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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<html><head>
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<title>Window Maker - Backgrounds</title>
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<link href="title.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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</head>
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<strong> </strong><strong> </strong>
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<h1><strong>
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<center>Backgrounds and Themes</center>
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</strong></h1>
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<strong></strong>
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<center><a href="index.html">Back to index</a></center>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="back.html#backg" name="backg">Backgrounds</a></li>
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<li><a href="back.html#style" name="style"></a><a href="#style">Styles</a></li>
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<li><a href="back.html#them" name="them">Themes</a></li>
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</ul>
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For the purposes of this guided tour, only those appearance options that
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are built-in to Window Maker will be considered. Crafting custom styles
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and themes is not terribly difficult, nor do you need any special
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knowledge of programming languages or other specialized skills, but
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this is outside the intended scope of the guided tour.<br>
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<br>
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The appearance of the Window Maker GUI can easily be customized from
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the applications menu item "Appearance."<br>
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Themes, styles, icon sets, and backgrounds can be selected as soon as
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they are installed in the right directory.
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<br>
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Themes should be installed in the directory
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~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/<br>
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Styles should be installed in the directory
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~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Styles/<br>
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Backgrounds should be installed in the directory
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~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/<br>
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<br>
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If you are working within a freshly-installed instance of Window Maker,
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your Linux distribution probably provided some default themes, styles
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and backgrounds. Rarely, a distribution
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provides no additional themes, styles or backgrounds - expecting users
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to provide these on their own.<br>
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<br>
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Here is the "Appearance" menu and some of its associated sub-menus,
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including themes, styles and backgrounds:<br>
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<br>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 714px; height: 636px;" alt="Appearance menu items" src="images/appearancemenu.png"><br>
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</div>
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<br>
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In the screenshot above, most of the styles are default to the Debian
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GNU/Linux distribution, while most of the themes were user-installed.
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Many themes are available for download on the internet. <br>
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<h2><a name="backg">Backgrounds</a></h2>
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<p>Backgrounds may be system-generated solid or gradient colors, or
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they may be images from user or distibution-supplied image files. The
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easiest way to change a system-generated background color or color
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gradient is to select one from the "Appearance -> Background -> <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">< Solid <span style="color: white;">or</span> Gradient ></span>" menu. In most default configurations there will be six to eight selections in each category.</p>
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<p>Likewise, the easiest way to change to a background image is to
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select one from the "Appearance -> Background -> Images" menu. If
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you wish to install your own images for use as backgrounds, place the
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image file in your ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/ directory
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and they will be available from the menu immediately.</p>
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<p> </p>
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<h2><a name="Styles"></a>Styles</h2>
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A style defines the look of the key components of the Window Maker
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desktop. These components include the window titlebar and resizebar, the menu title and text field, and the icon background.<br>
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<br>
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The characteristics defined in a style (or theme) are the color
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and
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"texture" of key GUI elements. Texture in this context means using
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multiple colors in
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various color gradients - you are not limited to solid colors
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only. <br>
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<br>
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The easiest method for changing the style is to select a style from the
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"Appearance -> Style" menu.<br>
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<br>
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A style may also be created using the <span style="font-style: italic;">Appearance
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Preferences</span> tool in <span style="font-style: italic;">WPrefs.app</span>.
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From this tool, you may configure the color and texture of window
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elements (titlebars, resizebars), menu elements (menu titlebar, menu
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item text colors, menu "style") and the color and texture of icon
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backgrounds. The location of titlebar text and the font and text color
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for window and menu text may also be configured here.<br>
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<br>
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<center><img style="width: 520px; height: 412px;" alt="Appearance preferences tool" src="images/prefs12.png"></center>
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<br>
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<br>
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More information on creating a style "from scratch" may be found <a href="http://windowmaker.org/chap4.php" target="_blank">in the Window Maker User's Guide.</a> (Scroll down to the section on "Appearance Options.") <br>
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<br>
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A step-by-step guide to crafting a custom style is available <a href="http://windowmakerandi.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-06:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-06:00&max-results=4" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br>
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<h2><a name="them">Themes</a></h2>
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<p>In its most basic form, a theme is simply a style that also
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includes a background. Some Linux distributions provide one or more
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default themes for use system-wide. You may
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install your own themes in the ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/
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directory. Themes installed in the correct directory will be
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available for selection in the "Appearance -> Themes" menu.
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Selecting Themes from the Appearance menu runs the <span style="font-style: italic;">setstyle</span> program to install the
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theme and record it in the <span style="font-style: italic;">~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker</span>
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file.</p>
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Two sites
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providing preconfigured themes are <a href="http://lonelymachines.org/windowmaker-themes/" target="_blank">HERE</a>
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and <a href="http://www.jessanderson.org/wmthemes/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.
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An internet search for "Window Maker themes" will generate additional
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results, and you should also check your Linux distribution's
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repositories - some provide themes for installation using your
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distribution's package management system.
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<p>Themes may include images in png, jpg, xpm, and other supported image file
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formats for key elements of the GUI such as titlebars, icon
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backgrounds, and the workspace background. Themes that include images
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cannot be stored as a single text file, and therefore must be stored in a
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directory. A theme directory must contain all of the image files needed
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for the theme along with a file named "style." The style file in a
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theme directory will specify all of the GUI elements including any
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image files used for those elements in lieu of rgb color
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specifications. A theme directory must use the suffix ".themed" after
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the theme name. <br>
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</p>
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<p> </p>
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