NAME
FvwmIconBox - the FVWM iconbox module
SYNOPSIS
FvwmIconBox is spawned by fvwm, so no command line invocation 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 "*FvwmIconBoxFore green".
COPYRIGHTS
The FvwmIconBox program is original work of Nobutaka Suzuki.
Copyright 1994, Nobutaka Suzuki. 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, 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 -s FvwmIconBox MoreIconBox, then another module called MoreIconBox can be started, with a completely different configuration than FvwmIconBox, simply by changing the keyword FvwmIconBox to MoreIconBox. This way multiple clutter-reduction programs can be used.
INVOCATION
FvwmIconBox 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 OPTIONS
FvwmIconBox shows icons only if NoIcon is applied. Note that the NoIcon attribute should be set after the Icon attribute specification. Otherwise the icon-box module might become nothing but an empty-box module. The module reads the same .fvwmrc file as fvwm reads when it starts up, and looks for lines as listed below:
- *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 specified 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 background_pixmap.
- *FvwmIconBoxFont fontname
- Tells the module to use fontname instead of fixed for text.
- *FvwmIconBoxSortIcons option
- Tells the module to sort all icons in iconbox in alphabetical order. option can be WindowName, IconName, ResClass, and ResName. For example, specifying ResClass means that icons are sorted by using their resource-class strings. If option is ResClass or ResName, an icon having no XA_WM_CLASS property is considered to be the "smallest" element.
- *FvwmIconBoxPadding number
- Specifies the number of pixels between icons. The default value is 5.
- *FvwmIconBoxSBWidth number
- Specifies the width of horizontal and vertical scrollbars. The default value is 9.
- *FvwmIconBoxPlacement primary secondary
- Specifies icon placement policy. primary and secondary can
be Top, Bottom, Left and Right. The following
eight combinations are available:
primary secondary
Top: Icons are placed from top to bottom.
Left Top
Left Bottom
Right Top
Right Bottom
Top Left
Top Right
Bottom Left
Bottom RightBottom: 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 example, seven icons are placed in a row if *FvwmIconBoxLines 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. In particular, if the height is 0, then icon bitmaps are not displayed and only icon labels are drawn.
- *FvwmIconBoxMouse Button Action Response[, Response]
- Tells the module to do Response 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 Responsees 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. This option "overrides" bitmap files specified in Style command. 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 PixmapPath. If bitmap-file is specified to be "-", the icon for a window corresponding to windowname is not shown in the iconbox.
- *FvwmIconBoxSetWMIconSize
- Tells the module to set XA_WM_ICON_SIZE property of the root window at the size which the module want icon windows to have. If you show icon windows on not the root window but the module, it would be better to specify this option.
- *FvwmIconBoxHilightFocusWin
- Tells the module to hilight the icon of the window which has the keyboard focus. The fore/back colors of the hilighted icon are those specified in the *FvwmIconBoxIconHiFore and *FvwmIconBoxIconHiBack commands, respectively.
- *FvwmIconBoxResolution resolution
- If resolution is Desk, then the module shows only the icons on the current desk. Currently, Desk is the only value resolution can take :)
- *FvwmIconBoxFrameWidth width1 width2
- Specifies the frame-width of the module. Width1 corresponds to the width from the outer-border to the scroll-bar, and, width2 corresponds to the width from the scroll-bar to the internal-window displaying icons. The default values are 8 and 6, respectively.
SAMPLE CONFIGURATION
The following are excepts from a .fvwmrc file which describe FvwmIconBox initialization commands:
XCOMM########################################################### XCOMM Note that icons are shown in the module XCOMM only if NoIcon attribute is applied. Style "*" NoIcon XCOMM########################################################### *FvwmIconBoxIconBack #cfcfcf *FvwmIconBoxIconHiFore black *FvwmIconBoxIconHiBack LightSkyBlue *FvwmIconBoxBack #5f9ea0 XCOMM*FvwmIconBoxFore blue *FvwmIconBoxGeometry 5x1+0+0 *FvwmIconBoxMaxIconSize 64x38 *FvwmIconBoxFont -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* *FvwmIconBoxSortIcons IconName XCOMM*FvwmIconBoxSortIcons ResClass *FvwmIconBoxPadding 4 *FvwmIconBoxFrameWidth 9 7 *FvwmIconBoxLines 10 *FvwmIconBoxSBWidth 11 *FvwmIconBoxPlacement Left Top *FvwmIconBoxPixmap fvwm.xpm XCOMM*FvwmIconBoxHideSC Horizontal *FvwmIconBoxSetWMIconSize *FvwmIconBoxHilightFocusWin XCOMM*FvwmIconBoxResolution Desk XCOMM XCOMM mouse bindings XCOMM *FvwmIconBoxMouse 1 Click RaiseLower *FvwmIconBoxMouse 1 DoubleClick Iconify *FvwmIconBoxMouse 2 Click Iconify -1, Focus *FvwmIconBoxMouse 3 Click Module FvwmIdent XCOMM XCOMM Key bindings XCOMM *FvwmIconBoxKey r RaiseLower *FvwmIconBoxKey space Iconify *FvwmIconBoxKey d Close XCOMM XCOMM FvwmIconBox built-in functions XCOMM *FvwmIconBoxKey n Next *FvwmIconBoxKey p Prev *FvwmIconBoxKey h Left *FvwmIconBoxKey j Down *FvwmIconBoxKey k Up *FvwmIconBoxKey l Right XCOMM XCOMM Icon file specifications XCOMM XCOMM Mostly, you don't have to specify icon files, as FvwmIconBox now XCOMM reads icon files specified in Style commands. XCOMM *FvwmIconBox "Fvwm*" -
AUTHOR
Nobutaka Suzuki (nobuta-s@is.aist-nara.ac.jp).