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  27 <p>By default, The clip is represented by the icon on the top left of
  28 the screen containing a paperclip image.</p>
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  30 <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 64px; height: 64px;" alt="Clip icon" src="images/clip.png"><br>
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  33 <p>The clip's primary function is to serve as a workspace-specific
  34 dock. In
  35 other words, applications may be attached to the clip just as they are
  36 to the dock, but the clip and its associated applications are specific
  37 to each individual workspace - not available on all workspaces as they
  38 are on the dock.</p>
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  40 <p>The clip's secondary function is to act as a "pager" - a utility for
  41 changing from one workspace to another (paging). The arrows at the top
  42 right and bottom left corners of the clip icon allow you to switch from
  43 one workspace to the next workspace (top right) or previous workspace
  44 (bottom left).
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  47 <p>The current workspace name (if any) and number are displayed on the
  48 clip. <br>
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  50
  51 <p>The clip also has a number of menu-driven features.
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  54 <h2>Clip Menu</h2>
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  56 <p>Right-clicking the clip displays a menu. </p>
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  59 <p><img src="images/clipm.jpg" alt="clip menu"> </p>
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  62 <h2>Clip Options<br>
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  67 The first menu item allows you to select clip options. The following
  68 options are available:<br>
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  72   <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Keep on top</span> - do not
  73 allow windows to cover the clip. <br>
  74   </li>
  75   <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Collapsed</span> - icons
  76 attached to the clip are hidden until you left-click the clip, which
  77 unhides them.</li>
  78   <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Autocollapse</span> - same as
  79 the previous option, except that mouseing over the clip unhides
  80 application icons.</li>
  81   <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Autoraise</span> - clicking an
  82 icon representing a
  83 window hidden under a larger window brings that window to the front.</li>
  84   <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Autoattract icons</span>
  85 - selecting this option attracts the icon of any application launched
  86 on the current workspace. Closing the application removes the icon from
  87 the clip.</li>
  88 </ul>
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  90 <h2>Rename Workspace</h2>
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  93 This item gives you to ability to name (or rename) the current
  94 workspace. <br>
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  98 Some users tend to group certain applications by workspace
  99 and like to name the workspace to indicate the nature of the
 100 applications on the clip. For example, a user might have a browser, an
 101 IRC client, and a file transfer application clipped on a workspace, and
 102 might name that workspace "internet" to indicate the workspace's
 103 primary function. The user might have a seperate workspace with a
 104 vector graphics application, an image manipulation application, and an
 105 image viewer on the clip, and might name that workspace "graphics."<br>
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 109 <h2>Other Options</h2>
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 112 Right-clicking a clipped application's icon gives options specific to
 113 that application. <br>
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 115 <ul>
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 117   <li>You may make the application's icon <span style="font-style: italic;">omnipresent</span>
 118 (clipped on all workspaces). <br>
 119   </li>
 120   <li>You may <span style="font-style: italic;">select</span> one or all clipped icons. <br>
 121   </li>
 122   <li>You may <span style="font-style: italic;">move</span>
 123 one or all icons to a
 124 different workspace. <br>
 125   </li>
 126   <li>You may <span style="font-style: italic;">remove</span> the icon.</li>
 127   <li>You may instruct Window Maker to have all icons "<span style="font-style: italic;">attracted</span>" to
 128 the clip as soon as each application is launched, rather than placing them intially in the defined location on the display. </li>
 129 </ul>
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 131 The remaining clip menu items are similar to those of the <a href="dock.html#conf" target="_blank">dock
 132 application icon menu</a>.
 133 As with the dock, clipped applications may be launched, hidden, or
 134 killed and their settings (icon used, application launch
 135 path/arguments, middle-click launch) may be
 136 modified. <br>
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 140 From version 0.80.0 on, the clip can "steal" appicons. This feature has
 141 nothing to
 142 do with autoattracting icons. When you start an application from somewhere
 143 other than either the clip or the dock (i.e., from the menu or a
 144 terminal), and the application is already either docked or clipped, a
 145 new application icon does not appear at the bottom
 146 of your
 147 screen. The icon that is already docked or clipped "steals" the icon
 148 function. As a
 149 result, the icon for the newly-launched application is the icon already on
 150 the
 151 clip or
 152 the dock. <br>
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