FvwmIconBox(1) General Commands Manual FvwmIconBox(1)
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 opera-
tions, 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 any-
thing 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 configura-
tion file. The configuration file is the same file that fvwm used dur-
ing 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 direc-
tory specified in the ModulePath configuration option to attempt to lo-
cate FvwmIconBox.
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
FvwmIconBox shows icons only if NoIcon is applied. Note that the NoIcon
attribute should be set after the Icon attribute specification. Other-
wise 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 de-
scribed 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-se-
lected 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
Left Top
Left Bottom
Right Top
Right Bottom
Top Left
Top Right
Bottom Left
Bottom Right
Top: Icons are placed from top to bottom.
Bottom: 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 *FvwmIcon-
BoxLines is 7 and *FvwmIconBoxPlacement is "Left Top". The de-
fault 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 Dou-
bleClick.
*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 win-
downame 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 *FvwmIconBoxI-
conHiBack 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, respec-
tively.
SAMPLE CONFIGURATION
The following are excepts from a .fvwmrc file which describe FvwmIcon-
Box 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 (
[email protected]).
3rd Berkeley Distribution Jun 24 1994 FvwmIconBox(1)