headerbar to leave fullscreen #39