# \[ANN\] Rumai 2.0.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 5, 2008, 7:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rumai-2-0-0/128125 "2008-02-05T07:30:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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``` Rumai ``` Rumai is a library for manipulating the wmii window manager through Ruby. It excels at dynamic arrangement of clients, columns, views, and tags. Rumai also provides (1) an interactive shell for live entertainment, and (2) a pure Ruby client for the 9P2000 protocol, which it uses to communicate with wmii’s IXP file-system interface. ``` http://rumai.rubyforge.org ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rumai 2.0.0 Contents • Thanks • Caution • Improvements • Repairs This release adds support for wmii 3.6, improves the performance of the IXP library, and fixes some bugs. 1 Thanks • Christoph B. tested Rumai 1.0.0 under wmii 3.6 and reported bugs. 2 Caution • wmii version 3.6 or newer is now a requirement for Rumai. • The Rumai::IXP::Agent::FidStream#read\_partial method has been replaced by Rumai::IXP::Agent::FidStream#read (true) for efficiency. • The Rumai::IXP::Agent::FidStream#write method no longer writes to the beginning of the stream. Instead, it writes to the current position in the stream. • The Rumai::View#floating\_area method has been renamed to Rumai::View#floater for brevity. 3 Improvements • Added several more methods (such as rewind, pos=, eof?, and so on) from Ruby’s IO class to the Rumai::IXP::Agent::FidStream class. • Added the Rumai::Client#kill method to simplify client termination. 4 Repairs • Fixed a race condition in Rumai::Agent#talk which would cause Rumai to hang when multiple threads used it.