FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) NAME FvwmIconMan - an Fvwm Icon Manager SYNOPSIS FvwmIconMan is spawned by fvwm, so no command line invoca- tion will work. DESCRIPTION FvwmIconMan is an icon manager modeled after the TWM icon manager. The user may have multiple icon managers, each of which armed with a list of window types which it man- ages. For example, the user may have one manager which lists only emacs windows, and another which lists every- thing else. You may also specify what resolution each icon manager uses, for example, one icon manager may manage windows on all desks, and another may manage only those on the current desk, or page. If you have applied the Mini- Icons patch to fvwm2, then FvwmIconMan can display the miniature icons for its managed windows. The managers may have a maximum number of columns (and so grows verti- cally), a maximum number of rows (and then grows horizon- tally), or stay at a fixed size, and adjust the size of the window buttons to fit (think win95's Taskbar). And when support is compiled in for the X Shape extension, then the manager windows may be shaped. You can specify actions to be run when mouse, or key events are received. For example, you could bind the first mouse button to iconify the selected window, and make bindings for the arrow keys to navigate the manager window without the mouse. FvwmIconMan can be set to display which window currently has the keyboard focus, and by binding the select event (see below) to the fvwm Focus function, you can emulate the TWM icon manager's behavior. INITIALIZATION During initialization, FvwmIconMan searches though the fvwm configuration file for the options which are described below. It is highly recommended that you make FvwmIconMan be a sticky window. And if you want to make use of the followfocus option, and/or binding an action to Focus, then you should make FvwmIconMan clicktofocus. Also, when using the Shape option, it's recommended that the FvwmIconMan window not be decorated at all by fvwm. INVOCATION FvwmIconMan can be invoked by inserting the line 'Module FvwmIconMan' in the .fvwmrc file. If FvwmIconMan is to be spawned during fvwm's initialization, then this line July 16, 1997 1 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) should be placed in the InitFunction and ResetFunction declarations, or it can be bound to a menu, mouse button, or keystroke to invoke it later. FvwmIconMan should be placed in the ModulePath (defined in the .fvwmrc file) in order for fvwm to find it. If you wish to run FvwmIconMan in a transient mode, such as with the built in window list, then pass Transient as an argument. The invocation "Module FvwmIconMan Transient" will do nicely. In this mode, FvwmIconMan will pop up one manager window directly under the cursor. When the mouse button is released, it will execute the appropriate action, and then exit. Things are somewhat complicated by the fact that you can specify that FvwmIconMan create mul- tiple manager windows, behavior which is unsuitable when running transiently. So, when running transiently, FvwmI- conMan will only create one manager window. Use the man- ager id 'transient' to specify options for this manager window. CONFIGURATION OPTIONS REFERENCE CHART FvwmIconMan has acquired quite a few options. I assume others share my dislike of paging though a long manpage, so here is a terse reference chart describing the avail- able options. They are described in more detail in the next section. Name Description Default action binds command to event Mouse 0 N sendcommand Iconify background default background gray buttongeometry size of button in pixels 100x17 dontshow list of windows to ignore drawicons use miniicons false focusandselectbutton flat blick white focusbutton style for focused buttons up blick white followfocus show which win has focus false font 8x13 foreground default text color white format describes button label "%c: %i" iconname manger icon name FvwmIconMan managergeometry size of manager in buttons 0x1 nummanagers number of managers 1 plainbutton style for normal buttons up white gray resolution global, desk, or page global selectbutton style for selected buttons flat white gray shape use shape extension false show list of windows to show sort keep managers sorted true title manager title FvwmIconMan titlebutton style for title button raisededge white gray usewinlist honor WinListSkip? true July 16, 1997 2 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) CONFIGURATION OPTIONS With the exception of the nummanagers option, all of the options may be defined on a per-manager basis. So, for example, the user may have his emacs manager with a red foreground, and his xterm manager with a blue one. A con- figuration line may therefore have one of two forms: *FvwmIconMan*optionname optionvalue To specify that the optionname takes the value optionvalue for all managers. *FvwmIconMan*managerid*optionname optionvalue To specify that the option optionname takes the value optionvalue for manager managerid. Mangerid may either be a positive integer, or the string "transient". An integral id refers to managers which FvwmIconMan creates when running normally, and an id of "transient" refers to the single man- ager which FvwmIconMan creates when running tran- siently. The following options may be specified: *FvwmIconMan*nummanagers num num is a positive integer specifying the total num- ber of icon managers. Since FvwmIconMan would like to know how many managers there are before handling any manager specific options, this should come first. The default is 1. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]action type binding Binds an FvwmIconMan command to an event. Type may be one of the values: Key, Mouse, or Select. Actions are described in the following section ACTIONS. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]background background Specifies the default background color. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]buttongeometry geometry Specifies the initial geometry of an individual button in pixels. If the specified height is 0, then the button height is determined from the font size. X and Y coordinates are ignored. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]drawicons boolean If your version of fvwm2 is capable of using July 16, 1997 3 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) MiniIcons, then this option determines if FvwmIcon- Man displays the MiniIcons. Otherwise, it generates an error message. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]focusbutton style [forecolor backcolor] Same as the plainbutton option, but specifies the look of buttons whose windows have the keyboard focus. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]focusandselectbutton style [forecolor back- color] Same as the plainbutton option, but specifies the look of buttons which are both selected, and have the keyboard focus. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]font font Specifies the font to be used for labeling the but- tons. The default is 8x13. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]foreground foreground Specifies the default foreground color. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]format formatstring A printf like format string which describes the string to be printed in the manager window for each managed window. Possible flags are: %t, %i, %c, and %r for the window's title, icon, class, or resource name, respectively. The default is "%c: %i". Warn- ing: m4 reserves the word format, so if you use m4, take appropriate action. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]iconname iconstring Specifies the window icon name for that manager window. Iconstring may either be a single word, or a string enclosed in quotes. The default is "FvwmI- conMan". *FvwmIconMan*[id*]managergeometry geometry Specifies the initial geometry of the manager, in units of buttons. If height is 0, then the manager will use width columns, and will grow vertically once it has more than width windows. Likewise, if width is 0, it will use height rows, and grow hori- zontally. If both are nonzero, then the manager window will be exactly that size, and stay that way. As columns are created, the buttons will nar- row to accommodate. If the geometry is specified July 16, 1997 4 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) with a negative y coordinate, then the window man- ager will grow upwards. Otherwise, it will grow downwards. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]plainbutton style [forecolor backcolor] Specifies how normal buttons look. style may be one of flat, up, down, raisededge, or sunkedge, and describes how the button is drawn. The color options are both optional, and if not set, then the default colors are used. If on a monochrome screen, then the style option is ignored, but must still be set. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]resolution resolution Specifies when the manager will display an entry for a certain window. resolution may take one of the following values: global, desk, or page. If global, then all windows of the appropriate type (see the show and dontshow options below) will be shown. If desk, then only those windows on the cur- rent desk will be down. And if page, then only those windows on the current page will be shown. The default is global. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]selectbutton style [forecolor backcolor] Same as the plainbutton option, but specifies the look of buttons when the mouse is over them. