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4.2 How to manipulate and examine default settings

• A command line utility for examining defaults is available from: sutro.sfsu.edu:/pub/wmdefaults1.0.tar.Z

• A PD App, DefaultMgr.app, is available on the NeXT ftp archives.

• A more brute approach (done by DefaultMgr.app):

  Start the application under gdb, and then try the following sequence of commands:

  break *0x500976a commands 1 silent printf "%s: ", *$a2 output {char *}(4+$a2) echo \n cont end run

[Carl Edman ] adds:

DefaultMgr.app doesn't any longer work properly under 3.0. It still is able to manipulate defaults but can't any longer "investigate" apps to find out which defaults they use.

[eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)] adds:

Needs to be revised for 3.x systems. wmdefaults is only for 2.x; it's not needed for 3.0 and later.

• (continue with 4.3 How do I run NextApps remotely?)