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5 .TH WMBUTTON 1 "August 20, 2012"
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19 wmbutton \- dockable launcher application
22 .\"[-g \fIgeometry\fP] [-d \fIdisplay\fP] [-v] [-f \fIconfigfile\fP] [-h]
26 This manual page documents briefly the
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33 \fBwmbutton\fP 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.
36 \fBwmbutton\fP is configured using a configuration file, ~/.wmbutton (or /etc/wmbutton.conf). Its format is documented in the "Configuration" section below.
40 Window Geometry - ie: 64x64+10+10
43 Display - ie: 127.0.0.1:0.0
46 Full path to configuration file.
49 Full path to button xpm.
52 Custom tooltip font (e.g. \-b\&h\-lucidatypewriter\-medium\-*\-*\-*\-12\-*)
55 Verbose Mode, gives extra debug output.
58 Quick overview of available options.
61 Disable Middle Mouse functionality.
71 The configuration file is case sensitive. A # starts a comment, and lines consisting entirely of whitespace are ignored. The syntax is simply:
73 .B <buttonnumber> <command>
75 \fBcommand\fP can be anything you can type in as a shell command.
77 Buttons are numbered as follows:
101 To use other icons, wmbutton has to be rebuilt. View /usr/share/doc/wmbutton/README.Debian for further information.
105 .I /etc/wmbutton.conf
106 system wide wmbutton configuration file.
109 per user wmbutton configuration file. If it doesn't exist, the system wide wmbutton configuration file will be used.
113 wmbutton was written by Edward H. Flora <ehflora@access1.net>, and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
115 This manual page was originaly written by Gordon Fraser <gordon@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It was updated by Christian Aichinger <Greek0@gmx.net> and Rodolfo García Peñas (kix) <kix@kix.es>.