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#!9PREFIX/bin/rc
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# display a welcome message that contains the wmii tutorial
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xmessage -file - <<END
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Welcome to wmii, the non-wimp environment of the WMI Project.
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This is a small step by step tutorial, intended to make you a little bit
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familiar with the wmii window manager.
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NOTE: Some characters in the shortcuts that are mentioned in the following
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text have a special meaning. S is the Shift key, C is the Ctrl key, M is
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the Meta key (usually Alt), and the hyphen means that you have to press the
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surrounding keys at the same time.
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Let's go!
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- Start a terminal by pressing M-t. This assumes that you have xterm(1)
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installed.
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- Open the actions menu: C-M-a
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Type 'term' and press Enter. You've now used wmimenu(1) to accomplish what
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wmikeys(1) did before when you pressed M-t: executing the term action.
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Notice how the tiled layout arranges the windows.
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- Switch between the three windows: M-j, M-k
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You can also use M-Tab instead of M-j. If you prefer the mouse, then
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just move the pointer above the desired window; no click is required.
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- Create a new page: C-M-y
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IMPORTANT: this text will then no longer be visible. In order to continue
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reading you'll now often have to go back to the first page. Use M-h
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or M-l for cycling through the existing pages. The digit in the left
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corner at the bottom indicates which page you're on. You can directly
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select a specific page as well: M-1, etc. Make sure that you are on the
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second page before performing the next steps.
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- Apply the float layout to the current page: S-M-f
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Watch the leftmost bar label: the 't', which stood for 'tiled', has now
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turned into an 'f', for 'float'.
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- Open the programs menu: C-M-p
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Type 'xclock' and press Enter.
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- Resize the xclock window: left-click on the border and, while holding the
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button down, move the cursor around.
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- Move the xclock window: left-click on the title bar and, while holding
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the button down, move the cursor around.
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- Remove the current page by opening the actions menu and selecting the premove
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action. The xclock window will be automatically detached and we'll land on
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the first page.
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- Attach the xclock window again: M-a
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- Select one of the terminals and close it: C-M-c
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Close xclock as well.
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- Swap the remaining terminal with the left master tile by moving the terminal
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window somewhere to the left. Afterwards, swap them once again, but this
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time by pressing M-return.
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- We'll now have a look at the internal filesystem used by wmii. Executing
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wmir read /
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in the shell of the terminal will list all the files in the root directory.
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Files ending with a slash are directories. As you can see, / contains a
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"normal" file and four directories. These directories correspond to the
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four main components of wmii: wmiiwm, wmibar, wmikeys, and wmimenu. If you
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are curious, you can now dig deeper into the directory trees. For instance,
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wmir read /bar/1/b1press
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will show you which command gets executed when you left-click on the page
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label in the bar.
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We hope that these steps gave you an idea of how wmii works. Of course, there
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is much more to say. You should now read the wmii(1) man page and the FAQ at
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<http://wmii.de>.
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END
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