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amiwm(1)							      amiwm(1)

NAME
       amiwm - Amiga Workbench-like X Window Manager

SYNOPSIS
       amiwm

DESCRIPTION
       amiwm  is  an X Window manager that tries to make your workstation look
       like an Amiga®

OPTIONS
       Amiwm is configurable with a $HOME/.amiwmrc-file containing some or all
       of the following options:

FastQuit: {yes|no}
       Specifies whether amiwm should quit directly when the Quit menu item is
       selected, rather than popping up a requester.   (on/off	or  true/false
       can be used instead of yes/no.)

SizeBorder {right|bottom|both|none}
       Specifies which border should be enlarged when a sizegadget is present.

ForceMove {manual|auto|always}
       Enables	you  to	 move windows outside the perimeter of the root window
       when pressing shift, when trying to drag at least  25%  of  the	window
       ofscreen, or always, respectively.

IconDir path
       Specifies a directory in which amiwm will look for icons.

DefaultIcon name
       Gives  the  filename of the .info file to use as a default icon.	 It is
       relative to the IconDir.

IconPalette {system|magicwb|schwartz|“filename"}
       Selects either the Workbench® default palette,  or  the	MagicWorkbench
       standard	 palette  for  use with icons.	The third option is a 16 color
       palette used on the "Eric Schwartz Productions CD  Archive".   Alterna‐
       tively,	the filename of a PPM file representing the palette to use can
       be used.

ScreenFont “fontname"
       Selects a font to use for windowtitles etc.

IconFont “fontname"
       Selects a font for icontitles.

{detailpen|blockpen|textpen|shinepen|shadowpen|fillpen|filltextpen|
	       backgroundpen|highlighttextpen|bardetailpen|barblockpen|
	       bartrimpen} “colorname"

       Modifies the colour scheme for the window manager.

CustomIconsOnly {yes|no}
       This prevent applications to display their own icons when in  iconified
       state.	Only  icons  defined  in  amiwmrc  for each apps will be used.
       Because apps own icon are too different from one eachother.  They comes
       in various sizes and themes. Some icons will be 32x32, while some other
       will be a 128x128 or even bigger .. By using this option, You have  the
       possibility  to	decide	which icon should be used for each app.	 If no
       custom icons are defined at all, the def_tool.info will be used for all
       iconified apps. Format is: style { class "myClass" icon "myIcon.info" }
       To find out a given program's class, use "xlsclients -l"	 to  list  all
       opened  applications,  and  then	 use "xprop -id <0x0000000>" to list a
       given app's properties. Use either WM_CLASS or WM_ICON_NAME strings  in
       amiwmrc.

ShortLabelIcons {yes|no}
       This  limit the length of the text for iconified programs. For example,
       if this option is activated, an iconified program text will be  limited
       to  8 chars + ".."  Use this option if you don't want iconified program
       text to be loong strings..

TitleBarClock {yes|no}
       Enables a clock in the titlebar.	 It displays the date and time.

TitleClockFormat [<number>] time string
       This lets you choose a new format to display the Title Bar Clock.   The
       time  string is formatted with the standard strftime() parameters.  The
       default is "%c".	 It has been found that "%a %b %e %Y   %l:%M %p" works
       well too.  Number is the update interval in seconds.

ToolItem “name" “command" “hotkey"
       Adds  an item in the Tools menu with the specified name, which executes
       the command when selected.  A string containing a single uppercase let‐
       ter may be specified as the third argument, making this letter a hotkey
       for the item.

ToolItem Separator
       Inserts a separator bar in the Tools menu.

ToolItem “name" { <tool item commands>}
       Create ToolItem:s in a submenu with the	specified  name.   It  is  not
       legal to create a submenu inside another submenu.

Screen [<number>] “name"
       Create  a  new screen with the specified name.  It will be placed below
       all earlier created screens.  To move a	window	between	 two  screens,
       iconify	it  and drag the icon over to the other screen.	 If the second
       argument is given, this screen is placed on the corresponding X screen.

ModulePath “path(:path...)"
       Sets one or more directories where amiwm will look for module binaries.
       The  default  is	 AMIWM_HOME.   Note that the module binaries cannot be
       shared amongst different architectures.

Module “name" ["initstring"]
       Start a module with the specified name.	If initstring is specified, it
       is  sent	 to  the module.  There are currently two modules shipped with
       amiwm; Background and Keyboard.	 These	are  documented	 in  the  file
       README.modules.	 If  a	module is limited to a single screen, like the
       Background module, the screen that was created last is used.

InterScreenGap number
       Sets the size in number of pixels of the	 "video	 DMA  off"  area  that
       appears between screens when they are dragged.

AutoRaise {yes|no}
       Selects	whether	 windows will automatically be moved to the front when
       they are activated.

Focus {followmouse|sloppy|clicktotype}
       Sets the policy by which windows are given focus.  Followmouse  is  the
       default	and means that the window that contains the mouse pointer will
       have focus.  Sloppy means that the window that had focus last will keep
       it  when the pointer is not over a window.  ClickToType is the original
       AmigaOS policy in which you have to explicitly give focus to windows by
       clicking in them.

TROUBLESHOOTING
       The  most  likely  reason  for  amiwm  to crash is if it can't find its
       default icon, or if this is not accepted as a  *.info  file.   If  this
       happens,	 amiwm	_will_	dump  core.   So  make	sure that either 'make
       install' runs successfully (in which case amiwm	will  know  where  its
       icon is), or that the file .amiwmrc contains a correct specification of
       the icon's location.

FILES
       $HOME/.amiwmrc
       $AMIWM_HOME/system.amiwmrc

COPYRIGHT NOTICES
       This program is distributed as freeware. The copyright remains with the
       author.	 See  the  file LICENSE for more information.  Amiga and Work‐
       bench are registered trademarks of AMIGA International Inc.

AUTHOR
       Marcus Comstedt, marcus@mc.pp.se

				  19 Jul 2010			      amiwm(1)
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