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NAME

       Pager - AfterStep module for virtual desktop navigation

BASE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

       The following two configuration options are in the base file:

       *DeskTopSize Columns x Rows

              Defines  the  number  of  view Columns by the number of view Rows of the desk(s) in
              proportional units, i.e. 2x1 would show 2 views of one desk, one beside another.

       *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.

MyStyle DEFINITIONS

       Starting with version 1.7.60 Pager supports definition of most of it's  visual  parameters
       in  look  file  as  MyStyles.  Styles  can  also be defined in pager config file, but main
       contents of the look file will override them. Include them in your pager  config  to  make
       sure  that  you  get  nice  looking Pager even if styles are not defined in look file. The
       following standard MyStyle names are used :

       *PagerUWindowStyle

              (defaults to "unfocused_window_style") - unfocused window  representation's  style.
              Background pixmap and gradient can be used here.

       *PagerFWindowStyle

              (defaults  to  "focused_window_style")  -  focused  window  representation's style.
              Background pixmap and gradient can be used here.

       *PagerSWindowStyle

              (defaults  to  "sticky_window_style")  -  sticky  window  representation's   style.
              Background pixmap and gradient can be used here.

       *PagerActiveDesk

              active  (selected) desk's label style. This style - defines only look of the desk's
              LABEL - to define how your actual desk window will  look  like  -  you  should  use
              *PagerStyle option - see below. Background pixmap, gradient and transparency can be
              used here.

       *PagerInActiveDesk

              Same as above, only for inactive desk's  label.  Background  pixmap,  gradient  and
              transparency can be used here.

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

       ActiveDeskBevel

              Defines  how  border around Pager desk representation of the current desk should be
              drawn.

              See Also: Bevel flags for further details.

              Example :
              *PagerActiveDeskBevel Left,Top

              # draws thick bevelled lines at the top and left of the desk

       Align

              Defines how Pager's desk title should  be  aligned  on  desk  titlebar.  See  Align
              options for further details.

              Example :
              *PagerAlign  Center

              # places title in the center both vertically and horizontally

       BalloonBorderHilite

              Defines the bevel to be drawn around balloons - replaces the BorderWidth setting.

              See Also: Bevel flags for further details.

       BalloonCloseDelay number

              Specifies the period in milliseconds to delay the disappearance of the balloon when
              leaving window with the mouse.

       BalloonDelay number

              Specifies the period in milliseconds to delay the appearance of theballoon.

       BalloonStyle MyStyle

              MyStyle to be used to draw balloon. Note that balloons could be shaped  (BackPixmap
              125 and 126).

       BalloonTextPaddingX size

              width of the border around the text in balloons.

       BalloonTextPaddingY size

              height of the border around the text in balloons.

       BalloonXOffset offset

              Specifies the horizontal offset (in pixels) to use when displaying balloons.

       BalloonYOffset offset

              The   balloon  window  is  positioned  to  be  horizontally  centered  against  the
              application 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. Defaults to +2.

       Balloons

              Turns on the balloon feature. A "balloon" is displayed  showing  the  name  of  the
              window  the  pointer  is resting on in the Pager . Currently only the window's icon
              name is shown. Note that balloons are  not  shown  for  the  iconified  pager.  The
              balloon background and text are configured with the MyStyle "*PagerBalloon".

              See Also: MyStyle definition for details.

       Columns

              Tells  afterstep how many columns of desks to use when laying out the pager window.
              Set to 1 for vertical Pager and define PagerRows.

       Decoration param1[,param2[,...]]

              Allows you to decorate your pager to your liking. The following parameters  can  be
              specified  :  NoDeskLabel, NoPageSeparator, NoSelection, SelectionColor, GridColor,
              DeskBorderWidth,     DeskBorderColor,      LabelBelowDesk,      HideInactiveLabels,
              VerticalLabel.

              See Also: Pager Decoration options for further details.

       DontDrawBg

              If specified, will not display background image, use this with xearth or xfishtank.

              Please note that this is deprecated, use DontDrawBackground (Look option) instead.

       Geometry

              Completely  or  partially  specifies  the  pager  window  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.

       IconGeometry

              Specifies a size (optional) and location (optional) for the  pager's  icon  window.
              Since  there  is no easy way for Pager 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).

       InActiveDeskBevel

              Defines how border around Pager desk representation of the inactive desk(s)  should
              be drawn.

              See Also: Bevel flags for further details.

       Label

              Assigns  the  text  label  to  desk  desk in the pager window. Useful for assigning
              symbolic names to desktops

       MyStyle

              Styles for different Pager properties are called from the  file  "pager",  and  the
              associated  MyStyle  definitions  are  located  in  a  selected  Look  file. Fonts,
              foreground and background colors, gradients, pixmaps,  and  transparencies  can  be
              specified for Pager's components.

