[retawq] Window Kinds

retawq Documentation
Window Kinds

Introduction

retawq supports several different window kinds. Most of the time, you'll probably use windows of the kind "browser window"; in fact, you can use the program without ever using any other window kind.

The kind of a window is always indicated in the title line of the window, so you can easily recognize where you are and which operations might be available; the title line begins with a letter which has the following meaning:

- B - browser window
- I - information window

Browser Window

Each browser window can contain an arbitrarily long series of "views"; each view shows one document, e.g. one web page. You can navigate through the series of views with the keyboard commands "Cursor-left" and "Cursor-right"; this works like the "Back" and "Forward" buttons in graphical web browsers.

Information Window

Each information window contains one single document which conveys some information about another document, the result of an operation or the internal state of the program. The most usual information window contains information about a browser window view and is created with the keyboard command "I".

When you follow a link in an information window, the resulting document is shown in a newly created browser window.

This documentation file is part of version 0.2.6c of retawq, a network client created by Arne Thomaßen. retawq is basically released under certain versions of the GNU General Public License and WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Arne Thomaßen.