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#!/usr/local/plan9/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 wmii.
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NOTE: Some characters in shortcuts have a special meaning. S is the Shift
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key, C is the Ctrl key, M is the Meta key (usually Alt), and the hyphen means
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that you have to press the surrounding keys at the same time.
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Let's go!
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- Start two xterms by pressing M-t twice.
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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 click the desired window.
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- Create a new page: M-C-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-S-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: M-S-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: M-C-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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- Open the actions menu: M-C-a
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Remove the current page by selecting the rmpage action. The xclock window
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will be automatically detached and we'll land on 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: M-C-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-Enter.
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- Working with mouse efficiently:
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selecting a window: just click the desired window
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move a window : press M+Button1Press and move the window
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resize a window (only with non managed): press M+Button3Press and resize it
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(this can also be done by clicking the titlebar of the window/borders respectively)
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- We'll now have a look at the internal filesystem used by wmii. Executing
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wmiir 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, wmiibar, wmiikeys, and wmiimenu. If you
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are curious, you can now dig deeper into the directory trees. For instance,
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wmiir 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. You can reread
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them at any time by pressing M-C-a and selecting 'welcome'.
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You should now take a look at the wmii(1) man page. An FAQ is available on
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<http://wmii.de>.
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END
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