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NAME

       FvwmPager - the Fvwm Pager module

SYNOPSIS

       FvwmPager  [  -transient  ]  [ name ] [ first desk [ last desk ] ] FvwmPager is spawned by
       fvwm, so no command line invocation will work.

       All desks with desk numbers between first desk and last desk are displayed. If  last  desk
       is  omitted  only  the  first desk is shown. If both desk numbers are omitted, the current
       desk is used instead. If you use an asterisk '*' in place of first  desk  the  pager  will
       always show the current desktop, even when you switch desks.

       Example lines to put in your .fvwm2rc:

       Module FvwmPager 0 3

       or

       Module FvwmPager *

       or from within an fvwm pop-up menu:

       AddToMenu Module-Popup Modules Title
       + Audio        Module FvwmAudio
       + Auto         Module FvwmAuto 200
       + Buttons      Module FvwmButtons
       + Console      Module FvwmConsole
       + Ident        Module FvwmIdent
       + Banner       Module FvwmBanner
       + Pager        Module FvwmPager 0 3

       or

       + Pager        Module FvwmPager *

       If the pager is started with the -transient option, the next time a button is released the
       pager is closed. Note that this option does only work if the window  style  of  the  pager
       window is 'sticky' (see the fvwm man page). You should use the 'StaysOnTop' style too.

       Example:

       Style FvwmPager Sticky, StaysOnTop
       *FvwmPager: Rows       1
       *FvwmPager: Columns    1
       Mouse 3 R C Module FvwmPager -transient

       With this in your .fvwm2rc, if you press control and button 3 in the root window the pager
       pops up under the mouse and while the viewport moves with the mouse.

DESCRIPTION

       The FvwmPager module shows a miniature view of the Fvwm desktops which  are  specified  in
       the  command  line. This is a useful reminder of where your active windows are. Windows in
       the pager are shown in the same color as their fvwm decorations.

       The pager can be used to  change  your  viewport  into  the  current  desktop,  to  change
       desktops, or to move windows around.

       Pressing  mouse  button  1  in the pager will cause you viewport to change to the selected
       page of the selected desk. If you click with button 1 in the  desk-label  area,  you  will
       switch desks but not pages within the desk.

       Dragging  mouse button 2 on a miniature view of a window will cause that window to be move
       to the location where you release the mouse button, but your viewport will not change.  If
       you  drag  the  window  out  of  the pager and onto your desktop, a full size image of the
       window will appear for you to place. There is no way to pick up a full size image  of  the
       window  and  move it into the pager, however. Since some mice do not have button 2, I have
       made provisions to drag windows in the pager by using pressing  modifier-1  (usually  Alt)
       and dragging with button 3.

       Clicking  mouse  button  3  on  a location will cause the viewport to move to the selected
       location and switch desks if necessary,  but  will  not  align  the  viewport  to  a  page
       boundary.  Dragging  button  3  will cause the viewport to move as you drag but not switch
       desktops, even if the pointer moves to another desktop.

       With the *FvwmPager: SloppyFocus option the focus is transferred to the window pointed  at
       with the mouse when the pointer is inside the pager.

       When iconified, the pager will work as a fully functional current desk only pager. Windows
       and viewports can be moved within the icon of the pager. Users will want to make sure that
       they have no lines similar to

       Icon "Fvwm Pager" whatever

       in their .fvwm2rc files.

COPYRIGHTS

       The  FvwmPager program, and the concept for interfacing this module to the Window Manager,
       are all original work by Robert Nation.

       Copyright 1994, Robert Nation. 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,  FvwmPager  gets  config  info  from  fvwm's  module  configuration
       database (see fvwm(1), section MODULE COMMANDS).

       To  use  FvwmPager with several different configurations, you can invoke FvwmPager with an
       optional parameter, which  it  will  use  as  its  name  instead  (e.g  "Module  FvwmPager
       OtherPager").  OtherPager will then read only the lines in the configuration file starting
       with "*OtherPager", and not the lines belonging to  FvwmPager.  This  way  multiple  pager
       instances may be used.

       Note:  the  old  way to use the FvwmPager with several different configurations is to link
       the executable to another name, i.e.

       ln -s FvwmPager OtherPager

       This may work, but this method is not supported.

KEYBOARD FOCUS CONTROL

       You can direct the keyboard focus to any window on the current desktop  by  clicking  with
       button  2  on  its image in the pager. The window does not need to be visible, but it does
       need to be on the current page.

INVOCATION

       The invocation method was shown in the synopsis section

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

       *FvwmPager: Geometry geometry
              Completely or partially specifies the  pager  windows  location  and  geometry,  in
              standard  X11 notation. In order to maintain an undistorted aspect ratio, you might
              want  to  leave  out  either  the  width  or  height  dimension  of  the   geometry
              specification .

