Pager(1) AfterStep X11 window manager Pager(1)NAMEPager - AfterStep module for virtual desktop navigation Pager Decora‐
tion options
SYNOPSISPager [ standard options ] first_desktop [last_desktop]
BASE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
The following two configuration options are in the base file:
*DeskTopSize Columns x Rows
Defines the number of view Columns by the number of view Rows of
the desk(s) in proportional units, i.e. 2x1 would show 2 views
of one desk, one beside another.
*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.
MyStyle DEFINITIONS
Starting with version 1.7.60 Pager supports definition of most of it's
visual parameters in look file as MyStyles. Styles can also be defined
in pager config file, but main contents of the look file will override
them. Include them in your pager config to make sure that you get nice
looking Pager even if styles are not defined in look file. The follow‐
ing standard MyStyle names are used :
*PagerUWindowStyle
(defaults to "unfocused_window_style") - unfocused window repre‐
sentation's style. Background pixmap and gradient can be used
here.
*PagerFWindowStyle
(defaults to "focused_window_style") - focused window represen‐
tation's style. Background pixmap and gradient can be used here.
*PagerSWindowStyle
(defaults to "sticky_window_style") - sticky window representa‐
tion's style. Background pixmap and gradient can be used here.
*PagerActiveDesk
active (selected) desk's label style. This style - defines only
look of the desk's LABEL - to define how your actual desk window
will look like - you should use *PagerStyle option - see below.
Background pixmap, gradient and transparency can be used here.
*PagerInActiveDesk
Same as above, only for inactive desk's label. Background
pixmap, gradient and transparency can be used here.
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
ActiveDeskBevel
Defines how border around Pager desk representation of the cur‐
rent desk should be drawn.
See Also: Bevel flags for further details.
Example :
*PagerActiveDeskBevel Left,Top
# draws thick bevelled lines at the top and left of the desk
Align
Defines how Pager's desk title should be aligned on desk title‐
bar. See Align options for further details.
Example :
*PagerAlign Center
# places title in the center both vertically and horizontally
BalloonBorderHilite
Defines the bevel to be drawn around balloons - replaces the
BorderWidth setting.
See Also: Bevel flags for further details.
BalloonCloseDelay number
Specifies the period in milliseconds to delay the disappearance
of the balloon when leaving window with the mouse.
BalloonDelay number
Specifies the period in milliseconds to delay the appearance of
theballoon.
BalloonStyle MyStyle
MyStyle to be used to draw balloon. Note that balloons could be
shaped (BackPixmap 125 and 126).
BalloonTextPaddingX size
width of the border around the text in balloons.
BalloonTextPaddingY size
height of the border around the text in balloons.
BalloonXOffset offset
Specifies the horizontal offset (in pixels) to use when display‐
ing balloons.
BalloonYOffset offset
The balloon window is positioned to be horizontally centered
against the application 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. Defaults to +2.
Balloons
Turns on the balloon feature. A "balloon" is displayed showing
the name of the window the pointer is resting on in the Pager .
Currently only the window's icon name is shown. Note that bal‐
loons are not shown for the iconified pager. The balloon back‐
ground and text are configured with the MyStyle "*PagerBalloon".
See Also: MyStyle definition for details.
Columns
Tells afterstep how many columns of desks to use when laying out
the pager window. Set to 1 for vertical Pager and define Pager‐
Rows.
Decoration param1[,param2[,...]]
Allows you to decorate your pager to your liking. The following
parameters can be specified : NoDeskLabel, NoPageSeparator, NoS‐
election, SelectionColor, GridColor, DeskBorderWidth, DeskBor‐
derColor, LabelBelowDesk, HideInactiveLabels, VerticalLabel.
See Also: Pager Decoration options for further details.
DontDrawBg
If specified, will not display background image, use this with
xearth or xfishtank.
Please note that this is deprecated, use DontDrawBackground
(Look option) instead.
Geometry
Completely or partially specifies the pager window 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.
IconGeometry
Specifies a size (optional) and location (optional) for the
pager's icon window. Since there is no easy way for Pager 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).
InActiveDeskBevel
Defines how border around Pager desk representation of the inac‐
tive desk(s) should be drawn.
See Also: Bevel flags for further details.
