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NAME
     mwmrc - The M*tif Window Manager configuration file

DESCRIPTION
     The  LessTif  window  manager mwm supports both a global configuration file
     /etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc and a per-user configation file ~/.mwmrc.

STRUCTURE
     Each mwm configuration file consist of blocks of bindings.  Each block con-
     sists of a block type keyword, a name 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 keyword.	The generic form of  the
     entries  is label mnemonic accelerator function .	Both mnemonic and accel-
     erator 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 Context Function .  For example:
	    <Btn3Down>	   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:
	    Alt<Key>Tab    root|icon|window    f.next_key

Label
     A label is either a plain string, or a bitmap. Bitmaps are indicated as "@"
     followed by the filename.	For example:
	    mailer @fortytwo.bmp

Mnemonic
     A	mnemonic is an underscore ("_") followed by a single character.  For ex-
     ample:
	    _M

Accelerator
     An accelerator is a key name.

Button name
     A button name is Btn followed by the number (1..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_raise,
     f.pack_icons,    f.pass_keys,    f.post_wmenu,   f.prev_cmap,   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.separa-
     tor, f.set_behavior, f.title, f.toggle_page, f.window_list.

EXAMPLE
     For a complete example, check out /etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc or look at  the
     system.mwmrc distributed with the LessTif sources.

AUTHORS
     mwm was written by the LessTif project, http://www.lesstif.org/ and others.
     This manpage was written by Ray Dassen <jdassen@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO
     mwm(1x)

LessTif Project 		    JULY 2001			       MWMRC(5x)
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