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the background to bring up the menus (If you have a two-button mouse,
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@email{sawfish-list@@gnome.org}
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@item How do I restart Sawfish?
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From a shell lauch the following command: @code{sawfish-client -q -f restart}
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@item How do I read the Info manual?
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Basically though, create a directory @file{~/.sawfish/themes/@var{foo}}
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where @var{foo} is the name of your theme. Then copy any images into
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this directory and create a file @file{theme.jl} that will be loaded to
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@file{README} in the directory (but make it 80-column text, and only a
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Recent versions of sawfish include a program @code{sawfish-themer} that
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allows simple themes to be created using a GTK+ interface. Ian McKellar
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has created @code{GimpMill}:
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really cool Python GIMP bindings. It allows the construction of Sawmill
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themes within The GIMP - extending the GIMP interface to allow theme
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creation like the GAP extends it to allow animation creation.
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GimpMill is available from @url{http://www.yakk.net/projects.gimpmill.html}
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@item How do I port an Enlightenment theme to sawfish?
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@item How do I port an Enlightenment theme to Sawfish?
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window border, then write a @file{theme.jl} file telling the window
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@item Are there any other themes available?
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Thanks to those nice people at themes.org, there's now
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@url{http://sawmill.themes.org/} for your theming pleasure
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@item Why don't GTK themes work with sawfish?
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Yes, there are plenty actually. Most of them reside over at freshmeat: @url{http://themes.freshmeat.net/browse/926/}.
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You can also take a look at the Themes section on the Sawfish website: @url{http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Themes}.
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@item Why don't GTK themes work with Sawfish?
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There was a problem with older versions of the @code{gtk-engines}
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package preventing engine based themes working with several interpreted
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@item Will you add background setting?
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No. This can easily be done by a separate application (e.g. with the
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GNOME hints, simply monitor property @code{_WIN_WORKSPACE} on the root
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@item Is there a sawfish mailing list?
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subscription instructions and archived messages.
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@item Is there a sawfish IRC channel?
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Sawmill has an irc channel too! It's on EFNet, and called (of all
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crazy things), #sawmill. So break out your irc clients, or hop on over
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if you're already addicted. Theme, lisp, general sawmill, and most
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other random discussion welcome.
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@item Why does sawfish look weird/crash on Solaris?
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@item Is there a Sawfish mailing list?
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You can browse the archives at @url{http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/}.
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@item Is there a Sawfish IRC channel?
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@item Why does Sawfish look weird/crash on Solaris?
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@item Why don't some windows ever get focused?
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haven't asked for it' checked (group Focus/Advanced), then windows that
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haven't asked for it' set to nil (define-special-variable ignore-window-input-hint nil),
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appropriately; for example if I xprop a gnome-terminal:
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