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FvwmPager(1.20)					FvwmPager(1.20)

NAME
       FvwmPager - the FVWM Pager module

SYNOPSIS
       FvwmPager  is  spawned by fvwm, so no command line invoca-
       tion 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.  Win-
       dows  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  view-
       port  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  provi-
       sions to drag windows in the pager by using pressing modi-
       fier-1 (usually Alt) and dragging with button 3.

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       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 bound-
       ary.  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  key-
       word   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

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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 lay-
	      ing 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.

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       *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

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