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.TH "Window Maker" 1x "January 1999" "Debian Project"
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wmaker \- X11 window manager with a NEXTSTEP look
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Window Maker is a X11 window manager with a NEXTSTEP look. It tries to
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emulate NeXT's look as much as possible, but it deviates from it as
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\fIPlease note this manpage has been modified to reflect changes in the
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Debian installation of Window Maker.\fP
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.B \-display host:display.screen
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specify display to use.
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On multiheaded machines, Window Maker will automatically manage all screens.
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If you want Window Maker to manage only a specific screen, you must supply
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the screen number you want to have managed with the
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command line argument. For example, if you want Window Maker to manage only
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screen 1, start it as:
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.B wmaker -display :0.1
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disable preprocessing of configuration files
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do not show the application Dock
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do not show the workspace Clip
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do not autolaunch applications
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do not restore saved session
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specify the locale to use
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create the standard colormap hint in PseudoColor visuals
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visual id of visual to use
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do not update or save configurations
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display version number and exit
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specify the ID of the visual to use. See
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for a list of visuals available in your display.
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print a brief help message
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.B ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker
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general Window Maker defaults.
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.B ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState
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information about the Dock and Clip. DON'T edit this while running
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Window Maker. It will be overwritten.
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.B ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu
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Contains the name of the file to read the root menu from or the
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menu itself, in property list format.
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.B ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMWindowAttributes
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Attributes for different application classes and instances. Use the
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Attribute Editor (right drag the application's title bar, select
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Attributes) instead of modifying this file directly. There are just a
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few options not available using the Attributes Editor.
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.B /etc/GNUstep/Defaults/
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All the above-mentioned files are READ from here if not found except
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for WMState, which is COPIED from here. No matter where they are read
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from, if it's necesary to write configuration changes back into this
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files, user's files will be written to.
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.B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart
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This script is automatically executed when Window Maker is started.
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.B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/exitscript
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This script is automatically executed immediately before Window Maker is
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If you need to run something that requires the X server to be running
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from this script, make sure you do not use the
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command from the root menu to exit Window Maker. Otherwise, the X server
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might be shut down before the script is executed.
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.B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/
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The menu file indicated in WMRootMenu is looked for here...
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.B /etc/X11/WindowMaker/
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and here, in that order. Unless, the indicated path is an absolute path.
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.B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Pixmaps/
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Window Maker looks for \fBpixmaps\fP here
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.B ~/GNUstep/Library/Icons/
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Window Maker looks for \fBicons\fP here
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.B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/
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Window Maker looks for backgrounds here
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.B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Styles/
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Window Maker looks for style files here (not true... it looks like it
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does, but you have to specify the full path anyway, it's just a place
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to keep things nicely ordered)
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.B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/
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Window Maker looks for theme files here (ibid)
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.B /usr/share/WindowMaker/Pixmaps/
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System-wide (Window Maker-specific) pixmaps are located here
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.B /usr/share/WindowMaker/Styles/
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System wide styles are here
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.B /usr/share/WindowMaker/Themes/
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.IP GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT
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specifies the initial path for the Defaults directory. "Defaults/" is
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appended to this variable to determine the actual location of the
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databases. If the varialbe is not set, it defaults to "~/GNUstep"
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.IP GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT
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specifies the location of the system-wide \fBlocal\fP GNUstep
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directory (this is useful, for example, in those cases where the
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system-wide location is really a network wide location). If this
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variable is empty, GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is looked for.
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.IP GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT
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specifies the location of the system-wide GNUstep directory. If this
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variable is empty, it defaults to /etc/GNUstep
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The Window Maker User Guide
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Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.org>,
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Dan Pascu <dan@windowmaker.org> with contributions from many people around
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This manual page was written by Marcelo E. Magallon, <mmagallo@debian.org>.
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