NAME¶
icewm - a small and fast window manager
SYNOPSIS¶
icewm [-display DISPLAY] [-c CONFIG] [-n] [-debug]
icewm-session, icewmwb, icewmtray, icewmhint,
icehelp, icesound-experimental (experimental flavor only) and
icewm-menu-gnome2 (gnome support package)
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
IceWM window manager and programs
around it. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
(but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a
manual page. Instead, it has documentation in HTML format; see below.
The goal of
IceWM is to provide a small, fast and familiar window manager
for the X11 window system. Compatibility with the mwm window manager is
desired and will be implemented where appropriate.
Because of the high number of features (some of them unstable/experimental or
designed for more computer performance), the icewm package in Debian is
provided in different variants (flavors): the
default one,
experimental, lite. There is also the
gnome flavor
provided for historical reason but it uses the same programs as the default
flavor. To run an application which belongs to a different flavor, complete
the program name with the flavor name, eg. resulting in
icewmtray-experimental.
INVOCATION¶
Most users use
IceWM either as their primary Window Manager or embedded
as part of another X session manager, eg. GNOME. For the first task, please
run
icewm-session or one of its variants, adding a command like
"exec icewm-session-experimental" to your ~/.xsession file.
icewm-session will invoke all needed programs like icewmbg (background
configurator) and icewmtray. See the IceWM manual for details.
For the second task, choose IceWM in the configuration of your Desktop
Environment, eg. in the Gnome Command Center.
GNOME SUPPORT¶
The programs icewm-menu-gnome1 and icewm-menu-gnome2 are provided by the
icewm-gnome-support package. They collect available menu data of GNOME menues
and pass it to IceWM. icewm-menu-gnome1 supports Gnome 1, icewm-menu-gnome2
supports Gnome 2 and KDE menues. See the default menu file /etc/X11/icewm/menu
for examples and IceWM manual for further information about them.
SOUND EVENTS¶
Sound event support is highly experimental and available in the experimental
flavor only.
OPTIONS¶
icewm knows following options:
- -display DISPLAY
- Set X display to DISPLAY.
- -c CONFIG
- Use configuration file CONFIG.
- -n
- Don't use a configuration file.
- -debug
- Dump various debug information to stderr.
SEE ALSO¶
The original documentation can be found in
/usr/share/doc/icewm-common/
in HTML and SGML format, or it can be accessed through the
dwww system
if it is installed.
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was originaly written by Gergely Madarasz
<gorgo@caesar.elte.hu> for the Debian GNU/Linux system and is maintained
by Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> now.