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undrwater Guru
Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 312 Location: Caucasia
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:55 am Post subject: |
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OK...new icewm user...and happy so far...somewhat.
I'm experiencing a weird problem. my windows are invisible, unless i have them full screen.
Desktop shows up ok on start...taskbar looks good...but if i start a terminal, the handles and top bar show up...but not the rest of the window...and the only way i can see it is if i view it full screen.
hope someone can help me out.
russell _________________ Open-mindedness is painful... |
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amittp Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 123 Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:36 am Post subject: |
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Try this..
Exit icewm and work from console (icewm should not be running).
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mv ~/.icewm ~/.icewm-save
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Start icewm again
Check if problem persists.
If not, something must have been messed up in your previous setup (most probably preferences file). _________________ Believe in yourself |
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undrwater Guru
Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 312 Location: Caucasia
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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amittp wrote: | Try this..
Exit icewm and work from console (icewm should not be running).
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mv ~/.icewm ~/.icewm-save
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Start icewm again
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Hmm...this didn't work, but i set X to start at 16 bit color...and everthing showed up. Strange...i don't know if this is just an icewm thing now, or if other WM's would show the same behavior. maybe i should try blackbox or another WM to test. It just seems strange that the taskbar, window title bars and menus show, while window contents do not.
If you have any ideas, let me know. _________________ Open-mindedness is painful... |
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X-Ryl669 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 135
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:17 pm Post subject: What does your ICEWM Look like |
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How does your configured ICE WM look like ?
Could you post a screenshot please ?
Thanks by advance _________________ Think it twice, think it thrice, you never think enough... |
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Jefklak l33t
Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 818 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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Yes indeed, show us some screenshots and convince us IceWM is better than Fvwm |
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Remenic Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 76
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Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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IceWM is totally awesome once you've configured it right. What really sold me is the extremely low memory usage (with fancy features disabled, like xft etc.).
I've made a custom theme for it, but I haven't released it (yet).
Anyways, here is how it looks:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~remenic/screenshots/icewm-alloy.png |
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beandog Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 2072 Location: /usa/utah
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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Has anyone ever gotten the "Run" option to show up on their IceWM main menu?
Or is there any keyboard shortcut to map to it at all? _________________ If it ain't broke, tweak it. dvds | blurays | blog | wiki |
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regeya Apprentice
Joined: 28 Jul 2002 Posts: 270 Location: Desoto, IL, USA
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, this thread makes me feel nostalgic...back when IceWM was relatively new, I was an IceWM user for a time. Wasn't as avid an IceWM user as Window Maker, but it was nice all the same, especially when one wanted something lighter than the Big Two Desktops.
I'm looking to get my grubby hands on a cheap laptop; I'm betting that if I do, I'll be running IceWM on it. Nice to see a somewhat active thread about it. |
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X-Ryl669 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 135
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:03 pm Post subject: Nico shot |
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Nice screenshot, however it looks to M$ to me...
Ah... waiting from DR17.... _________________ Think it twice, think it thrice, you never think enough... |
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ap viper Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 95
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Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:22 am Post subject: |
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Is there anyway in icewm to scroll through different desktops with the mouse wheel? One of the only things I liked about KDE, and I'd like to do it in icewm _________________ why the heck are you reading this? |
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Remenic Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 76
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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sdibb wrote: | Has anyone ever gotten the "Run" option to show up on their IceWM main menu?
Or is there any keyboard shortcut to map to it at all? |
I have added this to my menu file:
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prog "Run..." run bbrun -w |
And this to my 'keys' file:
Code: | key "Alt+F2" bbrun -w
key "Print" screenshot |
just emerge bbrun first. For some reason the ebuild depends on blackbox/fluxbox/whateverbox, but if I remove that dependency from the ebuild it will still compile and install fine. |
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beandog Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 2072 Location: /usa/utah
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Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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Remenic wrote: | sdibb wrote: | Has anyone ever gotten the "Run" option to show up on their IceWM main menu?
Or is there any keyboard shortcut to map to it at all? |
I have added this to my menu file:
Code: | separator
prog "Run..." run bbrun -w |
And this to my 'keys' file:
Code: | key "Alt+F2" bbrun -w
key "Print" screenshot |
just emerge bbrun first. For some reason the ebuild depends on blackbox/fluxbox/whateverbox, but if I remove that dependency from the ebuild it will still compile and install fine. |
Sweet man, thanks -- Ive been wanting to get that fixed for the longest time.
