The Menus

Documentation / Contents - Desks

• Overview of the Desks Overview
  • What Belongs to the Window Manager
• Switching Desks
  • Finding the Current Desk
  • The Scroll Arrows
• Moving Windows Between Desks
  • The Global Desk
  • Click, Double-Click and Drag
• Creating, Renaming, and Removing Desks
  • Naming a Desk
  • Adding a Desk
  • Removing a Desk
• The Menus
  • The Overview Menu
  • The Desk Menu
  • The Window Menu
  • The Help Menu
  • The Button 3 Popup
• Size, Orientation, and Labels
  • Scale
  • Orientation
  • Window Labels
  • Snapshots or Buttons
• Setting Preferences
  • The Overview Page
  • The Desk Names Page
  • Apply and Close
• Keys and Shortcuts
  • Overview Menu
  • Desk Menu
  • Window Menu
• Where the Settings Live
• Copyright Information

The Menus

The overview has four menus: Overview, Desk, Window and Help, in that order along the menu bar. The same four are on the popup you get by pressing the third mouse button anywhere in the map, which is what you use when the menu bar is hidden.

The Overview Menu

Hide Menubar          Ctrl+H
Show Global Desk
Hide Snapshots
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Display Window Name
Display Icon Name
Display No Names
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Scaling >
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Preferences...
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Exit                  Ctrl+Q

Hide Menubar takes the menu bar away and gives the space to the map. The third mouse button still reaches every menu, which is the only way back, so the popup is not a convenience here; it is the door.

Show Global Desk shows or hides the Global cell. See Moving Windows Between Desks.

Hide Snapshots switches between miniature windows and plain buttons. See Size, Orientation, and Labels.

The three Display items are a radio group: pick one. See Size, Orientation, and Labels.

Scaling is a submenu of five sizes plus a custom dialog; see below.

Preferences... opens the preferences panel. It is a Blueprint addition to this menu, and it is placed last so that it displaces nothing the original tool shipped. See Setting Preferences.

The Scaling Submenu

6%
7%
8%
9%
10%
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Custom...

The percentage is how big the map is relative to your real screen. Eight percent is the default. Custom... opens a slider dialog covering the full range, four percent to eighteen percent, in one percent steps, with Apply and OK: Apply lets you try a size without dismissing the dialog. See Size, Orientation, and Labels.

The Desk Menu

New Desk              Ctrl+N
Copy Selected         Ctrl+C
Rename Selected       Ctrl+R
Goto Selected         Ctrl+O
Delete Selected

Four of the five work; see Creating, Renaming, and Removing Desks.

Copy Selected is present but not yet live, and appears greyed. Nothing in this program is drawn as an active control while doing nothing.

Delete Selected has no accelerator on purpose.

The Window Menu

List All...           Ctrl+L
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Restore All           Shift+Ctrl+M
Minimize All          Ctrl+M
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Remove from Desk      Ctrl+D
Add to Global         Ctrl+G
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Minimize              Ctrl+E
Restore               Shift+Ctrl+E
Raise
Lower

The whole Window menu is present but not yet live. Every item appears greyed, and its accelerator does nothing, because an accelerator on an insensitive item does not fire.

The menu is shipped in this state deliberately, so the structure matches the original tool and so it is obvious what is coming. In the meantime the two verbs you are most likely to want are available another way: drag a miniature onto another cell to move a window, and onto the Global cell to make it sticky. See Moving Windows Between Desks. The window manager's own shortcuts cover minimize, restore, raise and lower for the focused window; see the MenuShortcuts book, from Help Books in the Contents pane .

The Help Menu

Click for Help        Shift+F1
Overview
Index
Keys & Shortcuts
Tutorial
Product Info

Overview opens this book at Overview of the Desks Overview. Index opens the book's contents. Keys & Shortcuts opens Keys and Shortcuts. Tutorial opens the overview walkthrough. Product Info opens Copyright Information.

Click for Help is greyed. It needs the help viewer's widget-path resolver, which is not built yet, so it stays inert rather than pretending to work.

The Button 3 Popup

Press the third mouse button anywhere in the map and the same four menus appear as a popup. It carries exactly the same items, wired from the same table, so nothing behaves differently there.

This is the only way back once you have chosen Hide Menubar.