wmbutton ------------------------------------------------------------- Code is based on wmppp, wmload, wmtime, wmcp, and asbutton Author: Edward H. Flora This version is released by: Window Maker Team DESCRIPTION: ------------ wmbutton is a simple application launching program that sits in the dock in WindowMaker, can be swallowed by Wharf in Afterstep, and should be fairly configurable. LICENSING: ---------- This program is released under the GPL license. A copy (in case you don't already have hundreds of them floating around) can be found in this distribution in the file COPYING CONTRIBUTORS: ------------- Christian 'Greek0' Aichinger Did some code cleanup and fixed several memory leaks. Ralf Horstmann Added ability to load pixmaps at startup, without having to re-compile Michael Cohrs Added Tool Tips, and updated graphics Bruno Essmann ) Creator of wmpager Ben Cohen original author of wmcp (et al.) Thomas Nemeth contributor to wmcp Casey Harkins Bug fix reading config file path - 3/6/99 Added button-presses, and other - denoted by *charkins* Michael Henderson Application ideas, suggestions Ryan ?? Modified wmbutton to asbutton. Note: asbutton is a seperate program, not associated with wmbutton (just as wmbutton is not associated with wmcp) Jon Bruno Web Page Development The contributors listed above are not necessarily involved with the development of wmbutton. I'm listing them here partially as thanks for helping out, catching bugs in the code, etc. INSTALLATION: ------------- Untar the file: tar xvzf wmbutton-*.tar.gz CD to source directory: cd wmbutton-* Edit background xpm, and buttons.xpm to your preferences There are icon files in ./icons to work from Compile it: make clean; make Copy the config file: cp .wmbutton ~ Put the executable somewhere in your path: mv wmbutton /usr/local/bin (or anyhere in your path) Run it: wmbutton & Grab the appicon and move it to the dock. Change the settings to start with Windowmaker Afterstep Wharf 1.6.??: *Wharf wmbutton -Swallow "wmbutton" wmbutton & ***Note***: The appicon has only a two pixel border where you can grab and move it. If make doesn't work, you may need to fiddle with the settings in the Makefile. Tested on: (Well, it runs, I don't know if 'Tested' is quite right...) WindowMaker-0.80.1 Afterstep 1.6.? Fluxbox 0.9.9 Clients: Red Hat 8.x, Kernel 2.4.18 USAGE: ------ wmbutton [-g geom] [-d dpy] [-f cfgfile] [-b btnfile] [-F ] [-v] [-s] [-n] -g Window Geometry - ie: 64x64+10+10 -d Display - ie: 127.0.0.1:0.0 -f Full path to configuration file. -b Full path to button xpm. -F Custom tooltip font (e.g. -b\&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-12-*) -v Verbose Mode. -h Help. This message. -m Disable Middle Mouse functionality. -s Swap tooltip colors. -n Turn off tooltips. Left mouse button: Selects the application to launch, numbered 1 through 9 Middle mouse button: (unless disabled (-m)) Selects the application to launch, numbered 11 through 19 Right mouse button: Selects the application to launch, numbered 21 through 29 NOTES: ------ This is a simple application launching tool for use in WindowMaker, and possibly Afterstep. (Who knows, it should run for other window managers too, by why bother?? It is taken from wmcp, by Ben Cohen, and modified just enough to run applications rather than send ALT-[1..9] key sequences to WindowMaker. It has also taken some ideas from asbuttons, and included them back into the original. There may still be some code left over from wmcp that is no longer needed, but... The mini-icons must be combined into a single graphic, buttons.xpm. The background border is defined in backdrop.xpm. Both must be edited in your favorite graphics editor (GIMP??), and then recompiled. wmbuttons uses a configuration file (usually ~/.wmbutton) for which applications to launch. There is no need to restart wmbuttons when simply changing the configuration, as wmbutton searches the file whenever a button is pressed. As of release 0.5, you can also pass in your own pixmap file for the buttons, to override the buttons that are compiled it. This file should still have the same height and width so that it will make sense, though really you give it any XPM you want, but it will only display the upper left 54x54 pixel corner. An example file is included, related to the the buttons.xpm graphic file. TODO: ----- Add ability (via config file) to use discrete 16x16 pixel icons for the buttons, rather than having to paste them all into the existing file. Make changing icons and/or background graphics easier. Allow for less than 9 icons, 4 would be nicer on the mini-icon size. BUGS: ----- Remember, they're just undocumented FEATURES!!! Probably Lots. Send comments (preferably with fixes) to Good Luck. "C code. C code run. Run, code, run. PLEASE!?!?!?!?!?!?"