%general-entities; ]> $Date$ icewm IceWM is a window manager with the goals of speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way. &lfs101_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &icewm-md5sum; Download size: &icewm-size; Estimated disk space required: &icewm-buildsize; Estimated build time: &icewm-time; IceWM Dependencies Required , , and Optional (for regenerating the HTML documentation), (for languages written right to left), , , , , and (for the experimental icesound program) User Notes: Install IceWM by running the following commands: mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DCFGDIR=/etc \ -DENABLE_LTO=ON \ -DCONFIG_GDK_PIXBUF_XLIB=ON \ -DCONFIG_IMLIB2=OFF \ -DDOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/icewm-&icewm-version; \ .. && make This package does not have a working testsuite. Now, as the root user: make install -DENABLE_LTO=ON: This option enables Link Time Optimization and is required for this package. ~/.icewm/keys, ~/.icewm/menu, and ~/.icewm/preferences, and ~/.icewm/toolbar, and ~/.icewm/winoptions. The default versions are installed in /usr/share/icewm/ and will be used if you have not copied them to ~/.icewm. ~/.icewm/keys ~/.icewm/menu ~/.icewm/preferences ~/.icewm/toolbar ~/.icewm/winoptions If IceWM is the only Window Manager you want to use, you can start it with an .xinitrc file in your home folder. Be sure to backup your current .xinitrc before proceeding. ~/.xinitrc echo icewm-session > ~/.xinitrc Now create the IceWM configuration files: mkdir -v ~/.icewm && cp -v /usr/share/icewm/keys ~/.icewm/keys && cp -v /usr/share/icewm/menu ~/.icewm/menu && cp -v /usr/share/icewm/preferences ~/.icewm/preferences && cp -v /usr/share/icewm/toolbar ~/.icewm/toolbar && cp -v /usr/share/icewm/winoptions ~/.icewm/winoptions You can now edit these files to meet your requirements. In particular, review the preferences file. You can use Logout -> Restart-IceWM on the main menu to load your changed preferences, but changes to the background only take effect when IceWM is started. At this point you can either modify the traditional menu files to suit your requirements, or use the newer icewm-menu-fdo described later. The syntax of the menus is explained in the help files, which you can access by running help from the menu, but some of the detail is out of date and the default selections in the menus (a few old applications on the main menu, everything else on the Programs menu) will benefit from being updated to meet your needs. The following examples are provided to encourage you to think about how you wish to organise your menus. Please note the following: If a program listed in the menu has not been installed, it will not appear when the menu is displayed. Similarly, if the program exists but the specified icon does not, no icon will be displayed in the menu. The icons can be either .xpm or .png files, and there is no need to specify the extension. If the icon is located in the "library" (/usr/share/icewm/icons) there is no need to specifiy the path. Most programs are in sub-menus, and the main menu will always append entries for windows, help, settings, logout at the bottom. An icon for firefox was copied to the library directory and given a meaningful name. The icon for xine is xine.xpm which was installed to a pixmap directory. The default toolbar is not altered. If you wish to use this traditional method, there are more examples in previous releases of this book (e.g. BLFS-7.8). Alternatively, you can create a menu which conforms to the FDO Desktop Menu Specifications, where programs can be found because they have a .desktop file in the XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_DATA_DIR directories. Unlike most windowmanagers, icewm does not search for programs when the menu is invoked, so if you take this route you will need to rerun the following command after installing or removing programs: icewm-menu-fdo >~/.icewm/menu If you wish to put icons on your desktop, you will need to install a program such as which provides a pinboard. If you do that you will no longer be able to access the menu by right-clicking on the desktop, you will have to use the IceWM button. To ensure that the rox pinboard is running, the following commands will put it in the startup file: cat > ~/.icewm/startup << "EOF" rox -p Default & EOF && chmod +x ~/.icewm/startup There are a number of keyboard shortcuts in IceWM: Ctrl + Alt + FN : go to ttyN. Ctrl + Alt + N : go to desktop number N Ctrl + Alt + Space : open a box on the taskbar where you can key in the name of an application and run it. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories icehelp, icesh, icesound, icewm, icewm-menu-fdo, icewm-menu-xrandr, icewm-session, icewm-set-gnomewm, icewmbg, and icewmhint None /usr/share/doc/icewm-&icewm-version;, /usr/share/icewm and ~/.icewm Short Descriptions icehelp is used to display the html manual icehelp icesh is a command-line window manager which can be used in ~/.icewm/startup icesh icesound plays audio files on GUI events raised by IceWM icesound icewm is the window manager icewm icewm-menu-fdo can create a file in a format suitable for an IceWM menu, which lists those programs currently installed in a layout conforming to the FDO Desktop Menu Specifications icewm-menu-fdo icewm-menu-xrandr is a helper program used to manage multi-screen configurations icewm-menu-xrandr icewm-session runs icewmbg, icewm, icewmtray, startup, shutdown (i.e. startup and shutdown scripts are run if installed) icewm-session icewm-set-gnomewm is a script to set the GNOME window manager to icewm using gconftool icewm-set-gnomewm icewmbg is used to set the background, according to the various DesktopBackground settings in the preferences icewmbg icewmhint is used internally icewmhint icewmtray provides the tray icewmtray