getstyle(1)

💅 getstyle — like, the manual, bestie

okay so you found your way into the getstyle(1) page, from the General Commands Manual section of the manual set 🎀 and I am SO glad you're here. grab a strawberry 🍓, sit down, let's talk about dumping your Window Maker style config or packing up a whole theme like the icon you are. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

getstyle — dumps the current Window Maker style related configuration or creates a theme pack.

like. that's the whole job. she dumps, or she packs. main character energy either way 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

getstyle [-t|--theme-options] [-p|--pack] [style file]

literally that's it. one line. so clean. so unbothered. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so getstyle can do one of two things, and honestly both are iconic:

• dump the current Window Maker style related configuration information to a file or to stdout
• create a self-contained theme pack

now, a theme pack? it's a directory that contains everything that is needed for a redistributable theme — and yes bestie, that includes the style information and the pixmaps used by it. the whole fit. the whole vibe. packed up. 🎀

⚠️ real talk: style information stored in the global configuration of the system is not read. like, at all. don't come for her about it, she just doesn't look there. 💀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help — prints a help message with the list of options. your little safety net, bestie 🫶
• --pack or -p — creates a theme pack in the directory named by the theme name, with the .themed suffix appended to it. so if your theme is called something cute, you get something cute.themed. periodt. 🔥
• --theme-options or -t — dumps theme related information too, which includes the root background texture. and heads up: this option is always enabled whenever the -p option is used. so if you pack, you're getting theme options whether you asked or not. she's generous like that ✨
• --version — prints the version of Window Maker from which the program comes. iykyk 🌈

🌟 STYLE CONTENT 🌟

here's the tea — these options are stored by default, and I'm listing every single one because we do not skip details in this house:

TitleJustify, ClipTitleFont, WindowTitleFont, MenuTitleFont, MenuTextFont, IconTitleFont, LargeDisplayFont, HighlightColor, HighlightTextColor, ClipTitleColor, CClipTitleColor, FTitleColor, PTitleColor, UTitleColor, FTitleBack, PTitleBack, UTitleBack, ResizebarBack, MenuTitleColor, MenuTextColor, MenuDisabledColor, MenuTitleBack, MenuTextBack, IconBack, IconTitleColor, IconTitleBack, FrameBorderWidth, FrameBorderColor, FrameSelectedBorderColor, MenuStyle, WindowTitleExtendSpace, MenuTitleExtendSpace, and MenuTextExtendSpace.

and then, if either -t or --theme-options is specified, on top of all of the above, WorkspaceBack is also stored — plus any user-definable mouse cursor settings that are present, which are:

NormalCursor, ArrowCursor, MoveCursor, ResizeCursor, TopLeftResizeCursor, TopRightResizeCursor, BottomLeftResizeCursor, BottomRightResizeCursor, VerticalResizeCursor, HorizontalResizeCursor, WaitCursor, QuestionCursor, TextCursor, SelectCursor.

look at that cursor lineup. a whole squad. 😭💜

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• WMAKER_USER_ROOT — specifies the initial path for the Defaults directory. "Defaults/" gets appended to this variable to determine the actual location of the databases. and if the variable isn't set? it defaults to "~/GNUstep". so like, it knows where home is. soft launch energy. 🌸

🍓 FILES 🍓

• WMAKER_USER_ROOT/Defaults/WindowMaker — this is the actual file that gets written. the real one. the one that matters. no decoys here, bestie 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

setstyle(1), wmaker(1)

go read those too, they're friends of hers 🫶

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

this man page was written by Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>.

Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.info>.

absolute legends, both of them, we stan 💅

and that's the page!! 🎀 this one's dated April 2015 and it belongs to the getstyle(1) page of the General Commands Manual — so yeah, she's been out here dumping styles and packing themes since way before it was cool. go forth and theme your whole desktop, bestie, you're gonna eat 🔥✨