wmbutton1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the wmbutton command.

wmbutton is a 64x64 pixel application that displays nine buttons and can be used as dockapp for X window managers such as Window Maker, AfterStep, BlackBox, and Enlightenment. Each of these buttons can be configured via a configuration file to run just about any application you would like to. Basically, if you can type it in a shell command, wmbutton can run it.

wmbutton is configured using a configuration file, ~/.wmbutton (or /etc/wmbutton.conf). Its format is documented in the "Configuration" section below.

Options

-g <geometry>

Window Geometry - ie: 64x64+10+10

-d <display>

Display - ie: 127.0.0.1:0.0

-f <filename>

Full path to configuration file.

-b <filename>

Full path to button xpm.

-F <font>

Custom tooltip font (e.g. -bh-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-12-*)

-v

Verbose Mode, gives extra debug output.

-h

Quick overview of available options.

-m

Disable Middle Mouse functionality.

-s

Swap tooltip colors.

-n

Turn off tooltips.

Configuration

The configuration file is case sensitive. A # starts a comment, and lines consisting entirely of whitespace are ignored. The syntax is simply:

<buttonnumber> <command>

command can be anything you can type in as a shell command.

Buttons are numbered as follows:

Left button

 	1 2 3
	4 5 6
	7 8 9

Middle button

	11 12 13
	14 15 16
	17 18 19

Right button

	21 22 23
	24 25 26
	27 28 29

To use other icons, wmbutton has to be rebuilt. View /usr/share/doc/wmbutton/README.Debian for further information.

Files

/etc/wmbutton.conf

system wide wmbutton configuration file.

~/.wmbutton

per user wmbutton configuration file. If it doesn't exist, the system wide wmbutton configuration file will be used.