I cannot remember if WPrefs shows an icon when it is run. If it does you
just have to drag it to your dock bar. If it doesn't then you have to
do some file tweaking. The file that has to be restored is WMState.
There are two ways to do that. One is to logout from wmaker, login from
the console and move the GNUstep folder. The next time that you will
login to wmaker it will automatically create all the needed files. Then
keep a copy of WMState somewhere in your account(not in GNUstep) and
logout again from wmaker. Again from console rm the newly created
GNUstep, move back your old folder and put the new WMState file instead
of yours. Now the icon should be back.
The second way is to logout from wmaker and try to edit by hand the
WMState file. Be sure that you have logged out of wmaker because the
file is overwritten at every logout with the options that wmaker has
in the memory! You should have in WMState in the Applications a section
like this:
{
Command = "/opt/wmaker/GNUstep/Apps/WPrefs.app/WPrefs";
Name = groupLeader.WPrefs;
AutoLaunch = No;
Forced = No;
BuggyApplication = No;
Position = "0,2";
DropCommand = "/opt/wmaker/GNUstep/Apps/WPrefs.app/WPrefs %d";
},
with the appropriate paths of course. Good luck!
By the way this was one of the reasons that drove me away of wmaker in
the first place. A lack of an easy way to put any kind of icons and
applications in the dock bar. :-/
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:23:24 -0800
Susie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:25:00 -0600
> peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > suzie; you're a lifesaver; the launch worked just fine; do i have to
> > restart x to get the icon back [so i can lock it?]; peter
>
>
> I'm not sure if that will bring it back. You could also make a new
> icon for it. Which you might have to do if it wasn't locked and got
> deleted by accident. There is another way to bring it back too but
> you'd have to redo all your prefs or back them up in another
> directory. You could delete your GNUstep directory in /home/<user id>
> and it will just create a new one on next launch of WindowMaker. One
> other thing I just found tho on looking through it is it seems to
> create backup files. Here's what maine has in the ~/GNUstep/Defaults
>
> $ ls -a
> . WMGLOBAL WMRootMenu.bak WMWindowAttributes WindowMaker
> .. WMRootMenu WMState WPrefs WindowMaker.bak
>
>
> The WPrefs above is a directory. Then if you go to
> ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker you find:
>
> $ ls -a
> . Themes menu.es menu.nl menu.zh_CN plmenu.it
> .. autostart menu.fi menu.no menu.zh_TW.Big5 plmenu.ja
> Backgrounds exitscript menu.fr menu.pl plmenu plmenu.ko
> IconSets menu menu.gl menu.pt plmenu.bg plmenu.pl
> Pixmaps menu.bg menu.he menu.ro plmenu.da plmenu.ro
> README menu.ca menu.hr menu.ru plmenu.de plmenu.sk
> README.themes menu.cz menu.hu menu.se plmenu.es wmmacros
> SoundSets menu.da menu.it menu.sk plmenu.fi
> Sounds menu.de menu.ja menu.sl plmenu.fr
> Styles menu.el menu.ko menu.tr plmenu.hr
>
>
> Goodluck and I hope this helps.
>
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