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