source: x/wm/icewm.xml@ 5b379d07

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  <!ENTITY icewm-md5sum        "9f495e6c7c51e6b125a8f35263e84b78">
  <!ENTITY icewm-size          "2.1 MB">
  <!ENTITY icewm-buildsize     "31 MB">
  <!ENTITY icewm-time          "0.3 SBU (Using parallelixm=4)">
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<sect1 id="icewm" xreflabel="IceWM-&icewm-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="icewm.html" ?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>IceWM-&icewm-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="icewm">
    <primary sortas="a-icewm">icewm</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to IceWM</title>

    <para><application>IceWM</application> is a window manager with the goals of
    speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user&apos;s way.</para>

    &lfs90_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&icewm-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&icewm-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &icewm-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &icewm-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &icewm-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &icewm-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">IceWM Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/> and
      <xref linkend="gdk-pixbuf"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="fribidi"/> (for languages written right to left),
      <xref linkend="librsvg"/>,
      <xref linkend="libsndfile"/> and
      <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/> (for the experimental icesound program)
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/icewm"/></para>

   </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of IceWM</title>

    <para>Install <application>IceWM</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCFGDIR=/etc               \
      -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS='-lXrandr -lXinerama' \
      -DDOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/icewm-&icewm-version;  \
      .. &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not have a working testsuite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root">cp ../lib/IceWM.jpg lib &amp;&amp;
<userinput>make install         &amp;&amp;
rm /usr/share/xsessions/icewm.desktop</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>rm /usr/share/xsessions/icewm.desktop</command>: The package
      ships with both icewm.desktop and icewm-xsession.desktop. The former has
      apparently been used in the past, but it will hang if used with a modern
      desktop-manager<phrase revision='sysv'> such as
      <xref linkend="lightdm"/></phrase>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>cp ../lib/IceWM.jpg lib</command>: This instruction fixes an 
      install problem.
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring IceWM</title>

    <sect3 id="icewm-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para><filename>~/.icewm/keys</filename>,
        <filename>~/.icewm/menu</filename>, and
        <filename>~/.icewm/preferences</filename>, and
        <filename>~/.icewm/toolbar</filename>, and
        <filename>~/.icewm/winoptions</filename>. The default versions are
        installed in <filename class="directory">/usr/share/icewm/</filename>
        and will be used if you have not copied them to <filename
        class="directory">~/.icewm</filename>.
       </para>


      <indexterm zone="icewm icewm-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.icewm-keys">~/.icewm/keys</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="icewm icewm-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.icewm-menu">~/.icewm/menu</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="icewm icewm-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.icewm-preferences">~/.icewm/preferences</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="icewm icewm-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.icewm-toolbar">~/.icewm/toolbar</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="icewm icewm-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.icewm-winoptions">~/.icewm/winoptions</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>If <application>IceWM</application> is the only Window Manager you
      want to use, you can start it with an <filename>.xinitrc</filename> file
      in your home folder. Be sure to backup your current
      <filename>.xinitrc</filename> before proceeding.</para>

      <indexterm zone="icewm icewm-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.xinitrc">~/.xinitrc</primary>
      </indexterm>

<screen><userinput>echo icewm-session &gt; ~/.xinitrc</userinput></screen>

      <para>Now create the <application>IceWM</application> configuration
      files:</para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir -v ~/.icewm                                       &amp;&amp;
cp -v /usr/share/icewm/keys ~/.icewm/keys               &amp;&amp;
cp -v /usr/share/icewm/menu ~/.icewm/menu               &amp;&amp;
cp -v /usr/share/icewm/preferences ~/.icewm/preferences &amp;&amp;
cp -v /usr/share/icewm/toolbar ~/.icewm/toolbar         &amp;&amp;
cp -v /usr/share/icewm/winoptions ~/.icewm/winoptions</userinput></screen>

      <para>You can now edit these files to meet your requirements. In
      particular, review the <filename>preferences</filename> file. You can use
      <command>Logout -> Restart-IceWM</command> on the main menu to load your
      changed preferences, but changes to the background only take effect when
      <application>IceWM</application> is started.</para>

      <para>At this point you can <emphasis>either</emphasis> modify the
      traditional menu files to suit your requirements, <emphasis>or</emphasis>
      use the newer <command>icewm-menu-fdo</command> described later.</para>

