WMBLOB(1) User Manuals WMBLOB(1)NAMEwmblob - a WindowMaker dockapp
SYNOPSISwmblob [ --help | --version ]
DESCRIPTION
(This manpage is mainly made of sections found in the file README com‐
ing with the wmblob tarball.)
I'll be honest with you. The truth is: wmblob is a totally useless
program. But unlike other totally useless programs (I won't name them
here, because they're made by an enormous and rich company), it looks
good and shows funny moving `blobs'. I'm sure you'll like it. It's a
nice dockapp for WindowMaker (see `www.windowmaker.org'), but it's
probably going to run just as well with any other window manager.
OPTIONS
Note: The command line options for setting the colors have been
removed.
-b, --broken-wm
Handle broken window managers. Some of them seems to need it,
but --windowed might be the better solution.
-w, --windowed
Run in a window.
-d dp, --display dp
Use the given display.
-h, --help
Print a short help message.
-v, --version
Print version informations.
HOW TO USE IT
Simply start it and watch it. Nice, eh?
What? Don't see anything? Try giving the `--broken-wm' or `--win‐
dowed' options to wmblob.
Clicking in the window will open a dialog with lots of options. (You
can't change the colors anymore by clicking with different buttons,
like in older versions.) All these settings change the way wmblob
behaves. Sorry, I won't describe all of them here; you can find it out
yourself by fiddling around. You can look at some examples by loading
the presets. Select a preset from the dropdown menu, click `load' and
then `apply'.
wmblob saves it's settings and presets in the file .wmblobrc in your
home directory. you should not edit this file unless you really know
what you're doing. wmblob may crash if the file is not set up prop‐
erly. if you've messed things up, simply delete this file, wmblob will
recreate it with the default settings.
CPU USAGE
Being nothing more than a toy (a nice toy), wmblob cannot be tolerated
to use too much of your cpu. While the amount of cpu time required by
wmblob is small (less than 1/2%) with the default settings on modern
machines, it can use considerable cpu time (maybe 10%) on older and
slow machines with heavy settings (lots of blobs). It's your choice to
run wmblob or not. Also consider to nice it.
COPYRIGHTwmblob is copyright by jean-luc herren. The GPL version 2 (or newer,
if desired) applies to all portions of the code I wrote. If you don't
know the GPL, please see the file COPYING in the root of the source
tree or go to `www.gnu.org'.
The file wmlessgeneral.c has been taken from wmgeneral.c by Martijn
Pieterse (pieterse at xs4all dot nl). wmblob.c was originally derived
from wmdots.c from `wmdots' by Mark I Manning IV (?), but there's noth‐
ing left from his original code.
AUTHORwmblob was written by Jean-Luc Herren. (jlh at gmx dot ch)
BUG REPORTS
Bugs? Where? Well, if you find one or have some comments, questions
or problems or feel like saying hello, feel free to send me an e-mail
(jlh at gmx dot ch). Warning: If you spam me, I'll remote activate
wmblob to delete all your precious data and to break you a leg.
KNOWN BUGS
None. Unless you tell me about one. I run it permanently on my
machine and never encountered any problems.
THANKS
Thanks to other people who wrote dockapps, I read some of their
sources. Especially: wmdots, wmMand and wmgeneral.
Thanks to Thomas Otto, for his patch, for command line args.
Thanks to G�rkan Seng�n (gurkan at linuks dot mine dot nu), for making
a Debian package and writing the initial manpage.
Thanks to Arthur Melissen for the help with FreeBSD.
And thanks to all the people, who dropped me an email! It's nice to
hear that you like it! :)
SEE ALSO
The WindowMaker homepage: `www.windowmaker.org'. The DockApp homepage:
`BSDforge.com'. See also the file `README' and the file
`doc/how_it_works' if you're curious. Both are included with the
wmblob source tarball.
wmaker(1)Linux FEBRUARY 2004 WMBLOB(1)
