1 .\" Hey, Emacs! This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
2 .TH "Window Maker" 1 "February 2015"
4 wmaker \- X11 window manager with a NEXTSTEP look
9 Window Maker is a X11 window manager with a NEXTSTEP look. It tries to
10 emulate NeXT's look as much as possible, but it deviates from it as
14 .BI \-display " host:display.screen"
15 specify display to use.
16 On multiheaded machines, Window Maker will automatically manage all screens.
17 If you want Window Maker to manage only a specific screen, you must supply
18 the screen number you want to have managed with the
20 command line argument. For example, if you want Window Maker to manage only
21 screen 1, start it as:
27 do not restore saved session
29 .B \-\-global_defaults_path
30 print the path where the files for the default configuration are installed and exit
33 print the list of command line options supported, one per line, and exit
35 .BI \-\-locale " locale"
36 specify the locale (i18n language) to use; Window Maker will also set the variable
38 which will be inherited by all applications started from Window Maker
41 do not launch at start-up the applications that were marked in the configuration as autolanched
44 do not show the workspace Clip
47 do not show the application Dock
50 disable the Drawers in the Dock
52 @!HAVE_INOTIFY@.B \-\-no\-polling
53 @!HAVE_INOTIFY@disable the periodic check on the configuration file to reload it automatically
54 @USE_ICCCM_WMREPLACE@.TP
55 @USE_ICCCM_WMREPLACE@.B \-\-replace
56 @USE_ICCCM_WMREPLACE@ask the currently running window manager to let Window Maker take his place
59 do not update or save automatically the configuration
62 display Window Maker's version number and exit
65 specify the ID of the visual to use; see
67 for a list of visuals available in your display
71 .B ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker
72 general Window Maker defaults.
74 .B ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState
75 information about the Dock and Clip. DON'T edit this while running
76 Window Maker. It will be overwritten.
78 .B ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu
79 Contains the name of the file to read the root menu from or the
80 menu itself, in property list format.
82 .B ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMWindowAttributes
83 Attributes for different application classes and instances. Use the
84 Attribute Editor (right drag the application's title bar, select
85 Attributes) instead of modifying this file directly. There are just a
86 few options not available using the Attributes Editor.
89 All the above-mentioned files are READ from here if not found except
90 for WMState, which is COPIED from here. No matter where they are read
91 from, if it's necessary to write configuration changes back into this
92 files, user's files will be written to.
94 .B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart
95 This script is automatically executed when Window Maker is started.
97 .B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/exitscript
98 This script is automatically executed immediately before Window Maker is
101 If you need to run something that requires the X server to be running
102 from this script, make sure you do not use the
104 command from the root menu to exit Window Maker. Otherwise, the X server
105 might be shut down before the script is executed.
107 .B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/
108 The menu file indicated in WMRootMenu is looked for here...
111 and here, in that order. Unless, the indicated path is an absolute path.
113 .B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Pixmaps/
114 Window Maker looks for \fBpixmaps\fP here
116 .B ~/GNUstep/Library/Icons/
117 Window Maker looks for \fBicons\fP here
119 .B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/
120 Window Maker looks for backgrounds here
122 .B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Styles/
123 Window Maker looks for style files here (not true... it looks like it
124 does, but you have to specify the full path anyway, it's just a place
125 to keep things nicely ordered)
127 .B ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/
128 Window Maker looks for theme files here (ibid)
130 .B @pkgdatadir@/Pixmaps/
131 System-wide (Window Maker-specific) pixmaps are located here
133 .B @pkgdatadir@/Styles/
134 System wide styles are here
136 .B @pkgdatadir@/Themes/
140 specifies the initial path for the Defaults directory. "Defaults/" is
141 appended to this variable to determine the actual location of the
142 databases. If the variable is not set, it defaults to "~/GNUstep"
143 .IP GNUSTEP_USER_APPS
144 specifies the location of the user's GNUstep Apps directory. If this
145 variable is empty, it defaults to ~/GNUstep/Applications.
146 .IP GNUSTEP_LOCAL_APPS
147 specifies the location of the system-wide \fBlocal\fP GNUstep Apps
148 directory (this is useful, for example, in those cases where the
149 system-wide location is really a network wide location). If this
150 variable is empty, it defaults to /usr/local/GNUstep/Local/Applications.
151 .IP GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_APPS
152 specifies the location of the system-wide GNUstep Apps directory. If this
153 variable is empty, it defaults to /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications.
155 The Window Maker User Guide
173 Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.info>,
174 Dan Pascu <dan@windowmaker.info> with contributions from many people around
177 This manual page was created by Marcelo E. Magallon, <mmagallo@debian.org>
178 and is maintained by the Window Maker team.