87 lines
3.7 KiB
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87 lines
3.7 KiB
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What is wmCalClock?
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wmCalClock is a simple Calendar Clock that uses anti-aliased characters and
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drop shadows. Doesn't do much except tell time...
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What is wmCalClockKbd?
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wmCalClockKbd has all features of wmCalClock and add very simple actual
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keyboard group indicator (for XFree86 >= 4.3.0).
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In another way, it's dockable application for WindowMaker (but you can also
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use it in AfterStep, BlackBox, ...) window manager. wmCalClockKbd can show
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actual time, date and keyboard group. This application was written, because I
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could not find any application such wmkbd, which I use with previous versions
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of XFree86. I could not think out any nice looking app using the whole dock
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icon, so I modified one of the app in my dock. The inspiration was also
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gSwitchIt applet and its libxklavier.
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Installation
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You also need to have installed devel packages of XFree86 and libxpm in order
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to compile this application. Then unpack the application and run
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make
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make install (as root)
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to compile and install. You shouldn't have any problem with it, application was
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tested on Mandrake Linux 9.1. There might be also some .rpm packages on
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project web pages.
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The wmCalClockKbd should also run on other un*x systems too, but I don't test
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it. If you have any good experience of running it on such system, please send
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me some report describing this system.
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Usage
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If you want to use the keyboard indicator, you really need to have
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XFree86 >= 4.3.0! If you use more keyboard maps, it should be set properly.
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There is example of my X86Config-4 InputDevice section:
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Section "InputDevice"
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Identifier "Keyboard1"` # keyboard name
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Driver "Keyboard"
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Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # you might use pc105, if you have Win keys on your keyboard
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Option "XkbLayout" "us,cz_qwerty" # most important! I have configured two keyboard layouts (groups) - US/ASCII and Czech(qwerty), you can use up to 4 layouts
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Option "XkbCompat" ""
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Option "XkbOptions" "default,grp_led:scroll,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp:switch"
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# ^^^ use some default options to avoid Mandrake bug
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# ^^^ indicate alternative groups by switching the scroll led
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# ^^^ switch groups by pressing Alt+Shift (left)
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# ^^^ use right alt to set second group, while it is pressed down
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EndSection
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you can also use setxkbmap, if you don't want to edit you XF86Config-4:
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setxkbmap -layout "us,cz_qwerty,de" -option "default,grp:alt_shift_toogle"
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for example. Once, when you have configured your keyboard properly, you can
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run wmCalClockKbd with -kb option:
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wmCalClockKbd -kb "us.xpm,cz.xpm"
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which tells to wmCalClockKbd to use us.xpm file for first group and cz.xpm for
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the second group. Images are taken from the default location specified in
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PREFIX file. You can use up to 4 images, but the number of images must be the
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same as number of configured layouts (groups), otherwise app disable keyboard
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indicator functions. Please make also sure, that there is your national image
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in pixmaps directory. If not, you can make new one (dimension are 54x35
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pixels, color depth depends on you system) and send it to me (I will add it to
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source files, but please don't break any Copyrights when making it).
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There is another one new option -kbt, which sets how much will be the keyboard
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image transparent when merging with date sign (default options is 0.25, you
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can you any number from 0.0-1.0, but useful values are 0.1-0.5).
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All wmCalClock options works like in the original version, you can read about
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them in olddoc/ dir of source codes or use -help switch.
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Copyright
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wmCalClock is copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2003 by Michael G. Henderson, Petr
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Hlavka and licensed through the GNU General Public License. Read the COPYING
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file for the complete GNU license.
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