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Pager

Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (1.20)
Updated: Mar 16 1996
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NAME

Pager - the Afterstep Pager module

SYNOPSIS

Pager is spawned by afterstep, so no command line invocation 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 whichare specified in the command line. This is a useful reminder of whereyour active windows are. Windows in the pager are shown in the samecolor as their afterstep decorations.

The pager can be used to change your viewport into the currentdesktop, to change desktops, or to move windows around.

Pressing mouse button 1 in the pager will cause you viewport tochange to the selected page of the selected desk. If you click withbutton 1 in the desk-label area, you will switch desks but notpages within the desk.

Dragging mouse button 2 on a miniature view of a window will causethat window to be move to the location where you release the mousebutton, but your viewport will not change. If you drag the windowout of the pager and onto your desktop, a full size image ofthe window will appear for you to place. There is no way topick 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 provisions to drag windows in the pager by using pressing modifier-1 (usually Alt) and dragging with button 3.

Clicking mouse button 3 on a location within the current desktop willcause the viewport to move to the selected location, but will notalign the viewport to a page boundary. Dragging button 3 willcause the viewport to move as you drag. Button 3 operations arelimited to the current desktop only.

When iconified, the pager will work as a fully functional current pageonly pager. Windows and viewports can be moved within the icon of thepager. 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 configuration 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 -sPager OtherPager, then another module called OtherPager can bestarted, with a completely different configuration than Pager,simply by changing the keyword Pager to OtherPager. This way multiplePager programs can be used.

KEYBOARD FOCUS CONTROL

You can direct the keyboard focus to any window on the current desktopby clicking with button 2 on its image in the pager. The window doesnot 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 andgeometry, in standard X11 notation. In order to maintain an undistorted aspect ratio, you mightwant to leave out either the width or height dimension of thegeometry specification

*PagerRows rows

Tells afterstep how many rows of desks to use when laying out the pagerwindow.

*PagerColumns columns

Tells afterstep how many columnss of desks to use when laying out the pagerwindow.

*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 theicon's label, you will have to make an allowance for the icon label heightwhen using negative y-coordinates in the icon location specification (used tospecify 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 notspecified, the window labels will be omitted. Window labels seem tobe fairly useless for desktop scales of 32 or greater.

*PagerFore color

Specifies the color to use to write the desktop labels, andto 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 thisbackground 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 toautomatically change root pixmap when you change of desktop !

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 ofLabelPosition will be the distance between label text andwindow border.

DeskTopScale number

If the geometry is not specified, then a desktop reduction factor isused to calculate the pager's size. Things in the pager windoware shown at 1/number of the actual size.

AUTHOR

Robert Nation

Alfredo Kojima

Guylhem Aznar

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