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Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by Arnavion »

usr1106 wrote: post #25

IceWM used to be the fallback window manager in some OpenSUSE installations (haven't made any for a while, so no idea whether that is still the case). If you configured your desktop environment to death or your machine was very short on memory you could still get a simple graphical session. I don't think I needed it more twice over 5-10 years. Reading the FAQ looks like a jump 15-25 years back. They mention Windows95…

>IceWM used to be the fallback window manager in some OpenSUSE installations

Yes, Tumbleweed still installs it by default.

Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by thom »

ogre_codes wrote: post #26
thom wrote: post #9

Having a very Obi-Wan "that's a name I've not heard in a long time" moment. I can't remember ever settling on IceWM at any point - in my early forays into Linux I always just used Blackbox, before using KDE until it got weird, and then just settling on Xfce and Wxfm because my needs are simple. I'd be interested to hear what it excels at?

It's funny, I haven't used Linux in some time, but my choices were very similar to yours. At least back in the late 90s and early 00s, IceWM seemed to be the Window Manager that was designed to look like a sexier Windows 95. 15-20 years later, that seems like a weird thing to hang your hat on, but it looks like that is pretty close to where it is. I also tried Blackbox, used Gnome's desktop for a while, but it was to…

I put Elementary on my daughter’s inherited 2011 MacBook Air and runs very nicely (far better than whatever macOS it had on in the end). Had to replace Epiphany as the default browser because lots of things didn’t work but it seems a reasonable environment. Lags a bit behind Ubuntu though.

Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by bloopernova »

samuel wrote: post #48
thom wrote: post #9

Having a very Obi-Wan "that's a name I've not heard in a long time" moment. I can't remember ever settling on IceWM at any point - in my early forays into Linux I always just used Blackbox, before using KDE until it got weird, and then just settling on Xfce and Wxfm because my needs are simple. I'd be interested to hear what it excels at?

Same feeling. I used to prefer WindowMaker, but switched wm's in an almost weekly basis and definitely IceWM got its share.

I used the heck out of WindowMaker back in the day. Makes me wish I could use a Linux laptop or desktop in my day job nowadays. (we use Macs, and I've moved from sysadmin to devops)

Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by doesntmeananyth »

noja wrote: post #43
bluejekyll wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Random off topic... This actually has happened with some words coming to English, because of the ‘a’ vs ‘an’ rule when preceding a consonant or a vowel. A great example of this is the word ‘an apron’ and ‘a napkin’ come from the same old French word ‘naperon’. For some reason in one case the ‘n’ transferred from one form of the word vs. not in the other, I believe that’s referred to as faulty separation, and there ar…

> when preceding a consonant or a vowel. When preceding the sound of consonant or a vowel.

This is somewhat tautological, since consonants and vowels are already speech sounds.

Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by tremon »

doesntmeananyth wrote: post #56
noja wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> when preceding a consonant or a vowel. When preceding the sound of consonant or a vowel.

This is somewhat tautological, since consonants and vowels are already speech sounds.

No, not really. The word "user" starts with a consonant sound, for example, even though "u" is a written vowel.

Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by anthk »

iso947 wrote: post #49
dlgeek wrote: post #28

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rxvt-unicode is what you want.

I moved fro black box to xfce as my WM About a decade ago for the wifi integration. I remain With it on my desktop as I like having the docked apps (pidgin, slack, teams, vlc and volume), and of course inertia. Like the rest of linux it just works and doesn’t get in my way. However aside from Firefox, and screenshots, everything I launch is via alt-escape which pops upend a new rxvt-Unicode window.

Just append nm-applet & or wicd-gtk -t & to ~/.fluxbox/autostart. For the volume tray, volumeicon & will do the same at the end of autostart.
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