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NAME

       FvwmProxy - the fvwm proxy module

SYNOPSIS

       FvwmProxy is spawned by fvwm, so no command line invocation will work.

DESCRIPTION

       The  FvwmProxy  allows the user to locate and control windows obscured by other windows by
       using small non-overlapping proxy windows.  The default capabilities include  raising  and
       lowering the proxied windows.

       Using the sample configuration, pressing Alt-Tab cycles through the windows and allows the
       use of assignable click actions on the proxies.  Releasing the  Alt  key  deactivates  the
       proxy  windows.   By  default,  pressing the left or right mouse buttons on a proxy window
       raises or lowers the associated proxied window respectively.  An  additional  mapping  can
       have the proxies automatically appear by just holding the Alt key.

       Proxy  windows  are  always  on top and try to center on the regular window they proxy.  A
       simple collision algorithm tweaks the positions of the proxy windows to prevent them  from
       overlapping.

COPYRIGHTS

       The FvwmProxy program is original work by Jason Weber.

       Copyright  2002,  Jason  Weber.  No  guarantees  or warranties or anything are provided or
       implied in any way whatsoever. Use this program at your own risk.

INVOCATION

       FvwmProxy can be invoked by inserting the line 'Module FvwmProxy' in  the  .fvwm2rc  file.
       This  can  be  placed  on  a  line  by itself, if FvwmProxy is to be spawned during fvwm's
       initialization, or can be bound to a menu or mouse button or keystroke to invoke it later.
       Fvwm  will search directory specified in the ModulePath configuration option to attempt to
       locate FvwmProxy.

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

       *FvwmProxy: Colorset n
              Specifies the color theme for unselected proxy windows.

       *FvwmProxy: SelectColorset n
              Specifies the color theme for the selected proxy window.

       *FvwmProxy: IconifiedColorset n
              Specifies the color theme for proxy windows of iconified  windows.   This  is  only
              meaningful in conjunction with the ProxyIconified option on.

       *FvwmProxy: Font font
              Specifies  the  font  used  for large proxy window text.  This usually contains the
              icon string and is nearly vertically centered in the proxy.  If there  is  no  icon
              string, the title bar string is used.  If this text exceeds the width of the proxy,
              it is cropped on the right.  If no Font is specified, a default is used.

       *FvwmProxy: SmallFont font
              Specifies the font used for the auxiliary proxy window text.  This usually contains
              the title bar string, but is omitted if it is identical to the icon string and that
              text was not cropped.  The text is drawn close to  the  bottom  of  the  proxy  and
              should  probably  be the smallest legible font available.  If this text exceeds the
              width of the proxy, it is cropped on the left.  If no SmallFont is specified,  this
              text is never drawn.

       *FvwmProxy: Width w
              Specifies the size in X of each proxy window. The default is 180.

       *FvwmProxy: Height h
              Specifies the size in Y of each proxy window. The default is 60.

       *FvwmProxy: Separation d
              Specifies the minimum distance between proxy windows when adjusting for collisions.
              The default is 10.

       *FvwmProxy: ShowMiniIcons bool
              If true, proxy windows show the mini icon for the window they represent, if it  has
              a mini icon.  The default is true.

       *FvwmProxy: EnterSelect bool
              If  true, a proxy is automatically selected when the mouse is moved over the proxy,
              even if no mouse buttons are pressed.  The default is false.

       *FvwmProxy: ProxyMove bool
              If true, moving a proxy window will move the window it represents.  Currently,  the
              proxied window doesn't recognize snap effects during this operation. The default is
              false.

       *FvwmProxy: ProxyIconified bool
              If true, continue to show proxy windows when  they  are  iconified.   In  addition,
              consider  adding  click actions that Iconify on and off, such as on the middlemouse
              button. The default is false.

       *FvwmProxy: ShowOnly mode
              Limits the appearance of proxy windows during the Show action.  The supported modes
              are  Selected,  Covered,  Grouped,  and  All.  The default is All which shows every
              proxy window on the current desk.  Select mode will only show the proxy window  for
              the  selected  window.   If  no window is selected, the currently focused window is
              treated as the select window for ShowOnly filtering.  Covered mode  extends  Select
              mode to add proxy windows that overlap the select real window.  Just using Selected
              mode can result in untouchable proxy windows that disappear before  you  can  reach
              them.   Grouped  mode extends Covered mode to show proxy windows in the same window
              group as the selected window.  In all cases, iconified proxy windows  never  appear
              if ProxyIconified is false.