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]shape boolean If True, then use make the window shaped. Probably only useful if you have multiple columns or rows. If FvwmIconMan wasn't compiled to support the Shape extension, this generates an error message. When using shaped windows, it's recommended that a fvwm style is made for FvwmIconMan that has no borders. Otherwise, fvwm will get confused. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]title titlestring Specifies the window title string for that manager window. Titlestring may either be a single word, or a string enclosed in quotes. The default is "FvwmI- conMan". This will be drawn in the titlebar of the manager window, if any, and in the title button, which is the button drawn when the manager is empty. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]titlebutton style [forecolor backcolor] Same as the plainbutton option, but specifies the July 16, 1997 5 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) look of the title button (the button drawn when the manager is empty). The manager's title is drawn in the title button. The two following options control which windows get han- dled by which managers. A manager can get two lists, one of windows to show, and one of windows to ignore. If only the show list is given, then that manager will show only the windows in the list. If only the dontshow list is given, then the manager will show all windows except those in the list. If both lists are given, then a window will be shown if it is not in the dontshow list, and in the show list. And finally, if neither list is given, then the manager will handle all windows. Each list is made up of patterns of the form type=pattern, where type is one of class, resource, title, or icon, and pattern is an expres- sion of the same format used in the fvwm style command (minimalistic shell pattern matching). Quotes around the pattern will be taken as part of the expression. If a win- dow could be handled by more than one manager, then the manager with the lowest id gets it. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]show pattern list If a window matches one of the patterns in the list, then it may be handled by this manager. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]dontshow pattern list If a window matches one of the patterns in the list, then it may not be handled by this manager. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]usewinlist boolean If true, then honor the WinListSkip style flag. Otherwise, all windows are subject to possible man- agement according to the show and dontshow lists. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]followfocus boolean If true, then the button appearance reflects which window currently has focus. Default is false. *FvwmIconMan*[id*]sort boolean If true, then the icon manager is kept sorted. Default is true. ACTIONS Actions are commands which may be bound to an event of the type: a keypress, a mouse click, or the mouse entering a window manager button - denoted by the action types Key, July 16, 1997 6 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) Mouse, and Select. Normally, actions bound to a mouse click are executed when the button is pressed. In transient mode, the action is executed when the button is released, since it is assumed that FvwmIconMan was bound to some mouse event. A tip/warning: FvwmIconMan still keeps track of the mouse button and any modifier keys in this case, so if you bind FvwmIconMan to say, meta-button3, then it would be wise to ensure that the action you want to execute will be exe- cuted when the meta-button3 event occurs (which would be the button release, assuming you kept your finger on the meta key). The syntax for actions are: Key actions: Key Keysym Modifiers FunctionList Keysym and Modifiers are exactly the same as for the fvwm Key command. Mouse actions: Mouse Button Modifiers FunctionList Button and Modifiers are exactly the same as for the fvwm Mouse command. Select actions: Select FunctionList A FunctionList is a sequence of commands separated by com- mas. They are executed in left to right order, in one shared context - which currently only contains a pointer to the "current" button. If a button is selected (typi- cally by the mouse pointer sitting on it) when the action is executed, then the current button is initialized to that button. Otherwise, it points to nothing. Most of the available commands then modify this "current" button, either by moving it around, making it become the selected button, or sending commands to fvwm acting on the window represented by that button. Note that while this current button is initialized to be the selected button, the selected button does not implicitly follow it around. This way, the user can send commands to various windows, without