4.4. Page Manager
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### 4.4. Page Manager

Page Manager is entirely new thing. There is no concept of Pages in the original CDE, just workspaces (FVWM: desks). A nice FVWM feature of pages is too useful to be disabled and sacrificed just for the sake of even more CDE similarity, but really zealous user can configure NsCDE not to use pages, just workspaces. That is, 1 page per workspace. PGM is a dynamic FvwmButtons Icon southwest from the WSM, represented by the silver-gray icon of the workspace divided on pagesX x pagesY. Default is 2x2, that is, four pages per every workspace, which in default setup gives 4 x 4 = 16 screens for applications. Minimum for pages is 0, and maximum 16. For example, in maximal workspaces+pages configuration, one gets 8x16 desktop, that is 128 screens! While undoubtedly this is diversion from a even 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, 3x2 ...

Figure 22. Page Manager Menu

Figure 23. Page Manager Context Menu

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 active pointer screen is changed to the selected page. Second pointer button calls Workspace and Page Manager, while the third pointer button calls pages popup menu.

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