You need a working Xawtv in order to use Xawtv Applet. Just press the buttons to switch channel or change volume. You can use the tooltips to see what the buttons do.

Right-clicking on the applet brings up a menu containing the following items:

• Properties opens the Properties dialog.

• Help displays this document.

• About shows basic information about Xawtv Applet, inluding the applet's version and the author's name.

You can customize Xawtv applet by right-clicking on it and choosing Properties. This will open the Properties dialog(shown in ), which allows you to change various settings.

• Xawtv Display: Controls where Xawtv is running.

• Display Mode: This sets the apperance of xawtv_applet applet.

• Prevent XawTV from displacing the mouse pointer: This controls if xawtv_applet will try to prevent XawTV from messing with the mouse pointer (not need for recent versions of XawTV).

• Start Xawtv in fullscreen mode: If this button is checked, XawTV will be started in fullscreen mode.

• Show applet button tooltips: If this button is checked, tooltips will be displayed.

• Xawtv Command: The command executed to start XawTV.

• Look of XawTV every nth-second: If XawTV is not runing, xawtv_applet will query X every Nth second if XawTV has been started. A value of 0 means that this feature is disabled.

• Mouse wheel controls: This radiobutton controls what function the mouse-wheel controls.

This applet has no known bugs.

This program is free software; you can redistribute 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.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.