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@bobc:

BCI, If you have question, its much better to create your own thread rather than risk confusing the op of another thread who is getting all kinds of irrelevant replies to his post.

I think I see your point. I think I was getting a little too comfy in that thread. 🙂

To address a point you make in your post, I didn’t have any questions per se; I was merely following up on a series of comments made by another forum member ( @masinick).

I assume this particular section of the forum is an appropriate place to leave general comments of a technical, but somewhat conversational and open-ended nature.

Emacs is a terminal based app, and therefore how it acts will be affected by what terminal you are using and how its configured…

Precisely for this reason I dislike terminal based editors; at least I don’t rely on them heavily. I always use Emacs as a GUI application (what in Debian is known as emacs-gtk), and it’s recommended to use it as such. To quote the end of that article,

Live in the blissful world of 16.7 million colors, different font sizes, and infinite key bindings. Live in the GUI, forever.

I’ve included a screenshot of GUI Emacs running on my own system, so you can see it in (at least some of) its glory 🙂

…as well as the window manager, and anything else running (like clip for example).

Yep, this (the window manager thing) indeed is an issue. As for xclip (I think that’s what you meant?), I think it’s an awesome program, but I haven’t really needed it recently.

You can use grep on the keys file, and separately on the preferences overlaid by prefoverride, then combined to make a complete list of IceWM keys.
If you add the ones from the terminal you are using, you could then match them up with a similar list from emacs to find the conflicts.
Its your system, so you can change what you don’t like to something you do like.

Reading this several times over, I actually see what you’re getting at now – basically, compile a list of every single key binding that’s in use by everything. I’ll definitely keep that idea in mind, thanks!

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Most IceWM settings can be changed from the menu or by right clicking the clock or the squares that present system information. But changing the clock that way does not “stick”, and the menu is too complex for ordinary users to understand, and there are too many options, most, really hard to understand.

So I want to provide an easy GUI way to configure the system, all from a prefoverride file, that over rides the default settings.

For now, I have a prefoverride config file that is heavilly commented and manages the most usual toolbar, clock and system info square options. Most values are easy to change, since they are “1” for “on” and “0” for “Off”. And there are only some dozen lines, not over a thousand (like the “preferences” file has).

So, using your File Manager, go to ~/.icewm and make sure that a file called prefoverride exists there (if it does not exist, create it).

Then you can paste the values you like, from the example file below.

HOW TO:
– Read the comments (the lines starting with #, to know what each option does)
– Copy the values to your prefoverride text file. Save the file. Restart IceWM, to see the change.
– Do you want to get back to the default settings? Rename or delete the prefoverride file and Restart IceWM

The GUI I’m trying to create will manage only the features listed in this config file. I’m open to suggestions that are easy to implement.

EDIT: the GUI will NOT manage Workspace options- Robin already took care of that – there’s a great GUI, over at the antiX-23 thread, that manages the numbers and names of workspaces on IceWM!!!

#### This file overides options from the default Icewm Window Manager theme
#### This file should be placed in ~/.icewm/
#### ANY CHANGE YOU DO THE THIS CONFIG FILE REQUIRES YOU TO RESTART ICEWM: To enable any setting, change the value indicated after the equal sign (usually, you have two options: 1=on; 0=off and restart icewm (you can do that instantly by clicking (it's the same if you use a right click or a left click) the menu icon and then choose the last option ("exit" and then it's submenu - the right facinf arrow > select "Restart Icewm" OR, at the terminal run the command: "icewm --restart" (without quoation marks, of course)
#
#### IMPORTANT NOTE: in each line, everything after a "#" sign is ignored and considered just a comment (usually comments are there to show you the possible options or what they mean)