              See Also: MyStyle definition for further details.

       NoBalloons

              Do not show Ballons in Pager.

       Rows

              Tells afterstep how many rows of desks to use when laying out the pager window. Set
              to 1 for horizontal Pager and define PagerColumns.

       ShadeButton "unpressed_image"  ["pressed_image"]

              You should be able to "shade" row or column of  desks  by  pressing  special  Shade
              button  on  desk's  title.  Define images to be used for it with this option. If no
              images are defined - then there will be no button and feature will be disabled.

       SmallFont

              Specifies a font to use to label the window names in the pager. It  overrides  font
              specified  in  Focused/Unfocused/Sticky window style in look file. It also displays
              text on background color - which can be useful if BackPixmap is specified in window
              style. Window labels seem to be fairly useless for desktop scales of 32 or greater.

       StartIconic

              Causes the pager to start iconified.

       StickyIcons

              Specifies  that  icons  should  stick  to  the  screen's  glass  and follow it from
              desk/view to desk/view.

       Style desk style

              Sets the style to be used for the desk desk  representation  in  the  Pager.  Where
              style  can  be  the  name  of  any style definition in the look file, and desk is a
              number coresponding to the desktop number: 0,1,2,3,N.... Use  it  if  you  want  to
              specify a different style for Pager background other than the default; which is the
              scaled down *PagerDesktopImage.

USAGE

       Although Pager can be run from the command line, it is normally spawned  by  afterstep  in
       the autoexec file, in the following manner:

            Module    "I"  Pager beginning_desktop# ending_desktop#      Wait "I"  Pager

       In  case  you  use  Pager to switch your root backgrounds Wait can be used as shown above.
       This will insure that the Pager has set the root background before you start  any  furthur
       apps (like transparent aterms and Eterms).

       or from within an afterstep menu file by 'Pager':

       %   cat   "~/.afterstep/start/Modules/Pager"        Module   "Pager"  Pager  first_desktop
       last_desktop      MiniPixmap "mini-as.xpm"

       To stop the Pager module, a menu item can be used:

       % cat "~/.afterstep/start/Modules/Pager_Stop"       KillModuleByName  "Stop  Pager"  Pager
            MiniPixmap "mini-as.xpm"

DESCRIPTION

       The  Pager  module shows a miniature view of the Afterstep desktops which are specified in
       the command line. This is a useful reminder of where your active windows are.  Windows  in
       the  pager  are  accordingly  to  MyStyle definitions "*PagerUWindowStyle" - for unfocused
       windows, "*PagerFWindowStyle" - for focused windows and "*PagerSWindowStyle" - for  sticky
       windows.  If  you  never defined those MyStyles, Pager will default to same styles as used
       for actual windows.

       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  or  2  in  the Pager will cause your 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.

       Clicking  and  dragging  with mouse button 2 on a miniature window in the Pager 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, provisions have been  made  to  drag  windows  in  the  Pager  by  pressing
       modifier-1 (usually Alt) and dragging with button 3.

       When iconified, the pager will work as a fully functional current page 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

       Starting  with  version  1.7.122  Pager no longer loads background images into the memory.
       Module asetroot should be used to accomplish that task. But Pager will still  be  able  to
       switch  backgrounds as you switch between desks, after you've run asetroot to load images.
       Use *PagerDontDrawBg option in pager config file to TURN background switching OFF.

       See asetroot man page for more information.

            Style     "Pager"   Icon myIcon.[xpm|jpg|png]

       in their feel files.

INITIALIZATION

       During initialization, Pager will search for a  configuration  file  which  describes  the
       images,  locations and actions to take. This file will be the one specified by the-foption
       (if  given).  Else,  the  ~/.afterstep/pager  file  will  be  used  if  it  exists.  Else,
       /usr/local/share/afterstep/pager will be used.

       If  the  Pager  executable  is  linked  to another name, ie ln -s Pager  OtherPager , then
       another module called OtherPager can be  started,  with  a  completely  different  set  of
       configurations than Pager , simply by adding *OtherPager options following the same *Pager
       configuration options below to the pager file. This way multiple  Pager  programs  can  be
       used.

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

        Pager  can be invoked from the autoexec file or from a menu item as shown in the Synopsis
       section above.

       AfterStep will search through the directories specified in the ModulePath configuration in
       the base (where # is your colordepth) to attempt to locate Pager .

CONFIGURATION FILES

        Pager  reads  the  base  file  and  pager  file  when  it  starts  up  and  looks for its
       configuration options.