5 The WindowMaker Prerefences Application
8 WPrefs.app is the preferences "editor" for the WindowMaker window
9 manager. It can be used to set most of the preference options of WindowMaker
10 and define it's applications menu. It also can change some settings
11 that do not belong to WindowMaker.
13 Although WPrefs.app is designed to be easy to use, you should read the
14 user guide to be fully aware of all available options and other features
15 of WindowMaker that are not related to configuration.
17 To run WPrefs, do not put it in your search path. Instead, run it
18 with the full path, like /usr/local/GNUstep/Apps/WPrefs.app/WPrefs
19 Then, dock it's application icon. The dock will automatically detect it's
22 If you change configuration often, you might want to leave WPrefs
23 always running, leaving it hidden while not in use. You can also make it
24 be automatically started with WindowMaker and toggle the Start Hidden
25 option in the attributes panel for the WPrefs window. Of course, it will
26 use some memory, but by leaving it hidden it'll probably be swapped out and
27 stay there until you unhide it.
29 WPrefs is still under development. Some of the configuration options are
30 not yet configurable from WPrefs, notably the appearance related options.
31 It might contain bugs that can corrupt your configuration files, so backup
32 the contents of the ~/GNUstep/Defaults directory before using it.
39 Like Window Maker, WPrefs is distributed with through the General Public
40 License (as stated in the file COPYING).
42 The graphical artwork included with WPrefs is NOT licensed through the GPL.
43 It is licensed through the OpenContent License, instead. Please read the
44 COPYING.OPL file for the detailed license.
50 The mouse speed configuration is saved as a call for xset in
51 ~/G/D/L/W/autostart. WindowMaker calls this file when it is started.
53 If you don't want or can't use the menu definition section, do not
54 open it's section (or if you do open it, do not Save), or WPrefs will
55 overwrite your ~/G/D/WMRootMenu file.
57 Only options that have different values than what is found in the
58 system-wide configuration file is saved.
60 WPrefs only supports property list menus. If you have a plain text file
61 menu, it will not be read by WPrefs. You can either recreate the menu from
62 scratch or not use WPrefs for menu definition. The old menu will not be
63 overwritten if you recreate it.
69 WPrefs will be built automatically and installed with the rest of WindowMaker.
73 Customized Installation
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76 By default, WPrefs.app will be installed in the GNUstep applications
77 directory, which is /usr/local/GNUstep/Apps. If you want to install it
78 somewhere else, like in /some_weird_path/Apps, set the GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT
79 environment variable to some_weird_path before running configure for
80 WindowMaker. You can also configure Window Maker supplying the --with-appspath
81 option to configure, like ./configure --with-appspath=/usr/GNUstep/Apps
82 If you change your mind after installing, you can move the .app directory
83 to one of the following GNUstep/Apps directories:
89 /usr/local/GNUstep/Apps
100 User interface design, programming and a few icons:
101 Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.org>
103 Additional programming:
104 James Thompson <jamest@math.ksu.edu>
106 Icon and image artwork:
107 Marco van Hylckama Vlieg <fatal@global.uibk.ac.at>
113 If for some weird reason you end up with this preferences program and
114 don't have Window Maker yet, you can get more information about it at
115 http://windowmaker.org and download it at ftp://ftp.windowmaker.org
121 Send comments and bug reports to kojima@windowmaker.org
122 Use the WindowMaker BUGFORM to report bugs.