How to keep your GNOME settings when using Window Maker, the fabulous.

Now is time to talk about linux desktop and its features. Supposing you know something about GNOME Desktop Environment and Window Maker ... my favorites. I hope you try how comfortably they are, sometimes i switch between them going to the most "spartan" Window Maker, at all my favorite. This is a quick and dirt trick, to keep the settings of GNOME while using the Window Maker Window manager, like fonts, styles, themes of your favorites GTK apps.

Go to your home dir, something like /home/(your ID) ... mine is /home/andrea. Settings about Window Maker are stored in GNUstep dir. There's a little script that WM (Window Maker) call when it starts, is stored in /(your homedir)/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker and is called autostart.

Edit /(your homedir)/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart. First line will be this: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon &, (ampersand keep your process in background). May happen that your Linux Distribution differs, but as you note is always gnome-settings-daemon that keep your settings cool.