       *FvwmPager: Rows rows
              Tells fvwm how many rows of desks to use when laying out the pager window.

       *FvwmPager: Columns columns
              Tells fvwm how many columns of desks to use when laying out the pager window.

       *FvwmPager: IconGeometry geometry
              Specifies  a  size  (optional) and location (optional) for the pager's icon window.
              Since there is no easy way for FvwmPager to determine  the  height  of  the  icon's
              label,  you  will  have  to make an allowance for the icon  label height when using
              negative y-coordinates in the  icon  location  specification  (used  to  specify  a
              location relative to the bottom instead of the top of the screen).

       *FvwmPager: StartIconic
              Causes the pager to start iconified.

       *FvwmPager: NoStartIconic
              Causes  the  pager  to  start  normally.   Useful  for  canceling the effect of the
              StartIconic option.

       *FvwmPager: LabelsBelow
              Causes the pager to draw desk labels below the corresponding desk.

       *FvwmPager: LabelsAbove
              Causes the pager to draw desk labels  above  the  corresponding  desk.  Useful  for
              canceling the effect of the LabelsBelow option.

       *FvwmPager: ShapeLabels
              Causes  the  pager  to  hide the labels of all but the current desk. This turns off
              label hilighting.

       *FvwmPager: NoShapeLabels
              Causes the pager to show the labels of all visible desks. Useful for canceling  the
              effect of the ShapeLabels option.

       *FvwmPager: Font font-name
              Specified  a  font  to  use  to label the desktops.  If font_name is "none" then no
              desktop labels will be displayed.

       *FvwmPager: SmallFont font-name
              Specified a font to use to label the window names in the pager. If  not  specified,
              the  window  labels  will  be  omitted. Window labels seem to be fairly useless for
              desktop scales of 32 or greater.  If font_name is "none" then no window names  will
              be displayed.

       *FvwmPager: Fore color
              Specifies  the  color to use to write the desktop labels, and to draw the page-grid
              lines.

       *FvwmPager: Back color
              Specifies the background color for the window.

       *FvwmPager: Hilight color
              The active page and desk label will be highlighted by using this background pattern
              instead of the normal background.

       *FvwmPager: HilightPixmap pixmap
              The active page will be highlighted by using this background pattern instead of the
              normal background.

       *FvwmPager: DeskHilight
              Hilight the active page with the current hilight color/pixmap. Useful for canceling
              the effect of the NoDeskHilight option.

       *FvwmPager: NoDeskHilight
              Don't hilight the active page.

       *FvwmPager: WindowColors fore back hiFore hiBack
              Change  the  normal/highlight  colors  of  the windows. fore and hiFore specify the
              colors as used for the font inside the windows. back and hiBack are  used  to  fill
              the windows with.

       *FvwmPager: WindowLabelFormat format
              This  specifies  a printf() like format for the labels in the mini window. Possible
              flags are: %t, %i, %c, and %r  for  the  window's  title,  icon  title,  class,  or
              resource name, respectively.  The default is "%i".

       *FvwmPager: Label desk label
              Assigns  the  text  label  to desk desk (or the current desk if desk is "*") in the
              pager window. Useful for assigning symbolic names to desktops, i.e.

              *FvwmPager: Label 1 Mail
              *FvwmPager: Label 2 Maker
              *FvwmPager: Label * Matlab

              Note: There is currently a much better way to specify desk names globally (and  not
              just  in  FvwmPager)  using  DesktopName command, so you should not use this option
              anymore.

       *FvwmPager: DeskColor desk color
              Assigns the color color to desk desk (or the current desk if desk is  "*")  in  the
              pager  window.  This  replaces  the background color for the particular desk.  This
              only works when the pager is full sized. When Iconified, the pager uses  the  color
              specified by *FvwmPager: Back.

              TIP:  Try  using  *FvwmPager: DeskColor in conjunction with FvwmCpp (or FvwmM4) and
              FvwmBacker to assign identical colors  to  your  various  desktops  and  the  pager
              representations.

       *FvwmPager: Pixmap pixmap
              Use pixmap as background for the pager.

       *FvwmPager: DeskPixmap desk pixmap
              Assigns  the  pixmap color to desk desk (or the current desk if desk is "*") in the
              pager window. This replaces the background pixmap for the particular desk.

              TIP: Try using *FvwmPager: DeskPixmap in conjunction with FvwmCpp (or  FvwmM4)  and
              FvwmBacker  to  assign  identical  pixmaps  to  your various desktops and the pager
              representations.

       *FvwmPager: DeskTopScale number
              If the geometry is not specified, then  a  desktop  reduction  factor  is  used  to
              calculate the pager's size. Things in the pager window are shown at 1/number of the
              actual size.

       *FvwmPager: MiniIcons
              Allow the pager to display a window's mini icon  in  the  pager,  if  it  has  one,
              instead of showing the window's name.

