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Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by anthk »

ptx wrote: post #8
saagarjha wrote: post #4

I’ve always used IceWM because it was the default or forced upon me (flashbacks to my high school, which took CentOS 6 and replaced all the logos with the school’s mascot and changed the background picture so they could brand it as their custom Linux distro). Does anyone actually use it because they prefer it? If so, why?

It has an OS/2 theme, which goes well with the DFM file manager. But it's been a long time since I last used it.

Today rox is a good replacement.

Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by deepakhj »

bitexploder wrote: post #14
tux wrote: post #2

IceWM Screenshots Collection ( https://ice-wm.org/screenshots/ )

Slackware.. my first Linux district. In 1995. Classic shell font. I miss those days, but modern Linux is amazing.

My first too. I remember installing Linux with 30 or so floppy disks. I also use to go through and configure the kernel and build it myself because I was into over clocking at the time.

Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by asveikau »

tremon wrote: post #57
doesntmeananyth wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

From what I have seen, people writing about linguistics do not usually bother specifying this distinction in this context. It is usually implied that an expression like "following a vowel" or "following a consonant" has nothing to do with orthography, but the actual phonetics. The orthography is not really considered a source of truth.

Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by pantulis »

geokon wrote: post #61
tux wrote: post #2

IceWM Screenshots Collection ( https://ice-wm.org/screenshots/ )

To bad none of these are paired with themes/configurations. Anyone have any idea how the 7th one is configured? https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2936638/44629544-3... Look pretty good...

I think it was one of the included themes, maybe nice or nice2. I loved the "Motif" one, though.

Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by exebook »

zafiro17 wrote: post #27

Funny to see this. About a month ago I took a break from my usual environment (Linux Mint Cinnamon) and gave Icewm a try. I decided after a week of usage that it did everything I need in a window manager: fully configurable with hotkeys, multiple virtual desktops, a taskbar, a decent "start" button with a menu system you can edit to your heart's content. I usually like transparent terminals with a slight shading to t…

add this to iceWM startup file and you get all the transparency back: "compton --config /dev/null --backend glx &"

Re: IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

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Post by exebook »

saagarjha wrote: post #4

I’ve always used IceWM because it was the default or forced upon me (flashbacks to my high school, which took CentOS 6 and replaced all the logos with the school’s mascot and changed the background picture so they could brand it as their custom Linux distro). Does anyone actually use it because they prefer it? If so, why?

Use it for about 10 years although I try new WMs out of curiosity every year. But IceWM is unbeatable, it does everything and is extremely lightweight. I wanted my own skin and drawn it. I wanted compositing (transparency) I just run compton on top of IceWM. I needed better tray icon for free memory and coded an applet in C in a hour or so. Other WMs even those that claim being fast and lightweight feel sluggish and bloated to me. With IceWM you never wait for anything to load or start it's just instantaneous everywhere.

IceWM has five config files for: startup, menu, keyboard, preferences, taskbar they are very straight forward, only the preferences one needs learning because it has hundreds of options of which I only use a dozen or so tbf. One thing I would like it to have is grouping of multiple firefox windows under one tabbar entry, hope they will add it.

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