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    4 Themes For Window Maker
    5 =======================
    6 
    7 Note: the information contained in this file is only valid for themes
    8 in the .themed (for theme directory) format, supported in 
    9 Window Maker 0.20.4 or newer.
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   12 How To Install a Theme Pack
   13 ===========================
   14 
   15 To install a theme, unpack your theme into your WindowMaker directory 
   16 (the same as old-style themes), usually ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker
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   18 cd ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker
   19 gzip -dc "xyztheme.tar.gz" | tar xvf -
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   21 You can also do this in your system-wide WindowMaker directory (usually
   22 /usr/local/share/WindowMaker) to have the themes be available to all 
   23 your users. This will probably need to be done with root access.
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   26 How To Load a Theme
   27 ===================
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   29 Use the setstyle command to load a theme. Example:
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   31 setstyle xyztheme.themed
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   33 Note that if you move the directory of the theme (for example, from
   34 ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes to /usr/local/share/WindowMaker/Themes)
   35 you will have to reload that theme so that path information is updated.
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   38 How To Make a Theme Pack
   39 ========================
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   41 To create a theme pack from your current configuration, use the getstyle
   42 utility with the -p flag. Example:
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   44 getstyle -p ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/MyTheme
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   46 This will create a theme pack (a new directory in either the current
   47 directory or a directory you specify) named MyTheme.themed, containing
   48 everything it requires, including all pixmap files. In this example,
   49 the new theme pack would be made in your themes directory and be 
   50 immediately available in your Themes menu.
   51 
   52 Additionally, you can put a text file named MyTheme.lsm in the MyTheme.themed 
   53 directory. This file can contain info like copyrights, credits or whatever.
   54 
   55 To distribute your theme, just make a .tar.gz of the .themed directory.
   56 This is preferably done from the same directory that you unpack the themes
   57 from to maintain consistancy with the old theme format.
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   59 Example:
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   61 cd ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker
   62 tar cvf MyTheme.tar Themes/MyTheme.themed
   63 gzip MyTheme.tar
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   66 How To Delete a Theme Pack
   67 ==========================
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   69 Just remove the .themed directory. Example:
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   71 cd ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes
   72 rm -fr themename.themed
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   75 How To Save Disk Space
   76 ======================
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   78 If you have more than 1 theme that use the same huge background image,
   79 you can delete all the duplicated files and then create hard links in
   80 place of them. For example, if you have:
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   82 theme1.themed/back.jpg
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   84 theme2.themed/backimage.jpg
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   86 theme3.themed/back.jpg
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   88 and all three files contain the same image, you can do:
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   90 rm theme2.themed/backimage.jpg
   91 rm theme3.themed/back.jpg
   92 ln theme1.themed/back.jpg theme2.themed/backimage.jpg
   93 ln theme1.themed/back.jpg theme3.themed/back.jpg
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