       *FvwmProxy: Action mouseaction response
              Tells  FvwmProxy  to  do the specified response when the given action is done.  The
              currently  supported  mouse  actions  are:  Click1,  Click2,  Click3  and  so   on,
              representing  mouse clicks with various buttons.  By default, the module supports 3
              mouse buttons, but it can be compiled to support more.  The default  responses  are
              Raise, Nop, and Lower for Click1, Click2, and Click3, respectively.

       *FvwmProxy: Action Select command
              This  selects an fvwm function to be called during a FvwmProxy Hide command for the
              window whose proxy was selected.  The default is WindowListFunc.  WindowListFunc is
              predefined  by  the  fvwm  install.   You  can  replace it, add to it, or supply an
              independent function.

       *FvwmProxy: Action Show command
              This selects an fvwm function to be called during a FvwmProxy  Show  command.   The
              default is Nop.

       *FvwmProxy: Action Hide command
              This  selects  an  fvwm function to be called during a FvwmProxy Hide command.  The
              default is Nop.

       *FvwmProxy: Action Abort command
              This selects an fvwm function to be called during a FvwmProxy Abort  command.   The
              default is Nop.

       *FvwmProxy: Action Mark command
              This  selects  an  fvwm  function to be called on a window after it is marked.  The
              default is Nop.

       *FvwmProxy: Action Unmark command
              This selects an fvwm function to be called on a marked window  just  after  another
              window gets the mark.  The default is Nop.

       *FvwmProxy: Action ModifierRelease modifiers command
              This  selects  an  fvwm  function  to  be  called  while  proxies are shown and the
              specified modifiers are all released.  The modifiers are specified using  the  same
              syntax as in the Mouse command.  The default is Nop.

       *FvwmProxy: Group groupname command pattern
              For  the  given  named group, adjust inclusion of the windows matching the pattern.
              The groupname is a string identifier used to associate windows.  The window pattern
              uses  the  same  format  as the Style command.  The supported commands are Include,
              SoftInclude, WeakInclude, WeakSoftInclude, and Exclude.   The  commands  ending  in
              Include identify a pattern to add windows to the group.  Exclude identifies pattern
              to counteract inclusion pattern or auto-inclusion (see flags below).  All exclusion
              checks  follow  all  inclusion  checks.   Soft inclusion limits the windows in that
              pattern to only move when an  non-soft  window  in  the  group  moves.   Moving  or
              resizing  these windows does not affect any other windows.  They are also immune to
              edge effects.  Soft inclusion also affects provocation effects (see  below).   Weak
              inclusion  prevents  inclusion  purely  on  name,  instead relying on X11 leader or
              process id matching.  Weakly included names will not start a group, but will join a
              group  in  the  same  known  process  or with the same leader.  Once the window has
              joined, the name is just used to determine if the inclusion is soft.

       *FvwmProxy: Group groupname flag
              For the given named group, activate  the  given  flag.   The  supported  flags  are
              AutoInclude,  AutoSoft,  and IgnoreIDs.  All window grouping is normally checked to
              only group windows that are in the same process or that have the  same  X11  client
              leader.   IgnoreIDs deactivates this mechanism.  AutoInclude automatically includes
              any window that matches the same process or client leader, without having  to  name
              them   specifically.    AutoSoft  makes  all  AutoInclusions  soft  (see  inclusion
              description above).

       *FvwmProxy: Group groupname provocation pattern
              The provocation flags allow you to customize whether grouped windows  provoke  each
              other  in response to a raise/lower, desk move, drag, or iconification change.  The
              compound        provocation        flag        is        of        the         form
              (No|Inherit)(Hard|Soft)(Raise|Desk|Drag|Icon|All).   The  pattern  is  optional and
              should already have been included.  The pattern limits the change  to  only  affect
              that part of the group.  The first element of the flag is optional and can turn off
              the effect, or, with a pattern, can dynamically inherit the setting for the  group.
              The default is to turn the effect on.  The second element can be used to only apply
              the change to windows with the soft state either on or  off.   The  default  is  to
              change  both.   The third element specifies what provoking effect is being changed:
              window raise/lower, moving to another desk,  dragging  windows  together,  toggling
              iconification,  or  all  of these.  If either the provoking window or a potentially
              provoked window has an effect turned off, the provocation does not occur.

       *FvwmProxy: SlotWidth w
              This specifies the width of the icons used in slots.  The default is 16.

       *FvwmProxy: SlotHeight h
              This specifies the height of the icons used in slots.  The default is 16.

