3 Information on Using Window Maker with KDE
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7 Window Maker supports almost all KDE/KWM specific client
8 communication protocols, so you can simply replace kwm with
9 Window Maker, if you think these advantages are worthy:
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13 Looks NEXTSTEP(tm)/NEXTSTEP(tm) Original, but reminds
16 Decoration solid, gradient, multi-color solid, vertical and
17 Textures gradient, pixmaps, textured horizontal gradient,
18 gradient - all gradients are pixmap
19 supported in horizontal,
23 Configurable No Yes, but not totally
26 Mini CLI Yes, but limited Yes
28 Window Specific Yes In KDE 1.1, yes.
29 Configuration In KDE 1.0, no.
31 Quick Keyboard Yes In KDE 1.1, yes
32 Navigation In KDE 1.0, no.
34 Pager KDE pagers will work as Yes
37 Session Not yet supported, but Yes, old (pre-X11R6) style
38 Management X11R6 style SM is being worked.
40 Dock kpanel, GNOME panel and Dock kpanel
44 Memory Usage(1) 1.85Mb Lite: 1.79Mb In KDE 1.0, 3.13Mb
45 In KDE 1.1, probably more
48 (1) Memory usage was tested by running wmaker and kwm at the same machine
49 with the same windows, on the same screen and similar window texture
50 configurations (at different times, of course). I looked in the output of
51 ps -m, in the SIZE field, right after starting the window managers. The Lite
52 value for wmaker, is for when it was compiled with --enable-lite.
58 To enable KDE support in Window Maker, you must compile it after
59 configuring it as follows:
60 ./configure --enable-kde --enable-lite
62 The --enable-lite flag is *optional*, but will reduce some memory
63 usage by removing things that are duplicated in Window Maker and KDE.
64 Do not enable it if you don't care about a few dozen kbytes of memory
65 savings (see table above). It won't make KDE or Window Maker any
68 Then, open WPrefs and turn on the "Disable mouse actions"
69 option in the Mouse related options panel. Or enable the
70 DisableWSMouseActions option by hand.
72 Then, just replace kwm with wmaker in your startkde script.
73 If you are going to use Window Makers sound server, comment out
74 kwmsound in startkde. Also if wmaker sets your root window
75 background, comment out kbgndwm, kde's wallpaper setter.
77 Make sure to disable workspace background setting in KDE. If you
78 wont be using Window Maker themes anyway, you can set
79 WorkspaceBack = (none);
81 in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker
87 Window Maker adds some extensions to KDE's messaging stuff, so you can run
88 Window Maker specific commands from places like kpanel, krootwm or even
89 kwmcom. Recently KDE developers have kindly added support for these extensions
90 in the more recent KDE versions from CVS. The added stuff are the following
93 wm:wmaker - select Window Maker support mode
94 wmaker:info - show info panel
95 wmaker:legal - show legal panel
96 wmaker:arrangeIcons - arrange icons
97 wmaker:showAll - show all windows
98 wmaker:hideOthers - hide others
99 wmaker:restart - restart wmaker
100 wmaker:exit - exit wmaker
102 You can test them with kwmcom, like:
109 * kpanel will not be kept always on top. That's because kpanel is an
110 OverrideRedirect window, so Window Maker can't do anything about that.
112 Before requesting for a hack to work around that in Window Maker, please
113 request the kpanel author to fix it.
115 * because the KDE protocol for letting the window manager know the usable
116 window region is broken, you might find some problems with the window
117 positioning/maximization code and kpanel's position.
119 * It seems kpanel (and maybe KDE in general) doesn't like dynamically
120 changing the number of workspaces. So, don't create or destroy workspaces
121 while running on KDE, unless you really need.
123 * If kpanel, kwmpager or kpager becomes confused about the number of
124 windows present, restart them.
126 * Wmaker opens windows by default under/over the panel, when the panel is
127 at top or left of screen. Use the GUI configuration tool WPrefs to change
130 * Some commands, such as cascade windows and rearrange windows are not