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I noticed one instance of this while looking at the code the other day, and after a quick grep, realized it happened a *lot*! One of the many frustrating things about the English language is that we use apostrophes to make pretty much everything possessive *except* the pronoun "it". In that case, we use "its". "It's" is reserved for the contraction meaning "it is" or "it has".
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WPrefs.app
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==========
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The WindowMaker Prerefences Application
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WPrefs.app is the preferences "editor" for the WindowMaker window
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manager. It can be used to set most of the preference options of WindowMaker
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and define its applications menu. It also can change some settings
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that do not belong to WindowMaker.
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Although WPrefs.app is designed to be easy to use, you should read the
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user guide to be fully aware of all available options and other features
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of WindowMaker that are not related to configuration.
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To run WPrefs, do not put it in your search path. Instead, run it
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with the full path, like /usr/local/GNUstep/Applications/WPrefs.app/WPrefs
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Then, dock its application icon. The dock will automatically detect its
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icon and use it.
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If you change configuration often, you might want to leave WPrefs
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always running, leaving it hidden while not in use. You can also make it
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be automatically started with WindowMaker and toggle the Start Hidden
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option in the attributes panel for the WPrefs window. Of course, it will
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use some memory, but by leaving it hidden it'll probably be swapped out and
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stay there until you unhide it.
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WPrefs is still under development. Some of the configuration options are
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not yet configurable from WPrefs, notably the appearance related options.
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It might contain bugs that can corrupt your configuration files, so backup
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the contents of the ~/GNUstep/Defaults directory before using it.
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License
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-------
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Like Window Maker, WPrefs is distributed with through the General Public
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License (as stated in the file COPYING).
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Notes
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-----
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The mouse speed configuration is saved as a call for xset in
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~/G/D/L/W/autostart. WindowMaker calls this file when it is started.
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If you don't want or can't use the menu definition section, do not
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open its section (or if you do open it, do not Save), or WPrefs will
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overwrite your ~/G/D/WMRootMenu file.
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Only options that have different values than what is found in the
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system-wide configuration file is saved.
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WPrefs only supports property list menus. If you have a plain text file
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menu, it will not be read by WPrefs. You can either recreate the menu from
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scratch or not use WPrefs for menu definition. The old menu will not be
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overwritten if you recreate it.
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Build
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WPrefs will be built automatically and installed with the rest of WindowMaker.
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Customized Installation
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-----------------------
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By default, WPrefs.app will be installed in the GNUstep applications directory,
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which is /usr/local/GNUstep/Applications. If you want to install it somewhere
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else, like in /some_weird_path/Applications, set the GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT
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environment variable to some_weird_path before running configure for
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WindowMaker. You can also configure Window Maker supplying the --with-gnustepdir
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option to configure, like ./configure --with-gnustepdir=/usr/GNUstep/Applications
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If you change your mind after installing, you can move the .app directory
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to one of the following GNUstep/Applications directories:
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/usr/GNUstep/Applications
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OR
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/usr/local/GNUstep/Applications
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OR
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~/GNUstep/Applications
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Credits
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User interface design, programming and a few icons:
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Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.info>
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Additional programming:
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James Thompson <jamest@math.ksu.edu>
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Dan Pascu <dan@windowmaker.info>
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]d <id@windowmaker.info>
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Icon and image artwork:
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Jesse Kaufman <glandix@linuxfreak.com>
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Marco van Hylckama Vlieg <marco@windowmaker.info>
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See details in README in tiff/ directory
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WindowMaker
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If for some weird reason you end up with this preferences program and
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don't have Window Maker yet, you can get more information about it at
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http://windowmaker.info and download it at ftp://ftp.windowmaker.info
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Contact
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Send comments and bug reports to kojima@windowmaker.info
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Use the WindowMaker BUGFORM to report bugs.
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