Ubuntu Manpage: wmrack - CD Player and Mixer dock applet

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-w or --withdrawn
Starts the wmrack in withdrawn window state.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