Ubuntu Manpage: wmaker - X11 window manager with a NEXTSTEP look

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

       --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.

/etc/GNUstep/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 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

       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 variable 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

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)