Just two things:
1) I didn't have to edit the ebuild. I just ran emerge -O bbrun and that worked
2) I didn't add a separator and Run entry. Just edit ~/.icewm/preferences, set
ShowRun = 1 and RunCommand="bbrun -w"
Steve _________________ If it ain't broke, tweak it. dvds | blurays | blog | wiki |
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X-Ryl669 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 135
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 8:49 am Post subject: Emerge -O ? |
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What emerge -O stands for ?
Thanks. _________________ Think it twice, think it thrice, you never think enough... |
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beandog Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 2072 Location: /usa/utah
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 1:17 pm Post subject: Re: Emerge -O ? |
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X-Ryl669 wrote: | What emerge -O stands for ?
Thanks. |
Ignore dependencies. _________________ If it ain't broke, tweak it. dvds | blurays | blog | wiki |
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Remenic Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 76
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Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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sdibb wrote: | Sweet man, thanks -- Ive been wanting to get that fixed for the longest time.
Just two things:
1) I didn't have to edit the ebuild. I just ran emerge -O bbrun and that worked
2) I didn't add a separator and Run entry. Just edit ~/.icewm/preferences, set
ShowRun = 1 and RunCommand="bbrun -w"
Steve |
Cool, I didn't know that.
Say, does anyone know how to get my fonts smaller when using the freetype useflag? On 96dpi, the fonts are huge! |
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beandog Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 2072 Location: /usa/utah
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 5:27 am Post subject: |
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Remenic wrote: |
Say, does anyone know how to get my fonts smaller when using the freetype useflag? On 96dpi, the fonts are huge! |
I think you can change it with switch (gtk-switch) _________________ If it ain't broke, tweak it. dvds | blurays | blog | wiki |
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Meeuw Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 77 Location: NL - Oostzaan
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 8:24 am Post subject: |
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Awhile ago I've chosen icewm as windowmanager for our Linux solution (at work), the target users are mostly woman and I was searching for a windows-a-like, non windowmaker, lite, lockdownable interface.
icewm has it all |
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phreaqy n00b
Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:16 am Post subject: |
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I am a new ICEWM user here and I was wondering if anybody knows about a good file manager for ICEWM, ie konqueror _________________ AMD TBIRD 1.33
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beandog Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 2072 Location: /usa/utah
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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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I like xfe _________________ If it ain't broke, tweak it. dvds | blurays | blog | wiki |
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phreaqy n00b
Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:16 am Post subject: |
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Thanks man, that was exactly what I was looking for
PS I Live by your quote _________________ AMD TBIRD 1.33
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Epyon l33t
Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:00 am Post subject: |
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Maybe someone can help me with a simple problem. I can't get a background image to show up when I start icewm. I set DesktopBackgroundImage in ~/.icewm/preferences and I have icewmbg running before I start icewm but still no background image shows up. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? |
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beandog Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 2072 Location: /usa/utah
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:21 am Post subject: |
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What does your line currently say in preferences? For some reason I kinda remember I had to do something weird to mine, but can't remember what it was. Using the full location of the image, maybe? Anyway, here's mine:
Code: | DesktopBackgroundImage = "/home/steve/pictures/castles/CastleNeuschwanstein.jpg" |
_________________ If it ain't broke, tweak it. dvds | blurays | blog | wiki |
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Epyon l33t
Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:42 am Post subject: |
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Mine says:
DesktopBackgroundImage="home/tom/pictures/anime/Bishi Wallpaper Art Collection vol 1-5\Ghost in the Shell 01.jpg" |
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beandog Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 2072 Location: /usa/utah
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:43 am Post subject: |
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phreaqy wrote: | Thanks man, that was exactly what I was looking for
PS I Live by your quote |
Cool man. I just noticed IceWM 1.2.14 was released on 5/22 and marked as stable .. has anyone else installed it? There's no ebuild for it yet.
I'm running mine now -- so far seems great. My menu fonts are much nicer. That's about the extent of what I can tell.
If you do install it, let me know how to get it to play with kdm correctly -- I switched to xdm for the time being.
To install it, I just downloaded the source code, ran emerge -C icewm, then did ./configure, make and make install. I have it working with xdm -- I had to edit /etc/X11/Sessions/icewm:
Code: | #!/bin/bash
#/usr/bin/icewm-session #old
/usr/local/bin/icewm-session #new |
If you do wanna install it from source, be sure to trick portage into thinking it's emerged so you don't have any dependency issues:
Code: | emerge -i x11-wm/icewm-1.2.13 |
good luck
steve _________________ If it ain't broke, tweak it. dvds | blurays | blog | wiki |
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Epyon l33t
Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:47 am Post subject: |
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There is an ebuild for it. Its just masked. |
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