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 xdpy-
info(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 running Window Maker. It will be over-
written.
~/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 Edi-
tor.
/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 absolute 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 direc-
tory. "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 directory (this is useful, for example, in
those cases where the system-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), seti-
cons(1x), wmaker(1x), wxpaste(1x), getstyle(1x), set-
style(1x), wmsetbg(1x)AUTHOR
Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@win-
dowmaker.org>, Dan Pascu <dan@windowmaker.org> with con-
tributions from many people around the Internet.
This manual page was written by Marcelo E. Magallon, <mma-
gallo@debian.org>.
August 1998 Window Maker(1x)
