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Themes For Window Maker
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Note: the information contained in this file is only valid for themes
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in the .themed (for theme directory) format, supported in
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Window Maker 0.20.4 or newer.
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How To Install a Theme Pack
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To install a theme, unpack your theme into your WindowMaker directory
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(the same as old-style themes), usually ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker
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cd ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker
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gzip -dc "xyztheme.tar.gz" | tar xvf -
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You can also do this in your system-wide WindowMaker directory (usually
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/usr/local/share/WindowMaker) to have the themes be available to all
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your users. This will probably need to be done with root access.
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Use the setstyle command to load a theme. Example:
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setstyle xyztheme.themed
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Note that if you move the directory of the theme (for example, from
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~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes to /usr/local/share/WindowMaker/Themes)
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you will have to reload that theme so that path information is updated.
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How To Make a Theme Pack
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To create a theme pack from your current configuration, use the getstyle
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utility with the -p flag. Example:
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getstyle -p ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/MyTheme
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This will create a theme pack (a new directory in either the current
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directory or a directory you specify) named MyTheme.themed, containing
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everything it requires, including all pixmap files. In this example,
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the new theme pack would be made in your themes directory and be
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immediately available in your Themes menu.
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Additionally, you can put a text file named MyTheme.lsm in the MyTheme.themed
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directory. This file can contain info like copyrights, credits or whatever.
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To distribute your theme, just make a .tar.gz of the .themed directory.
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This is preferably done from the same directory that you unpack the themes
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from to maintain consistancy with the old theme format.
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cd ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker
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tar cvf MyTheme.tar Themes/MyTheme.themed
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How To Delete a Theme Pack
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Just remove the .themed directory. Example:
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cd ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes
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rm -fr themename.themed
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How To Save Disk Space
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If you have more than 1 theme that use the same huge background image,
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you can delete all the duplicated files and then create hard links in
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place of them. For example, if you have:
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theme1.themed/back.jpg
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theme2.themed/backimage.jpg
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theme3.themed/back.jpg
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and all three files contain the same image, you can do:
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rm theme2.themed/backimage.jpg
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rm theme3.themed/back.jpg
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ln theme1.themed/back.jpg theme2.themed/backimage.jpg
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ln theme1.themed/back.jpg theme3.themed/back.jpg
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