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[Info-xnee] GNU Xnee 3.07 released


From: Henrik Sandklef
Subject: [Info-xnee] GNU Xnee 3.07 released
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:15:05 +0200
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100913 Iceowl/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.7

We are pleased to announce the availability of GNU Xnee 3.07

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute
user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a robot that can
imitate the job you just did. GNU Xnee can be used to:
    Automate tests
    Demonstrate programs
    Distribute actions
    Record and replay 'macro'
    Retype the content of a file

Getting the Software
====================

   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.07.tar.gz
   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.07.tar.gz.sig


or one of the mirror sites as found in:

   http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Checksums
===========

  md5sum:
      f9fca0c7475a90487c86eca2027d0fcd  xnee-3.07.tar.gz

  cksum:
      510662476 1779830 xnee-3.07.tar.gz


New in this release
===================

   * New features:
      Supports recording xnd replaying of XInput device events
        * Forced replaying of X11 core events can be done
        * Backward compatible with old session files

   * Build changes:

      --enable-man
      Checks for makeinfo once, uses result many times
      Can build guis and manual without all doc stuff

      --disable-xinput2
      By default Xnee is built with XI support

      Looks for gtk-config when configuring
      Checks for makeinfo once, uses result many times
      Can build guis and manual without all doc stuff


   * Issues
      Human printout of X Input events needs more work
      Need to make X Input code be totally ifdefed away

   * New options:
        --force-core-replay,-fcr
          Discard recorded X Input device data,
          use recorded core device data

        --disable-xinput-events
          Disable recording of XInput events


   * Fixed bugs as reported on ubuntuforums:
     http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1253453&highlight=xnee

     savannah bug: #30134 "Missing xnee.xpm in gnee"
     savannah bug: #30136 "Configure misses to check for gnome.h"

   * Reported problems on N900 are fixed

   * Patches from Tuukka Pasanen, Fabian Keil

   * Experimental and undocumented features (read the source):
        * replay backend
        * xswine - new swinput backend for Xnee





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