wmaker - X11 window manager with a NEXTSTEP look


SYNOPSIS

       wmaker [-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.

              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...

              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>.


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