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layout: default
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title: Guided Tour - Clip
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---
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<h1><strong>
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<center>CLIP</center>
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</strong></h1>
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<p>
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</p>
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<center><a href="index.html">Back to index</a><br>
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</center>
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<ul>
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</ul>
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<p>By default, The clip is represented by the icon on the top left of
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the screen containing a paperclip image.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 64px; height: 64px;" alt="Clip icon" src="images/clip.png"><br>
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</p>
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<p>The clip's primary function is to serve as a workspace-specific
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dock. In
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other words, applications may be attached to the clip just as they are
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to the dock, but the clip and its associated applications are specific
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to each individual workspace - not available on all workspaces as they
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are on the dock.</p>
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<p>The clip's secondary function is to act as a "pager" - a utility for
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changing from one workspace to another (paging). The arrows at the top
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right and bottom left corners of the clip icon allow you to switch from
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one workspace to the next workspace (top right) or previous workspace
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(bottom left).
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</p>
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<p>The current workspace name (if any) and number are displayed on the
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clip. <br>
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</p>
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<p>The clip also has a number of menu-driven features.
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</p>
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<h2>Clip Menu</h2>
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<p>Right-clicking the clip displays a menu. </p>
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<center>
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<p><img src="images/clipm.jpg" alt="clip menu"> </p>
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</center>
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<h2>Clip Options<br>
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</h2>
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The first menu item allows you to select clip options. The following
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options are available:<br>
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<ul>
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<li><span style="font-style: italic;">Keep on top</span> - do not
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allow windows to cover the clip. <br>
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</li>
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<li><span style="font-style: italic;">Collapsed</span> - icons
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attached to the clip are hidden until you left-click the clip, which
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unhides them.</li>
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<li><span style="font-style: italic;">Autocollapse</span> - same as
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the previous option, except that mouseing over the clip unhides
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application icons.</li>
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<li><span style="font-style: italic;">Autoraise</span> - clicking an
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icon representing a
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window hidden under a larger window brings that window to the front.</li>
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<li><span style="font-style: italic;">Autoattract icons</span>
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- selecting this option attracts the icon of any application launched
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on the current workspace. Closing the application removes the icon from
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the clip.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Rename Workspace</h2>
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This item gives you to ability to name (or rename) the current
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workspace. <br>
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<br>
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Some users tend to group certain applications by workspace
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and like to name the workspace to indicate the nature of the
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applications on the clip. For example, a user might have a browser, an
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IRC client, and a file transfer application clipped on a workspace, and
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might name that workspace "internet" to indicate the workspace's
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primary function. The user might have a seperate workspace with a
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vector graphics application, an image manipulation application, and an
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image viewer on the clip, and might name that workspace "graphics."<br>
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<br>
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<h2>Other Options</h2>
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Right-clicking a clipped application's icon gives options specific to
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that application. <br>
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<ul>
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<li>You may make the application's icon <span style="font-style: italic;">omnipresent</span>
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(clipped on all workspaces). <br>
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</li>
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<li>You may <span style="font-style: italic;">select</span> one or all clipped icons. <br>
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</li>
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<li>You may <span style="font-style: italic;">move</span>
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one or all icons to a
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different workspace. <br>
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</li>
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<li>You may <span style="font-style: italic;">remove</span> the icon.</li>
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<li>You may instruct Window Maker to have all icons "<span style="font-style: italic;">attracted</span>" to
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the clip as soon as each application is launched, rather than placing them intially in the defined location on the display. </li>
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</ul>
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The remaining clip menu items are similar to those of the <a href="dock.html#conf" target="_blank">dock
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application icon menu</a>.
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As with the dock, clipped applications may be launched, hidden, or
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killed and their settings (icon used, application launch
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path/arguments, middle-click launch) may be
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modified. <br>
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<br>
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From version 0.80.0 on, the clip can "steal" appicons. This feature has
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nothing to
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do with autoattracting icons. When you start an application from somewhere
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other than either the clip or the dock (i.e., from the menu or a
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terminal), and the application is already either docked or clipped, a
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new application icon does not appear at the bottom
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of your
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screen. The icon that is already docked or clipped "steals" the icon
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function. As a
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result, the icon for the newly-launched application is the icon already on
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the
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clip or
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the dock. <br>
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<br>
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<center><a href="index.html">Back to index</a></center>
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