Runs in: Linux i386 (and more?)
Email: ehall at freeshell dot org
README:
aespanel - a panel for aewm++
=============================About the Project
-----------------I really like the aewm style, but fspanel, the basic panel provided for aewm++, doesn't really fit with the window manager. I rewrote bits and pieces of Frank Hale's slightly modified fspanel until I had something that (I think) better matches the aewm++ design and function.
Thanks, of course, to Peter Zelezny for making fspanel, and to Frank Hale for aewm++, which itself is a C++ rewrite of Decklin Foster's aewm, and to all of them for making their stuff freely available.
Build/Run
-----Nothing out of the ordinary, I guess:
$ make # make install $ aespanel [OPTIONS]
Options
-------- -display DISPLAY
- Specifies which display to use.
- -fn FONT-SPEC
- Use specified font for titles/clock.
- -fg COLOR, -bg COLOR, -bd COLOR, -fc COLOR
- Use COLOR for the foreground (font), background (of active window's button), border, and faded (inactive) background colors, respectively. (Note that the -fc option is available in aewm++, but doesn't seem to be documented there.)
Usage
-----In keeping with the aewm++ method of separate mouse buttons having separate behaviors in a shared space, the on-click function of aespanel varies by button used, not by location of the click. Clicking with the left mouse button selects a task. Clicking the right mouse button selects a virtual desktop. Either of these buttons can be held down and dragged left and right, allowing for faster and less careful mouse movements when choosing between tasks or desktops. This draggable selection method comes from the very clever WindowLab project. The center mouse button, clicked anywhere, hides the entire panel, since it renders over top of mplayer when I'm trying to watch movies in full-screen. The panel is retrieved by moving the cursor to the bottom edge of the screen.
Bugs/Un-features
----------------- Sometimes the selection of a different virtual desktop will not result in an appropriate re-drawing of the panel. This seemed much more common when I was running it in a 512x400 Xnest.
- The clock format is not changeable. It really ought to be.
- I didn't put the border width option in, although for better unity with aewm++, it really ought to be included.
- I'll go in and clean up the source sometime, removing all the commented-out bits of fspanel that I was keeping.
Note
----aewm++ is so incredibly unpronounceable, and fspanel, moderately so. aespanel doesn't have to be. I say it: ace-panel.
Done
----31 Aug 2004 Evan Hall ehall at freeshell dot org
Updates
----[18 Feb 2018] I relocated these files to freeshell from their former home at a now-defunct host.