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Pager(1.0)							    Pager(1.0)




NAME

       Pager - the AfterStep Pager module


SYNOPSIS

       Pager is spawned by afterstep, so no command line invocation will work.
       From within the .steprc file, Pager is spawned as follows:

       Module Pager 0 3

       or from within an afterstep pop-up menu:

       Popup "Module-Popup"
	    Title   "Modules"
	    Module  "Wharf"	    Wharf
	    Module  "NoClutter"     Clean
	    Module  "Identify"	    Ident
	    Module  "Banner"	    Banner
	    Module  "Debug"	    Debug
	    Module  "SaveDesktop"   Save
	    Module  "Pager"	    Pager 0 3
       EndPopup

       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. Windows 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 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.

       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 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 will
       cause the viewport to move to the selected location, but will not align
       the viewport to a page boundary. Dragging button 3 will cause the view-
       port to move as you drag. Button 3 operations are limited to  the  cur-
       rent 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 .steprc files.




COPYRIGHTS

       The  Clean  program, and the concept for interfacing this module to the
       Window Manager, are all original work by Robert Nation.

       Copyright 1994, Robert Nation. No guarantees or warranties or  anything
       are provided or implied in any way whatsoever. Use this program at your
       own risk. Permission to use this program for any purpose is  given,  as
       long as the copyright is kept intact.




INITIALIZATION

       During  initialization,	Pager  will  eventually search a configuration
       file which describes the time-outs and actions to take.	The configura-
       tion file is the same file that afterstep used during initialization.

       If  the	Pager  executable  is linked to another name, i.e. 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 OtherPager. 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 the same .steprc file as fvwm reads 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-
	      coordinates  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



       DeskTopScale number
	      If the geometry is not specified, then a desktop reduction  fac-
	      tor  is  used to calculate the pager's size. Things in the pager
	      window are shown at 1/number of the actual size.




AUTHOR

       Robert Nation




3rd Berkeley Distribution	 October 1996			    Pager(1.0)


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