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  <bookinfo>
    <title>Gnome Midnight Commander Documentation</title>
    <authorgroup>
      <author>
	<firstname>Gregory</firstname>
	<surname>McLean</surname>
	<affiliation>
	  <address>
            <email>gregm@comstar.net</email>
          </address>
	</affiliation>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>
    <copyright>
      <year>1998</year>
      <holder>The GNOME Project - Gregory A. McLean</holder>
    </copyright>
    <legalnotice>
      <para>This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
        it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
        License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
        version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
        version.</para>

      <para>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
        useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
        warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
        PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
        details.</para>

      <para>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
        License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
        Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
        MA 02111-1307 USA</para>

      <para>For more details see the file COPYING that should have 
        been included in this distribution of the Gnome Midnight Commander.
      </para>
    </legalnotice>
  </bookinfo>
  <toc></toc>
  <chapter id="intro">
    <title>Introduction</title>
    <sect1 id="whatis">
      <title>What is the Gnome Midnight Commander</title>
      <para>
       The Gnome Midnight Commander (gmc) is the latest incarnation of the GNU
       Midnight Commander. It is a directory browser/file manager for 
       Unix-like operating systems.</para>
    </sect1>
    <sect1 id="thisdoc">
      <title>About this document</title>
      <para>This document is intended to explain the Gnome specific features
      of the Gnome Midnight Commander.</para>
    </sect1>
    <sect1 id="features">
      <title>Features of the Gnome Midnight Commander</title>
      <para>List the features of gmc...</para>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>
  <chapter id="installing">
    <title>Installation</title>
    <para>In this chapter we will describe the various ways to get the
    Gnome Midnight Commander installed and working on your system. Also
    we will discuss how to get the latest versions.</para>
    <sect1 id="latest-version">
      <title>Getting the latest version</title>
      <para>Where to get the latest stable version</para>
    </sect1>
    <sect1 id="source-install">
      <title>Installing with the source files</title>
      <para>Describe the source installation steps.</para>
    </sect1>
    <sect1 id="binary-install">
      <title>Installing pre-packaged binaries</title>
      <para>Describe the binary install steps.</para>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>
  <chapter id="using-gmc">
    <title>Using gmc</title>
    <para>Someone write this!</para>
  </chapter>
  <chapter id="customizing">
    <title>Customizing gmc</title>
    <para>Not happy with the way gmc does things or the looks of gmc, in this
     chapter we will show you all the customization options available to you.
    </para>
    <sect1 id="wmclass">
      <title>Window Manager Classes</title>
      <sect2 id="wmclass-intro">
	<title>Introduction</title>
	<para>This section describes the various window manager classes that have
       been set on the windows and dialogs that gmc uses. It is intended to aid
       you in customizing your environment.</para>
	<para>Where possible we have provided some example window manager 
       configuration file snippets.</para>
      </sect2>
      <sect2 id="classes">
	<title>The classes</title>
	<para>On all the desktop icons that gmc uses and displays the following
      window manager classes have been set on them.</para>
	<itemizedlist>
	  <listitem>
	    <para>gmc</para>
	  </listitem>
	  <listitem>
	    <para>desktop_icon</para>
	  </listitem>
	</itemizedlist>
	<para>Some window managers do not understand either the Gnome window
      manager hints or the Motif window manager hints. They end up making
      a terrible mess of the desktop icons. To work around this problem
      you can do the following.</para>
	<itemizedlist>
	  <listitem>
	    <para>FVWM and variants</para>
	    <para>Style "desktop_icon"    MinimalDecoration, CirculateSkip</para>
	  </listitem>
	</itemizedlist>
      </sect2>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>
</book>