<!doctype book PUBLIC "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN" [ ]> <book> <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>