Base(1) AfterStep X11 window manager Base(1)

NAME

Base - essential AfterStep configuration options

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

BrowserCommand number command

Selects web browser to be used by AfterStep when using the
ExecBrowser command. Out of supplied list - all possibilities
are checked to be present on the system, and first available
one will be used.

The default number/command combination is: 0 - $BROWSER, 1 -
sensible-browser, 2 - x-www-browser, 3 - firefox, 4 -
mozilla-firefox, 5 - mozilla, 6 - opera


CursorPath path[:path]

Specifies the paths to locate the cursor files in.


DeskTopScale number

If the geometry is not specified, then a desktop reduction
factor is used to calculate the pager's size. Things in the
pager window are shown at 1/number of the actual size.


DeskTopSize W x H

If W or H are less or equal to 100 - they define number of
rows and columns in virtual desktop, each sized same as the
screen. Otherwise W and H define the exact size of the virtual
desktop in pixels, but to be no less then the size of the
screen.


DisableKDEGlobalsTheming

If set will prevent AfterStep from updating private kdeglobals
file when colorscheme is changed. kdeglobals needs to be
updated in order to set colors for KDE apps to match that of
the selected colorscheme.


DisableSharedMemory

Disables shared memory support in afterstep. Use this if you
run X remotely, or have issues with shared memory in general.


EditorCommand number command

Selects editor to be used by AfterStep when using the
ExecEditor command. Out of supplied list - all possibilities
are checked to be present on the system, and first available
one will be used.

The default number/command combination is: 0- $EDITOR,
1-nedit, 2-xemacs, 3-gedit, 4-kedit, 5-kate


FontPath path[:path]

Specifies the paths to locate the font files in.

Suported are standard X11 fonts and Truetype fonts through the
FreeType library.


IconPath path[:path]

Specifies the paths to locate the bitmaps in, typically used
only if XPM, JPEG, or PNG images aren't available. Valid
bitmaps are standard X11 XBM's.


ModulePath path[:path]

Specifies the paths to locate the Modules in.


Path path:path:path

Specifies the search paths for icons (IconPath), fonts
(FontPath), pixmaps (PixmapPath), cursors (CursorPath) and
scripts (ScriptPath). Multiple entries for a given search path
are separated by a colon.


PixmapPath path[:path]

Specifies the paths to locate the pixmaps in. Valid pixmaps
are currently XCF, XPM, PPM/PNM, ICO, GIF, XML Images, JPEG,
PNG and TIFF.


TermCommand number command

Selects terminal emulator to be used by AfterStep when using
the ExecInTerm command, where the first matching one will be
used.

The default number/command combination is: 0 -
x-terminal-emulator, 1-aterm, 2-rxvt, 3-eterm, 4-xterm


gtkrc20Path path

set fullfilename for gtkrc file to be generated by AfterStep
from gtkrc-20_template on colorscheme changes. Default is
~/.gtkrc-2.0. Change to prevent mangling of your own gtkrc.
More sensible approach is to edit the template.


gtkrcPath path

set fullfilename for gtkrc file to be generated by AfterStep
from gtkrc_template on colorscheme changes for GTK 1.x apps.
Default is ~/.gtkrc. Change to prevent mangling of your own
gtkrc. More sensible approach is to edit the template.


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