this is obsolete doc -- see http://doc.nethence.com/ instead

Window Maker configuration 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/x11/x11.html 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/wm/twm.html 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/wm/blackbox.html 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/wm/wmaker.html 

Setup 

Make sure it's your default window manager, 

  vi ~/.xinitrc 

like, 

#!/bin/ksh 

set -e 

xrdb $HOME/.Xresources 

exec wmaker 

Note. the background image gets loaded from wmaker configuration file (see below). 

Customization 

If you need to launch the application multiple times with the same dock button, 

  Launch the application > Right click on title bar > Attributes 

  Scroll > Application specific > No application icon 

Create new workspaces, 

  Right click on desktop > New workspace 

Change the style, 

  Right clik on desktop > Appearance > Styles > Purple 

Change the background image (writes to the configuration file), 

  cp background_image.jpg ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/ 

wmsetbg --center --update-wmaker background_image.jpg 

Window Maker Preferences 

Change the default position of application icons, 

  Edit settings > Icon Preferences > Icon Positioning > Top left 

Add keyboard shortcuts, 

  Close active window : Alt-F4 

  Maximize active window : Alt-twosuperior 

Note. "Switch to workspace" defaults are fine already (Alt-1, Alt-2, etc...) 

Misc 

To create icons, make sure you have ImageMagick installed. Convert the wanted image to XPM, 

  convert -resize 48x48 logo.png icon.xpm 

To arrange terminals, launch some terminals (e.g. rxvt) and arrange them the way you want. Then find out their geometry, 

  xwininfo 

copy those settings to a script. For example, this is nice for a 1024x768 screen, 

  #!/bin/ksh 

  set -e 

  rxvt -geometry 80x58+0+0 & 

  rxvt -geometry 80x33-51+0 & 

  rxvt -geometry 80x24-51-10 &