IceWM system dialog

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=5450 has an article that may be helpful too.

In one post, someone said, “Have you tried replacing Alt+Ctrl with the ‘Windows’ key? in my kbd, saves me one step.

I went back to the single taskbar and tried your tip, it’s great. Did a Windows Key + Spacebar and entered:

sudo halt ”

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Brian Masinick

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See post
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/what-are-you-here-with-today/page/93/#post-106146

I figured out how to add halt and reboot; you can add them or others.
I can tell you that all the key bindings in the file work.

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Thank you Brian! I was specifically looking for information on the IceWM system dialog. When running icewm on distros other than antix this is a nice, out-of-the-box, solution for an exit-gui. Antix already has one that does the same thing and looks a bit better with icons. I was just surprised that the shutdown/reboot options were disabled on the IceWM system dialog (in antiX) and was looking for information pertaining to that. Your suggestions are also helpful, of course.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Regarding these two specific resources:

# Command to shutdown the system
ShutdownCommand=”sudo halt”

# Command to reboot the system
RebootCommand=”sudo reboot”

I STILL haven’t seen a direct way to map ShutdownCommand and RebootCommand to the keys,
but it may be worth trying something like

key Super+h ShutdownCommand
key Super+r RebootCommand

and see if these work too; I have not tried that, but I did try directly mapping those keys to the command.

Feel free to experiment and let us know if you discover any other handy ways.
Usually I just use my own alias commands because they’re only a few characters long, but I may
get to experimenting further, and if I find anything else, I’ll share it; please do the same
if you “beat me to it”. Best wishes!

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I just rebooted my system and I’m running antiX 23 Beta 1 live.
I went in and explicitly set

key Super+p ShutdownCommand

It did not work, so I re-edited .icewm/keys, set it to
key Super+h sudo halt, tried it and it worked (did it with both
Super+h and Super+p, both key sequences work, so I am not sure how
we utilize the ShutdownCommand unless it can be mapped to an
alias command instead.

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Maybe using icesh with the reboot or shutdown command and binding it to a key for each would work.
Let me try that out; as you can see, at least there are multiple different ways we can create
keystrokes to shutdown or reboot.

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There are ways to use icesh, but I’ve yet to come up with a combination where I can *directly* map the ShutdownCommand or the RebootCommand to a specific keystroke. While it may still be possible, the usefulness of these commands must have to do with a mechanism to tie them directly into the system menu, which is something that the antiX distribution already does.

I’m the curious type, so I’m still inclined to poke around and determine if that is the answer or not.
Meanwhile, at least you now have multiple ways to reboot, halt, shutdown or poweroff.

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I went back to the IceWM documentation, and beneath the title PROGRAMS I found
examples for
ShutdownCommand=”/bin/sh -c “/sbin/halt”
RebootCommand=”/bin/sh -c “/sbin/reboot”

This implies to me that these are commands, rather than key sequences.

The ~/.icewm/keys file takes a first argument of either key or switchkey, the second of which is
for popup menus.

The next field after key or switchkey is the key combination field; this accepts a combination
of modifiers and a key separated by a plus sign (+). Example Ctrl+Alt+Delete or Alt+1.

The third field is program, followed by any program options.

RebootCommand and ShutdownCommand, when set, will determine what IceWM will do when
you activate a reboot or a shutdown function; there are also commands for several
other functions, including starting a terminal (TerminalCommand), and of course
the LogoutCommand to start logout.

The nuance or difference is that commands directly perform their action from IceWM.
The keys send their sequence to the control of the system, which affects both
IceWM and any other activities in the system.

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Thank you Brian for your thorough investigation. I tried the commands you provided, and some variations thereof, but the menu options to shutdown/reboot are still greyed out. Very strange. I think we’ll leave it as an academic exercise since antiX provides a nice exit-session-gui that works.

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