wmblob(1)

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NAME

6       wmblob - a WindowMaker dockapp
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SYNOPSIS

9       wmblob [ --help | --version ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       (This  manpage is mainly made of sections found in the file README com‐
13       ing with the wmblob tarball.)
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15       I'll be honest with you.  The truth is: wmblob  is  a  totally  useless
16       program.   But unlike other totally useless programs (I won't name them
17       here, because they're made by an enormous and rich company),  it  looks
18       good  and shows funny moving `blobs'.  I'm sure you'll like it.  It's a
19       nice dockapp for  WindowMaker  (see  `www.windowmaker.org'),  but  it's
20       probably going to run just as well with any other window manager.
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OPTIONS

23       Note:  The  command  line  options  for  setting  the  colors have been
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26       -b, --broken-wm
27              Handle broken window managers.  Some of them seems to  need  it,
28              but --windowed might be the better solution.
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30       -w, --windowed
31              Run in a window.
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33       -d dp, --display dp
34              Use the given display.
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36       -h, --help
37              Print a short help message.
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39       -v, --version
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HOW TO USE IT

43       Simply start it and watch it.  Nice, eh?
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45       What?   Don't  see  anything?   Try giving the `--broken-wm' or `--win‐
46       dowed' options to wmblob.
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48       Clicking in the window will open a dialog with lots of  options.   (You
49       can't  change  the  colors  anymore by clicking with different buttons,
50       like in older versions.)  All these  settings  change  the  way  wmblob
51       behaves.  Sorry, I won't describe all of them here; you can find it out
52       yourself by fiddling around.  You can look at some examples by  loading
53       the  presets.  Select a preset from the dropdown menu, click `load' and
54       then `apply'.
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56       wmblob saves it's settings and presets in the file  .wmblobrc  in  your
57       home  directory.   you should not edit this file unless you really know
58       what you're doing.  wmblob may crash if the file is not  set  up  prop‐
59       erly.  if you've messed things up, simply delete this file, wmblob will
60       recreate it with the default settings.
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CPU USAGE

63       Being nothing more than a toy (a nice toy), wmblob cannot be  tolerated
64       to  use too much of your cpu.  While the amount of cpu time required by
65       wmblob is small (less than 1/2%) with the default  settings  on  modern
66       machines,  it  can  use  considerable cpu time (maybe 10%) on older and
67       slow machines with heavy settings (lots of blobs).  It's your choice to
68       run wmblob or not.  Also consider to nice it.
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COPYRIGHT

71       wmblob  is  copyright by jean-luc herren.  The GPL version 2 (or newer,
72       if desired) applies to all portions of the code I wrote.  If you  don't
73       know  the  GPL,  please  see the file COPYING in the root of the source
74       tree or go to `www.gnu.org'.
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76       The file wmlessgeneral.c has been taken  from  wmgeneral.c  by  Martijn
77       Pieterse  (pieterse at xs4all dot nl).  wmblob.c was originally derived
78       from wmdots.c from `wmdots' by Mark I Manning IV (?), but there's noth‐
79       ing left from his original code.
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AUTHOR

82       wmblob was written by Jean-Luc Herren.  (jlh at gmx dot ch)
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BUG REPORTS

85       Bugs?   Where?   Well, if you find one or have some comments, questions
86       or problems or feel like saying hello, feel free to send me  an  e-mail
87       (jlh  at  gmx  dot  ch).  Warning: If you spam me, I'll remote activate
88       wmblob to delete all your precious data and to break you a leg.
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KNOWN BUGS

91       None.  Unless you tell me about  one.   I  run  it  permanently  on  my
92       machine and never encountered any problems.
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THANKS

95       Thanks  to  other  people  who  wrote  dockapps,  I  read some of their
96       sources.  Especially: wmdots, wmMand and wmgeneral.
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98       Thanks to Thomas Otto, for his patch, for command line args.
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100       Thanks to Gürkan Sengün (gurkan at linuks dot mine dot nu), for  making
101       a Debian package and writing the initial manpage.
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103       Thanks to Arthur Melissen for the help with FreeBSD.
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105       And  thanks  to  all the people, who dropped me an email!  It's nice to
106       hear that you like it!  :)
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