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.
ICEWM(7)