Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Preliminaries: Key concepts and relations
  • 2.1 Modules
  • 2.2 Class and object hierarchies
    • 2.2.1 Class hierarchy
    • 2.2.2 Object hierarchies: WRegion parents and managers
    • 2.2.3 Summary
  
  
• 3. Basic configuration
  • 3.1 The configuration files
  • 3.2 A walk through cfg_ion.lua
  • 3.3 Keys and rodents
    • 3.3.1 Binding handlers and special variables
    • 3.3.2 Guards
    • 3.3.3 Defining the bindings
    • 3.3.4 Examples
    • 3.3.5 Key specifications
    • 3.3.6 Button specifications
    • 3.3.7 A further note on the default binding configuration
  • 3.4 Menus
    • 3.4.1 Defining menus
    • 3.4.2 Special menus
    • 3.4.3 Defining context menus
    • 3.4.4 Displaying menus
  • 3.5 Winprops
    • 3.5.1 Classes, roles and instances
    • 3.5.2 Finding window identification
    • 3.5.3 Some common examples
  
  
• 4. Graphical styles
  • 4.1 Drawing engines, style specifications and sub-styles
    • 4.1.1 Known styles and substyles
  • 4.2 Defining styles for the default drawing engine
    • 4.2.1 The structure of the configuration files
    • 4.2.2 Defining the styles
    • 4.2.3 An example
  • 4.3 Miscellaneous settings
    • 4.3.1 Extra fields for style frame
    • 4.3.2 Extra fields for style dock
  
  
• 5. Scripting
  • 5.1 Hooks
  • 5.2 Referring to regions
    • 5.2.1 Direct object references
    • 5.2.2 Name-based lookups
  • 5.3 Alternative winprop selection criteria
  • 5.4 Writing ion-statusd monitors
  
  
• 6. Function reference
  • 6.1 Functions defined in ioncore
    • 6.1.1 WClientWin functions
    • 6.1.2 WFrame functions
    • 6.1.3 WGroup functions
    • 6.1.4 WGroupCW functions
    • 6.1.5 WGroupWS functions
    • 6.1.6 WInfoWin functions
    • 6.1.7 WMPlex functions
    • 6.1.8 WMoveresMode functions
    • 6.1.9 WRegion functions
    • 6.1.10 WRootWin functions
    • 6.1.11 WScreen functions
    • 6.1.12 WWindow functions
    • 6.1.13 global functions
    • 6.1.14 gr functions
    • 6.1.15 string functions
    • 6.1.16 table functions
  • 6.2 Functions defined in mod_tiling
    • 6.2.1 WSplit functions
    • 6.2.2 WSplitInner functions
    • 6.2.3 WSplitRegion functions
    • 6.2.4 WSplitSplit functions
    • 6.2.5 WTiling functions
  • 6.3 Functions defined in mod_query
    • 6.3.1 WComplProxy functions
    • 6.3.2 WEdln functions
    • 6.3.3 WInput functions
  • 6.4 Functions defined in mod_menu
    • 6.4.1 WMenu functions
  • 6.5 Functions defined in mod_dock
    • 6.5.1 WDock functions
  • 6.6 Functions defined in mod_sp
  • 6.7 Functions defined in de
  • 6.8 Hooks
  
  
• A. The GNU General Public License
• B. Full class hierarchy visible to Lua-side
• Index