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