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Chapter 4: Using Window Maker
4.1 How do add new icons to the Dock?
First, launch an application. If an icon (henceforth called an ``appicon'')
appears in the bottom left corner of the screen, left click and drag it over
near the Dock. You will see a slightly opaque square of where the
Dock will place the appicon. When you do, release the mouse
button and the appicon should now be in the Dock.
Next, right click on the desktop to bring up the menu.
Select Workspace -> Save Session to make this permanent.
4.2 What is the difference between the Exit and Exit Session Option?
Another answer from Dan Pascu:
"Exit will exit wmaker, but can leave other X apps running, provided that it was
not the last app launched in the .xinitrc (for instance, if you had exec wmaker,
followed by exec xterm, exiting wmaker using 'Exit' will leave the xterm
running so you could start another window manager, etc.) This is accomplished
because X will not shutdown unless all X apps are closed.
Exit session will exit wmaker, but will also
close all running apps, thus the X server will be closed
too."
4.3 How do I "dock" icons on the clip?
Just drag icons near it like you would for the dock. If you are having a problem
docking icons, you should try moving the clip away from the dock.
4.4 Why do none of my key bindings (ie: Alt+#) work in Window Maker?
If you are using XFree86, make sure scroll lock and numlock are off or no bindings
will work (XFree bug). You can try using the XFree86 Numlock Hack by editing the
line #undef NUMLOCK_HACK in $(WindowMaker)/src/wconfig.h and changing it to
#define NUMLOCK_HACK.
With the release of 0.18.0, this hack is now working and hopefully no
one will have to ask this question again.
4.5 How do I rename workspaces?
Right click to bring up the root menu. Go under
the Workspaces menu item and hold the control key down.
Next, click on the workspace entry you
would like to rename, type the name, and
press enter.
4.6 How can I resize a window if the window is larger than my current desktop?
David Reviejo best summed up this answer:
"Maybe you know:
Alt+Left click and drag
to move the window.
Try this:
Alt+Right click and drag
to resize (by moving the nearest window corner)
Another move/resize tip: while you are moving or resizing a window, you
can change the move/resize mode by pressing the SHIFT key."
4.7 How do I "undock" appicons?
If the program is not running, just drag the icon to the middle of your
desktop and watch it disappear. If the program is running, hold down Meta and drag the icon off the dock.
4.8 I docked an application but when I run it the button is permanently shaded and I can't run new instances.
You probably docked the application with dockit. To fix it
remove the icon and use the "Emulate Application Icon" checkbox in
the Advanced Options section of the Attributes panel for the window.
Then restart the application to get the application icon you
must use to dock the application.
It can also mean that you did something you shouldn't, which is
changing the program that is ran from the docked icon. For example,
if you docked rxvt you must NOT change it to xterm, for example.
You also can't do any changes that might alter the contents of
the WM_CLASS hint for the window, like the -name parameter for
xterm, rxvt and other programs.
4.9 When I run wmaker it complains about not being able to load any fonts.
Check if the locale settings are correct. If you're not sure what to
do, unset the LANG environment variable before running wmaker.
TODO: give complete explanation
4.10 When I set the root background with wmsetbg by hand it works, but when I do that from the configuration files it doesnt!
If you set the root background with wmsetbg by hand, it will obviously
find the image, since you have explicitly specified it by hand. But if you
simply put it in
~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker
in some option like WorkspaceBack, it will not find the image because Window Maker can't read
your mind to figure where you put the image. So, to fix it, you have to
either place the full path for the image in the texture specification or put
the path for the directory you put your background images in the PixmapPath
option. You can also put all your background images in places like
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds
or
/usr/local/share/WindowMaker/Backgrounds
David Green says that another possibility is that you have two copies of the worker programs:
wmsetbg (and possibly setstyle) and the wrong one is in the path first.
4.11 What is the purpose of being able to draw a box on the root menu with a left click?
Its purpose is two-fold.
First, it is used to select multiple windows on a desktop at a time. When these
windows are selected, they can be moved around on your desktop and will retain
their relative positions.
Second, once selected, they are persistent through desktop changes. So it
is useful for moving large numbers of windows between desktops.
You can also select windows with shift+click.
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