IceWM

Documentation

• http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/IceWM
• http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7774&page=1

Tips

Startup/shutdown actions

• Install a script (executable!) called ~/.icewm/startup or ~/.icewm/shutdown

Personalisations

• Just copy anything from /usr/share/icewm or /etc/X11/icewm to ~/.icewm and modify it locally.
• You can use iceme to modify easily the menus (copy /etc/X11/icewm/keys to be able to edit the keybindings)
• You can use icepref to modify your preferences
• See the links above for tips & tricks

Background

• it's easier to use xsetbg from xloadimage package
• do that from ~/.icewm/startup script

xsetbg -fullscreen <full path to jpeg image>

Icons

• one nice way is to use apwal (the author is French, comprendra qui pourra :-)
• No way to bind apwal to right-click under icewm, bind it to a a key combination instead

Gkrell

apt-get install gkrellmwireless gkrellm-x86info

You can launch it from ~/.icewm/startup with e.g.:

pgrep gkrellm >/dev/null || (gkrellm &)