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FvwmPager(1)			 Fvwm Modules			  FvwmPager(1)

NAME
       FvwmPager - the Fvwm Pager module

SYNOPSIS
       FvwmPager  [  -transient	 ] [ name ] [ first desk [ last desk ] ] Fvwm‐
       Pager is spawned by fvwm, so no command line invocation will work.

       All desks with desk numbers between first desk and last desk  are  dis‐
       played.	If  last desk is omitted only the first desk is shown. If both
       desk numbers are omitted, the current desk is used instead. If you  use
       an  asterisk  '*' in place of first desk the pager will always show the
       current desktop, even when you switch desks.

       Example lines to put in your .fvwm2rc:

       Module FvwmPager 0 3

       or

       Module FvwmPager *

       or from within an fvwm pop-up menu:

       AddToMenu Module-Popup Modules Title
       + Audio	      Module FvwmAudio
       + Auto	      Module FvwmAuto 200
       + Buttons      Module FvwmButtons
       + Console      Module FvwmConsole
       + Ident	      Module FvwmIdent
       + Banner	      Module FvwmBanner
       + Pager	      Module FvwmPager 0 3

       or

       + Pager	      Module FvwmPager *

       If the pager is started with the -transient option,  the	 next  time  a
       button is released the pager is closed. Note that this option does only
       work if the window style of the pager window is 'sticky' (see the  fvwm
       man page). You should use the 'StaysOnTop' style too.

       Example:

       Style FvwmPager Sticky, StaysOnTop
       *FvwmPager: Rows	      1
       *FvwmPager: Columns    1
       Mouse 3 R C Module FvwmPager -transient

       With  this  in  your .fvwm2rc, if you press control and button 3 in the
       root window the pager pops up under the mouse and  while	 the  viewport
       moves with the mouse.

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 will cause the viewport to move
       to the selected location and switch desks if necessary,	but  will  not
       align the viewport to a page boundary. Dragging button 3 will cause the
       viewport to move as you drag but	 not  switch  desktops,	 even  if  the
       pointer moves to another desktop.

       With  the *FvwmPager: SloppyFocus option the focus is transfered to the
       window pointed at with the mouse when the pointer is inside the pager.

       When iconified, the pager will work as a fully functional current  desk
       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 .fvwm2rc files.

COPYRIGHTS
       The FvwmPager 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 gets config info  from	fvwm's	module
       configuration database (see fvwm(1), section MODULE COMMANDS).

       To  use FvwmPager with several different configurations, you can invoke
       FvwmPager with an optional parameter, which it will  use	 as  its  name
       instead	(e.g "Module FvwmPager OtherPager"). OtherPager will then read
       only the lines in the configuration file starting  with	"*OtherPager",
       and  not	 the  lines  belonging	to  FvwmPager. This way multiple pager
       instances may be used.

       Note: the old way to use the FvwmPager with several different  configu‐
       rations is to link the executable to another name, i.e.

       ln -s FvwmPager OtherPager

       This may work, but this method is not supported.

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: Geometry 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 .

       *FvwmPager: Rows rows
	      Tells fvwm how many rows of desks to use	when  laying  out  the
	      pager window.

       *FvwmPager: Columns columns
	      Tells  fvwm how many columns of desks to use when laying out the
	      pager window.

       *FvwmPager: IconGeometry 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).

       *FvwmPager: StartIconic
	      Causes the pager to start iconified.

       *FvwmPager: NoStartIconic
	      Causes the pager to start normally.  Useful  for	canceling  the
	      effect of the StartIconic option.

       *FvwmPager: LabelsBelow
	      Causes  the  pager  to  draw desk labels below the corresponding
	      desk.

       *FvwmPager: LabelsAbove
	      Causes the pager to draw desk  labels  above  the	 corresponding
	      desk. Useful for canceling the effect of the LabelsBelow option.

       *FvwmPager: ShapeLabels
	      Causes the pager to hide the labels of all but the current desk.
	      This turns off label hilighting.

       *FvwmPager: NoShapeLabels
	      Causes the pager to show the labels of all visible desks. Useful
	      for canceling the effect of the ShapeLabels option.

       *FvwmPager: Font font-name
	      Specified	 a font to use to label the desktops.  If font_name is
	      "none" then no desktop labels will be displayed.

