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background_image, width and height are optional. If you leave them out,
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a gray panel will be used. If your machine is not very fast, you may want
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a gray panel will be used. If your machine is not very fast, you may want
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to use it.
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With the addition of Xft2 support in the WINGs library, now
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Window Maker can display antialiased text with TrueType or any scalable fonts.
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You can pick fonts for Window Maker in the Font configuration section of
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You can pick fonts for Window Maker in the Font configuration section of
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WPrefs.
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Antialiased text is enabled by default, but can be disabled by adding
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or, in case you want a submenu:
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(("Submenu",
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(("Submenu",
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("Foobar", EXEC, foobar),
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("Blabla", EXEC, blabla)))
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However, to avoid unwanted triggers of shading/unshading the window, two
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consecutive mouse wheel events in the same direction are required. The
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trigger won't occur if the events are separated by more than a double-click's
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trigger won't occur if the events are separated by more than a double-click's
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worth of time, which is technically speaking like making a double-click with
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the button that corresponds to the mouse wheel direction.
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starting with 0.70.0 libPropList is no longer required to build Window
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Maker. PropList handling code was added to WINGs being now better
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integrated with all the rest. For more details check the Changelog and the
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integrated with all the rest. For more details check the Changelog and the
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following files:
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Client supplied icons
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Window Maker saves the client supplied icons in
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~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/CachedPixmaps in XPM format for later use
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when the app is no longer running (to have the image to display for docked
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Window Maker saves the client supplied icons in
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~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/CachedPixmaps in XPM format for later use
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when the app is no longer running (to have the image to display for docked
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icons for example).
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Until recently the XPM images saved by Window Maker were incorrect, but a
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previously saved XPM's in that directory are no longer readable (they give
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wrong images on screen or fail to load).
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To avoid the need for the user to fix this by hand editing WMWindowAttributes
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and removing all references to icons in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/CachedPixmaps
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which can be annoying, new code was added to Window Maker to permit the
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To avoid the need for the user to fix this by hand editing WMWindowAttributes
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and removing all references to icons in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/CachedPixmaps
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which can be annoying, new code was added to Window Maker to permit the
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regeneration of images in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/CachedPixmaps if they are missing.
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With this addition, all you need to do to fix your old broken images, is to
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Window cycling was changed to weendoze style.
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Window cycling was changed to weendoze style.
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User Menu
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The user menu is now a compile time option disabled by default.
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The user menu is now a compile time option disabled by default.
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Supply --enable-usermenu to configure to enable it.
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MenuStyle=<style>; will change the menu texture style.
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<style> can be:
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normal (default): for the traditional one texture per item, with bevels in
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normal (default): for the traditional one texture per item, with bevels in
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each
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singleTexture: for a single texture that spans the whole menu, with bevels
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other places.
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If the style file/theme does not contain a ResizebarBack option, setstyle
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will automatically hack it so that wmaker will make the theme work like
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will automatically hack it so that wmaker will make the theme work like
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before.
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The FullMaximize window attribute will allow the window to
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be maximized to the full size of the screen (ignoring anything
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like titlebar, resizebar, dock, panels etc). It should be useful
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for programs that must use the whole screen, like games or things
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for programs that must use the whole screen, like games or things
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like presentation programs.
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@@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ like presentation programs.
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wkdemenu.pl is a converter from KDE application menu structures to wmaker
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wkdemenu.pl is a converter from KDE application menu structures to wmaker
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menu that can be used as a piped menu. Look wkdemenu.sh for how to use it.
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Title text drop shadow
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drop shadow option added for titlebar text. This is a compile time
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drop shadow option added for titlebar text. This is a compile time
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option which needs to be defined in src/wconfig.h after you run
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configure and before you run make.
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New options and syntax for your WindowMaker domain file are:
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Shadow = yes/no;
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FShadowColor = <color>;
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FShadowColor = <color>;
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PShadowColor = <color>;
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UShadowColor = <color>;
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MShadowColor = <color>;
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The option only works for workspace backgrounds.
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Also added IGNORE_PPOSITION compile time flag, which is equivalent
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to NoPPosition from fvwm.
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to NoPPosition from fvwm.
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KDE and GNOME
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Added full support for GNOME and KWM hints.
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Added full support for GNOME and KWM hints.
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Read the INSTALL file to see how enable them.
