Man page for apt-get afterstep Command
This tutorial shows the man page for man afterstep in linux.
Open terminal with 'su' access and type the command as shown below:
man afterstep
Result of the Command Execution shown below:
AfterStep(1x) AfterStep X11 window manager AfterStep(1x)
NAME
AfterStep X11 window manager
STANDARD OPTIONS
The following is the list of command line options supported by all AfterStep modules and applications.
v | version
Display version information and stop.
c | config
Display Config information and stop.
h | help
Display uasge information and stop.
debug
Debugging: Run in Synchronous mode.
s | single
Run on single screen only.
r | restart
Run as if it was restarted. same as regular startup, only runs RestartFunctioninstead of InitFunction.
d | displayval
Specify what X display we should connect to. Overrides $DISPLAY environment variable.
f | config fileval
Read all config from requested file. Use it if you want to use .steprc instead of standard config files.
p | user dirval
Read all the config from requested dir. Use it to override config location requested in compile time.
g | global dirval
Use requested dir as a shared config dir. Use it to override shared config location requested in compile time.
V | verbosity levelval
Change verbosity of the AfterStep output. 0 will disable any output; 1 will allow only error messages; 5 both errors and warnings(default).
windowval
Internal Use: Window in which action occured. interface part which has triggered our startup.
contextval
Internal Use: Context in which action occured. interface part which has triggered our startup.
lookval
Read look config from requested file. Use it if you want to use different look instead of what was selected from the menu.
feelval
Read feel config from requested file. Use it if you want to use different feel instead of what was selected from the menu.
themeval
Read theme config from requested file. Use it if you want to use different theme instead of what was selected from the menu.
l | logval
Save all output into the file. (instead of printing it to console).
L | localeval
Set language locale. to be used while displaying text.
mynameval
Overrides module name. will be used while parsing config files and reporting to AfterStep.
geometryval
Overrides module's geometry.
gravityval
Overrides module's gravity.
AfterStep has been almost entirely rewritten in this new incarnation. Here is the short list of new architectural changes:
1.1. New high performance and high quality image handling engine has been developed to fulfill GUI needs. It includes different image transformations,
such as scaling, tiling, cropping, blurring, blending of arbitrary number of layers, in memory image compression, support for 12 different file for
mats, including its own parser/writer of XPM files, capable of achieving much better performance then default libXpm. Supported image formats are :
XPM, PNG, JPEG, XCF(GIMP image format), PPM, PNM, BMP, ICO, CUR, GIF, TIFF, and XML scripts. Where XML scripts allow for user to create script of
transformations to be performed on the image at the time when it gets loaded./para> libAfterImage also provides support for TTF fonts ( using
libfreetype ) and smoothed standard X raster fonts.
1.2. Window hints handling has been rewriten and reorganized, and most of the Extended WM specs has been incorporated, as well, as better support for
Motif, ICCCM and old GNOME hints has been implemented.
1.3. All the GUI rendering code has been aggregated into libAfterStep and now all the GUI elements are rendered using consistent approach in every
module and every part of the AfterStep proper. From now on interface is build from so called TBars. TBar is rectangular area that may be
focused(hilited) or unfocused and pressed or unpressed. Each TBar has the following structure :
the background of the TBar, which is defined by MyStyle and state of the bar there are two MyStyles assigned to each TBar one for focused and
one for unfocused state.
tiles of the TBar. Tiles are smaller features that gets arranged inside the bar according to its size, alignment, position and order. Tiles could be
static icons ( cannot be pressed ); blocks of buttons each having two shapes pressed and normal; Text labels; Empty space tiles.
There could be upto 256 tiles, each residing on one of the cells in 16x16 grid. Several tiles could reside in single cell, in which case they get
superimposed on top of each other.
bevel of the TBar. When TBar is rendered all of its tiles are superimposed on top of its background, and resulting image will have a 3D bevel drawn
on it, using colors from same MyStyle as used for background. Bevel could be switched off partially or entirely. Respective configuration options has
been added where appropriate. When TBar is pressed its bevel is inverted.
When TBar is rendered all of its elements gets superimposed on top of each other using one of 13 blending methods supported by libAfterImage, with
default being simple alphablending. See MyFrame configuration for more details. This is refrred to as "Composition Method".
1.4. Due to the fact that AfterStep is using compression to store images in memory there is no need to have separate root background handler, and so
asetroot has been discontinued and afterstep proper now does all the root background loading. You could simply copy and paste your asteroot config
into your look file. This has an added advantage of simplifing theme support for root backgrounds.
1.5. Significant work has been done to create libAfterConf which provides easy means for reading configuration options, and facilitates implementation
of any configuration tool.
1.6. Some work has been done to improve support for themes. AfterStep proper and modules now load configuration files is this order :
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