       *FvwmPager: SmallFont 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.	 If  font_name	is "none" then no window names will be
	      displayed.

       *FvwmPager: Fore color
	      Specifies the color to use to write the desktop labels,  and  to
	      draw the page-grid lines.

       *FvwmPager: Back color
	      Specifies the background color for the window.

       *FvwmPager: Hilight color
	      The active page and desk label will be highlighted by using this
	      background pattern instead of the normal background.

       *FvwmPager: HilightPixmap pixmap
	      The active page will be highlighted  by  using  this  background
	      pattern instead of the normal background.

       *FvwmPager: DeskHilight
	      Hilight  the  active page with the current hilight color/pixmap.
	      Useful for canceling the effect of the NoDeskHilight option.

       *FvwmPager: NoDeskHilight
	      Don't hilight the active page.

       *FvwmPager: WindowColors fore back hiFore hiBack
	      Change the normal/highlight colors  of  the  windows.  fore  and
	      hiFore  specify  the colors as used for the font inside the win‐
	      dows. back and hiBack are used to fill the windows with.

       *FvwmPager: WindowLabelFormat format
	      This specifies a printf() like format for the labels in the mini
	      window.  Possible flags are: %t, %i, %c, and %r for the window's
	      title, icon title, class, or resource name,  respectively.   The
	      default is "%i".

       *FvwmPager: Label desk label
	      Assigns the text label to desk desk (or the current desk if desk
	      is "*") in the pager window. Useful for assigning symbolic names
	      to desktops, i.e.

	      *FvwmPager: Label 1 Mail
	      *FvwmPager: Label 2 Maker
	      *FvwmPager: Label * Matlab

	      Note: There is currently a much better way to specify desk names
	      globally (and not just in FvwmPager) using DesktopName  command,
	      so you should not use this option anymore.

       *FvwmPager: DeskColor desk color
	      Assigns  the  color  color  to desk desk (or the current desk if
	      desk is "*") in the pager window. This replaces  the  background
	      color  for  the particular desk.	This only works when the pager
	      is full sized. When Iconified, the pager uses the	 color	speci‐
	      fied by *FvwmPager: Back.

	      TIP: Try using *FvwmPager: DeskColor in conjunction with FvwmCpp
	      (or FvwmM4) and FvwmBacker to assign identical  colors  to  your
	      various desktops and the pager representations.

       *FvwmPager: Pixmap pixmap
	      Use pixmap as background for the pager.

       *FvwmPager: DeskPixmap desk pixmap
	      Assigns  the  pixmap  color to desk desk (or the current desk if
	      desk is "*") in the pager window. This replaces  the  background
	      pixmap for the particular desk.

	      TIP:  Try using *FvwmPager: DeskPixmap in conjunction with Fvwm‐
	      Cpp (or FvwmM4) and FvwmBacker to assign	identical  pixmaps  to
	      your various desktops and the pager representations.

       *FvwmPager: DeskTopScale number
	      If  the geometry is not specified, then a desktop reduction fac‐
	      tor is used to calculate the pager's size. Things in  the	 pager
	      window are shown at 1/number of the actual size.

       *FvwmPager: MiniIcons
	      Allow the pager to display a window's mini icon in the pager, if
	      it has one, instead of showing the window's name.

       *FvwmPager: MoveThreshold pixels
	      Defines the distance the pointer has to be moved before a window
	      being dragged with button 2 is actually moved. The default value
	      is three pixels. If the pointer moved less that this amount  the
	      window  snaps  back  to its original position when the button is
	      released. If pixels is less than zero the default value is used.
	      The  value  set with the MoveThreshold command in fvwm is inher‐
	      ited by FvwmPager but can be overridden with this option.

       *FvwmPager: SloppyFocus
	      If the SloppyFocus option is used, you do not need to click into
	      the  mini window in the pager to give the real window the focus.
	      Simply putting the pointer over the window inside the  pager  is
	      enough.

	      Note:  This  option  interferes slightly with the MouseFocus and
	      SloppyFocus styles of fvwm.  Sometimes, if you  click  into  the
	      pager  window  to	 change	 pages	or  desks  and	then  move the
	      pointer	  to a place on the screen where a window of  the  new
	      page  will appear, this new window does not get the input focus.
	      This may happen if you drag the pointer over  one	 of  the  mini
	      windows  in  the pager.  There is nothing that can be done about
	      this - except not using SloppyFocus in the pager.