       *FvwmProxy: SlotSpace d
              This specifies the space between icons used in slots.  The default is 4.

       *FvwmProxy: GroupSlot n
              This specifies the first slot that represent a colored group.   Group  slots  don't
              need icons as the are drawn by predetermined means.  The default is 2.

       *FvwmProxy: GroupCount n
              This specifies the number of group slots.  The default is 6.

       *FvwmProxy: SlotStyle n style
              For  non-group  slots,  this  defines the appears of the indicated slot.  The style
              format matches ButtonStyle command.  The default is nothing.

       *FvwmProxy: SlotAction n mouseaction response
              For non-group slots, this defines the behavior of the indicated  slot.   The  mouse
              action  and  response  is used the same as the FvwmProxy Action configuration.  The
              default is Nop.

       *FvwmProxy: UndoLimit n
              This specifies the number of entries in the undo buffer.  this limits how far  back
              you can undo.  The default is 8.

COMMANDS

       SendToModule FvwmProxy Show
              Activate  proxy  windows  for  all  windows on the current desk that do not use the
              WindowListSkip option.  If the desk is  switched,  new  proxies  are  automatically
              generated.

       SendToModule FvwmProxy Hide
              Deactivate  all  proxy  windows.  If a proxy is selected (such as with the Next and
              Prev commands), the Select Action is call on the window that the proxy  represents.
              The  default action includes raising the window and warping the mouse to a position
              over that window.

       SendToModule FvwmProxy ShowToggle
              If shown, hide.  If hidden, show.

       SendToModule FvwmProxy Abort
              Deactivate all proxy windows.  This differs from the Hide command in that no action
              is taken on any selected window.

       SendToModule FvwmProxy Circulate command
              Tell  FvwmProxy  to  run  a  conditional command and mark the result.  The imbedded
              command SendToModule FvwmProxy Mark is automatically appended  after  the  optional
              condition,  so  supplying your own imbedded command will probably fail.  An example
              argument to Circulate is ScanForWindow East South (CurrentPage).   If  the  proxies
              aren't  already  shown  (such as with the Show command), any Circulate command will
              automatically show the proxies.

       SendToModule FvwmProxy Next (obsolete)
              If a proxy window is selected, the  next  proxy  is  selected.   Windows  with  the
              WindowListSkip option are ignored.  The proxies are sorted left to right during the
              Show command.  If no proxy is currently selected, but a  proxy  on  this  desk  was
              selected  on  a  recent show, that proxy is selected.  If no proxy on this desk was
              recently selected,  the  leftmost  proxy  is  used.   This  nearly  duplicates  the
              functionality of Circulate ScanForWindow East South (CurrentPage).

       SendToModule FvwmProxy Prev (obsolete)
              If  a proxy window is selected, the previous proxy is selected.  The starting point
              is the same as with the Next  command,  except  that  the  choice  with  no  recent
              selection  is  the  rightmost  proxy.   This nearly duplicates the functionality of
              Circulate ScanForWindow West North (CurrentPage).

       SendToModule FvwmProxy SoftToggle
              Toggle the soft group inclusion setting for the selected window.  This  setting  is
              the  same  that can be activated using the SoftInclude and AutoSoft commands inside
              the FvwmProxy Group configuration.

       SendToModule FvwmProxy IsolateToggle
              Toggle the isolation setting for the selected window's group.  Isolated groups only
              allow  one  member  to not be iconified at a time.  The members are also coerced to
              the same position and size, constrained by their size increment.

       SendToModule FvwmProxy PrevIsolated
              If focused on a member of a isolating group, deiconify the member higher  on  list.
              If no member is higher, deiconify the last member.

       SendToModule FvwmProxy NextIsolated
              If  focused  on  a member of a isolating group, deiconify the member lower on list.
              If no member is higher, deiconify the first member.

       SendToModule FvwmProxy Undo
              Attempt to undo the last window move and/or resize.

       SendToModule FvwmProxy Redo
              Attempt to redo the most recent Undo.  If another move or resize occurs  since  the
              previous undo, the redo buffer will be cleared.

SAMPLE CONFIGURATION

       The  following  are  excerpts from a .fvwm2rc file which describe FvwmProxy initialization
       commands:

           Key Tab A M SendToModule FvwmProxy Circulate \
               ScanForWindow East South (CurrentPage)
           Key Tab A SM SendToModule FvwmProxy Circulate \
               ScanForWindow West North (CurrentPage)

           *FvwmProxy: Action ModifierRelease M SendToModule FvwmProxy Hide

       But Meta-Shift-Tab can be awkward, so Meta-Q may be a better alternative.

