Re: Multiple backgrounds

cga wrote:

> 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 (?)

Thanks a lot. That is a very useful workaround. I have implemented it 
already!

regards
Duncan


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