       *FvwmPager: SolidSeparators
	      By default the pages of the virtual  desktop  are	 separated  by
	      dashed  lines in the pager window.  This option causes FvwmPager
	      to use solid lines instead.

       *FvwmPager: NoSeparators
	      Turns off the lines separating the pages of the virtual desktop.

       *FvwmPager: Balloons [type]
	      Show a balloon describing the window when the pointer  is	 moved
	      into  a  window  in  the pager. The default format (the window's
	      icon name) can be changed using BalloonStringFormat. If type  is
	      Pager balloons are just shown for an un-iconified pager; if type
	      is Icon balloons are just shown for an iconified pager. If  type
	      is anything else (or null) balloons are always shown.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonFore color
	      Specifies	 the  color for text in the balloon window. If omitted
	      it defaults  to  the  foreground	color  for  the	 window	 being
	      described.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonBack color
	      Specifies	 the background color for the balloon window. If omit‐
	      ted it defaults to the background color  for  the	 window	 being
	      described.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonFont font-name
	      Specifies a font to use for the balloon text. Defaults to fixed.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonBorderWidth number
	      Sets the width of the balloon window's border. Defaults to 1.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonBorderColor color
	      Sets  the	 color	of  the	 balloon  window's border. Defaults to
	      black.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonYOffset number
	      The balloon window is positioned	to  be	horizontally  centered
	      against the pager window it is describing. The vertical position
	      may be set as an offset. Negative offsets of  -n	are  placed  n
	      pixels above the pager window, positive offsets of +n are placed
	      n pixels below. Offsets of -1 and 1 represent the balloon window
	      close to the original window without a gap. Offsets of 0 are not
	      permitted, as this would permit direct transit from pager window
	      to  balloon  window,  causing an event loop. Defaults to +3. The
	      offset will change sign automatically, as needed,	 to  keep  the
	      balloon on the screen.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonStringFormat format
	      The same as *FvwmPager: WindowLabelFormat, it just specifies the
	      string to display in the balloons. The default is "%i".

       *FvwmPager: Colorset desk colorset
	      Tells the module to use colorset colorset for desk. If  you  use
	      an  asterisk  '*'	 in place of desk, the colorset is used on all
	      desks. Please refer to the man page of the FvwmTheme module  for
	      details about colorsets.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonColorset desk colorset
	      Tells  the module to use colorset colorset for balloons on desk.
	      If you use an asterisk '*' in place of  desk,  the  colorset  is
	      used on all desks. Please refer to the man page of the FvwmTheme
	      module for details about colorsets.

       *FvwmPager: HilightColorset desk colorset
	      Tells the module to use  colorset	 colorset  for	hilighting  on
	      desk.  If you use an asterisk '*' in place of desk, the colorset
	      is used on all desks. Please  refer  to  the  man	 page  of  the
	      FvwmTheme module for details about colorsets.

       *FvwmPager: WindowColorsets colorset activecolorset
	      Uses  colorsets  in  the	same  way as *FvwmPager: WindowColors.
	      Please refer to the man page of the FvwmTheme module for details
	      about  colorsets.	 The shadow and hilight colors of the colorset
	      are only used for the window borders  if	the  *FvwmPager:  Win‐
	      dow3DBorders is specified too.

       *FvwmPager: WindowBorderWidth n
	      Specifies the width of the border drawn around the mini windows.
	      This also sets the minimum size of the mini windows to (2 * n  +
	      1). The default is 1.

       *FvwmPager: Window3DBorders
	      Specifies	 that  the mini windows should have a 3d borders based
	      on the mini window background. This option only works if	*Fvwm‐
	      Pager: WindowColorsets is specified.

       *FvwmPager: UseSkipList
	      Tells  FvwmPager to not show the windows that are using the Win‐
	      dowListSkip style.

AUTHOR
       Robert Nation
       DeskColor patch contributed by Alan Wild
       MiniIcons & WindowColors patch contributed by Rob Whapham
       Balloons patch by Ric Lister <ric@giccs.georgetown.edu>
       fvwm-workers: Dominik, Olivier, Hippo and others.

3rd Berkeley Distribution (not released yet) (2.6.6)		  FvwmPager(1)
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