Customization

By right-clicking on Gw's main window, you can bring up a pop-up menu of commands to be used for communicating with other users. But before you can do that, you need to configure the program's preferences settings to set up the menu.

To do that, select Preferences from the Settings menu. This opens the Menu items dialog, shown in .

The main window pane of the Menu items window contains a listing the commands you'll see on the right-click menu. If the pane is empty, click on the Add some defaults button to fill in a list of basic commands useful in this situation.

Each command has a Name field and a Command Line field. The Name is the word that will appear on the right-click menu in GW's main window. The Command Line field is the command that will be executed.

For example, the predefined talk command, one of the defaults included when you click on Add some defaults, works this way: In Gw's main window, click on the name of the person you want to talk with, then right-click in Gw's main window and click on the ->talk+ + + + + + + menu item. Gw will execute the talk command, opening up an xterm and commencing a talk session with the user and terminal you had selected in the main window.

To add a command, click add and type in the command name and command in the text boxes at the top of the window. To delete a command, click on the command you want to delete, then the delete button.

After you have made all the changes you want, click on Apply to apply the changes, or OK to apply the changes and close the Properties dialog. To cancel the changes and return to previous values, click the Close button.