Window Maker(1x) Window Maker(1x)NAMEwmaker - X11 window manager with a NEXTSTEP look
SYNOPSISwmaker [-options]
DESCRIPTION
Window Maker is a X11 window manager with a NEXTSTEP look. It tries to
emulate NeXT's look as much as possible, but it deviates from it as
necessary.
OPTIONS--no-cpp
disable preprocessing of configuration files
--no-dock
do not show the application Dock
--no-clip
do not show the workspace Clip
-display host:display.screen
specify display to use. On multiheaded machines, Window Maker
will automatically manage all screens. If you want Window Maker
to manage only a specific screen, you must supply the screen
number you want to have managed with the -display command line
argument. For example, if you want Window Maker to manage only
screen 1, start it as: wmaker-display :0.1
--version
display version number and exit
--visual-id
specify the ID of the visual to use. See xdpyinfo(1x) for a list
of visuals available in your display.
--help print a brief help message
FILES
~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker
general Window Maker defaults.
~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState
information about the Dock and Clip. DON'T edit this while run‐
ning Window Maker. It will be overwritten.
~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu
Contains the name of the file to read the root menu from or the
menu itself, in property list format.
~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMWindowAttributes
Attributes for different application classes and instances. Use
the Attribute Editor (right drag the application's title bar,
select Attributes) instead of modifying this file directly.
There are just a few options not available using the Attributes
Editor.
/usr/share/WindowMaker/Defaults/
All the above-mentioned files are READ from here if not found
except for WMState, which is COPIED from here. No matter where
they are read from, if it's necesary to write configuration
changes back into this files, user's files will be written to.
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart
This script is automatically executed when Window Maker is
started.
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/exitscript
This script is automatically executed immediately before Window
Maker is exited. Note: If you need to run something that
requires the X server to be running from this script, make sure
you do not use the SHUTDOWN command from the root menu to exit
Window Maker. Otherwise, the X server might be shut down before
the script is executed.
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/
The menu file indicated in WMRootMenu is looked for here...
/etc/X11/WindowMaker/
and here, in that order. Unless, the indicated path is an abso‐
lute path.
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Pixmaps/
Window Maker looks for pixmaps here
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/
Window Maker looks for backgrounds here
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Styles/
Window Maker looks for style files here (not true... it looks
like it does, but you have to specify the full path anyway, it's
just a place to keep things nicely ordered)
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/
Window Maker looks for theme files here (ibid)
/usr/share/WindowMaker/Pixmaps/
System wide pixmaps are located here...
/usr/share/WindowMaker/Pixmaps/
and here.
/usr/share/WindowMaker/Styles/
System wide styles are here
/usr/share/WindowMaker/Themes/
Guess... ;-)
ENVIRONMENT
GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT
specifies the initial path for the Defaults directory.
"Defaults/" is appended to this variable to determine the actual
location of the databases. If the varialbe is not set, it
defaults to "~/GNUstep"
GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT
specifies the location of the system-wide local GNUstep direc‐
tory (this is useful, for example, in those cases where the sys‐
tem-wide location is really a network wide location). If this
variable is empty, GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is looked for.
GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT
specifies the location of the system-wide GNUstep directory. If
this variable is empty, it defaults to /etc/GNUstep
SEE ALSO
The Window Maker User Guide
The Window Maker FAQ
X(1x), wdwrite(1x), wxcopy(1x), geticonset(1x), seticons(1x),
wmaker(1x), wxpaste(1x), getstyle(1x), setstyle(1x), wmsetbg(1x)AUTHOR
Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.org>,
Dan Pascu <dan@windowmaker.org> with contributions from many people
around the Internet.
This manual page was written by Marcelo E. Magallon, <mma‐
gallo@debian.org>.
August 1998 Window Maker(1x)
