NAME
FvwmPager - the FVWM Pager module
SYNOPSIS
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.
DESCRIPTION
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.
COPYRIGHTS
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.
INITIALIZATION
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.
KEYBOARD FOCUS CONTROL
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.
INVOCATION
The invocation method was shown in the synopsis section
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
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.
AUTHOR
Robert Nation