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This WindowMaker Dockapp is designed to be very general purposed. It is capable to display any kind of information as long as it's in text-format.
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This WindowMaker Dockapp is designed to be very general
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purposed. It is capable to display any kind of information
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as long as it's in text-format. It uses plugins (or modules
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if you like) to retrieve the information, any script or
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program that sends its output to stdout can be used. wminfo
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simply captures this information and displays it row by row.
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You can scroll the information both vertically and horizont-
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ally so even though the window only fits 5 rows at a time
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you can scroll down (by clicking with the mouse in the lower
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left corner) and reveal more rows. Vertically you can scroll
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a specific row by clicking it or scroll all rows by clicking
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the upper right corner.
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Possible uses for this application is system logging, whats-
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on-tv-ticker, news headline ticker, weather info, freshmeat
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announcements, stock ticker, you name it! If the plugin
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fetches information by http or ftp it is obviously best if
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it uses common utilities like lynx or wget for the retrieval.
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There are switches in the app that (by default) discards html-
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tags and multiple consequtive blanks so that the parsing won't
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be such a pain in the *ss :). Another useful option is to
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have wminfo monitor changes in the information and start
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scrolling the rows that changed.
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WWW: ${HOMEPAGE}
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