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FVWMANIMATE(1) Fvwm Modules FVWMANIMATE(1) NAME FvwmAnimate - the fvwm animate module SYNOPSIS Module FvwmAnimate [ModuleAlias] FvwmAnimate can only be invoked by fvwm. Command line invocation of the FvwmAnimate module will not work. From within the .fvwm2rc file, FvwmAnimate is spawned as follows: Module FvwmAnimate or from within an fvwm pop-up menu: DestroyMenu Module-Popup AddToMenu Module-Popup "Modules" Title + "Fvwm Animate Icons" Module FvwmAnimate ModuleAlias DESCRIPTION The FvwmAnimate module animates iconification and de-iconification or on command. There are currently 6 different animation effects. INVOCATION FvwmAnimate must be invoked by the fvwm window manager. When invoked with the OptionalName argument, the ModuleAlias is used to find configuration commands, configuration files, and name the internally generated menus and forms instead of "FvwmAnimate". During startup, FvwmAnimate defines menus and forms for configuring and controlling FvwmAnimate. The default menu name is "MenuFvwmAnimate" and the form name is "FormFvwmAnimate". If the optional name is used, the menu would be "Menu<ModuleAlias>" and the form would be "Form<ModuleAlias>". Assuming you already had a builtin menu called "Module-Popup", you could use FvwmAnimate by configuring it like this: AddToFunc "StartFunction" "I" Module FvwmAnimate AddToMenu "Module-Popup" "Control Animation" Popup MenuFvwmAnimate CONFIGURATION OPTIONS Since the pop up menu "MenuFvwmAnimate" allows complete control of the Fvw- mAnimate module, you don't really have to know what any of the configura- tion commands are. This section describes them anyway. FvwmAnimate gets configuration info from fvwm's module configuration data- base (see fvwm(1), section MODULE COMMANDS). In addition, FvwmAnimate reads the file $HOME/.FvwmAnimate, and accepts commands from fvwm and its modules as it runs. If ModuleAlias is used to start FvwmAnimate, the optional name is used in all commands, messages, menus and forms generated by FvwmAnimate and in the configuration file name. Unlike other fvwm modules, there is little reason to use the optional name. *FvwmAnimate: Color color Tells FvwmAnimate what color to draw with. The color is "XOR'ed" (ex- clusive ORed) onto the background. Depending on the display type you are using, the effect this causes will vary. Especially on 8-bit dis- plays, it helps if the background is a solid color. You have to experi- ment with this to see how it works. The default color is not really a color and can be entered as "Black^White", or more simply "None". This is the same as the default XOR mask used by fvwm for move and resize frames. Other colors can be specified using standard X color notation. Ie. color names like "LightBlue", or RGB values like "#FFFFFF". *FvwmAnimate: Pixmap pixmap Tells FvwmAnimate to use pixmap to draw with. This can be useful if *FvwmAnimate: Color gives poor results. *FvwmAnimate: Delay msecs Tells FvwmAnimate how many milliseconds to sleep between frames of ani- mation. *FvwmAnimate: Iterations iterations Tells FvwmAnimate how many steps to break the animation into. *FvwmAnimate: Twist twist Tells FvwmAnimate how many revolutions to twist the iconification frame. *FvwmAnimate: Width width Tells FvwmAnimate how wide a line to draw with. The default width of 0 (zero) is a fast line of Width 1. *FvwmAnimate: Effect mode Tells FvwmAnimate which animation effect to use. Currently the effects are: Frame, Lines, Flip, Turn, Zoom3D, Twist Random, and None. None is normally set in the configuration file, in-case FvwmAnimate is started automatically, but an individual user doesn't want it running. *FvwmAnimate: Stop Tells FvwmAnimate to stop. *FvwmAnimate: Save Tells FvwmAnimate to save the current configuration in a file named ".FvwmAnimate" in the users home directory. This same file is read au- tomatically by FvwmAnimate during startup. COMMANDS FvwmAnimate can be asked to produce an animation thru the "SendToModule" command. The format of the command is: SendToModule FvwmAnimate animate sx sy sw sh dx dy dw dh The second word must match the name FvwmAnimate is started with. The 8 fields after animate must be numbers. The first 4 are for the source (or starting) location of the animation. The last 4 are for the destination of the animation. The 2 pairs of 4 numbers, represent rectangles. The first 2 numbers are the x and y location of the upper right corner. The next 2 num- bers are the width and height. One or more spaces can separate the fields in the command. Modules can use the "SendToModule" command to animate "NoIcon" windows, or you can think up your own ways to have all kinds of fun with this command. Additional available commands are: pause, play, push, pop and reset. These may be space separated. pause causes a module to not temporarily produce any animations. play causes a module to produce an animation again. push stores the current playing state for a future and pop restores it. reset removes all stored states and sets playing on. Suppose, we don't want to wait for all 40 xterms to be animated: SendToModule FvwmAnimate pause All (XTerm) Iconify on And if we don't want to damage the current playing state, then: SendToModule FvwmAnimate push pause All (XTerm) Iconify on SendToModule FvwmAnimate pop ORIGIN FvwmAnimate is based on the Animate module from Afterstep 1.5pre6. Porting to fvwm and lots of other changes were done by Dan Espen despen@telcordia.com. Below are the original author and acknowledgments. AUTHOR Alfredo Kengi Kojima kojima@inf.ufrgs.br ACKNOWLEDGMENTS These people have contributed to FvwmAnimate: Kaj Groner kajg@mindspring.com Twisty iconification, configuration file parsing, man page. Frank Scheelen scheelen@worldonline.nl 2026-06-27 FVWMANIMATE(1)
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