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woodlark
I am still learning my way around Antix and icewm. I have increased the number workspaces from 2 to 4, but the taskbar buttons for workspaces 3 and 4 are very “slim”, and I have not figured out how to change their width.
BobC
When you put them in, did you notice that 1 and 2 were really entered like ” 1 ” with spaces around them?
Maybe you didn’t do it the same way?
Anonymous
I have increased the number workspaces from 2 to 4, but the taskbar buttons for workspaces 3 and 4 are very “slim” …
I’m not sure, I can really understand your question.
Is this what you’re talking about?
(See both screenshots!)If so, than you need to add:
PagerShowPreview=1 #0/1
… and restart IceWM.BobC: I did include the spaces. It made no difference.
noClue: This is what I am talking about
. Note how the buttons for workspaces 3 and 4 are only about half as wide as those for workspaces 1 and 2.They look just fine on mine…
PS: I tried it both on 17.4.1 and 19.a2. Sometimes there are spaces around them, sometimes not.
- This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by BobC. Reason: found that they don't always have spaces around them
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noClue: You are on to something! It is theme related. I went through all of the other themes and the buttons were all the same size. Interestingly, when I went back to my original theme, the problem was gone. Apparently reinitializing the the theme cured it.
Thanks to you and BobC for your help.
woodlark, I don’t use icewm regularly but I was able to reproduce the problem described in your OP.
Changing spacing does not solve, changing theme and or restarting icewm does not solve, swapping alphanumeric names instead of numeric doesn’t solve…_
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Is it a bug? Who knows? Who can guess?
If not a “bug”, it has certainly been a “known (and repeatedly reported) issue”.
It’s intermittent, here today, maybe gone tomorrow.
You see it there today, ClueberryPi doesn’t.The source code’s around here somewhere.
maybe.
Who moved the cheese?
.v— ummmmm, not the same source tree as what antiX is shipping and/or debian considers to be the upstream source…
…but this dev seems to have a handle on which end’s UP.
His assessment matches my tested result on antiX 17 ~~ the workspace names displayed by icewm are INHERITED from the names declared within my fluxbox config. Go figure… or just chalk it up to yet another “icewm mistery”(sic)
another detail, noticed within a few of my posted screenshots above:
3 workspaces are currently defined for fluxbox.
If attempt to define FIVE within the icewm config…
icewm displays “Delta” and “Epsilon” as the names of the not-defined-elsewhere workspaces.# cd /etc/skel
# grep -inr ‘epsilon’
# ~~~ zilch ~~~# cd /usr/share/fluxbox
# grep -inr ‘epsilon’
# ~~~ zilch ~~~# cd /usr/share/icewm
# grep -inr ‘epsilon’
# ~~~ zilch ~~~All software (or at least all that I have encountered) has “quirks” (better name than bugs?). I have tried other window managers/desktop environments, and so far, for me at least, icewm seems to work the best. I do not like KDE at all. XFCE is not too bad except that I can’t stand the whisker menu. My second choice would be JWM (I have used various versions of puppy linux over the years). Cinnamon and MATE both left me cold.
If mis-sized buttons is the worst problem I encounter, I’ll be content.
My testing on 19a2 shows that preferences work, and can be overridden with an entry in prefoverride but that the first 2 always display ” 1 ” and ” 2 “
XFCE is not too bad except that I can’t stand the whisker menu.
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
I must admit, I can’t understand anybody who has some complaints about XFCE Start Menu.
All
softwareUSERS (or at least all that I have encountered)hashave some “quirks” …🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
P.S.
Sorry, this just had to be. One can like or dislike XFCE but, XFCE is all you make it to be!Touche! No offense taken. My wife says I have a few quirks. If we all had the same tastes, we wouldn’t have multiple distros. One of the great things about linux is the wide variety of choices. The poor Windows users don’t have that.
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