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WMrack(1) | General Commands Manual | WMrack(1) |
NAME¶
wmrack - CD Player and Mixer dock appletSYNOPSIS¶
wmrack [options]DESCRIPTION¶
The wmrack is a combined CD player and Audio Mixer designed to be used with WindowMaker's dock. It can also be used with other window managers, and can be swallowed by a variety of tools, such as fvwm's button bar or gnome's panel. wmrack handles mounted volumes, opens and closes the tray, can display the current position in various ways and skips also data tracks. It gives you access to all your mixer devices, so that you may change volume or balance and set the record source.OPTIONS¶
- -b COLSPEC or --background COLSPEC
- Specifies the background color of the LED. It is avaiable
through the symbolic XPM colorname led_color_black. The other
colors of the LED can be changed using the -l option.
- -d DEVICE or --device DEVICE
- Sets the CD-ROM device. This defaults to /dev/cdrom.
- -h or --help
- Prints a summary of supported options and their default values.
- -l COLSPEC or --ledcolor COLSPEC
- Specifies the color of the led. It is darkened two times
(for a total of three colors) to get all needed colors. So better use a
bright color.
- -m DEVICE or --mixer DEVICE
- Sets the MIXER device. This defaults to /dev/mixer.
- -p or --noprobe
- This option disables the startup probing for a cd. Default is to probe the cdrom. This will close the tray and read the TOC of the cd (if there is one).
- -s STYLEFILE or --style STYLEFILE
- wmrack will try to load its window-pixmaps from the specified STYLEFILE. It will search this file for XPM pixmaps named cdnodisc, cdplaying, cdpaused, cdstopped, cdled, mixer, and mixled. If some of those are not defined, the compile-time defaults will be used.
- -w or --withdrawn
- Starts the wmrack in withdrawn window state. This is useful to dock the window to WindowMaker.
- -M MODESTRING or --mode MODESTRING
- By default wmrack will startup showing the CDROM controls. With this option you can specify what controls should be shown. Valid MODESTRINGS are cdrom, and mixer.
INVOCATION¶
wmrack can be called using different ways. The most common invocation is from your dock file:wmrack
WMRack
POSITION 2 -1 0
wmrack
--withdrawn
GENERAL USAGE¶
The wmrack features a simple click interface. All times the buttons will show a standart sign which specifies the action it will do. But there are some noteable extensions to that explained below.CDROM USAGE¶
The default behavior of wmrack is to try to read the cdrom at startup. If there was no cd, it will not try again unless you press the close or play button. This will close the cdrom and again try to read it. Unless there is a cd, wmrack will again suspend until your next action.- open tray
- Clicking an open/eject button with button-3 will always open the tray.
- skip
- By pressing the button down and holding it on one of the prev/next track buttons the cdrom goes fast forward or backward.
- time left
- A button-1 click into the time display switches between time running and time left display.
- total time
- A button-2 click into the time display switches between track and total time.
- repeat
- A button-3 click into the time display cycles through normal mode, repeat all, and repeat one play mode.
- randomize
- Clicking Control-Button-3 to the track display causes the
playlist to be randomized. No track will repeat, the tracks are just mixed
up.
- start programming
- Click Control-Button-1 into the track display to start programing a new playlist. You will see a short PR:OG message in the time display and a M will show up in the lower left corner of the display.
- add track to list
- Use the prev-/next-track buttons to select a track and click Mod1-Button-1 into the track display to add it to the playlist. The time display will show the number of the tracks in the list and the number of the selected track for a short time and will than switch back and display the total ength of the playlist.
- clear list
- To abort the programing of a playlist click Control-Button-1 into the track-display.
- start playing the list
- Simply press the PLAY button to play the list.
MIXER USAGE¶
Main controls of the mixer are the two volume scales at the left and the right side of the display. Using the mouse the scales can be modified.- button-1
- change volume of clicked scale
- button-2
- change volume of both scales
- button-3
- change the balance of the volume
- button-1
- go to the next device
- button-2
- go to the main volume (first device)
- button-3
- go to the previous device
- control-button-1
- show all devices
- control-button-3
- remove current device
- button-1
- toggle record source button
- button-2
- set as record source and clear all other
COPYRIGHTS¶
Copyright 1997, Oliver Graf <ograf@fga.de>. 2003-2006, Chris Waters Most styles copyright 1997, Heiko Wagner <hwagner@fga.de>.AUTHORS¶
Oliver Graf <ograf@fga.de> -- original authorCREDITS¶
Rob Malda <malda@cs.hope.edu> -- who had written ascd and asmixer1 June 1997 | 3rd Berkeley Distribution |