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-\chapter{Preliminaries: Key concepts and relations}
-\label{chap:prelim}
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-The purpose of this chapter to explain some of key concepts and
-relations you need to understand before reading the following
-chapters. These include modules explained in section \ref{sec:modules}
-and the Ion class and object hierarchies, section \ref{sec:objects}.
-
-
-\section{Modules}
-\label{sec:modules}
-
-Ion has been designed so that the 'ion' executable only implements some
-basic services on top of which very different kinds of window managers
-could be build by loading the appropriate 'modules'. On modern system
-these modules are simply dynamically loaded \file{.so} libraries. On 
-more primitive systems, or if you want to squeeze total size of the 
-executable and libraries, the modules can optionally be statically 
-linked to the main binary, but must nevertheless be loaded with the
-\fnref{dopath} function. Modules may also include Lua code.
-
-If no modules are loaded, all client windows appear in full screen mode.
-To get better window management support, one or more workspace modules
-should be loaded. Currently Ion provides the following modules:
-
-\begin{description}
-    \item[\file{mod\_tiling}] Tilings for workspaces of the original tiled
-       Ion kind.
-    \item[\file{mod\_query}] Queries (for starting programs and so on)
-      and message boxes.
-    \item[\file{mod\_menu}] Support for menus, both pull-down and
-      keyboard-operated in-frame menus.
-    \item[\file{mod\_statusbar}] Module that implements a statusbar that
-      can be adaptively embedded in each workspace's layout.
-    \item[\file{mod\_dock}] Module for docking Window Maker dock-apps.
-      The dock can both float and be embedded as the statusbar.
-    \item[\file{mod\_sp}] This module implements a scratchpad frame that can
-      be toggled on/off everywhere. Think of the 'console' in some 
-      first-person shooters.
-    \item[\file{mod\_sm}] Session management support module.
-      \emph{Loaded automatically when needed!}
-\end{description}
-
-So-called drawing engines are also implemented as a modules,
-but they are not discussed here; see chapter \ref{chap:gr}.
-
-The stock configuration for the \file{ion3} executable loads all of the 
-modules mentioned above except \file{mod\_dock}.
-The stock configuration for the \file{pwm3} executable (which differs
-from the \file{ion3} executable in a few configuration details)
-loads another set of modules.
-
-
-\input{objects}