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Status for Xwu
Xwu is fully functional, but does not contain all the features I would like it to.Copyright for Xwu
XwuCopyright 1999, 2000 by RedHog (Egil Möller) <redhog@lysator.liu.se>
This program is subject to the GNU General Public License.
Updates
- redhog.3 (build nr. 0)
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- Initial assembling of the programs.
Xwu usage tips
To integrate Xmerge with fvwm2, add the following to the Window options menu in your .fvwm2rc-file:AddToMenu Window-Ops + "Attach under" Exec exec Xmerge vertical wid=$w select + "Attach over" Exec exec Xmerge vertical select wid=$w + "Attach to the right" Exec exec Xmerge horizontal wid=$w select + "Attach to the left" Exec exec Xmerge horizontal select wid=$wAfter adding this, you may merge the current window with some other window by bringing up the window options menu and selecting any of the four Attach-commands.
Xmerge is able to be integrated in this manner with all window managers that supports sending the id of the current window on the command line to a program started from a menu. To integrate it with other window managers, you may use the "active" window specification in place of the "wid=" specification. This unfourtunately does have a drawback. If the user unfocus the current window between selecting to start Xmerge from the menu, and Xmerge is finished loading, Xmerge will not merge the desired window, but the new focused window, or not merge at all if the root window has focus.
Xwu is a set of small utils which extends the functionality of a window-manager, but they are not window-manager-specific.The programs included in Xwu are:
Xmerge merges two windows, creating a new window, with two "frames", each of them containing one of the original windows. Those familar with frames for HTML documents in Netscape, it is very similar. The new window may be resized and moved, resulting in the two previous windows being moved or resized together. This is especially convienent on small displays, where a set of windows may be maximized together, to make use of all available space.
Xmini emulates the menu of the window-manager wm2. This menu contains a listing of all windows. When the user clicks on the menu-item corresponding to a window, that window is hidden or restored (the visibility toggled). As the user moves the mouse over the menu-items, the corresponding windows are temporary hidden or restored as a preview of what would happen, would the user click on the item. Most window-managers do not have this last feature, although most of them have a menu listing all windows, through which you can minimize/hide or restore them.
Xmerge merges two windows, creating a new window, with two "frames", each of them containing one of the original windows. Those familar with frames for HTML documents in Netscape, it is very similar. The new window may be resized and moved, resulting in the two previous windows being moved or resized together. This is especially convienent on small displays, where a set of windows may be maximized together, to make use of all available space.
Xmini emulates the menu of the window-manager wm2. This menu contains a listing of all windows. When the user clicks on the menu-item corresponding to a window, that window is hidden or restored (the visibility toggled). As the user moves the mouse over the menu-items, the corresponding windows are temporary hidden or restored as a preview of what would happen, would the user click on the item. Most window-managers do not have this last feature, although most of them have a menu listing all windows, through which you can minimize/hide or restore them.
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