3.4. Page Manager

Page Manager is entirely new thing. There is no concept of Pages in the original CDE, just desks (workspaces). This nice feature of pages is too useful to be disabled and sacrificed just to get even more CDE similarity, but really zealous user can configure NsCDE not to include pages, just desks. PGM is a dynamic FvwmButtons Icon southwest from the WSM, represented by the silver-gray icon of the desk divided on pagesX x pagesY. Default is 2x2, that is, four pages per every desk, which in default first run gives 4 x 4 = 16 screens for applications. Minimum for pages is 0, and maximum 16. For example, in maximal desks+pages configuration, one gets 8x16 desktop, that is 128 screens! While undoubtedly this is diversion from a more flexible plain FVWM configuration, it covers really great number of possible preferences. Pages can be configured in any XxY combination. For example 1x4, 2x3, 3x3, 2x1, 2x2 ...

Page Manager icon changes with the page to represent position of the current page on current workspace while user moves from page to page automatically with the help of the FvwmEvent(1) just like the Workspace Manager (WSM).

When clicked, popups menu with names of the pages. When option from the menu is selected, menu pops down and page is changed to the selected one. Middle pointer button calls Workspace and Page Manager, while the right pointer button calls visual Local Pager.