WM-MISC(1) WM-MISC(1)
NAME
about, clock, coffee, colors, date, edit, mand, memory,
polyhedra, reversi, rt, stopwatch, sweeper, task, tetris,
unibrowse, view, winctl - miscellaneous graphical
applications
SYNOPSIS
wm/about
wm/clock
wm/coffee
wm/colors
wm/date
wm/edit [file]
wm/mand
wm/memory
wm/polyhedra
wm/reversi
wm/rt
wm/stopwatch
wm/sweeper
wm/task
wm/tetris [ -b blocksize ]
wm/unibrowse
wm/view [ -i ] [file...]
wm/winctl
DESCRIPTION
A collection of simple applications and utilities that oper-
ate under the Wm window manager. Other Wm applications
exist, see their respective manual pages for more informa-
tion.
wm/about
Display system version and copyright information.
wm/clock
Display an analogue clock.
wm/coffee
A whimsical plaything.
wm/colors
Displays the Inferno palette. Clicking on a particular
colour displays its RGB values.
wm/date
Displays the current date and time in a window.
wm/edit
A simple cut-and-paste text editor. Several menus
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provide the usual editing commands. Text selections
are dragged out using mouse button 1. Mouse button-2
displays a pop-up menu of the Cut, Copy and Paste com-
mands.
wm/mand
A fractal browser to explore the Mandelbrot and Julia
sets. Button 1 drags a rectangle to zoom into, button
2 shows the Julia set at the chosen point, button 3
zooms out. To produce more accurate pictures, the
iteration depth may be increased by altering the depth
scale factor. The default number of iterations per
point is 253. The sets are plotted by filling regions
of (apparently) the same colour. Deselecting the fill
option will plot the points in the usual fashion.
wm/memory
Displays memory usage. Three usage bars are displayed,
one for each of the Inferno memory pools: main, heap
and image. The current usage (in bytes) is displayed to
the left of each bar, and the number of blocks in use
appears in red. The maximum permitted size of each
pool is given (in megabytes) to the right of its usage
bar. Each bar also sports a highwater mark. The usage
data is re-read and displayed once every second.
wm/polyhedra
A program to display convex regular polyhedra. The menu
options allow the user to alter the speed of rotation
and the axis of rotation. To display a different solid,
move forward or back with the prev and next boxes.
Selecting the dual box will show the dual of a solid
rather than the original solid. Finally the edges,
clear and faces boxes determine whether edges are
shown, whether the screen is cleared before the next
plot and whether faces are shown respectively.
wm/reversi
An implementation of the popular game. The default set
up is for black to be the machine and white the human
player. Use the Black and White menu options to change
this. The level of any machine player may be set using
the Black level and White level boxes. This determines
the amount of lookahead performed by the tree search
algorithm.
wm/rt
A Dis module inspector: it can show the Dis instruc-
tions, strings, types and other attributes of a module;
it also allows the user to set some attributes stored
in a module's header.
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wm/stopwatch
A simple-minded stopwatch. Only useful for coarse-
grained timings.
wm/sweeper
Mine sweeping game.
wm/task
Task manager: it lists the processes running when it
starts, and offers buttons to kill a selected process,
kill its process group, show its open files, or debug
it using deb(1). A process is selected from the list
using mouse button 1. Task does not automatically
refresh the list; there is a Refresh button to prompt
it to do so.
wm/tetris
The ubiquitous and annoyingly addictive tile dropping
game. The game keys are: `7' move left; `8' rotate
(anti-clockwise); `9' move right; `p' pause; `space'
drop and `q' quit. A mouse or stylus can also be used
to guide the pieces (eg, by tapping the screen in the
desired direction). Scores are stored in the file
/lib/scores/tetris. Score file updates are not inter-
locked - it's only a game!
wm/unibrowse
A handy utility for browsing the unicode character set,
finding out what particular characters look like in
different fonts, finding out exactly which characters a
font provides, and finding the name of a character that
you have managed to grab into the snarf buffer.
wm/view
Image viewer. Displays GIF, Inferno image(6), JPEG,
PNG and X bitmap image files. The viewer creates a new
window to display the contents of each file. If no
arguments are given, the file browser panel filename(1)
is displayed to prompt the user to select an image file
to view. If the -i option is given, view continues to
listen for requests from the plumber(8); the -i option
will normally appear only in rules in plumbing(6)
files.
wm/winctl
Window management tool. Displays a set of buttons that
provide for: raising a window to the top or lowering it
to the bottom of the screen window stack; moving a win-
dow to a new position; iconising a window; deleting a
window.
Click on the button for the required action then click
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on the window to apply it to. When moving a window,
click and drag the target. Deleting a window is
error-prone. Currently using this tool on a charon or
acme window has strange effects.
PLUMBING
wm/view receives view messages
FILES
/lib/polyhedra
Polyhedra data base.
/lib/scores/tetris
Tetris high score table.
/lib/unidata
Directory holding Unicode character set information,
used by unibrowse.
/dev/memory
Provides memory with memory usage statistics.
SOURCE
/appl/wm/about.b
/appl/wm/coffee.b
/appl/wm/colors.b
/appl/wm/date.b
/appl/wm/edit.b
/appl/wm/mand.b
/appl/wm/memory.b
/appl/wm/polyhedra.b
/appl/wm/reversi.b
/appl/wm/rt.b
/appl/wm/stopwatch.b
/appl/wm/task.b
/appl/wm/tetris.b
/appl/wm/unibrowse.b
/appl/wm/view.b
/appl/wm/winctl.b
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