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NAMEFvwmIconBox - the FVWM iconbox module
SYNOPSISFvwmIconBox is spawned by fvwm, so no command line invoca-
tion will work.
DESCRIPTION
The FvwmIconBox module provides an icon manager. The user
can do operations, like iconify and deiconify, for each
icon shown in the module via mouse and keyboard.
FvwmIconBox reads the same .fvwmrc file as fvwm reads when
it starts up, and looks for lines similar to "*FvwmIcon-
BoxFore green".
COPYRIGHTS
The FvwmIconBox program is original work of Nobutaka
Suzuki.
Copyright 1994, Nobutaka Suzuki. No guarantees or war-
ranties 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, FvwmIconBox will eventually search
a configuration file. The configuration file is the same
file that fvwm used during initialization.
If the FvwmIconBox executable is linked to another name,
ie ln -sFvwmIconBox MoreIconBox, then another module
called MoreIconBox can be started, with a completely dif-
ferent configuration than FvwmIconBox, simply by changing
the keyword FvwmIconBox to MoreIconBox. This way multiple
clutter-reduction programs can be used.
INVOCATIONFvwmIconBox can be invoked by binding the action 'Module
FvwmIconBox' to a menu or key-stroke in the .fvwmrc file.
Fvwm will search directory specified in the ModulePath
configuration option to attempt to locate FvwmIconBox.
CONFIGURATION OPTIONSFvwmIconBox reads the same .fvwmrc file as fvwm reads when
it starts up, and looks for lines as listed below:
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*FvwmIconBoxFore color
Tells the module to use color instead of white for
the window foreground. This option affects only the
foreground color of background_bitmap specifed in
*FvwmIconBoxPixmap option described below.
*FvwmIconBoxBack color
Tells the module to use color instead of black for
the window background.
*FvwmIconBoxIconFore color
Tells the module to use color instead of black for
non-selected icon text.
*FvwmIconBoxIconBack color
Tells the module to use color instead of white for
the non-selected icon background.
*FvwmIconBoxIconHiFore color
Tells the module to use color instead of black for
selected icon text.
*FvwmIconBoxIconHiBack color
Tells the module to use color instead of white for
the selected icon background.
*FvwmIconBoxPixmap pixmap
Tells the module to use pixmap for the window back-
ground_pixmap.
*FvwmIconBoxFont fontname
Tells the module to use fontname instead of fixed
for text.
*FvwmIconBoxSortIcons
Tells the module to sort all icons in iconbox in
alphabetical order.
*FvwmIconBoxPadding number
Specifies the number of pixels between icons. The
default value is 5.
*FvwmIconBoxPlacement primary secondary
Specifies icon placement policy. primary and
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secondary can be Top, Bottom, Left and Right. The
following eight combinations are available:
primary secondary
Left Top
Left Bottom
Right Top
Right Bottom
Top Left
Top Right
Bottom Left
Bottom Right
Top: Icons are placed from top to bottom.
Bottom: Icons are placed from bottom to top.
Left: Icons are placed from left to right.
Right: Icons are placed from right to left.
For example, when the placement is "Left Top",
icons are placed from left to right, and new rows
are added from top to bottom. The default vale is
"Left Bottom".
*FvwmIconBoxLines
Specifies the number of icons placed in a line. If
primary is Left or Right, this value specifies the
number of columns. If primary is Top or Bottom,
this value specifies the number of rows. For exam-
ple, seven icons are placed in a row if *FvwmIcon-
BoxLines is 7 and *FvwmIconBoxPlacement is "Left
Top". The default value is 6.
*FvwmIconBoxHideSC direction
Specifies the undisplayed scroll bar . Direction
can be either Horizontal or Vertical.
*FvwmIconBoxGeometry <width>x<height>{+-}<X>{+-}<Y>
Specifies the location and/or size of FvwmIconBox.
width and height are measured in icons, not pixels.
The default value is 6x1+0+0.
*FvwmIconBoxMaxIconSize <width>x<height>
Specifies the maximum size of icon bitmap. A bitmap
larger than this size is clipped to this size. The
default value is 48x48.
