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Icewm is a cool, minimal window manager, that imitates
one of the few things that Microsoft got right in the
original windows UI: it's not quite so mousey. In icewm You
can Alt-tab between windows (though more often than not,
I use Alt-esc, or Cntrl-Alt-Esc), and you can use alt-space to
open up a menu pad that let's you control any window (e.g,
"Alt-space n" minimizes). I find that Alt-F4 is also
useful to just blow away a window.
This is how I run icewm. I've got to start-up files in my
home directory (/home/doom):
/home/doom/.Xclients:
# run profile to set $PATH and other env vars correctly
. $HOME/.bash_profile
# setup background
### xsetroot -solid '#2E0017'
# setup mouse acceleration
xset m 7 2
# run initial programs
emacs . &
# start icewm, and run xterm if it crashes (just to be safe)
exec icewm || exec xterm -fg red
/home/doom/.icewm/preferences:
DesktopBackgroundColor="rgb:00/07/00"
DesktopBackgroundCenter = 1
DesktopBackgroundImage="/home/doom/bg.xpm"
TaskBarAutoHide = 1
Note that I'm setting the background color inside of the
.icewm/preferences file for some reason (I don't remember
why), instead of inside of ~/.Xclients.
Also, I've got an image centered in my desktop in this file:
/home/doom/bg.xpm
If you've got a jpg or gif you want to use for this, you can
convert them to xpm format using the gimp.
Don't forget to do a:
chmod u+x ~/.Xclients
To make that file executable.
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