[techtalk] Debianaut Loses WindowMaker Menus!

Jeff Frasca phaedrus at u.washington.edu
Sun Aug 6 18:00:43 EST 2000


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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> Somewhere there is a default GNUStep directory, that windowmaker uses
> whenever you run it for the first time. One option is to find where
> this directory is (I would start looking in /usr/share/, but maybe
> somebody who actually uses this WM can provide the exact location).

Mine is under /usr/local, but that is because I installed it from
source.  It might be elsewhere on your system.

> 
> The other option is to move your GNUStep directory to one side (just
> rename it) and then restart WindowMaker. That *should* recreate the
> GNUStep directory and then you can just pilfer the menu portions of

*wince*  That won't work.  Move ~/GNUstep to something like
~/GNUstep.bak and then run `wmaker.inst' this will reinstall the GNUstep
directory.  WindowMaker won't recreate the GNUstep directory because
wmaker only puts its config there, it isn't wmaker's config directory
exclusively -- it's there for the entire GNUstep project, hence the
name.  WindowMaker also won't start if the GNUstep directory doesn't
exist.

> that directory (sorry -- it's been too long and I can't remember
> which of the two directories under $HOME/GNUStep you need to look in
> for the menus, but they're called 'menus' or something similar) and
> copy them over to your original (now renamed) GNUStep directory.  
> Then move the old one back and restart the window manager again.

~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu
is the location of the default menu, after you've cleanly reinstalled.

Jeff

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