           Key Q A M SendToModule FvwmProxy Circulate \
               ScanForWindow West North (CurrentPage)

       You might consider adding !Sticky to the (CurrentPage) conditional if you use  Sticky  for
       low-interactivity programs, like load meters and music players.

       To have the proxies immediately pop up when you hold the Alt key, add

           Key Meta_L A N SendToModule FvwmProxy Show

       If that's too intrusive, you can assign Alt-Esc to switch the proxies on and off by adding

           Key Escape A M SendToModule FvwmProxy ShowToggle

       Some  platforms  have  problems  where  general  Alt  key  combinations becoming otherwise
       dysfunctional after defining these mappings.  If this happens, it might  be  difficult  to
       take full advantage of this module.

       To have the mouse jump to the center instead of the upper left corner, try adding

           AddToFunc WindowListFunc
           + I WarpToWindow 50 50

       or just make your own list function from scratch, for example

           DestroyFunc WindowListFunc
           AddToFunc WindowListFunc
           + I WindowId $[w.id] Raise
           + I WindowId $[w.id] WarpToWindow 50 50

       Note that the default configuration does not activate any Next/Prev operations for Alt-Tab
       since that sequence is, by default,  used  by  another  module.   Adding  appropriate  key
       mappings to your .fvwm2rc will switch this responsibility to FvwmProxy.

       If you use ProxyIconified, you might consider adding Iconify actions.

           AddToFunc WindowListFunc
           + I WindowId $[w.id] Iconify Off

           AddToFunc Raise-and-Deiconify
           + I WindowId $[w.id] Raise
           + I WindowId $[w.id] Iconify Off

           *FvwmProxy: Action Click1 Raise-and-Deiconify
           *FvwmProxy: Action Click2 Iconify

       You can set up some basic slots fairly easily.

       *FvwmProxy: GroupSlot 2
       *FvwmProxy: GroupCount 5

       *FvwmProxy: SlotStyle 1 MiniIcon
       *FvwmProxy: SlotStyle 7 Pixmap "squeeze.xpm"
       *FvwmProxy: SlotStyle 8 Pixmap "mini-up.xpm"
       *FvwmProxy: SlotStyle 9 Pixmap "mini-bball.xpm"
       *FvwmProxy: SlotStyle 10 Pixmap "mini-cross.xpm"

       *FvwmProxy: SlotAction 1 Click1 Popup WindowMenu
       *FvwmProxy: SlotAction 7 Click1 SendToModule FvwmProxy IsolateToggle
       *FvwmProxy: SlotAction 8 Click1 SendToModule FvwmProxy SoftToggle
       *FvwmProxy: SlotAction 9 Click1 Iconify
       *FvwmProxy: SlotAction 10 Click1 Delete

       In this example, WindowMenu is something you would have to define.  If your proxy width is
       too small, some slots can get cut off.

       Undo and redo can be easily mapped to any keys.

       Key Z A 3 SendToModule FvwmProxy Undo
       Key R A 3 SendToModule FvwmProxy Redo

       You can rotate through an isolated group using any keys.  For example, meta cursor-up  and
       cursor-down could traverse the group.

       Key Up A 3 SendToModule FvwmProxy PrevIsolated
       Key Down A 3 SendToModule FvwmProxy NextIsolated

       A somewhat impractical example of a group definition using GIMP is as follows:

       *FvwmProxy: Group "GIMP" Include "The GIMP"
       *FvwmProxy: Group "GIMP" Include "Module Manager"
       *FvwmProxy: Group "GIMP" SoftInclude "Unit Editor"
       *FvwmProxy: Group "GIMP" AutoInclude
       *FvwmProxy: Group "GIMP" AutoSoft
       *FvwmProxy: Group "GIMP" Exclude "Preferences"

       This  sets  up a hard attachment between the windows "The GIMP" and "Module Manager".  The
       "Unit Editor" is also in the group, but only responds to  movement  of  one  of  the  hard
       inclusions.   Any  window  in  the  same  process  or  with the same client leader is also
       associated, but they default to soft inclusion, except "Preferences" which  is  explicitly
       excluded.   Note  that  in  this  case,  the  explicit  soft inclusion of "Unit Editor" is
       redundant with the combination of AutoInclude and AutoSoft.  However, if AutoSoft was  not
       specified, the explicit SoftInclude would distinguish that pattern from the otherwise hard
       inclusion under just AutoInclude.

AUTHOR

       Jason Weber