Label
Assigns the text label to desk desk in the pager window. Useful
for assigning symbolic names to desktops
MyStyle
Styles for different Pager properties are called from the file
"pager", and the associated MyStyle definitions are located in a
selected Look file. Fonts, foreground and background colors,
gradients, pixmaps, and transparencies can be specified for
Pager's components.
See Also: MyStyle definition for further details.
NoBalloons
FIXME: add proper description here.
Rows
Tells afterstep how many rows of desks to use when laying out
the pager window. Set to 1 for horizontal Pager and define
PagerColumns.
ShadeButton "unpressed_image" ["pressed_image"]
You should be able to "shade" row or column of desks by pressing
special Shade button on desk's title. Define images to be used
for it with this option. If no images are defined - then there
will be no button and feature will be disabled.
SmallFont
Specifies a font to use to label the window names in the pager.
It overrides font specified in Focused/Unfocused/Sticky window
style in look file. It also displays text on background color -
which can be usefull if BackPixmap is specified in window style.
Window labels seem to be fairly useless for desktop scales of 32
or greater.
StartIconic
Causes the pager to start iconified.
StickyIcons
Specifies that icons should stick to the screen's glass and fol‐
low it from desk/view to desk/view.
Style desk style
Sets the style to be used for the desk desk representation in
the Pager. Where style can be the name of any style definition
in the look file, and desk is a number coresponding to the desk‐
top number: 0,1,2,3,N.... Use it if you want to specify a dif‐
ferent style for Pager background other than the default; which
is the scaled down *PagerDesktopImage.
USAGE
Although Pager can be run from the command line, it is normally spawned
by afterstep in the autoexec file, in the following manner:
Module "I" Pager beginning_desktop# ending_desktop#
Wait "I" Pager
In case you use Pager to switch your root backgrounds Wait can be used
as shown above. This will insure that the Pager has set the root back‐
ground before you start any furthur apps (like transparent aterms and
Eterms).
or from within an afterstep menu file by 'Pager':
% cat "~/.afterstep/start/Modules/Pager"
Module "Pager" Pager first_desktop last_desktop
MiniPixmap "mini-as.xpm"
To stop the Pager module, a menu item can be used:
% cat "~/.afterstep/start/Modules/Pager_Stop"
KillModuleByName "Stop Pager" Pager
MiniPixmap "mini-as.xpm"
DESCRIPTION
The Pager module shows a miniature view of the Afterstep desktops which
are specified in the command line. This is a useful reminder of where
your active windows are. Windows in the pager are accordingly to
MyStyle definitions "*PagerUWindowStyle" - for unfocused windows,
"*PagerFWindowStyle" - for focused windows and "*PagerSWindowStyle" -
for sticky windows. If you never defined those MyStyles, Pager will
default to same styles as used for actual windows.
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 or 2 in the Pager will cause your 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.
Clicking and dragging with mouse button 2 on a miniature window in the
Pager 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, provisions have been
made to drag windows in the Pager by pressing modifier-1 (usually Alt)
and dragging with button 3.
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
Starting with version 1.7.122 Pager no longer loads background images
into the memory. Module asetroot should be used to accomplish that
task. But Pager will still be able to switch backgrounds as you switch
between desks, after you've run asetroot to load images. Use *Pager‐
DontDrawBg option in pager config file to TURN background switching
OFF.
See asetroot man page for more information.
Style "Pager" Icon myIcon.[xpm|jpg|png]
in their feel files.
INITIALIZATION
During initialization, Pager will search for a configuration file which
describes the images, locations and actions to take. This file will be
the one specified by the-foption (if given). Else, the ~/.after‐
step/pager file will be used if it exists. Else,
/usr/local/share/afterstep/pager will be used.
If the Pager executable is linked to another name, ie ln -sPager Oth‐
erPager , then another module called OtherPager can be started, with a
completely different set of configurations than Pager , simply by
adding *OtherPager options following the same *Pager configuration
options below to the pager file. 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.
INVOCATIONPager can be invoked from the autoexec file or from a menu item as
shown in the Synopsis section above.
AfterStep will search through the directories specified in the Mod‐
ulePath configuration in the base (where # is your colordepth) to
attempt to locate Pager .
CONFIGURATION FILESPager reads the base file and pager file when it starts up and looks
for its configuration options.
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