Re: wmaker5 on turbolinux3

[Cloudmaster <sauer@cloudmaster.ml.org>]

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 charles@lunargraphics.net wrote:
> > > turbo places a default desktop pattern of, well, a turbolinux .jpg
> > > (or some file format) nonetheless, attempting to switch themes
> > > to any other will result in the appropriate changes being made to
> > > menu colors etc...however the desktop image will remain the same.
> > 
> > Possibly you lack the alternate theme's background image file in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/WindowMaker/Backgrounds (or TL equivalent)?
> > 
> 
> 	no, the image is there...
> 	i tried it with a few themes as well, and no success with
> 	any of them. i don't know where the turbolinux background
> 	is specified. if i could find that, i could try manually
> 	editing the background image, adn see if that works

There's a file that specifies the image path -
/var/X11R6/lib/WindowMaker/Defaults/WindowMaker. It's cpoied to your home
directory (~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker) the first time you run it.  You
need to specify the path to the background images there, and then change the
one in /var after you get it working so any other users aren't messed up...

Mine is ------- PixmapPath = (
    "~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Pixmaps",
    "~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds",
    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/WindowMaker/Pixmaps",
    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/WindowMaker/Backgrounds",
    "/usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps",
    "/usr/local/share/pixmaps",
    "/usr/share/pixmaps"
----------

There's a pile of other stuff in tha file too, btw.  The themes are in
/var/X11R6/lib/WindowMaker/Themes and in
~/GnuStep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes on my system.

The background images should be named the same as the themes - I think
that's how they're loaded (but I'm not positive).  It's something to try...

--Danny, who never read the docs either. :)


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