### How windows are displayed in the taskbar:
#  Group applications with the same class name under a single task button: 0=off, 1=digits showing how many grouped windows, 2=dots, 3=both.
TaskBarTaskGrouping=0 # [0-3]
#  Show only icons of running windows on the toolbar (hide the title) - a larger number make the space that each window uses on the toolbar smaller. This setting is the only one that, to furfil it's end (when grouping windows of the same kind and showing, next to the icon, the number of windows, may require you to experiment with several possible values:
TaskbarButtonWidthDivisor=18 #usually this setting is commented out (not used); to display just the icon (and not the title) default to "30"
#  Taskbar justify left, right or center
TaskBarJustify="center"

### Clock Settings:
#  Clock: just show Hours:Minutes (to show Hours in am/pm format use: the value "%l:%M", for 24H use "%H:%M" (you can add ":%S" at the end to also see seconds), to add day of the mont*month: %d/%m
TimeFormat=%H:%M 
#  Clock font (in case it's not using the next preference: "TaskBarClockLeds=1"
ClockFontName=”-*-monospace-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*”
ClockFontNameXft=”monospace:size=12:bold”
#  Task bar clock/battery monitor uses nice pixmap LCD display (but then it doesn't display correctly in many languages anymore, e.g., for Japanese and Korean it works only when a real font is used and not the LCD pixmaps
TaskBarClockLeds=0 # 0/1

### Information gadgets about system resources (on the right, next to the clock)
#  Show CPU status on task bar
TaskBarShowCPUStatus=1
#  Show memory usage status on task bar
TaskBarShowMEMStatus=0 # 0/1
#  Show network status on task bar
TaskBarShowNetStatus=1 # 0/1
#  Show battery status on task bar
TaskBarShowAPMStatus=0 # 0/1

### Workspaces/virtual Desktops:
#  To have multiple workspaces - just add a comma and it's name, inside quotation marks, for each extra workspace you want. Note: for the second workspace, you only need a comma, it will automaticly be named "2"
#  To have only one workspace the line below should be: WorkspaceNames=" 1 "
#  Inside the quotation marks, insert the name for each workspace, otherwise they will be numbered (the first one is " 1 ", etc)
WorkspaceNames=" "
#  Show workspace indicator on the task bar
TaskBarShowWorkspaces=1 # 0/1

### Assorted taskbar settings (auto-hide, double height, move to the top of the screen)
#  Autohide taskbar
TaskBarAutoHide=0 # 0/1
#  Taskbar at the top of the screen (instead of in the bottom)- PLEASE NOTE: FOR THIS TO BE PROPERLY ENABLE LOG OFF AND BACK ON:
TaskBarAtTop=0
# Taskbar with double height, useful to use taskbar as a "dock" to with many icons to quick-launch applications
TaskBarDoubleHeight=0 # 0/1

### Title bar:
#  Show app's icon on it's window's title bar:
ShowMenuButtonIcon=1 # 0/1

#### KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS:
#  Tile windows with the Windows key + arrow keys shortcuts
KeyWinTileLeft=Super+Left
KeyWinTileRight=Super+Right
KeyWinTileTop=Super+Up
KeyWinTileBottom=Super+Down

###How to manage windows:
#  Make new windows appear right below and to the right of the previous window (if CenterLarge=1 then this applies only to small windows, like galculator, etc)
SmartPlacement=0 # 0/1
# Make new large windows appear always in the center:
CenterLarge=1 # 0/1
# Show indication of position and window size, when dragging a window
ShowMoveSizeStatus=0 # 0/1

#  Pass focusing click on client area to client???
#PassFirstClickToClient=0 # 0/1

### Stuff not handled in this config file:
# Taskbar height it 's the height of "linux.xpm" (or the -xpm file used as Menu icon) in the theme that's being used
# Titlebar height it's the field "TitleBarHeight" in theme that's being used. It can be set here, but doing that may mess up the way the tile bar looks...

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[Moderator BobC]

You might find the kcolorchooser package useful for this.

Try this in ~/.icewm/prefoverride

#  Show ACPI temperature in CPU status bar
CPUStatusShowAcpiTempInGraph=1 # 0/1

#  Temperature of the CPU
ColorCPUStatusTemp="rgb:DF/7F/FF"

# ACPI temp font
TmpFontName=”-*-monospace-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*”
TempFontNameXft=”monospace:size=7”

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Hello,

I am using AntiX 19.4 – 64 Bit, with icewm with the theme Blue-Day-Small.

