Pager(1.20)
NAME
Pager - the Afterstep Pager module
SYNOPSIS
Pager is spawned by afterstep, so no command line invoca-
tion will work. From within the autoexec file or as a
menu option, Pager is spawned as follows:
Module Pager 0 3
or from within an afterstep pop-up menu:
% cat "~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start/Modules/Virtual desktop"
Pager 0 3
where "0" is the first desktop to show, and "3" is the
last.
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. Win-
dows in the pager are shown in the same color as their
afterstep 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 view-
port 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 provi-
sions to drag windows in the pager by using pressing modi-
fier-1 (usually Alt) and dragging with button 3.
Clicking mouse button 3 on a location within the current
desktop will cause the viewport to move to the selected
location, but will not align the viewport to a page bound-
ary. Dragging button 3 will cause the viewport to move as
you drag. Button 3 operations are limited to the current
desktop only.
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
Icon "Pager" whatever
in their feel files.
INITIALIZATION
During initialization, Pager will eventually search a con-
figuration file which describes the time-outs and actions
to take. The configuration file is
~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/pager .
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 configuration
than Pager, simply by changing the keyword Pager to Oth-
erPager. 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
The invocation method was shown in the synopsis section
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
Pager reads ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/pager file when it
starts up, and looks for certain configuration options:
*PagerGeometry 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
*PagerRows rows
Tells afterstep how many rows of desks to use when
laying out the pager window.
*PagerColumns columns
Tells afterstep how many columnss of desks to use
when laying out the pager window.
*PagerIconGeometry geometry
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-coordi-
nates in the icon location specification (used to
specify a location relative to the bottom instead
of the top of the screen).
*PagerStartIconic
Causes the pager to start iconified.
*PagerFont font-name
Specified a font to use to label the desktops. If
font_name is "none" then no desktop labels will be
displayed.
*PagerSmallFont 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.
*PagerFore color
Specifies the color to use to write the desktop
labels, and to draw the page-grid lines.
*PagerBack color
Specifies the background color for the window.
*PagerHilight color
The active page and desk label will be highlighted
by using this background pattern instead of the
normal background.
*PagerLabel desk label
Assigns the text label to desk desk in the pager
window. Useful for assigning symbolic names to
desktops, ie
*PagerLabel 1 Mail
*PagerLabel 2 Maker
*PagerLabel 2 Matlab
PagerXPM desk xpm
Sets xpm as the root window background for desktop
desk. The XPM is also used as background for the
Desktop representation in the Pager window.
*PagerXPM 0 ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/desktop/desks/desk0/background.xpm
*PagerXPM 1 ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/desktop/desks/desk1/background.xpm
*PagerXPM 2 ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/desktop/desks/desk2/background.xpm
*PagerXPM 3 ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/desktop/desks/desk3/background.xpm
Please don't change the default, else AfterStep
will not know how to automatically change root
pixmap when you change of desktop !
PagerRedrawBg number
If 0, will not update background change, use this
with xearth or xfishtank. Default is 1, i.e.
update background.
PagerAlign LabelPosition
Sets the alignment of the labels for the desktops.
Use 0 for centered, >0 for left, <0 for right
alignment. If <>0 the absolute value of LabelPosi-
tion will be the distance between label text and
window border.
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.
AUTHORS
Robert Nation
Alfredo Kojima
Guylhem Aznar