Base(1x)

💖 Base(1x) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to Base — the manual page for the essential AfterStep configuration options, living in section 1x of the AfterStep X11 window manager docs. this is like… the starter pack of settings you gotta know. no cap. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Base — the absolute essential AfterStep configuration options. that's it, that's the whole vibe check. 💅

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🌸 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 🌸

bestie, here's every single one, in order, no skipping, we're eating the whole plate 🍓

• BrowserCommand number command — picks which web browser AfterStep uses when you run the ExecBrowser command. here's the cute part: out of the list you give it, AfterStep checks all the possibilities to see which ones are actually present on your system, and the first one that's available is the one that gets used. main character energy, honestly.

the default number/command combo is: 0 - $BROWSER, 1 - sensible-browser, 2 - x-www-browser, 3 - firefox, 4 - mozilla-firefox, 5 - mozilla, 6 - opera

• CursorPath path[:path] — tells AfterStep which paths to go looking for cursor files in. 💫
• DeskTopScale number — if the geometry isn't specified, then a desktop reduction factor gets used to calculate the pager's size. stuff in the pager window shows up at 1/number of its actual size. tiny pager, big world 🦋
• DeskTopSize W x H — if W or H are less than or equal to 100, they define the number of rows and columns in the virtual desktop, each one sized the same as the screen. otherwise, W and H define the exact size of the virtual desktop in pixels — but it can't be any less than the size of the screen. periodt.
• DisableKDEGlobalsTheming — if you set this, it stops AfterStep from updating the private kdeglobals file whenever the colorscheme changes. heads up though: kdeglobals needs to be updated in order to set colors for KDE apps so they match the colorscheme you picked. so like… set it if you must, but know the tradeoff, iykyk 😭
• DisableSharedMemory — disables shared memory support in afterstep. use this if you're running X remotely, or if you've got shared memory issues in general. 🔧
• EditorCommand number command — picks the editor AfterStep uses when you run the ExecEditor command. same deal as the browser one: out of the list you supply, every possibility gets checked to see if it's present on the system, and the first available one wins. 👑

the default number/command combo is: 0- $EDITOR, 1-nedit, 2-xemacs, 3-gedit, 4-kedit, 5-kate

• FontPath path[:path] — tells AfterStep which paths to look for font files in.

what's supported: standard X11 fonts, plus Truetype fonts through the FreeType library. slay 💖

• IconPath path[:path] — tells AfterStep which paths to find the bitmaps in. typically this is only used if XPM, JPEG, or PNG images aren't available. valid bitmaps are standard X11 XBM's. 🌈
• ModulePath path[:path] — tells AfterStep which paths to find the Modules in.
• Path path:path:path — sets the search paths for icons (IconPath), fonts (FontPath), pixmaps (PixmapPath), cursors (CursorPath) and scripts (ScriptPath). multiple entries for a given search path get separated by a colon. so like, colon = the divider, got it 🎀
• PixmapPath path[:path] — tells AfterStep which paths to find pixmaps in. valid pixmaps right now are XCF, XPM, PPM/PNM, ICO, GIF, XML Images, JPEG, PNG and TIFF. a whole buffet fr fr 🍓
• TermCommand number command — picks the terminal emulator AfterStep uses when you run the ExecInTerm command, where the first matching one is the one that gets used.

the default number/command combo is: 0 - x-terminal-emulator, 1-aterm, 2-rxvt, 3-eterm, 4-xterm

• gtkrc20Path path — sets the full filename for the gtkrc file that AfterStep generates from gtkrc-20_template whenever colorschemes change. default is ~/.gtkrc-2.0. change it to stop AfterStep from mangling your own gtkrc. though honestly? the more sensible approach is to just edit the template. 💅
• gtkrcPath path — sets the full filename for the gtkrc file that AfterStep generates from gtkrc_template on colorscheme changes, for GTK 1.x apps. default is ~/.gtkrc. change it to stop AfterStep from mangling your own gtkrc. and again — the more sensible approach is to edit the template. 🙈

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okay and that's the whole page bestie, no notes, you understood all of it, i'm so proud 🫶

and for the cute sign-off: this page comes to you from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, covering AfterStep v.2.2.12. iconic. bye bye 💜✨