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*FvwmIconBoxMouse Button Action Response[, Response]
Tells the module to do Responce when Action is done
on button Button. Available Responsees are built-in
commands in Fvwm (e.g. Iconify, Delete, Focus) and
available Actions are Click and DoubleClick.
*FvwmIconBoxKey Key Response[, Response]
Tells the module to do Response when Key is
pressed. Available Responcees are, besides Fvwm
built-in commands, the following six FvwmIconBox
built-in commands: Next, Prev, Left, Right, Up, and
Down.
Next: Change the hilited-icon to the next.
Prev: Change the hilited-icon to the previous.
Left: Move the slider of the horizontal scrollbar
to left. Icons move to right accordingly.
Right: Move the slider of the horizontal scrollbar
to right. Icons move to left accordingly.
Up: Move the slider of the vertical scrollbar to
up. Icons move to down accordingly.
Down: Move the slider of the vertical scrollbar to
down. Icons move to up accordingly.
*FvwmIconBox windowname bitmap-file
Specifies the bitmap to be displayed in iconbox for
windowname. Windowname can be window name, class
name, or resource name. Windowname can contain
"*" and "?" like Fvwm configuration file. The
bitmap-file is either the full path name to a
bitmap file, or a file in the IconPath or Pixmap-
Path. If bitmap-file is specefied to be "-", the
icon for a window corresponding to windowname is
not shown in the iconbox.
SAMPLE CONFIGURATION
The following are excepts from a .fvwmrc file which
describe FvwmIconBox initialization commands:
############################################################
# Make no icon to be shown in root window
# by spcifying in your .fvwmrc
# (1) "SuppressIcons" if PRUNE is defined in configure.h, or
# (2) "Style "*" NoIcon" if PRUNE is defined.
#SuppressIcons
Style "*" NoIcon
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############################################################
*FvwmIconBoxIconBack #cfcfcf
*FvwmIconBoxIconHiFore black
*FvwmIconBoxIconHiBack LightSkyBlue
*FvwmIconBoxBack #5f9ea0
#*FvwmIconBoxFore blue
*FvwmIconBoxGeometry 5x1+0+0
*FvwmIconBoxMaxIconSize 64x38
*FvwmIconBoxFont -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*FvwmIconBoxSortIcons
*FvwmIconBoxPadding 4
*FvwmIconBoxLines 10
*FvwmIconBoxPlacement Left Top
*FvwmIconBoxPixmap fvwm.xpm
#*FvwmIconBoxHideSC Horizontal
#
# mouse bindings
#
*FvwmIconBoxMouse 1 Click RaiseLower
*FvwmIconBoxMouse 1 DoubleClick Iconify
*FvwmIconBoxMouse 2 Click Iconify -1, Focus
*FvwmIconBoxMouse 3 Click Module "FvwmIdent" FvwmIdent
#
# Key bindings
#
*FvwmIconBoxKey r RaiseLower
*FvwmIconBoxKey space Iconify
*FvwmIconBoxKey d Close
#
# FvwmIconBox built-in functions
#
*FvwmIconBoxKey n Next
*FvwmIconBoxKey p Prev
*FvwmIconBoxKey h Left
*FvwmIconBoxKey j Down
*FvwmIconBoxKey k Up
*FvwmIconBoxKey l Right
#
# Icon file spcifications
#
*FvwmIconBox "*" unknown1.xpm
*FvwmIconBox "Fvwm*" -
*FvwmIconBox "FvwmFileMgr" folder2.xpm
*FvwmIconBox "rxvt" term.xpm
*FvwmIconBox "xterm" xterm.xpm
*FvwmIconBox "editres" editres.xpm
*FvwmIconBox "xman" xman.xpm
*FvwmIconBox "xbiff" mail1.xpm
*FvwmIconBox "xmh" mail1.xpm
*FvwmIconBox "xcalc" xcalc.xpm
*FvwmIconBox "GoodStuff" toolbox.xpm
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AUTHOR
Nobutaka Suzuki (nobuta-s@is.aist-nara.ac.jp).
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