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Everything in the so called GNOME window manager bla bla bla pseudo-spec is
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As for KDE stuff, it implements 90% of everything kwm does, adds some
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Window Maker specific extensions to it and still uses half of the memory
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kwm does, which should be enough to let you dump kwm ;) For details on what
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exactly is implemented, see comments in src/kwm.c Read the README.KDE file
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exactly is implemented, see comments in src/kwm.c Read the README.KDE file
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for more information.
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WARNING: Some KDE hints are badly designed, so doing things like using
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kpanel's desktop switcher/pager and Window Maker's internal workspace
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management functions to create, destroy and rename workspaces at the same
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management functions to create, destroy and rename workspaces at the same
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time might cause unknown effects. To be on the safe side, only
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use either of them to manage workspaces. Switching workspaces is hopefully,
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safe, so you can switch workspaces from wherever you want.
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@@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ workspaces. The WorkspaceBack is used as the default background image.
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Example:
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WorkspaceSpecificBack = ((solid, red), (cpixmap, ship.jpg, gray), (),
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WorkspaceSpecificBack = ((solid, red), (cpixmap, ship.jpg, gray), (),
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(dgradient, red, blue))
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This will set the background image of workspace 1 to (solid, 0),
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Textured gradients will tile a texture pixmap and combine it with a gradient,
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using an arbitrary opaqueness.
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Textured gradients will tile a texture pixmap and combine it with a gradient,
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using an arbitrary opaqueness.
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Syntax is (thgradient, <file>, <opaqueness>, <color1>, <color2>)
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Root Menu
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The -noext option for OPEN_MENU will strip whatever is after the last .
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If you have a 5 button mouse and want to give some utility for
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the extra 2 buttons, edit the appropriate line in src/wconfig.h
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Clicking Button4 in the root window will switch you to the previous
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Clicking Button4 in the root window will switch you to the previous
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workspace and Button5 will do that for the next.
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Hopefully it's intelligent enough, so you won't notice it.
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In case you want to know what's it, it's equivalent to that
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(insanely long) 2 second delay present in that Windoze95 menu,
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(insanely long) 2 second delay present in that Windoze95 menu,
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but more useful than annoying (I hope :). To see it, do the following
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with your current wmaker version and later with 0.20.3:
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@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ make
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make install
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You also don't need to worry about GNOME libPropList incompatibilities
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anymore.
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anymore.
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Bug with focus lost in sloppy focus fixed
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Multihead support. wmaker will now manage all screens that are attached to the
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display.
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It does so from a single process (instead of spawning a new process for each
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screen, like fvwm does). This keeps memory usage a lot lower than fvwm.
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@@ -1902,7 +1902,7 @@ c3 can be v or h (meaning vertical or horizontal)
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case is insensitive.
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(Paint,
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NUMLOCK_HACK is back. This time it works and is enabled by default.
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If you think you don't need it and promise me that you won't send
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If you think you don't need it and promise me that you won't send
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"bug" reports saying that shortcuts stop working after a while, you can
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disable it ;) It will save some memory and CPU.
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PixmapPath was split to PixmapPath and IconPath. PixmapPath is the path
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for the pixmaps used as textures and IconPath is for the icons.
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for the pixmaps used as textures and IconPath is for the icons.
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Don't forget to add IconPath to your current configuration file.
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flags passed to configure.
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Added support for KDE, by adding a DisableWorkspaceMouseActions option.
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in the menu.
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** Added a command menu for application icons
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Simplified Options
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IconSlideStep, IconSlideSlowDown and IconSlideDelay were merged to
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IconSlideStep, IconSlideSlowDown and IconSlideDelay were merged to
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IconSlideSpeed
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MenuScrollStep and MenuScrollDelay were merged to MenuScrollSpeed
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colorX is a special color that is used as the solid color of the
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texture when wmaker needs a solid color (like in miniwindow title and
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@@ -3167,13 +3167,13 @@ then you can merge both and have:
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The configuration format has changed!! Forget everything about the old
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format.
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dockapp was removed and the old version will not work anymore.
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dockapp was removed and the old version will not work anymore.
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the dialogs require tcl/tk. they will be rewritten in plain C
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These are some tips for people upgrading from older versions and don't want
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too many unused files around. There is no problem if you decide to keep
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too many unused files around. There is no problem if you decide to keep
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them for a while.
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you can rm -r ~/gnustep if you don't want anything from there
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Carlos R. Mafra