Themes for Window Maker

[chadm1967]

I've decided to give Window Maker a try on my Red Hat 7.2 box. *I have a couple of questions.....

1. *I've been trying to figure out how to add different backgrounds to my system but haven't had any luck in doing so. *Is this hard to do?

2. *I've upgraded the version of Window Maker on my PC but it didn't seem to go very well. *It's still the older version. *I'm to the point of confusion now.

Thanks for the help.

I've decided to give Window Maker a try on my Red Hat 7.2 box. I have a couple of questions.....

1. I've been trying to figure out how to add different backgrounds to my system but haven't had any luck in doing so. Is this hard to do?

i don't have WindowMaker installed on my system anymore so i'm not sure if the directory names i'm gonna use will be correct, but u should be able to figure it out. In ur homedir there is a directory called GNUstep (or something like that) if ur using windowmaker. In that directory there's a directory somewhere called backgrounds or Backgrounds. it'll be in one of the subdirectories. u have to put the backgrounds u want to use in that directory before WindowMaker will find them.

here's how i did it: i have a ~/backgrounds directory. so i symlinked the Windowmaker background directory (somewhere in ~/GNUstep) to that background directory and this way WindowMaker will always find ur backgrounds

[cga]

Just drop a copy of the background into that file. Then it shows up in the style menu.

why copy if u can symlink?

[chadm1967]

Thanks for the help. That's pretty easy.

[civ1492]

or you can just do setstyle <nameoftheme> if you want to install a new style
or getstyle <name> to back up your previous theme.
If you just want to set a background do wmsetbg <bgimage> ..

I think its more comfortable than copying the contents to the background dir ..