WM-MISC(1)WM-MISC(1)NAME
about, clock, coffee, colors, date, edit, mand, memory, polyhedra,
reversi, rt, stopwatch, sweeper, task, tetris, unibrowse, view, winctl
- miscellaneous graphical applications
SYNOPSIS
wm/about
wm/clock
wm/coffee
wm/colors
wm/date
wm/edit [file]
wm/mand
wm/memory
wm/polyhedra
wm/reversi
wm/rt
wm/stopwatch
wm/sweeper
wm/task
wm/tetris [ -b blocksize ]
wm/unibrowse
wm/view [ -i ] [file...]
wm/winctl
DESCRIPTION
A collection of simple applications and utilities that operate under
the Wm window manager. Other Wm applications exist, see their respec‐
tive manual pages for more information.
wm/about
Display system version and copyright information.
wm/clock
Display an analogue clock.
wm/coffee
A whimsical plaything.
wm/colors
Displays the Inferno palette. Clicking on a particular colour
displays its RGB values.
wm/date
Displays the current date and time in a window.
wm/edit
A simple cut-and-paste text editor. Several menus provide the
usual editing commands. Text selections are dragged out using
mouse button 1. Mouse button-2 displays a pop-up menu of the
Cut, Copy and Paste commands.
wm/mand
A fractal browser to explore the Mandelbrot and Julia sets.
Button 1 drags a rectangle to zoom into, button 2 shows the
Julia set at the chosen point, button 3 zooms out. To produce
more accurate pictures, the iteration depth may be increased by
altering the depth scale factor. The default number of itera‐
tions per point is 253. The sets are plotted by filling regions
of (apparently) the same colour. Deselecting the fill option
will plot the points in the usual fashion.
wm/memory
Displays memory usage. Three usage bars are displayed, one for
each of the Inferno memory pools: main, heap and image. The cur‐
rent usage (in bytes) is displayed to the left of each bar, and
the number of blocks in use appears in red. The maximum permit‐
ted size of each pool is given (in megabytes) to the right of
its usage bar. Each bar also sports a highwater mark. The
usage data is re-read and displayed once every second.
wm/polyhedra
A program to display convex regular polyhedra. The menu options
allow the user to alter the speed of rotation and the axis of
rotation. To display a different solid, move forward or back
with the prev and next boxes. Selecting the dual box will show
the dual of a solid rather than the original solid. Finally the
edges, clear and faces boxes determine whether edges are shown,
whether the screen is cleared before the next plot and whether
faces are shown respectively.
wm/reversi
An implementation of the popular game. The default set up is for
black to be the machine and white the human player. Use the
Black and White menu options to change this. The level of any
machine player may be set using the Black level and White level
boxes. This determines the amount of lookahead performed by the
tree search algorithm.
wm/rt A Dis module inspector: it can show the Dis instructions,
strings, types and other attributes of a module; it also allows
the user to set some attributes stored in a module's header.
wm/stopwatch
A simple-minded stopwatch. Only useful for coarse-grained tim‐
ings.
wm/sweeper
Mine sweeping game.
wm/task
Task manager: it lists the processes running when it starts, and
offers buttons to kill a selected process, kill its process
group, show its open files, or debug it using deb(1). A process
is selected from the list using mouse button 1. Task does not
automatically refresh the list; there is a Refresh button to
prompt it to do so.
wm/tetris
The ubiquitous and annoyingly addictive tile dropping game. The
game keys are: `7' move left; `8' rotate (anti-clockwise); `9'
move right; `p' pause; `space' drop and `q' quit. A mouse or
stylus can also be used to guide the pieces (eg, by tapping the
screen in the desired direction). Scores are stored in the file
/lib/scores/tetris. Score file updates are not interlocked -
it's only a game!
wm/unibrowse
A handy utility for browsing the unicode character set, finding
out what particular characters look like in different fonts,
finding out exactly which characters a font provides, and find‐
ing the name of a character that you have managed to grab into
the snarf buffer.
wm/view
Image viewer. Displays GIF, Inferno image(6), JPEG, PNG and X
bitmap image files. The viewer creates a new window to display
the contents of each file. If no arguments are given, the file
browser panel filename(1) is displayed to prompt the user to
select an image file to view. If the -i option is given, view
continues to listen for requests from the plumber(8); the -i
option will normally appear only in rules in plumbing(6) files.
wm/winctl
Window management tool. Displays a set of buttons that provide
for: raising a window to the top or lowering it to the bottom of
the screen window stack; moving a window to a new position;
iconising a window; deleting a window.
Click on the button for the required action then click on the
window to apply it to. When moving a window, click and drag the
target. Deleting a window is error-prone. Currently using this
tool on a charon or acme window has strange effects.
PLUMBING
wm/view receives view messages
FILES
/lib/polyhedra
Polyhedra data base.
/lib/scores/tetris
Tetris high score table.
/lib/unidata
Directory holding Unicode character set information, used by
unibrowse.
/dev/memory
Provides memory with memory usage statistics.
SOURCE
/appl/wm/about.b
/appl/wm/coffee.b
/appl/wm/colors.b
/appl/wm/date.b
/appl/wm/edit.b
/appl/wm/mand.b
/appl/wm/memory.b
/appl/wm/polyhedra.b
/appl/wm/reversi.b
/appl/wm/rt.b
/appl/wm/stopwatch.b
/appl/wm/task.b
/appl/wm/tetris.b
/appl/wm/unibrowse.b
/appl/wm/view.b
/appl/wm/winctl.b
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