Re: Multiple backgrounds

[email protected] wrote:

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>>OK, now I think we're getting somewhere. What I was thinking about was 
>>getting the "WorkspaceSpecificBack" directive to disappear, but perhaps 
>>it would be easier to use "wmsetbg -w n" in a loop, or something like that.
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>i would investigate how to use wdread and wdwrite those are very usefull tools
>for editing proplist files, while windowmaker is running
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And possibly document them..? ;-)

Well wdwrite has a man page of  sorts but not much in the way of a 
user's guide..

>>The type of thing I am talking about about is this:
>>
>>Assume that you have selected a common theme with only one background. 
>>This will be set according to the global "WorkspaceBack" directive. 
>>Then, suppose you set up multiple backgrounds. Fine. Then, if you try to 
>>reinstate a single global background with a theme, for example, only the 
>>previously unassigned backgrounds change to the theme background. It 
>>seems that once "WorkspaceSpecificBack" is in your defaults file, it 
>>sticks there until it gets manually removed,
>>or am I missing something obvious?
>>
>>cheers
>>Duncan
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This behavior hasn't changed in ages. When I was playing w/ themes I 
would dread the ones w/ multiple bg's because I didn't know how to get 
rid of the "specific"  bg's.. Because once this gets into 
~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker there's no amounts of cycling wmaker or 
rebooting that will get rid of it.

So what I did was to create a 
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/reset.themed/style file that contains the 
following:

{
 WorkspaceSpecificBack = (());
 }

and then I would run a setstyle against it to get rid of the 
troublemakers. IIRC.. You may need to  follow that by a wmaker "Restart" 
(not shutdown/restart.. use the "Restart" option in the Exit submenu..) 
.. to refresh the in-core copy of the plist I guess..

If you change themes frequently and/or you have many of those 
"workspacespecific" themes you could probably front-end the setstyle 
command with a two-line script that does the reset prior to invoking the 
new theme (?)

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