LessTif Vocabulary

MWMRC

NAME

mwmrc -The Motif Window Manager configuration file

DESCRIPTION

The Lesstif window manager mwm supports both a global configuration file /etc/X11R6/lib/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc and a per-user configuration file /home/foo/.mwmrc

STRUCTURE

Each mwm configuration file consist of blocks of bindings. Each block consist of a block type keyword, a menu and a set of entries between curly braces ("{" and "}").

An exclamation mark ("!") introduces a comment. Comments extend to the end of the line.

Block types

There are three types of blocks:

Menu bindings
Button bindings
Key bindings

Menu bindings

Menu bindings are introduced by the Menu keyboard. The generic form of the entries is "label mneumonic accelerator function".

Both "mneumonic" and "accelerator" may be empty. for example:

"Foo bar" _R Alt<Key>F5 f.restore

Button bindings

Button bindings are introduced by the Buttons keyword. The entries each are "Button name Content Function". For example:

<Bt3Down> icon|frame f.post_wmenu

Key bindings

Key bindings are very similar to button bindings. The entries each are "Key name Context Function". For example:

<Key> root|icon|window f.next_key

Label

Alabel is either a plain string, or a bitmap. Bitmaps are indicated as "@" followed by the filename. For example:

_M

Accelerator

An accelerator is a key name.

Button name

A button name is Btn followed by the number (1 to 5) and an action (Up, Down, Click, Click2); for example:

Btn2Click

Context

A context is a single string consisting of bar ("|") separated object names (root, icon, menub, minimizeb, maximizeb, window, title, frame, border); for example:

icon|title

Function

A function is a string starting with "f.". The functions are:

f.beep
f.circle_down
f.circle_up
f.desk
f.exec
f.focus_color
f.focus_key
f.goto_page
f.kill
f.lower
f.maximize
f.menu
f.minimize
f.move
f.next_cmap
f.next_key
f.nop
f.normalize
f.normalize_and_raize
f.pack_icons
f.pass_keys
f.post_wmenu
f.prev_key
f.quit_mwm
f.raise
f.raise_lower
f.refresh
f.refresh_win
f.resize
f.restart
f.restore
f.restore_and_raise
f.screen
f.send_msg
f.separator
f.set_behavior
f.title
f.toggle_page
f.window_list