changing which button is selected. Commands take five types of arguments: Integer, Manager, Window, Button, and String. A String is a string specified exactly as for fvwm - either in quotes or as a single word not in quotes. Again, you may bind a sequence of commands to an event, by listing them separated by commas. Window and Button types look exactly the same in the July 16, 1997 7 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) .fvwm2rc file, but are interpreted as either specifying a managed window, or a FvwmIconMan button representing a window. They can either be an integer (which is inter- preted module N where N is the number of buttons - so 0 is the first and -1 is the last), or one of the strings: Select, Focus, Up, Down, Right, Left, Next, Prev. Select and Focus refer to the currently selected or focused but- ton or window. Up, Down, Right, and Left refer to the but- ton or window above, below, to the right of, or to the left of the current button in the manager window, allowing navigation around the manager window. Next and Prev desig- nates the window, button, or manager after or before the current button, allowing navigation of the one dimensional list of windows which is drawn in the manager window. If the manager is sorted, Next and Prev move through the win- dows in alphabetical order. The Manager type can either be an integer, Next, or Prev. The meaning is analogous to that of the Button type, but in terms of the integral index of the managers, restricted to managers which are nonempty. The following functions are currently defined: bif Button Integer/String A relative branch instruction. If Button is Select or Focus, then take the branch if there is a selected button or a focused button. If Button is an integer, then branch if nonzero. If it is one of Up, Down, Right, Left, Next, Prev, then the branch is taken when the current button can move in that direction. If the branch is taken, then Integer commands are skipped. No backwards branches are allowed. bifn Button Integer/String The complement of bif. The branch is taken if But- ton evaluates to false, by the criteria listed for bif. gotobutton Button Sets current button to Button. If Button is an integer, then the current button is set to Button modulo the number of buttons, in the whichever man- ager contains the selected button, if any. gotomanager Manager Sets button to button 0 of Manager. This will only go to a visible, nonempty manager. So an integral argument is taken modulo the number of such man- agers. July 16, 1997 8 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) jmp Integer/String Executes a relative jump of Integer instructions. Backwards jumps are not allowed. The jump is com- puted relative to the instruction following the jmp. label String Provides a label that previous instructions can jump to. It will not be visible to subsequent jump instructions, and the same label can be used multi- ple times in the same instruction list (though it would be perverse to do so.) print String Prints String to the console. Useful for debugging actions. quit Quits FvwmIconMan. ret Stop executing the entire action. select Selects the current button, if any. If a select action has been specified, it will then be run. Therefore, it is considered unwise to set the select button in the select action. sendcommand Command Sends the fvwm command Command to the window repre- sented by the current button, if any. warp Warps cursor to current button, if any. Examples: gotobutton select, gotobutton Down, select Selects the button below the currently selected button. Since the current button is already initialized to the selected button, this may be shortened to "gotobutton Down , select". gotobutton Up, select Selects the button above the currently selected button. July 16, 1997 9 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) gotobutton 0, select Selects the first button of the current manager. If there is no current manager, which is the case when no button is selected, then this does nothing. gotobutton -1, select Selects the last button of the current manager. gotobutton focus, select Selects the button corresponding to the focused window. gotobutton focus, Iconify Sends the fvwm command Iconify to the focused window. Note that this does not change the selected button. bif Next 3, gotobutton 0, select, ret, gotobutton Next, select If a button is selected, and it's the last button, go to button 0. If it's not the last button, go to the next but- ton. Otherwise, do nothing. Basically, this action cycles through all buttons in the current manager. bif select 7, bif focus 3, gotomanager 0, select, ret, gotobutton focus, select, ret, gotobutton down, select This is good for sending to FvwmIconMan with a SendToMod- ule command. If there is a selected