I want to change the font of the ‘CPUStatusShowAcpiTempInGraph’. It is too big and I want it a bit smaller to better fit inside the cpu statusbar at the bottom right of my taskbar.

I looked in:

.icewm/prefoverrides
.icewm/preferences
/usr/share/icewm/themes/BlueDay-Small/default-theme
/etc/X11/icewm

I tried the following lines:

QuickSwitchFontNameXft = “ubuntu:size=7,Sans:size=6″
Name of the status display font.
StatusFontNameXft=”monospace:size=5:bold”
StatusFontName=”-*-monospace-bold-r-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-*”

Also tried ‘Look and feel’ and ‘Qt5 settings’.

I managed to change pretty much every thing I wanted from font size, title bar height, keys, etc. The only thing I can’t is to change the size (or type) of the font in CPUStatusShowAcpiTempInGraph. I can’t find an option to manipulate.

Ideas and thoughts about this issue are welcomed.

Also, is there any other way to have my cpu temperature on my taskbar? I remember back on the Lubuntu 15 days to have that feature.

Thanks.

[Member Xecure]

blur13 wrote:

Why does it have to be in the prefoverride file?

If I am not mistaken, prefoverride overrides theme preferences, so any thing that is defined by a theme will be replaced by the prefoverride configuration.
Example: if you prefer window-control buttons on the left, like on MacOS, then you will always have them there no matter the theme you use if you set it up in prefoverride.

blur13 wrote:

Or what preferences does the prefoverride file override, exactly?

I am no icewm expert, but on reading many topics by BobC I understood (or want to believe it is so) that preferences are related to icewm general options (if there is a toolbar, how icewm in general works, etc.). To keep some theme configurations the same (like using the same fonts or toolbar height), prefoverride was created.
(All this is speculation, so don’t quote me on the above).

blur13 wrote:

As a sidenote, how do you know all this?

BobC and Moddit are to blame. Though I don’t use icewm myself, I have read too many of their topics and tried to help out when I could. The man pages for icewm are veeeery long, and options are very well documented there, but it gets so long you can easily miss out on the exact piece of text you need.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
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[Member Xecure]

Change fonts for GTK programs: Look and Feel (LXappearance)
Change fonts for QT programs: QT5 Settings (qt5ct)
Change icewm fonts (theme only): edit theme configuration file.
Change icewm fots (override all font configurations): edit ~/.icewm/prefoverride
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/search/prefoverride+font/

From https://ice-wm.org/man/icewm-preferences
Fonts

– TitleFontName=”-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– TitleFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12”
Name of the title bar font.

– MenuFontName=”-*-sans-bold-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– MenuFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=10:bold”
Name of the menu font.

– StatusFontName=”-*-monospace-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– StatusFontNameXft=”monospace:size=12:bold”
Name of the status display font.

– QuickSwitchFontName=”-*-monospace-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– QuickSwitchFontNameXft=”monospace:size=12:bold”
Name of the font for Alt+Tab switcher window.

– NormalButtonFontName=”-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– NormalButtonFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12”
Name of the normal button font.

– ActiveButtonFontName=”-*-sans-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– ActiveButtonFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12:bold”
Name of the active button font.

– NormalTaskBarFontName=”-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– NormalTaskBarFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12”
Name of the normal task bar item font.

– ActiveTaskBarFontName=”-*-sans-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– ActiveTaskBarFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12:bold”
Name of the active task bar item font.

– ToolButtonFontName=”-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– ToolButtonFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12”
Name of the tool button font (fallback: NormalButtonFontName).

– NormalWorkspaceFontName=”-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– NormalWorkspaceFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12”
Name of the normal workspace button font (fallback: NormalButtonFontName).

– ActiveWorkspaceFontName=”-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– ActiveWorkspaceFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12”
Name of the active workspace button font (fallback: ActiveButtonFontName).

