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 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

Tells the module to sort all icons in iconbox in alphabetical order.

*FvwmIconBoxPadding number

Specifies the number of pixels between icons. The default value is 5.

*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 *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.

*FvwmIconBoxMouse Button Action Response[, Response]

Tells the module to do Responce 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 Responcees 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. 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 specefied to be "-", the icon for a window corresponding to windowname is not shown in the iconbox.

SAMPLE CONFIGURATION

The following are excepts from a .fvwmrc file which describe FvwmIconBox initialization commands:

############################################################
# Make no icon to be shown in root window
# 	by spcifying in your .fvwmrc
# (1) "SuppressIcons" if PRUNE is defined in configure.h, or
# (2) "Style "*" NoIcon" if PRUNE is defined.
#SuppressIcons
Style 	"*"	NoIcon
############################################################
*FvwmIconBoxIconBack    #cfcfcf
*FvwmIconBoxIconHiFore  black
*FvwmIconBoxIconHiBack  LightSkyBlue
*FvwmIconBoxBack        #5f9ea0
#*FvwmIconBoxFore       blue
*FvwmIconBoxGeometry    5x1+0+0
*FvwmIconBoxMaxIconSize 64x38
*FvwmIconBoxFont        -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*FvwmIconBoxSortIcons
*FvwmIconBoxPadding     4
*FvwmIconBoxLines       10
*FvwmIconBoxPlacement   Left Top
*FvwmIconBoxPixmap      fvwm.xpm
#*FvwmIconBoxHideSC	Horizontal
#
# mouse bindings
#
*FvwmIconBoxMouse       1       Click           RaiseLower
*FvwmIconBoxMouse       1       DoubleClick     Iconify
*FvwmIconBoxMouse       2       Click           Iconify -1, Focus
*FvwmIconBoxMouse       3       Click           Module "FvwmIdent" FvwmIdent
#
# Key bindings
#
*FvwmIconBoxKey         r       RaiseLower
*FvwmIconBoxKey         space   Iconify
*FvwmIconBoxKey         d       Close
#
# FvwmIconBox built-in functions
#
*FvwmIconBoxKey         n       Next
*FvwmIconBoxKey         p       Prev
*FvwmIconBoxKey         h       Left
*FvwmIconBoxKey         j       Down
*FvwmIconBoxKey         k       Up
*FvwmIconBoxKey         l       Right
#
# Icon file spcifications
#
*FvwmIconBox            "*"             unknown1.xpm
*FvwmIconBox            "Fvwm*"         -
*FvwmIconBox            "FvwmFileMgr"   folder2.xpm
*FvwmIconBox            "rxvt"          term.xpm
*FvwmIconBox            "xterm"         xterm.xpm
*FvwmIconBox            "editres"       editres.xpm
*FvwmIconBox            "xman"          xman.xpm
*FvwmIconBox            "xbiff"         mail1.xpm
*FvwmIconBox            "xmh"           mail1.xpm
*FvwmIconBox            "xcalc"         xcalc.xpm
*FvwmIconBox            "GoodStuff"     toolbox.xpm

AUTHOR

Nobutaka Suzuki (nobuta-s@is.aist-nara.ac.jp).