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wmconfig(1) |
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wmconfig − Window Manager Config helper program
wmconfig --output=manager [ --rootmenu=root_menu_name ]
[ --flag=flags ] [
--sysdir=system_directory ]
[ --userdir=user_directory ]
[ --no-icons ] [ --no-mini-icons ]
[ --directories ] [ --no-promote ]
[ --no-sysdir ] [ --no-userdir ]
[ --help ]
[ --version ]
[ file ... ]
wmconfig is a program that will produce output consisting of menu definitions compatible with the selected window manager. You can include that output in your .rc file or have the output read through a pipe for dynamic configurations.
How does it
work ?
wmconfig will read all the files located in
/etc/X11/wmconfig. It will then read the files from
the .wmconfig directory in the user’s home
directory. Therefore, the user’s settings will
override the system-wide settings from
/etc/X11/wmconfig. If optionally any extra files are
given as an argument on the command line, those will be read
last and merged with the others (possibly overriding the
settings in system and user home dir files)
Each of these files have the following format. For example, here’s the gv package:
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gv name "Ghostview" | ||
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gv icon "ghostview.bmp" | ||
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gv mini-icon "mini-gv.xpm" | ||
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gv exec "gv &" | ||
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gv group "Graphics/Viewers" |
Config File
Definition
The format of the config file is:
<package> <tag string>
package
denotes the name of the package, and is used internally by
wmconfig to group together multiple tags
intended for the same application. This item does not have
any other special meaning.
tag
This can have several possible values. Among them:
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name |
This is the name of the application, as it should be displayed in the menu. |
Example: name "My Cute Application"
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icon |
This is the filename of an icon for this application. Use of full paths is discouraged because not all window managers can read and cope with full paths in icon names. Try to put your icons in a place where your window manager can find them by default. |
Example: icon "my-icon.xpm"
mini-icon
Some window managers support mini icons in menus or title bars, etc. This tag is intended for those kind of window managers (among them, mwm, fvwm2, fvwm95, icewm). The same remarks from the icon tag apply here. See the example from icon.
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copy |
This will result in the configuration (entries) for this application being completed (by copying) from another application. |
Example: copy anotherpackage
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exec |
This is the command that will be excuted by the window manager when this menu entry is selected. |
Example: exec "xterm -T mailer pine"
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group |
This is the group you want to have you application listed under. The group items are separated by / (that is a forward slash). Groups are created on the fly, so you do have to be careful with typos!. |
Example: group
"Applications/Graphics Utilities/Viewers"
The above example will generate code (for the window manager
of your choice) to generate a menu entry named
Applications with another menu entry under it named
Graphics Utilities and finaly a menu entry under that
one named Viewers containing your application as an
entry.
User config files in $HOME/.wmconfig can have multiple packages defined in there; order does not matter. The only way to have an app in two different groups is to use copy to copy another package and override the group setting.
--output=manager
Where manager can currently be one of: fvwm2, fvwm95, mwm, afterstep, icewm, wmaker, kde or debug. The only entry which is special in this list is the debug entry, which will produce a nice tree-like output to debug your settings and show you how the data is represented internally by wmconfig.
--flag=flags
Where flags can be one of:
no-icons − this will tell wmconfig not to
produce any icon-related output. You might want to do this
if you don’t want to have Icon styles applied to your
application in your window manager. For instance, if you
don’t want to have iconified windows on the desktop.
no-mini-icons − the same thing, except for
mini-icons (currently only supported by fvwm2 and
fvwm95).
directories − some window managers are expecting
their menu configuration as a hierarchy of
directories/files. This option is working together with
--output setting. Currently it is known to work only
when invoked with --output=afterstep, and it
will create the directories/files in
~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start (this is a
hardcoded path and can not be changed without a recompile).
no-promote − Menus that have only one application
defined will be
(yeah, some
people find it irritating to have menus with only one app
in!). This flag will turn off this default behavior.
If you want to specify more than one flag at a time, you can
either repeat the --flag switch, or list all the
flags comma-separated with no spacing in between.
Example:
--flag=flag1,flag2,flag3 or
--flag=flag1 --flag=flag2
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--sysdir=system_directory
This switch is used to set the system directory instead of using the default (which is /etc/X11/wmconfig).
--userdir=user_directory
The default value for this switch is .wmconfig. This means that a directory called $HOME/.wmconfig will be searched for files containing valid wmconfig entries, and will be read after the system directory is read. By using --userdir you have a way to change that value.
--rootmenu=root_menu_name
By default, the name of the root menu is RootStart. If you want wmconfig to begin generating entryies starting at a certain point in your already-existing menu tree, you will want to use this switch.
--no-icons
Does the same thing as --flag=no-icons
--no-mini-icons
Does the same thing as --flag=no-mini-icons
--directories
Does the same thing as --flag=directories
--no-promote
Does the same thing as --flag=no-promote
--no-sysdir
Do not parse the files from the system-wide settings (/etc/X11/wmconfig) directory.
--no-userdir
Do not parse the files from the user’s $HOME/.wmconfig directory.
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--help |
This is the popular "show me the help-screen !" switch. |
--version
This is the popular "what version was that ?" switch.
Definite
bugs
Probably the source code of the whole thing is far more
useful than this man page.
Possible
bugs
The BUGS section of this man page might be
inaccurate.
/etc/X11/wmconfig
The default system directory containing wmconfig files
$HOME/.wmconfig
The default user directory containing wmconfig files
Cristian Gafton
<gafton@redhat.com>
Red Hat Software, Inc.
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