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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
       consists 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
       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 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
       example:
              _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.separator,
       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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