– MinimizedWindowFontName=”-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– MinimizedWindowFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12”
Name of the mini-window font.

– ListBoxFontName=”-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– ListBoxFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12”
Name of the window list font.

– ToolTipFontName=”-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– ToolTipFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12”
Name of the tool tip font.

– ClockFontName=”-*-monospace-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– ClockFontNameXft=”monospace:size=12”
Name of the task bar clock font.

– TempFontName=”-*-monospace-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– TempFontNameXft=”monospace:size=12”
Name of the task bar temperature font.

– ApmFontName=”-*-monospace-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– ApmFontNameXft=”monospace:size=12”
Name of the task bar battery font.

– InputFontName=”-*-monospace-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– InputFontNameXft=”monospace:size=12”
Name of the input field font.

– LabelFontName=”-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*”
– LabelFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12”
Name of the label font.

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antiX Live system enthusiast.
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HOWTO: IceWM Configuration (Verbose)

Obviously, this is a subjective matter. There are different ways of doing this,
I like to edit the files.

IceWM comes by default with alt-tab to switch windows, alt-F10 to maximize,
alt-F9 to minimize the screen, the Windows key will give you the main menu. In
the main menu click on Settings > Focus and choose your favorite, (i like
“Sloppy”). Do it again, and click on Themes and choose.

NOTE: winkey (Windows key) + space bar will give a ‘run box’ at the taskbar by
default. from where you can launch apps a la gmrun.

If you go to the icewm site: http://www.icewm.org -> IceWM Manual you get all the keybinds
and mouse commands. It’s a very worthwile read, it will teach you how to lock
your screen (xtrlock), move a window to another workspace, screensavers, and so
forth, how to start an app in a different workspace when you enter the X system,
etc.

Congratulations! you’re ready for prime time. Just point and click.

But if you want to increase your speed, if you’re a geek wannabe, if the Windows
way of working bring tears to your eyes, then KEYBINDINGS are for you.

My configuration uses 4 files: preferences, keys, winoptions, and prefoverride.

Preferences deals with the window manager’s behavior.
Keys with keybindings.
Winoptions with options that alter the windows.
Prefoverride changes the default keybinds for the ones you like.

You CANNOT edit the global file, so you have to create them and put them in your /home.

The global file resides in /usr/share/icewm/preferences where all the
preferences for IceWM are, copy/paste the ones relevant to your way of working,
and put them in your ~/.icewm/preferences.

Now create these files in your /home, and edit them as USER. The directory .icewm already exists.

$ touch .icewm/preferences
$ touch .icewm/keys
$ touch .icewm/winoptions
$ touch .icewm/prefoverride


PREFERENCES
So now all you have to do is edit .icewm/preferences as USER.

$ nano .icewm/preferences


Choose the preferences you like from the global file
(/usr/share/icewm/preferences) and copy/paste them into your .icewm/preferences.

Every preference consists of 2 lines, both of which are commented (#), uncomment
(erase the hash mark) on the second line of the preference, and add 1 or 0
(zero) at the end.

1 = enables the preference
0 = disables it.

save/exit and RESTART icewm – Menu >Logout >Restart icewm for it to take
effect.

Clear as mud?

Example:

# Hide title bar when maximized
#HideTitleBarWhenMaximized=0 # 0/1


After editing it, it should look like this if you wanted it enabled:


# Hide title bar when maximized
HideTitleBarWhenMaximized=1


Restart icewm, restart icewm, restart icewm 😀

Me? I copied/pasted my personal preferences I stored
in my web mail. It takes me 5 minutes to config icewm.

