quickbutton v1.0: Copyright (C) 1999 Toby Jaffey
April 11th 1999

Portions:
(Gtk stuff)
Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball and Josh MacDonald

This program is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

DESCRIPTION:
Quickbutton is a simple app that creates a window in a box for each argument
it is passed. For example, quickbutton "Mutt" "Pine" "tkRat" will generate a
window with three appropriately labelled buttons. Clicking on the buttons
will cause the program to output that argument on stdout. The program is
incredibly simple and can hopefully be used to provide quick X support for
some programs.

REQUIREMENTS:
Gtk 1.0.6

USES:
# ping your friends quickly and easily
quickbutton "www.theworld.com" "mybestfriend.org" "mygateway.org" | awk 'system("ping "$0)'
# change virtual terminals (see the Quake-HOWTO for chvt)
quickbutton 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | awk 'system("chvt "$0)'
# If you have a *really* lame window manager
quickbutton xterm | awk 'system($0)'
# visual address book
quickbutton Alice Bob Charlie | awk 'system("xterm -e mutt "$0)'
# which colour would you like today?
quickbutton pink blue green yellow pink red | awk 'system("xterm -bg black -fg "$0)'
# where would you like to go today?
quickbutton www.slashdot.org www.freshmeat.net www.gnu.org www.microshaft.com | awk 'system("xterm -e lynx http://"$0)'
# you get the idea

BUILDING:
edit Makefile.
"make"

INSTALLING:
cp quickbutton /usr/local/bin

ADDRESSES:
Please contact me with bug reports and suggestions.
email:    <psystrj@granby.nottingham.ac.uk>
homepage: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~psystrj
