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NAME

       wmrack - CD Player and Mixer dock applet

SYNOPSIS

       wmrack [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  wmrack is a combined CD player and Audio Mixer designed to be used with WindowMaker's
       dock. It can also be used with other window managers, and can be swallowed by a variety of
       tools,  such as fvwm's button bar or gnome's panel.  wmrack handles mounted volumes, opens
       and closes the tray, can display the current position in various ways and skips also  data
       tracks.   It  gives you access to all your mixer devices, so that you may change volume or
       balance and set the record source.

OPTIONS

       -b COLSPEC or --background COLSPEC
              Specifies the background color of the LED. It is available through the symbolic XPM
              colorname led_color_black.

              The other colors of the LED can be changed using the -l option.

              To find out what colors are available, try showrgb (part of X11).

       -d DEVICE or --device DEVICE
              Sets the CD-ROM device. This defaults to /dev/cdrom.

       -h or  --help
              Prints a summary of supported options and their default values.

       -l COLSPEC or --ledcolor COLSPEC
              Specifies  the  color  of  the  led. It is darkened two times (for a total of three
              colors) to get all needed colors. So better use a bright color.

              For the design of own XPM, the ledcolor is made available through the  use  of  the
              symbolic  xpm  color names led_color_high, led_color_low, and led_color_med.  There
              is also a symbol named led_color_back to get the default background  color  of  the
              led-display. It can be changed using the -l option.

              To find out what colors are available, try showrgb (part of X11).

       -m DEVICE or --mixer DEVICE
              Sets the MIXER device. This defaults to /dev/mixer.

       -p or --noprobe
              This  option  disables the startup probing for a cd. Default is to probe the cdrom.
              This will close the tray and read the TOC of the cd (if there is one).

       -s STYLEFILE or --style STYLEFILE
              wmrack will try to load its window-pixmaps from the specified STYLEFILE.   It  will
              search  this  file  for XPM pixmaps named cdnodisc, cdplaying, cdpaused, cdstopped,
              cdled, mixer, and mixled.  If some of  those  are  not  defined,  the  compile-time
              defaults will be used.

       -w or --withdrawn
              Starts  the  wmrack in withdrawn window state. This is useful to dock the window to
              WindowMaker.

       -M MODESTRING or --mode MODESTRING
              By default wmrack will startup showing the CDROM controls. With this option you can
              specify what controls should be shown. Valid MODESTRINGS are cdrom, and mixer.

INVOCATION

       wmrack  can  be  called using different ways. The most common invocation is from your dock
       file:

               wmrack
               WMRack
               POSITION 2 -1 0
               wmrack
               --withdrawn

       Another way to call wmrack is to swallow it into the afterstep(1) Wharf(1). This  is  best
       done placing the following line into your .steprc:

            *Wharf WMRack nil Swallow "wmrack" wmrack &

       This  method  will  also  work  for  other  button-bars, such as the FvwmButtons(1) of the
       fvwm(1) window manager.

GENERAL USAGE

       The wmrack features a simple click interface. All times the buttons will show  a  standard
       sign  which specifies the action it will do. But there are some notable extensions to that
       explained below.

       You can always change the controls shown by clicking the middle button (this  is  the  one
       which  shows  a  disc or a speaker) of the controls. This button will show a symbol of the
       controls you can change to by pressing it (the disc and the speaker).

       If you click this button with Control-Button-3, WMrack will exit.

CDROM USAGE

       The default behavior of wmrack is to try to read the cdrom at startup. If there was no cd,
       it will not try again unless you press the close or play button. This will close the cdrom
       and again try to read it. Unless there is a cd, wmrack will again suspend until your  next
       action.

       open tray
              Clicking an open/eject button with button-3 will always open the tray.

       skip   By  pressing  the  button down and holding it on one of the prev/next track buttons
              the cdrom goes fast forward or backward.

       time left
              A button-1 click into the time display switches between time running and time  left
              display.

       total time
              A button-2 click into the time display switches between track and total time.

       repeat A  button-3 click into the time display cycles through normal mode, repeat all, and
              repeat one play mode.

       The cd player also offers a play list functionality. By default it will map out  all  data
       tracks  of  the  current  cdrom,  but you can also randomize the list or program it to the
       tracks you want to hear. These functions are only available while a cdrom is in the  drive
       and the drive is stopped.

       randomize
              Clicking   Control-Button-3  to  the  track  display  causes  the  playlist  to  be
              randomized. No track will repeat, the tracks are just mixed up.

              You will see the short message RA:ND in the time display.

       start programming
              Click Control-Button-1 into the track display to start programing a  new  playlist.
              You  will see a short PR:OG message in the time display and a M will show up in the
              lower left corner of the display.

       add track to list
              Use the prev-/next-track buttons to select a track and click Mod1-Button-1 into the
              track  display  to add it to the playlist. The time display will show the number of
              the tracks in the list and the number of the selected track for a  short  time  and
              will than switch back and display the total ength of the playlist.

       clear list
              To  abort  the  programing  of  a  playlist  click Control-Button-1 into the track-
              display.

       start playing the list
              Simply press the PLAY button to play the list.

MIXER USAGE

       Main controls of the mixer are the two volume scales at the left and the right side of the
       display. Using the mouse the scales can be modified.

       button-1
              change volume of clicked scale

       button-2
              change volume of both scales

       button-3
              change the balance of the volume

       Clicking  into  the alphanumeric display changes the currently shown mixer device. Some of
       the valid devices are VOlume, BAss, TReble, SYnth, PCm, SPeaker,  LIne,  MIc,  CD,  MiXer,
       Pcm2,  REcord,  IGain,  OGain,  Line1, Line2, and Line3.  You can also remove devices from
       this list.

       button-1
              go to the next device

       button-2
              go to the main volume (first device)

       button-3
              go to the previous device

       control-button-1
              show all devices

       control-button-3
              remove current device

       Below the change-controls button is the record source button. It show either a 'X' and  is
       inactive, or it show a speaker or a recording sign and is active.  By pressing this button
       you can change the source of your recordings.

       button-1
              toggle record source button

       button-2
              set as record source and clear all other

COPYRIGHTS

       Copyright 1997, Oliver Graf <ograf@fga.de>.  2003-2006, Chris Waters Most styles copyright
       1997, Heiko Wagner <hwagner@fga.de>.

       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.  The program and its source code may be copied under
       the terms of the GNU General Public License.  See the file "COPYING" for details.

AUTHORS

       Oliver Graf <ograf@fga.de> -- original author

       Chris Waters <xtifr@users.sourceforge.net> -- current maintainer

       Heiko Wagner <hwagner@fga.de> -- the hyped window shapes

CREDITS

       Rob Malda <malda@cs.hope.edu> -- who had written ascd and asmixer

       Michael Kurz <mkurz@rzws.fh-aalen.de> -- also for ascd and asmixer

       Thomas McWilliams <tgm@netcom.com> -- who has done Workbone