Here’s my .icewm/preferences:

OpaqueMove=0
OpaqueResize=0
SmartPlacement=1
MenuMouseTracking=1
ModSuperIsCtrlAlt=1
UseMouseWheel=1
QuickSwitch=1
AutoReloadMenus=1
ShowProgramsMenu=1
ShowThemesMenu=1
ShowHelp=1
TerminalCommand="lxterminal"
ShutdownCommand="sudo poweroff"
RebootCommand="sudo reboot"
WorkspaceNames=" 1 ", " 2 "

TaskBarAutoHide=0
TaskBarShowClock=1
TaskBarShowAPMStatus=0
TaskBarAtTop=0
TaskBarShowAPMStatus=0
TaskBarShowAPMTime=0
TaskBarShowMailboxStatus=0
TaskBarShowWindows=1
TaskBarShowShowDesktopButton=0
TaskBarShowTray=1
TaskBarShowWindowIcons=0
TaskBarShowCPUStatus=1
TaskBarShowNetStatus=0
TaskBarShowCollapseButton=1
TaskBarWorkspacesLeft=1
TimeFormat="%R"
TaskBarShowShowDesktopButton=0
TaskBarShowWindowListMenu=1
TaskBarShowMailboxStatus=0
TaskBarMailboxStatusBeepOnNewMail=0
NormalTaskBarFontName="-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*- *"
NormalTaskBarFontNameXft="sans-serif:size=10"
ActiveTaskBarFontName="-*-sans-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*"
ActiveTaskBarFontNameXft="sans-serif:size=10"
HideTitleBarWhenMaximized=0

save/exit your favorite editor.

KEYS
Same. Choose what you need. I erased everything and pasted my keybinds.
This is my .icewm/keys:

$ nano .icewm/keys


Example:

key "F1" lxterminal
key "F2" xfe
key "Ctrl+f" firefox
key "Ctrl+g" google-chrome-stable
key "F7" mirage
key "F8" hexchat
key "Print" lxterminal -e scrot -cd 10

#Sound
key "Ctrl+Down" amixer -q set Master 9%- # lower volume
key "Ctrl+Up" amixer -q set Master 9%+ # raise volume

Save/exit your editor.

Ctrl+Up arrow increases volume.

Ctrl+Down arrow decreases volume

If you get no sound go to alsamixer as USER and unmute with M key.

<code

$ alsamixer

Needless to say choose your favorite applications and keybinds.

I have no use for the Fn keys, but if you do, just add Alt or Ctrl or Super (winkey) example:

key “Alt+ l” leafpad
key “Ctrl+f” firefox

SOUND
A word about sound. In my case, I haven’t had good luck with Pulseaudio, so I use ALSA.

[code]

$ apt-cache search alsa
[/code]

Installed the alsa packages plus aumix and menu.

# apt-get install aumix menu alsa-lib alsa-plugins alsa-utils


Config the sound volume:

$ alsamixer


Unmute sound with letter M

WINOPTIONS
Go to .icewm/winoptions and paste this, I’m only interested in
maximizing my windows:


$ nano .icewm/winoptions


lxterminal.Lxterminal.startMaximized: 1
hexchat.Hexchat.startMaximized: 1
firefox.Firefox.startMaximized: 1
xfe.Xfe.startMaximized: 1
mirage.Mirage.startMaximized: 1


save/exit

PREFOVERRIDE


$ nano .icewm/prefoverride


And paste this:

KeyWinClose="F4"
KeyWinMaximize="F12"


save/exit

So now I close applications with F4 (boom! gone) and maximize the windows with
one key (F12), instead of the default Alt+F10.

THEMES
I’m not much for themes and eye-candy, my thing is simplicity and speed.

Go to http://www.box-look.org, click on “icewm themes” in the left column, if you know
the name of the theme, click on “alphabetical”. Click on Download. There are
over 400 themes for IceWM in this site. There are a bunch on the right column on
the site.Download the theme file /home/<yourusername>/Downloads (automatic with
Firefox).

I launch xfe (my file manager) as ROOT, I find the theme in Downloads,
right-click on it, and choose “Extract to” in the next screen at the bottom I
type the location where to be extracted, (/usr/share/icewm/themes) press
Enter, and that’s it, the new theme appears in Settings>Themes from the main
menu. Click on it and you’ll have a new theme immediately.

NOTE: Restart icewm every time you do changes on the window manager.

