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%| section "Interactive shell", "shell"
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%|command! "rumai"
This command starts an IRB (Interactive Ruby Shell) session, which places
you a command prompt like this:
irb(Rumai):001:0>
The irb(Rumai) token in the command prompt indicates that
commands will be evaluated _inside_ the `Rumai` module. As a result, you
can omit the "Rumai" prefix from your commands if you wish.
For example, to get the current client object, you can type `curr_client`
instead of having to type `Rumai.curr_client` at the prompt. Both
commands achieve the same effect.
The next thing to note is that **TAB completion** is enabled by default.
So you can type part of a command and press the TAB key to see a list of
possible completions.
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%| section "Live demonstration", "Tutorial"
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Now that you know <%= xref "shell", "how to start the interactive shell" %>,
let us walk through a (hopefully) quick demonstration that highlights the
main features of Rumai. You can follow along by copying & pasting the
presented commands into the interactive shell.
%|open_terms = lambda do
Launch a few terminals so that we have something to work with:
%|code :ruby
colors = %w[ red green blue black orange brown gray navy gold ]
colors.each {|c| system "xterm -bg #{c} -title #{c} -e sh -c read &" }
%|close_terms = lambda do
Close the terminals we launched earlier:
%|code :ruby
terms = curr_view.clients.select {|c| colors.include? c.label.read }
terms.each {|c| c.kill }
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%| section "Automated client arrangement"
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% open_terms.call
Arrange all clients in a grid:
%|code :ruby
curr_view.arrange_in_grid
Arrange all clients in a diamond shape:
%|code :ruby
curr_view.arrange_in_diamond
Arrange all clients like LarsWM does:
%|code :ruby
curr_view.arrange_as_larswm
% close_terms.call
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%| section "Multiple client grouping"
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% open_terms.call
Add the red, green, and blue terminals into the "grouping":
%|code :ruby
terms = curr_view.clients.select do |c|
%%w[red green blue].include? c.label.read
end
terms.each {|c| c.group }
You should now see a new button labelled as "@" on the left-hand side of
wmii's bar, indicating that there is now a new view labelled "@" in wmii.
Let us inspect what clients this mysterious view contains:
%|code :ruby
v = View.new "@"
puts v.clients.map {|c| c.label.read }
Aha! The mysterious view contains the red, green, and blue clients we
recently "grouped". Thus, by adding a client to the "grouping", we are
simply tagging the client with the "@" token.
Now that we have put some clients into the "grouping", let us move all
clients in the grouping to the floating area in the current view:
%|code :ruby
grouping.each {|c| c.send "toggle" }
Neat! Let us bring them back into the managed area:
%|code :ruby
grouping.each {|c| c.send "toggle" }
% close_terms.call
In summary, you can select multiple clients (by adding them to the
"grouping") and perform operations on them. This is useful when you want
to do something with a group of clients but do not want to manually focus
one, perform the action, focus the next one, and so on.
Another important aspect is that selected clients stay selected until they
are unselected. This allows you to continue performing tasks on the
selection without having to reselect the same clients after every
operation.
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%| section "Easy column manipulation"
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% open_terms.call
You can insert a group of clients to the top, bottom, or after the
currently focused client of _any_ column using Array-like methods.
Give each client its own column (one client per column):
%|code :ruby
curr_view.each_column {|c| c.length = 1 }
Put (at most) three clients in every column:
%|code :ruby
curr_view.each_column {|c| c.length = 3 }
Move the red, green, and blue clients into the floating area:
%|code :ruby
rgb = %w[red green blue]
terms = curr_view.clients.select {|c| rgb.include? c.label.read }
curr_view.areas[0].push terms
Slurp all floating clients into the last column:
%|code :ruby
list = curr_view.areas
a, b = list.first, list.last
b.concat a
Set the last column's layout to stacking mode:
%|code :ruby
b.layout = 'stack'
Move the red, green, and blue clients to the top of the second column:
%|code :ruby
curr_view.areas[2].unshift terms
Move the red, green, and blue clients to the bottom of the third column:
%|code :ruby
curr_view.areas[3].push terms
% close_terms.call
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%| section "Easy client manipulation"
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% open_terms.call
Obtain a reference to the red client:
%|code :ruby
red = curr_view.clients.find {|c| c.label.read == "red" }
Show the red client's current tags:
%|code :ruby
red.tags
Add the "foo" and "bar" tags to the red client:
%|code :ruby
red.tag "foo", "bar"
Remove the "bar" tag from the red client:
%|code :ruby
red.untag "bar"
Do complex operations on the red client's tags:
%|code :ruby
red.with_tags { concat %w[a b c]; push 'z'; delete 'c' }
Focus the next client after the red client:
%|code :ruby
red.next.focus
curr_client == red.next #=> true
Notice that by focusing a client, we make it the current client.
Focus the red client on a different view:
%|code :ruby
orig = curr_view
v = red.views.last
red.focus v
Return to the original view:
%|code :ruby
orig.focus
Send the red client to the last column:
%|code :ruby
red.send curr_view.areas.last
% close_terms.call
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%| section "Traversing the file system"
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Show the root node of wmii's IXP file system:
%|code :ruby
fs
Show the names of all files at the root level:
%|code :ruby
fs.entries
Show the parent of the root node:
%|code :ruby
fs.parent
Show the children of the root node:
%|code :ruby
fs.children
Navigate into to the /lbar/ directory:
%|code :ruby
n1 = fs.lbar
n2 = fs['lbar']
n1 == n2 #=> true
left_bar = n1
Notice that you can traverse the file system hierarchy by simply calling
methods on node objects. Alternatively, you can traverse by specifying an
arbitrary sub-path (relative path) using the `[]` operator on a node.
Create a new temporary button:
%|code :ruby
b = left_bar.rumai_example # path of new button
b.exist? #=> false
b.create
b.exist? #=> true
You should now see an empty button on the left-hand side of the wmii bar.
Color the button black-on-white and label it as "hello world":
%|code :ruby
content = "#000000 #ffffff #000000 hello world"
b.write content
b.read == content #=> true
Remove the temporary button:
%|code :ruby
b.remove
b.exist? #=> false
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%| section "More commands"
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See the `Rumai` module in the [API documentation](api/index.html) for a
complete list of commands (method calls really) and their documentation.