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NAME
     wmblob - a WindowMaker dockapp

SYNOPSIS
     wmblob [ --help | --version ]

DESCRIPTION
     (This  manpage  is  mainly made of sections found in the file README coming
     with the wmblob tarball.)

     I'll be honest with you.  The truth is: wmblob is a  totally  useless  pro-
     gram.   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 `--windowed'
     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 properly.  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.

COPYRIGHT
     wmblob 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  nothing  left
     from his original code.

AUTHOR
     wmblob 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 Gurkan Sengun (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)

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