setting up icewm

[Member ThakurMsh]

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Sorry for late posting, been busy, and bad bad times here getting me down. So many good people dead every day..

If unclear and you need more detail you can also PM so we do not fill the forum with details available elswhere, or in other posts.

Unless you want to change the taskbar to double height you will find using a theme the easiest way, If you go in to the control center
First tab in the list, mine opens there, click appearance button, you can change a theme there.
A number of themes are available from the normal repository, you might need to install icewm-themes-extras-antix.
That is very easy, in console enter sudo apt update && apt install icewm-themes-extras-antix you will have to enter your password to
update and install.
A huge number of themes are availble on #https://www.box-look.org/browse/cat/142/ord/latest/

In a recent post BobC gave a link to some nice dark themes he has as beta versions. I use antiX-Magic-Thin which is freeing up a lot of screen space.

In your home you can copy in a theme or themes to /home/yourusername/.icewm themes folder The dot designates a hidden file
You should also have a document named theme in my case I have 3 themes available
# designates a comment, the one with no comment becomes active on next login.

#Theme=”Clearview Blue Medium/default.theme”
Theme=”antiX-Magic-Thin”
#Theme=”Simplest_black-Small”

Should you want to set the taskbar to double height or autohide, I always use that. open the /home/yourusername/.icewm/preferences file
In that file search taskbar, One setting not to change is
# Show task bar
ShowTaskBar=1 # 0/1
If you change that to 0 bybye taskbar
option to add more desktops or give them names is also to be found in that long list of settings.
search for
#ADDED PREFERENCE FOR 6 WORKSPACES WORKs FINE Play games increase to 6
WorkspaceNames=” “,” “,” “,” “,” “,” ” if you add names or numbers between the semi colons they are shown after next login.

# Limit number of taskbar workspaces Standard in antiX is 2 I set to maximum 10 but more is possible
TaskBarWorkspacesLimit=10

Otherwise that file is what other tools would edit.
Plenty of other possibilitys in /home/yourusername/.icewm too, autostart applications, put them on specified desktops.

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https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/howto-icewm-basic-configuration/

The more you dive into it, the more options you get, no easy solution, no point and click, no immediate gratification, roll up you sleeves,

Respectfully, get going…

antiX Core 64 Bit Runit IceWM

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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macondo wrote:

HOWTO: IceWM basic configuration

The more you dive into it, the more options you get, no easy solution, no point and click, no immediate gratification, roll up you sleeves,

Respectfully, get going…

Hi macondo! It’s been a while since I’ve noticed a post from you, but I do remember the one you shared with us about your IceWM configuration. Though I didn’t set mine up quite the same as you did, I did take note of a few interesting features that you implemented and I think that you have a great understanding of what to you and your setup is indicative of this.

Seems to me that you have been able to do some really interesting things- kind of analogous to the creative and useful manner manyroads set up some features (and personal reminders) of the key sequences he set up with his dwm configuration.

Both dwm and IceWM (and many of the other older, classic window managers) have some really easy to modify configuration files. Once a person becomes familiar with whatever window manager they like the best, they’ll discover that the best window managers, though they are NOT identical, by any means, they nevertheless have very easy to configure and modify key sequences, visual display characteristics, and so on.

I advocated IceWM for this distribution, not because it is inherently better than other window managers; (it’s good, but many other alternatives are good too). What’s appealing for first time users is that we can configure the defaults to be “familiar enough” that anyone willing to read can figure them out well enough to get around until they develop a preference.

Fluxbox has long been a good, solid window manager too. For those coming from an 80s-90s UNIX graphical user environment, many of the early tools used “right click” and middle button features that Fluxbox does well. IceWM, on the other hand, has a lot of key sequences set up by default with the primary pointer (left key for right handed people). As you know we have several other window managers available for those who prefer something different from either Fluxbox or IceWM. I hope that the inquisitive people poke around and try other options. For those simply wanting to use whatever is provided

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