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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try this..
Exit icewm and work from console (icewm should not be running).

Code:

mv ~/.icewm ~/.icewm-save

Start icewm again
Check if problem persists.
If not, something must have been messed up in your previous setup (most probably preferences file).
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

amittp wrote:
Try this..
Exit icewm and work from console (icewm should not be running).

Code:

mv ~/.icewm ~/.icewm-save

Start icewm again


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.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:17 pm    Post subject: What does your ICEWM Look like Reply with quote

How does your configured ICE WM look like ?

Could you post a screenshot please ?

Thanks by advance
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes indeed, show us some screenshots and convince us IceWM is better than Fvwm :P
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, this thread makes me feel nostalgic...back when IceWM was relatively new, I was an IceWM user for a time. :D 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. :D
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:03 pm    Post subject: Nico shot Reply with quote

Nice screenshot, however it looks to M$ to me...

Ah... waiting from DR17....
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2004 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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"

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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 8:49 am    Post subject: Emerge -O ? Reply with quote

What emerge -O stands for ?

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 1:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Emerge -O ? Reply with quote

X-Ryl669 wrote:
What emerge -O stands for ?

Thanks.


Ignore dependencies.
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PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2004 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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)
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PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2004 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am a new ICEWM user here and I was wondering if anybody knows about a good file manager for ICEWM, ie konqueror
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like xfe
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks man, that was exactly what I was looking for
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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"

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mine says:
DesktopBackgroundImage="home/tom/pictures/anime/Bishi Wallpaper Art Collection vol 1-5\Ghost in the Shell 01.jpg"
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is an ebuild for it. Its just masked.
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