       *FvwmPager: MoveThreshold pixels
              Defines the distance the pointer has to be moved before a window being dragged with
              button 2 is actually moved. The default value is three pixels. If the pointer moved
              less  that  this  amount  the  window  snaps back to its original position when the
              button is released. If pixels is less than zero the  default  value  is  used.  The
              value  set with the MoveThreshold command in fvwm is inherited by FvwmPager but can
              be overridden with this option.

       *FvwmPager: SloppyFocus
              If the SloppyFocus option is used, you do not need to click into the mini window in
              the  pager  to  give the real window the focus. Simply putting the pointer over the
              window inside the pager is enough.

              Note: This option interferes slightly with the MouseFocus and SloppyFocus styles of
              fvwm.   Sometimes,  if you click into the pager window to change pages or desks and
              then move the pointer to a place on the screen where a window of the new page  will
              appear,  this new window does not get the input focus.  This may happen if you drag
              the pointer over one of the mini windows in the pager.  There is nothing  that  can
              be done about this - except not using SloppyFocus in the pager.

       *FvwmPager: SolidSeparators
              By  default  the  pages of the virtual desktop are separated by dashed lines in the
              pager window.  This option causes FvwmPager to use solid lines instead.

       *FvwmPager: NoSeparators
              Turns off the lines separating the pages of the virtual desktop.

       *FvwmPager: Balloons [type]
              Show a balloon describing the window when the pointer is moved into a window in the
              pager.   The  default  format  (the  window's  icon  name)  can  be  changed  using
              BalloonStringFormat. If type is Pager balloons are just shown for  an  un-iconified
              pager;  if  type is Icon balloons are just shown for an iconified pager. If type is
              anything else (or null) balloons are always shown.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonFore color
              Specifies the color for text in the balloon window. If omitted it defaults  to  the
              foreground color for the window being described.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonBack color
              Specifies  the  background  color for the balloon window. If omitted it defaults to
              the background color for the window being described.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonFont font-name
              Specifies a font to use for the balloon text. Defaults to fixed.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonBorderWidth number
              Sets the width of the balloon window's border. Defaults to 1.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonBorderColor color
              Sets the color of the balloon window's border. Defaults to black.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonYOffset number
              The balloon window is positioned to be  horizontally  centered  against  the  pager
              window  it  is  describing. The vertical position may be set as an offset. Negative
              offsets of -n are placed n pixels above the pager window, positive  offsets  of  +n
              are  placed  n pixels below. Offsets of -1 and 1 represent the balloon window close
              to the original window without a gap. Offsets of 0 are not permitted, as this would
              permit  direct  transit from pager window to balloon window, causing an event loop.
              Defaults to +3. The offset will change sign automatically, as needed, to  keep  the
              balloon on the screen.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonStringFormat format
              The  same as *FvwmPager: WindowLabelFormat, it just specifies the string to display
              in the balloons. The default is "%i".

       *FvwmPager: Colorset desk colorset
              Tells the module to use colorset colorset for desk. If you use an asterisk  '*'  in
              place  of  desk, the colorset is used on all desks. Please refer to the man page of
              the FvwmTheme module for details about colorsets.

       *FvwmPager: BalloonColorset desk colorset
              Tells the module to use colorset colorset for balloons  on  desk.  If  you  use  an
              asterisk  '*'  in place of desk, the colorset is used on all desks. Please refer to
              the man page of the FvwmTheme module for details about colorsets.

       *FvwmPager: HilightColorset desk colorset
              Tells the module to use colorset colorset for hilighting on desk.  If  you  use  an
              asterisk  '*'  in place of desk, the colorset is used on all desks. Please refer to
              the man page of the FvwmTheme module for details about colorsets.

       *FvwmPager: WindowColorsets colorset activecolorset
              Uses colorsets in the same way as *FvwmPager: WindowColors. Please refer to the man
              page  of  the FvwmTheme module for details about colorsets.  The shadow and hilight
              colors of the colorset are only used for the  window  borders  if  the  *FvwmPager:
              Window3DBorders is specified too.

       *FvwmPager: WindowBorderWidth n
              Specifies the width of the border drawn around the mini windows. This also sets the
              minimum size of the mini windows to (2 * n + 1). The default is 1.

       *FvwmPager: Window3DBorders
              Specifies that the mini windows should have a 3d borders based on the  mini  window
              background. This option only works if *FvwmPager: WindowColorsets is specified.

       *FvwmPager: UseSkipList
              Tells FvwmPager to not show the windows that are using the WindowListSkip style.

AUTHOR

       Robert Nation
       DeskColor patch contributed by Alan Wild
       MiniIcons & WindowColors patch contributed by Rob Whapham
       Balloons patch by Ric Lister <ric@giccs.georgetown.edu>
       fvwm-workers: Dominik, Olivier, Hippo and others.