      <para>The syntax of the menus is explained in the help files, which you
      can access by running <command>help</command> 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
      <command>Programs</command> 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:</para>

      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>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.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>The icons can be either <filename>.xpm</filename> or
          <filename>.png</filename> files, and there is no need to specify the
          extension. If the icon is located in the &quot;library&quot;
          (<filename class="directory">/usr/share/icewm/icons</filename>) there
          is no need to specifiy the path.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Most programs are in sub-menus, and the main menu will always
          append entries for <literal>windows, help, settings, logout</literal>
          at the bottom.</para> </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>An icon for <application>firefox</application> was copied to
          the library directory and given a meaningful name. The icon for
          <application>xine</application> is <filename>xine.xpm</filename>
          which was installed to a pixmap directory.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>The default toolbar is not altered.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>

      <para>If you wish to use this traditional method, there are more examples in
        previous releases of this book (e.g. BLFS-7.8).
      </para>

      <para><emphasis>Alternatively</emphasis>, 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, <application>icewm</application> 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:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>icewm-menu-fdo >~/.icewm/menu</userinput></screen>

      <para>If you wish to put icons on your desktop, you will need to install
      a program such as <xref linkend="rox-filer"/> 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
      <application>IceWM</application> button. To ensure that the
      <application>rox</application> pinboard is running, the following
      commands will put it in the startup file:</para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.icewm/startup &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>rox -p Default &amp;
EOF &amp;&amp;
chmod +x ~/.icewm/startup</literal></userinput></screen>

     <tip>
      <para>There are a number of keyboard shortcuts in
      <application>IceWM</application>:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Ctrl + Alt + F<replaceable>N</replaceable> : go to
          <filename>tty<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Ctrl + Alt + <replaceable>N</replaceable> : go to desktop
          number <replaceable>N</replaceable></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Ctrl + Alt + Space : open a box on the taskbar where you can
          key in the name of an application and run it.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
     </tip>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>icehelp, icesh, icesound, icewm, icewm-menu-fdo, icewm-session,
        icewm-set-gnomewm, icewmbg, icewmhint, icewmtray</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/icewm-&icewm-version;, /usr/share/icewm and ~/.icewm</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="icehelp">
        <term><command>icehelp</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to display the html manual.</para>
          <indexterm zone="icewm icehelp">
            <primary sortas="b-icehelp">icehelp</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="icesh">
        <term><command>icesh</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a command-line window manager which can be used in
          <filename>~/.icewm/startup</filename>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="icewm icesh">
            <primary sortas="b-icesh">icesh</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="icesound">
        <term><command>icesound</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>plays audio files on GUI events raised by IceWM.</para>
          <indexterm zone="icewm icesound">
            <primary sortas="b-icesound">icesound</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="icewm-prog">
        <term><command>icewm</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the window manager.</para>
          <indexterm zone="icewm icewm-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-icewm">icewm</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="icewm-menu-fdo">
        <term><command>icewm-menu-fdo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>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.</para>
          <indexterm zone="icewm icewm-menu-fdo">
            <primary sortas="b-icewm-menu-fdo">icewm-menu-fdo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="icewm-session">
        <term><command>icewm-session</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>runs icewmbg, icewm, icewmtray, startup, shutdown (i.e. startup
          and shutdown scripts are run if installed).</para>
          <indexterm zone="icewm icewm-session">
            <primary sortas="b-icewm-session">icewm-session</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="icewm-set-gnomewm">
        <term><command>icewm-set-gnomewm</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a script to set the <application>GNOME</application>windowmanager to
          <application>icewm</application> using <application>gconftool</application>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="icewm icewm-set-gnomewm">
            <primary sortas="b-icewm-set-gnomewm">icewm-set-gnomewm</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="icewmbg">
        <term><command>icewmbg</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to set the background, according to the various
          <literal>DesktopBackground</literal> settings in the preferences.</para>
          <indexterm zone="icewm icewmbg">
            <primary sortas="b-icewmbg">icewmbg</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="icewmhint">
        <term><command>icewmhint</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used internally.</para>
          <indexterm zone="icewm icewmhint">
            <primary sortas="b-icewmhint">icewmhint</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="icewmtray">
        <term><command>icewmtray</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>provides the tray.</para>
          <indexterm zone="icewm icewmtray">
            <primary sortas="b-icewmtray">icewmtray</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>