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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
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<TITLE>tkgoodstuff</TITLE>
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<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.29 i586) [Netscape]">
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<BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#FF0000">
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<H1>tkgoodstuff</H1>
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Screenshots:
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<blockquote>
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<A HREF="screenshots.html">A few sample configurations</A><BR>
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<A HREF="http://mars.superlink.net/ekahler/fvwm2.desktop.html">
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Eric Kahler's desktop</A><BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.coffeenet.net/help/index.html">
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CoffeeNet Help Page</A>
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</blockquote>
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<P>Tkgoodstuff for the X Window System is a utility panel---normally,
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a button bar. It is easily configured and modified using a GUI
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preferences manager. Some "clients" are included:
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analog/digital alarm clock, new-mail indicator, log file watcher, WWW
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browser launcher, dialup network dialer and status indicator, note
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taker/manager, calendar program alarm daemon, POP/IMAP mail fetching
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scheduler, system load display, system menu, and fvwm (window manager)
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support, including a window list (buttons for all running
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applications) and virtual desktop pager. See below for details about
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the clients. In addition to the clients, you can configure buttons to
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run commands, and you can embed any X program window in your bar (such
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as xosview, FvwmPager, etc.).</P>
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<P>Tkgoodstuff, especially when used with the fvwm window manager, can
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be set up to behave in many ways like the Win95 taskbar (spanning any edge
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of the screen, containing buttons for every running application, with the
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ability to "hide" along the side of the screen and to be "dragged"
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to another side, with a GUI-configurable menu, etc.). But it is not a taskbar
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"clone" and is considerably more customizable. </P>
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<H2>Included Clients </H2>
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<UL>
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<LI><B><A HREF="clock.html">Clock: </A></B>analog and/or digital time and/or
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date alarm clock. </LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="biff.html">Biff: </A></B>a feature-rich mail checker.</LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="net.html">Net: </A></B>indicates the status of a PPP or
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SLIP connection and allows you to bring the connection up or down with
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a click. Also can display net uptime, and can periodically "ping"
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so that the remote host won't close an inactive connection. Included is
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a GUI <A HREF="dialer.html">Dialer</A> program, which you can call from
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Net to dial your modem (with nice repeat-dial features), log you in, and
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start your network software while you watch. </LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="jots.html">Jots: </A></B>A tool for writing, editing, and
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searching for notes: diary entries, addresses, ftp sources, ideas, etc.
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Support for easy shuffling between multiple "folders" of entries.
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</LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="www.html">WWW: </A></B>Launch your web browser or instruct
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the browser to visit the URL in the current X selection. </LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="watch.html">Watch: </A></B>This client watches one or more
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files (e.g., log files) for changes with configurable alerts (and can display
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the files). </LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="load.html">Load: </A></B>An xload-like system load-average
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display (auto-scaling graphical, digital, or both). Button 1 launches an
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xterm running (for example) "top". </LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="menu.html">Menu: </A></B>A button that produces a menu,
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which is easily configured in the GUI preferences manager. </LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="webster.html">Webster: </A></B>Retrieve (over the net)
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the dictionary definition of a word (the current X selection). </LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="ical.html">Ical: </A></B>The program <A HREF="http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Sanjay_Ghemawat/ical/home.html">ical</A>
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(as opposed to this client) is a nice calendar program. The client reads
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your ical calendar and serves as an alarm daemon, posting alarm notices
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to your screen when ical would if you had it running.</LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="popimap.html">PopImap: </A></B>periodically run pop or
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imap client to get any new mail on remote mail server. Don't get too excited:
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the fetching is done by a program or script that you provide (e.g., <A HREF="http://locke.ccil.org:80/~esr/esr-freeware.html">fetchmail</A>).
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No button is produced by this client (though it produces some stuff in
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the tkgoodstuff popup menu). </LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="windowlist.html">WindowList: </A></B>For use with Fvwm,
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produces buttons for open/iconified windows (like the Win95 taskbar).</LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="pager.html">Pager:</A></B> For negotiating desktops with
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Fvwm. </LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="chooser.html">Chooser:</A></B> (by Eric Kahler) This client,
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at tkgoodstuff start-up, posts a list of tkgoodstuff configuration files
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to choose from. </LI>
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<LI><B><A HREF="tkman.html">TkMan:</A></B> (by Gary Dezern) The program
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<A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/tcltk/tkman-help.html">tkman</A>
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is a very nice man-page browser. Start tkman, or tell tkman to look up
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the man page for the word in the current X selection. </LI>
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</UL>
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<H2>Customizing Features</H2>
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<H3>User-defined buttons </H3>
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<P>The "standard" user-defined buttons can be configured to show
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either icons or (multi-line) text labels or both at once (with the icon
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on any side or in the background), and global options can request no labels
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or no icons. Among the unlimited possibilities here are use of the current
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X selection in your command, execution of unix and/or Tcl commands, and
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more. See the documentation on configuration for more. </P>
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<H3>"Swallow" Windows </H3>
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<P>If you really like xosview or xdaliclock or whatever, you can embed
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it within your panel as a Swallow item (tkgoodstuff "swallows"
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the application window). </P>
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<H3>Label boxes </H3>
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<P>A label box contains text, e.g., to label a group of related buttons.
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</P>
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<H3>Stacks </H3>
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<P>You can form vertical or horizontal stacks of elements (e.g., buttons
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and labels or other stacks), that can be nested indefinitely. If you're
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not careful, you might get something like the large example above (or worse).
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</P>
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<H3>Panels </H3>
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<P>You can create multiple panels (of buttons, labels, etc.) to place at
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different parts of the screen or to call up (like a menu) from a "PanelButton".
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<H2>Documentation </H2>
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<P>The only documentation for tkgoodstuff is in these html pages, which
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are included in the distribution's "doc" subdirectory. From the
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"About tkgoodstuff (help)" window accessed from the popup menu,
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you can launch a built-in help browser or your web browser (by default,
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netscape) to read these pages (either your local copy, installed automatically
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during tkgoodstuff installation, or the latest copy on the net). </P>
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