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title: ThemePacks HOWTO
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<h1>ThemePacks HOWTO</h1>
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<h2>Themes (Theme Packs) For Window Maker</h2>
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<b>Note:</b> the information contained in this file is only valid for themes
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in the <tt>.themed</tt> (for theme directory) format, supported in
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Window Maker 0.50.0 or newer. See <a href="theme-HOWTO.html">here</a> for
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information on themes for WindowMaker-0.20.3 and earlier.
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<br><br><br>
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<h2>How To Install a Theme Pack</h2>
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To install a theme, unpack your theme into your <tt>WindowMaker</tt> directory
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(the same as old-style themes), usually <tt>~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker</tt>
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<br><br>
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<tt>cd ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker</tt><br>
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<tt>gzip -dc "xyztheme.tar.gz" | tar xvf -</tt>
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<br><br>
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You can also do this in your system-wide <tt>WindowMaker</tt> directory (usually
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<tt>/usr/local/share/WindowMaker</tt>) to have the themes be available to all
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your users. This will probably need to be done with root access.
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<br><br><br>
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<h2>How To Load a Theme</h2>
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After installing a theme, it will automatically show up in your menu under <b>Appearance -> Themes -> ThemeName</b>.
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(unless of course you have manually changed your menu to remove this) If you have your Themes menu already opened and
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pinned to your desktop, you may need to close it and reopen it to have it show the new theme.
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<br><br>
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To manually load the new theme from the command line, use the <tt>setstyle</tt> command. Example:
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<tt>setstyle xyztheme.themed</tt>
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Note that if you move the directory of the theme (for example, from
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<tt>~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes</tt> to <tt>/usr/local/share/WindowMaker/Themes</tt>)
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you will have to reload that theme so that path information is updated.
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<br><br><br>
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<h2>How To Make a Theme Pack</h2>
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To create a theme pack from your current configuration, use the <tt>getstyle</tt>
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utility with the <tt>-p</tt> flag. Example:
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<tt>getstyle -p ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/MyTheme</tt>
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<br><br>
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This will create a theme pack (a new directory in either the current
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directory or a directory you specify) named <tt>MyTheme.themed</tt>, containing
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everything it requires, including all pixmap files. In this example,
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the new theme pack would be made in your <tt>themes</tt> directory and be
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immediately available in your "Themes" menu.
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<br><br>
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Additionally, you can put a text file named <tt>MyTheme.lsm</tt> in the <tt>MyTheme.themed</tt>
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directory. This file can contain info like copyrights, credits or whatever.
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<br><br>
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To distribute your theme, just make a <tt>.tar.gz</tt> of the <tt>.themed</tt> directory.
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This is preferably done from the same directory that you unpack the themes
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from to maintain consistancy with the old theme format.
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<br><br>
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Example:
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<tt>cd ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker</tt><br>
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<tt>tar cvf MyTheme.tar Themes/MyTheme.themed</tt><br>
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<tt>gzip MyTheme.tar</tt>
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<br><br><br>
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<h2>How To Delete a Theme Pack</h2>
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Just remove the <tt>.themed</tt> directory. Example:
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<tt>cd ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes</tt><br>
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<tt>rm -fr themename.themed</tt>
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<br><br><br>
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<h2>How To Save Disk Space</h2>
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If you have more than 1 theme that use the same huge background image,
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you can delete all the duplicated files and then create hard links in
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place of them. For example, if you have:
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<tt>theme1.themed/back.jpg</tt>
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<tt>theme2.themed/backimage.jpg</tt>
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<tt>theme3.themed/back.jpg</tt>
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and all three files contain the same image, you can do:
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<tt>rm theme2.themed/backimage.jpg</tt><br>
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<tt>rm theme3.themed/back.jpg</tt><br>
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<tt>ln theme1.themed/back.jpg theme2.themed/backimage.jpg</tt><br>
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<tt>ln theme1.themed/back.jpg theme3.themed/back.jpg</tt>
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