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NAME

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

-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

--dont-restore
do not restore saved session

--global_defaults_path
print the path where the files for the default configuration
are installed and exit

--help print the list of command line options supported, one per
line, and exit

--locale locale
specify the locale (i18n language) to use; Window Maker will
also set the variable LANG which will be inherited by all
applications started from Window Maker

--no-autolaunch
do not launch at start-up the applications that were marked in
the configuration as autolanched

--no-clip
do not show the workspace Clip

--no-dock
do not show the application Dock

--no-drawer
disable the Drawers in the Dock

--no-polling
disable the periodic check on the configuration file to reload
it automatically

--static
do not update or save automatically the configuration

--version
display Window Maker's version number and exit

--visual-id
specify the ID of the visual to use; see xdpyinfo(1) for a
list of visuals available in your display

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 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/etc/WindowMaker/
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 necessary 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...

/usr/share/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/Icons/
Window Maker looks for icons 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 (Window Maker-specific) pixmaps are located here

/usr/share/WindowMaker/Styles/
System wide styles are here

/usr/share/WindowMaker/Themes/
Guess... ;-)

ENVIRONMENT

WMAKER_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 variable is not set,
it defaults to "~/GNUstep"

GNUSTEP_USER_APPS
specifies the location of the user's GNUstep Apps directory.
If this variable is empty, it defaults to
~/GNUstep/Applications.

GNUSTEP_LOCAL_APPS
specifies the location of the system-wide local GNUstep Apps
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, it defaults to
/usr/local/GNUstep/Local/Applications.

GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_APPS
specifies the location of the system-wide GNUstep Apps
directory. If this variable is empty, it defaults to
/usr/GNUstep/System/Applications.

SEE ALSO

The Window Maker User Guide

The Window Maker FAQ

WPrefs(1), X(7), wxcopy(1), wxpaste(1), geticonset(1), seticons(1),
getstyle(1), setstyle(1), wmsetbg(1), wmgenmenu(1), wmmenugen(1),
wdread(1), wdwrite(1)

AUTHOR

Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima
<kojima@windowmaker.info>, Dan Pascu <dan@windowmaker.info> with
contributions from many people around the Internet.

This manual page was created by Marcelo E. Magallon,
<mmagallo@debian.org> and is maintained by the Window Maker team.

February 2015 Window Maker(1)