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FvwmPager - the FVWM Pager module
FvwmPager is spawned by
fvwm, so no command line invocation will work. From within the .fvwmrc file,
FvwmPager is spawned as follows:
Module FvwmPager 0 3
or from within an fvwm pop-up menu:
Popup "Module-Popup"
Title "Modules"
Module "GoodStuff" GoodStuff
Module "NoClutter" FvwmClean
Module "FvwmIdentify" FvwmIdent
Module "Banner" FvwmBanner
Module "Debug" FvwmDebug
Module "SaveDesktop" FvwmSave
Module "Pager" FvwmPager 0 3
EndPopup
where "0" is the first desktop to show, and "3" is the last.
The
FvwmPager module shows a miniature view of the Fvwm desktops which are
specified in the command line. This is a useful reminder of where your active
windows are. Windows in the pager are shown in the same color as their fvwm
decorations.
The pager can be used to change your viewport into the current
desktop, to change desktops, or to move windows around.
Pressing mouse
button 1 in the pager will cause you viewport to change to the selected
page of the selected desk. If you click with button 1 in the desk-label area,
you will switch desks but not pages within the desk.
Dragging mouse button
2 on a miniature view of a window will cause that window to be move to
the location where you release the mouse button, but your viewport will
not change. If you drag the window out of the pager and onto your desktop,
a full size image of the window will appear for you to place. There is no
way to pick up a full size image of the window and move it into the pager,
however. Since some mice do not have button 2, I have made provisions to
drag windows in the pager by using pressing modifier-1 (usually Alt) and
dragging with button 3.
Clicking mouse button 3 on a location within the
current desktop will cause the viewport to move to the selected location,
but will not align the viewport to a page boundary. Dragging button 3 will
cause the viewport to move as you drag. Button 3 operations are limited
to the current desktop only.
When iconified, the pager will work as a fully
functional current page only pager. Windows and viewports can be moved within
the icon of the pager. Users will want to make sure that they have no lines
similar to
Icon "Fvwm Pager" whatever
in their .fvwmrc files.
The FvwmClean program, and the concept
for interfacing this module to the Window Manager, are all original work
by Robert Nation.
Copyright 1994, Robert Nation. No guarantees or warranties
or anything are provided or implied in any way whatsoever. Use this program
at your own risk. Permission to use this program for any purpose is given,
as long as the copyright is kept intact.
During initialization,
FvwmPager will eventually search a configuration file which describes
the time-outs and actions to take. The configuration file is the same file
that fvwm used during initialization.
If the FvwmPager executable is linked
to another name, ie ln -s FvwmPager OtherPager, then another module called
OtherPager can be started, with a completely different configuration than
FvwmPager, simply by changing the keyword FvwmPager to OtherPager. This
way multiple pager programs can be used.
You can
direct the keyboard focus to any window on the current desktop by clicking
with button 2 on its image in the pager. The window does not need to be
visible, but it does need to be on the current page.
The invocation
method was shown in the synopsis section
FvwmPager
reads the same .fvwmrc file as fvwm reads when it starts up, and looks for
certain configuration options:
- *FvwmPagerGeometry geometry
- Completely or
partially specifies the pager windows location and geometry, in standard
X11 notation. In order to maintain an undistorted aspect ratio, you might
want to leave out either the width or height dimension of the geometry
specification
- *FvwmPagerRows rows
- Tells fvwm how many rows of desks to
use when laying out the pager window.
- *FvwmPagerColumns columns
- Tells fvwm
how many columnss of desks to use when laying out the pager window.
- *FvwmPagerIconGeometry
geometry
- Specifies a size (optional) and location (optional) for the pager's
icon window. Since there is no easy way for FvwmPager to determine the
height of the icon's label, you will have to make an allowance for the icon
label height when using negative y-coordinates in the icon location specification
(used to specify a location relative to the bottom instead of the top of
the screen).
- *FvwmPagerStartIconic
- Causes the pager to start iconified.
- *FvwmPagerFont font-name
- Specified a font to use to label the desktops. If
font_name is "none" then no desktop labels will be displayed.
- *FvwmPagerSmallFont
font-name
- Specified a font to use to label the window names in the pager.
If not specified, the window labels will be omitted. Window labels seem
to be fairly useless for desktop scales of 32 or greater.
- *FvwmPagerFore
color
- Specifies the color to use to write the desktop labels, and to draw
the page-grid lines.
- *FvwmPagerBack color
- Specifies the background color
for the window.
- *FvwmPagerHilight color
- The active page and desk label will
be highlighted by using this background pattern instead of the normal background.
- *FvwmPagerLabel desk label
- Assigns the text label to desk desk in the pager
window. Useful for assigning symbolic names to desktops, ie
*FvwmPagerLabel 1 Mail
*FvwmPagerLabel 2 Maker
*FvwmPagerLabel 2 Matlab
- DeskTopScale number
- If the geometry is not specified, then a desktop reduction
factor is used to calculate the pager's size. Things in the pager window
are shown at 1/number of the actual size.
Robert Nation
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