mikshaw
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Joined: July 2004 |
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Posted: June 21 2006,14:16 |
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Please do not tangle the icewm uci extension into that mess by stating icewm in general is broken. I spent a good deal of time making sure it would work and continue to work in the future. =o)
The icewm2.dsl, icewm-full.dsl, and icewm-lite.tar.gz extensions are broken. They all overwrite .xinitrc, which is a very bad thing, and run from a fluxbox-specific restart menu item which doesn't work from jwm (the user is left to guess how to use the extension). The *.dsl versions also break desktop icons.
These extensions should be removed from the repository, please
Starting a different window manager in DSL typically requires editing /home/dsl/.xinitrc and /home/dsl/.desktop. The icewm.uci and evilwm.uci packages include a readme that explains how to do this:
| Quote | In recent versions of DSL (since the addition of JWM)
1) Open up /home/dsl/.xinitrc in a text editor and scroll to the end
of the file, where the "case" statement chooses the desktop to use.
2) Add a case for "icewm". This must be done BEFORE the wildcard (*).
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Here is part of the original:
jwm )
./.background
sleep 2
exec jwm 2>/dev/null
;;
* )
exec fluxbox 2>/dev/null
;;
esac
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Here is what it would look like with icewm added:
jwm )
./.background
sleep 2
exec jwm 2>/dev/null
;;
icewm)
exec /opt/icewm/starticewm 2>/dev/null
;;
* )
exec fluxbox 2>/dev/null
;;
esac
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3) Edit /home/dsl/.desktop, replacing the existing WM with "icewm".
4) Restart X.
In older versions of DSL (before the addition of JWM)
1) Open up /home/dsl/.xinitrc in a text editor and scroll to the end.
2) Replace "fluxbox" with "/opt/icewm/starticewm".
3) Restart X.
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