WMCONFIG (1)

SYNOPSIS

wmconfig \fB--output=\fImanager\fR [ \fB--rootmenu=\fRroot_menu_name ]

[ --flag=flags ] [ --sysdir=system_directory ]
   
[ --userdir=user_directory ]
   
[ --outputdir=output_directory ]
   
[ --no-icons ] [ --no-mini-icons ]
[ --directories ] [ --no-promote ]
[ --newstyle-directories ]
[ --no-sysdir ] [ --no-userdir ]
   
[ --help ]
[ --version ]
[ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION

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.

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:

        gv name "Ghostview"
        gv icon "ghostview.bmp"
        gv mini-icon "mini-gv.xpm"
        gv exec "gv &"
        gv group "Graphics/Viewers"

The format of the config file is: <package> <tag string> 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. This can have several possible values. Among them:

This is the name of the application, as it should be displayed in the menu. Example: name "My Cute Application"

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"

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.

This will result in the configuration (entries) for this application being completed (by copying) from another application. Example: copy anotherpackage

This is the command that will be excuted by the window manager when this menu entry is selected. Example: exec "xterm -T mailer pine"

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.

OPTIONS

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.

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, fvwm95 and afterstep). 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 path can be changed using --outputdir switch. newstyle-directories - enhanced version of directories. Menu has mini-icons. Only for AfterStep >= 1.5. no-promote - Menus that have only one application defined will be \"destroyed\" and that application promoted to the higher level menu (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 ...

This switch is used to set the system directory instead of using the default (which is /etc/X11/wmconfig).

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.

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.

The default output directory is ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start. Using this switch you can tell wmconfig to generate menu tree in specified path. Works only for --output=afterstep with directories or newstyle-directories flags.

Does the same thing as --flag=no-icons

Does the same thing as --flag=no-mini-icons

Does the same thing as --flag=directories

Does the same thing as --flag=newstyle-directories

Does the same thing as --flag=no-promote

Do not parse the files from the system-wide settings (/etc/X11/wmconfig) directory.

Do not parse the files from the user's $HOME/.wmconfig directory.

This is the popular "show me the help-screen !" switch.

This is the popular "what version was that ?" switch.

BUGS

Probably the source code of the whole thing is far more useful than this man page. The BUGS section of this man page might be inaccurate.

FILES

The default system directory containing wmconfig files

The default user directory containing wmconfig files

AUTHOR

Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
Red Hat Software, Inc.

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