Actual Tools / Beta Testing / What's New
What's New in Actual Window Manager 7.0 beta 2
[!] Important
[+] New
[-] Fixed error
[*] Changes
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Actual Window Manager 7.0 beta 2 (01.02.2012)
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[!] Configuration window has been redesigned.
[+] Mirroring: The ability is added to run a mirror full-screen.
[+] Mirroring: The ability is added to adjust mirror's parameters on-the-fly
via right-click context menu. Also, you can toggle a mirror full-screen
and back using the Alt-Enter hotkey.
[+] Desktop Divider: Now it's possible to stretch a window over
several adjacent tiles by holding the left mouse button and dragging
the mouse in the Tile Selector dialog (called via right click on the
Put into Divider Tile title button or via "Put into..." window menu
command).
[+] Desktop Divider: Now it's possible to put a window into a tile by touching
any tile's border (not just the top one) while dragging the window.
[*] Desktop Divider: Clicking on the Maximize button to put a window into
the underlying Divider's tile is made optional and customizable (see
the "Mouse - Actions" panel).
[*] Desktop Divider: Default modifiers to activate/deactivate the Divider
are changed to Ctrl-Shift.
[*] Desktop Divider: In the layout editor, the control buttons are available on
all monitors.
[*] Desktop Divider: In the layout editor, split buttons are made
visually different.
[*] Compatibility with SnagIT is improved.
[-] Desktop Divider: Move to Divider Tile title button lost its picture
after the first click.
[-] Desktop Divider: Move to Divider Tile title button/window menu command
did not disappear after disabling the Divider.
[-] Context menu did not work in the thumbnail previews for inactive Excel
sheets.
[-] Title buttons did not appear in the Windows Media Center window.
[-] Additional commands in the Desktop's context menu stopped working;
also, some system menu commands might disappear.
[-] Start menu did not appear after pressing Win/Ctrl-Esc if the mouse pointer
was on a monitor with no taskbar.
[-] Windows 7: Icons were cut in secondary notification areas
in the Windows Classic visual theme.
[-] Being in both Auto-hide and Locked mode, secondary taskbar got hidden
even if it was clicked.
[-] Windows that were minimized to the tray/screen via window menu command
did not restore via Unhide submenu.
[-] The Remove Taskbar Entry action worked unstable.
[-] Actual Window Manager crashed when trying to toggle
the Virtual Desktops Switcher.
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Actual Window Manager 7.0 beta 1 (14.01.2012)
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[+] The Put into Divider Tile title bar button/menu command is added.
With its help, you can put a window into the desired Divider Tile
on any monitor in just two clicks.
[+] Hotkeys has been added to move a window up/down/left/right within the active
Desktop Divider layout (Win-Shift-arrows by default).
[+] Desktop Divider layouts can be activated via Desktop's context menu.
[+] Commands to save/restore the order of desktop icons are added into
the Desktop's context menu.
[+] The option is added to disable the preview thumbnails completely.
[*] Classic window snapping snaps windows to Desktop Divider tiles.
[*] Desktop Divider tracks the changes of desktop resolution and scales
its tiles appropriately.
[*] Desktop Divider's layout configuration window is improved:
- when resizing a tile, its child tiles are resized proportionally
- tiles are numbered
- tiles display their actual size relative to monitor
[*] Further improvements of compatibility between Scroll Inactive Windows and
Volumouse.
[-] Crashes in dwm.exe happened occasionally.
[-] Actual Window Manager did not recognize virtual video devices
(like those added by MaxiVista or iDisplay).
[-] Internet Explorer 9/10 shortcuts did not pin to secondary taskbars when
being dragged from the Address bar.
[-] Active Excel sheets did not minimize on clicking their buttons in
secondary taskbars.
[-] Windows 7: Sometimes Actual Window Manager crashed when creating
the secondary taskbars.
[-] Aero Peek invoked immediately after moving the mouse into the preview
thumbnail, without any delay.
[-] Virtual Desktops Switcher had numerous problems in the Independent mode.
[-] Multi-monitor Background parameters did not update after toggling
the slideshow mode only.
[-] In some cases group buttons in secondary taskbars displayed the icon of
some window in the group instead of the application icon.
[-] Desktop Divider left its layout outline visible after dragging
a Remote Desktop window to the top of the screen where it became
full-screen.
[-] Configuration windows stayed out of sight when they were located
on a secondary monitor and the monitor got disabled.
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Actual Window Manager 6.8 beta 1 (15.12.2011)
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[!] Desktop Divider feature has been added. It allows sub-dividing the entire
large desktop or each monitor into several non-intersected areas (tiles).
You can create as many custom tile layouts as you need and activate them
on the fly as circumstances require.
[+] Windows 7: The option has been added to control the height of rolled up
Windows Explorer windows (either roll them up completely or leave
the breadcrumb navigation bar visible to distinguish rolled up folders
better).
[*] Multi-monitor Task Switcher now reacts on mouse clicks.
[*] The "C" command line option has been modified: now it expects a fully
qualified name of a folder that contains alternative configuration files
to load.
[-] Excel 2007/2010 workbooks did not activate after clicking their
corresponding buttons/preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars.
[-] Sometimes buttons disappeared from secondary taskbars.
[-] Start menu on secondary monitors had no proper right border in some cases.
[-] Overlay icons on taskbar buttons disappeared after moving a window
to the primary monitor and back.
[-] Taskbar buttons for windows in the new version of Google Talk showed
in wrong taskbars.
[-] Volumouse did not work in some cases.
[-] Sometimes tooltip showing current window position displayed
incorrect values.
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