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