With the desks overview, _o_v, users can create, change, copy, rename and
delete desks. Users can also drag windows from one desk to another or
place windows on the global desk.
Desks are available only when running a version of _4_D_w_m that includes
support for desks.
Users can launch the program from the toolchest (Desktop > Extra Desks)
or from a Unix shell command line. _o_v has the ``runonce'' feature,
meaning only one instance of the application will run at one time.
Attempting to launch the application a second time will have the effect
of deiconifying the application window and popping it to the top on the
current desk.
The user is presented with desk snapshots or miniature desk
representations, each with miniature windows representing the actual
windows on the current desk. The user's current desk is indicated by a
lit LED. The global desk shows windows that appear on all desks. For
detailed instructions, see the Help menu in the _o_v application.
With no arguments, _o_v comes up with its default settings. Optional
arguments are as follows:
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Specifies the size at which the desk snapshots are to be
displayed. The default is 0.10, for 10% of actual size.
----nnnnooooWWWWiiiinnnnddddoooowwwwNNNNaaaammmmeeee or ----nnnnoooowwwwnnnn
Turns off displaying of window names when the mouse passes over
the miniature windows in the overview. Icon names will appear
instead.
----hhhhiiiiddddeeeeSSSSnnnnaaaappppSSSShhhhoooottttssss or ----hhhhssssssss
Hides the desk snapshots (the miniature desk representations).
Desk names will appear as small space-saving buttons instead.
----nnnnooooGGGGlllloooobbbbaaaallllDDDDeeeesssskkkk or ----nnnnggggdddd
Hides the global desk.
----nnnneeeewwww Creates a new overview, disregarding the ``runonce'' feature. No
value needed.
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When desks are viewed as snapshots rather than as buttons, the
backgrounds of the miniature desks reflect the backgrounds of the actual
desks. Miniaturized windows in each desk icon appear in the background
colors of the windows they represent, taken from the background resource
(if readily available).
For more information about the entire IRIX Interactive Desktop
environment, see the IID(1) man page.
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/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Overview
$HOME/.Sgiresources
$HOME/.desktop-<hostname>/0.0/Overview
Configuration options are saved in the _O_v_e_r_v_i_e_w and ._S_g_i_r_e_s_o_u_r_c_e_s files
under the user's home directory.
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In past releases, _o_v's ``runonce'' feature did not work correctly. This
has been fixed in IRIX 6.5, such that users must use the ----nnnneeeewwww option to
run multiple copies of _o_v.
Transient windows (child windows of main application windows) do not
appear in the desks overview. For example, the Backgrounds: Color
Browser window available from the background customization panel is a
transient window.
The SGI window manager _4_D_w_m controls a window's placement and location on
a given desk. It also controls the number of desks that get created at
startup. The file that contains this information is $_H_O_M_E/._d_e_s_k_t_o_p-
<_h_o_s_t_n_a_m_e>/_0._0/_4_D_w_m_d_e_s_k_s.
The ----vvvviiiieeeewwwwBBBBuuuuttttttttoooonnnnOOOOnnnnllllyyyy and ----vvvvbbbboooo options have been replaced by ----hhhhiiiiddddeeeeSSSSnnnnaaaappppSSSShhhhoooottttssss