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antiX Core 64 Bit Runit IceWM

"Sometimes a man finds his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

However, before that, try another font in prefoverride

eg

ClockFontNameXft = sans:size=14

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

Or maybe a better way.

Create a file called prefoverride in ~/.icewm

Add theses lines – my examples

ClockFontNameXft = “ubuntu:size=14,Sans:size=14″
ColorClockText=”#DF5050”

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

Hi there, I installed antiX 19 (core? ~700MB) a couple of days ago I’ve been liking it quite a bit. Thanks for the good work!

FWFW I’m a former Unix guy (NOT a sysadmin) and Ubuntu/Mint/Manjaro linux user of a few years. I install fluxbox and remove pulseaudio as part of each linux installation, so it was nice to have a distro with FB installed (and pulse not installed) natively. But now I guess I’m turning into a iceWM guy…

Here are some of my adventures with it, maybe they’ll help some other new user(s).

– Installer was nice, easy to use.
– No errors or problems installing or updating.
— Had troubles REMOVING some packages so installed synaptic.

– Spent several hours trying to figure out why I couldn’t change the iceWM fonts
— Solution: ignore “~/.icewm/preferences” file and edit “~/.icewm/prefoverride”.

– Troubles with opening “foobar” (wine program) in a given desktop
— solution: use xprop to get window info for winoptions file, and
— a name with a “.” in it is referenced like “foobar2000\.exe.workspace: 2”

FWIW, my firefox and wine installs are actually on a ‘data’ partition:

/opt/wine-stable -> /mnt/DATA/wine-stable; ~/.wine -> /mnt/DATA/wine32
~/.mozilla -> /mnt/DATA/Firefox/mozilla
"firefox" = apulse /mnt/DATA/Firefox/firefox/firefox -P profile.default -new-instance  "$@"

so several linux installs use the same stuff…but in antiX (only) with foobar running, firefox (my “install”) was silent.
— solution: the others installs don’t have the /etc/asound.conf file, so I deleted it. Now I can play two audio sources at the same time.

— One mystery remains: after copying over some of my fluxbox files, the conky window looks fine in iceWM and JWM but appears as a “-” (a white minus sign on the dark background) in fluxbox; sometimes if I start conky in iceWM it will still appear when I switch to fluxbox, sometimes not. It never shows up (just the “-“) if I start it in fluxbox. The same .conkyrc file works properly in other installs w/fluxbox. ???

Happy Tuesday!

[Anonymous]

This post is about understanding the iceWM theming mechanics.

lean-n-mean (avoiding redundant copies of preinstalled themefiles)
by default (as populated from /etc/skel/) the antiX user’s home directory doesn’t contain copies of any “local, just for my user” iceWM themes.

~/.icewm/theme
Using geany to view content of this file, we can note that each time a new theme is selected via menu
“content has changed. Reload?”
iceWM writes the name of the newly-selected theme to top line of the file
atop outcommented lines reflecting the history of previous selections.
On my system, right at this moment, the topmost line shows

Theme=”quiescent-large/default.theme”

Confusingly, within each iceWM themeset is a same-named “default.theme” file.
We can avoid redundantly editing specific details within each of these
by specifying any desired across-the-board details within a “prefoverride” file.

IceWM uses the following configuration files:

~/.icewm/theme
Currently selected theme

~/.icewm/preferences
General settings – paths, colors, fonts…

~/.icewm/prefoverride
Settings that will override details specified within individual themes.

~/.icewm/menu
Menu of startable applications. Usually customized by the user.

~/.icewm/programs
Automatically generated menu of startable applications
I do not regularly use icewm & haven’t confirmed, but AFAIK…
antiX uses, instead ~/.icewm/startup

~/.icewm/winoptions
Application window options

~/.icewm/keys
Global keybindings to launch applications (not window manager related)

~/.icewm/toolbar
Quick launch application icons on the taskbar.

Also, on antiX systems:

~/.icewm/startup
shell script, called by desktop-session, where we can source custom scripts and instruct autostart of selected programs