Tgwb's man pages.

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 tgwb n "Version 4.1 Patchlevel 43 and Above" "Tgwb"
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 NAME

tgwb - a shared vector-based drawing whiteboard, based
on tgif, for collaborating over the Internet.
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 SYNOPSIS

 tgwb [-no-wb]
[-no-chat]
[-chatnick <nickname>]
[<tgif-options>]
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 DESCRIPTION

Tgwb is a shared vector-based drawing whiteboard, based
on tgif(n), for collaborating over the Internet.
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 OPTIONS

The command line arguments can be:


 -no-wb Disable whiteboard.


 -no-chat No chat window will be initially visible. The chat window can be
made visible by selecting Show Chat in the
Show/Hide submenu of the Layout Menu.


 -chatnick <nickname> User's nickname will be set to <nickname>. This overrides the
Tgif.ChatNickName X default.


All other commandline options (<tgif-options>) are treated as
options for tgif(n).
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 CHAT WINDOW

In addition to tgif's windows, tgwb has a Chat window which has
a message display area and a toolbar on the bottom. The toolbar
contains the following items (from left to right):


 Auto-scroll Button If this button is depressed, the message display area will
scroll automatically to the bottom when a new message entered by
another user arrives.


 Color Button Clicking with the left/right mouse button or dragging
with the middle mouse button can change the user's chat color.


 Bold Button If this button is depressed, bold font will be used.


 Italic Button If this button is depressed, italic font will be used.


 Edit Area This is where the user can enter a message to be sent.
Pressing the <Enter> key has the same effect as clicking on
the Send Button.


 Send Button Click on this button sends the message in the Edit Area.
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 X DEFAULTS


 Tgif.NoChatWindow: [true,false] If set to ``true'', no Chat Window will be shown initially.
The default is false.


 Tgif.ChatNickName: STRING The STRING specifies a nickname to be used in chat.
By default, the value of the USER environment variable is
used as the user's nickname. The nickname specified here
can be overridden by the -chatnick commandline option.
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 SEE ALSO

tgif(n)
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 IDIOSYNCRASIES

Some idiosyncrasies are mentioned here.


Font size in the chat window cannot be changed dynamically.
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 BUGS

Joining the existing chat session does not work.

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 COPYRIGHT

Please see the ``Copyright'' file for details on the copyrights
of tgif(n). Please see the ``README.tgwb'' file for additional
copyright information.
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 STATUS

The current status of tgif(n) can be obtained from tgif's
World-Wide-Web home page at <URL:http://bourbon.usc.edu:8001/tgif/>.
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 AUTHOR

William Chia-Wei Cheng (bill.cheng@acm.org)


<URL:http://bourbon.usc.edu/william/>