button, it moves down. Otherwise, if there is a focused button, it is selected. Otherwise, button 0 of manager 0 gets selected. bif select Select, bif focus Focus, gotomanager 0, select, ret, label Focus, gotobutton focus, select, ret, label Select, gotobutton down, select Same as previous, but using the label instruction. In addition to being bound to keys and mice, actions can be sent from fvwm to FvwmIconMan via the SendToModule com- mand. Don't quote the command when using SendToModule. Also, due to a bug in the current version of fvwm2, don't quote FvwmIconMan either. SAMPLE CONFIGURATIONS This first example is of a the simplest invocation of FvwmIconMan, which only has one manager, and handles all July 16, 1997 10 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) windows: ############################################################## # Load any modules which should be started during # fvwm initialization ModulePath /usr/lib/X11/fvwm:/usr/bin/X11 Module FvwmIconMan # Make FvwmIconMan title-bar-less, sticky, and give it an icon Style "Fvwm*" Icon toolbox.xpm,NoTitle,NoHandles,Sticky Style "FvwmIconMan" HandleWidth 5, Handles, BorderWidth 5 ############################################################## ############################################################## #Definitions used by the modules *FvwmIconMan*nummanagers 1 *FvwmIconMan*resolution global *FvwmIconMan*background slategrey *FvwmIconMan*foreground white *FvwmIconMan*font 7x13 *FvwmIconMan*buttongeometry 100x0 *FvwmIconMan*managergeometry 1x0-0+0 This example is the Reader's Digest version of my personal configuration. It has two managers, one for emacs and one for everything else, minus things with no icon title. Only windows on the current page are displayed. The use of the drawicons and shape options requires that fvwm and FvwmI- conMan we compiled with the correct options. Note how the geometry and show options are specified per manager, and the others are common to all: Style "FvwmIconMan" NoTitle, Sticky, WindowListSkip, BorderWidth 0 Style "FvwmIconMan" HandleWidth 0 Key F8 A N SendToModule FvwmIconMan bif select Select, bif focus Focus, gotomanager 0, select, sendcommand WarpToWindow, ret, label Focus, gotobutton focus, select, sendcommand WarpToWindow, ret, label Select, gotobutton prev, select, sendcommand WarpToWindow Key F9 A N SendToModule FvwmIconMan bif select Select, bif focus Focus, gotomanager 0, select, sendcommand WarpToWindow, ret, label Focus, gotobutton focus, select, sendcommand WarpToWindow, ret, label Select, gotobutton next, select, sendcommand WarpToWindow *FvwmIconMan*numManagers 2 *FvwmIconMan*Resolution page *FvwmIconMan*background steelblue *FvwmIconMan*foreground white *FvwmIconMan*font 7x13 *FvwmIconMan*usewinlist true *FvwmIconMan*drawicons true *FvwmIconMan*shape true *FvwmIconMan*followfocus true *FvwmIconMan*sort true July 16, 1997 11 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) *FvwmIconMan*plainbutton up white steelblue *FvwmIconMan*selectbutton down white steelblue *FvwmIconMan*focusbutton up white brown *FvwmIconMan*focusandselectButton down white brown *FvwmIconMan*titleButton raisededge white steelblue *FvwmIconMan*1*title "Emacs windows" *FvwmIconMan*1*iconname "FvwmIconMan: Emacs" *FvwmIconMan*1*format "%i" *FvwmIconMan*1*show resource=emacs resource=gemacs *FvwmIconMan*1*managergeometry 1x0-400+0 *FvwmIconMan*1*buttongeometry 200x0 *FvwmIconMan*2*title "All windows" *FvwmIconMan*2*iconname "FvwmIconMan: all" *FvwmIconMan*2*format "%c: %i" *FvwmIconMan*2*dontshow icon=Untitled *FvwmIconMan*2*managergeometry 2x4-0+0 *FvwmIconMan*2*buttongeometry 200x0 *FvwmIconMan*transient*geometry 194x100 *FvwmIconMan*transient*dontshow icon=Untitled *FvwmIconMan*transient*action Mouse 0 A sendcommand select select Iconify *FvwmIconMan*action Mouse 1 N sendcommand Iconify *FvwmIconMan*action Mouse 2 N sendcommand WarpToWindow *FvwmIconMan*action Mouse 3 N sendcommand "Module FvwmIdent FvwmIdent" *FvwmIconMan*action Key Left N gotobutton Left, select *FvwmIconMan*action Key Right N gotobutton Right, select *FvwmIconMan*action Key Up N gotobutton Up, select *FvwmIconMan*action Key Down N gotobutton Down, select *FvwmIconMan*action Key q N quit UNFINISHED BUSINESS There is one bug that I know of. A honest to goodness solution to this would be appreciated. When an icon man- ager is set to grow upwards or leftwards, on some machines it may wander occasionally. It doesn't handle windows without resource names as grace- fully as it should. AUTHOR Brady Montz (bradym@cs.arizona.edu). THANKS Thanks to: David Berson (berson@cs.pitt.edu), Josh M. Osborne (stripes@va.pubnix.com, Bjorn Victor (victor@delial.docs.uu.se), July 16, 1997 12 FvwmIconMan(1.0) FvwmIconMan(1.0) Adam Rice (wysiwyg@glympton.airtime.co.uk). July 16, 1997 13