On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, rob.rice wrote: > I have the ICEwm and would like info on setting it up I have ben around > the web and cant find info on it > I want to do things change my wall paper and add and remove programs > from the menues >
The documentation *is* out there, but it can be a bit hard to find a way to the part you want. I think the main way in is through the icewm home page, try freshmeat.net. The "wallpaper" is determined by the setting of DesktopBackgroundImage and friends in the preferences file : ~/.icewm/preferences at a user level, or /etc/icewm/preferences for everybody (the latter might be somewhere else, depending on your distro - use locate icewm/preferences if you can't find it. The file is well commented, but there is a lot to learn, so you might want to keep a backup copy. The menus are theoretically easy. I can't remember where the system-wide settings are stored, but user settings are in ~/icewm. You should find a file for each sub-entry on the main menu, you can also have a toolbar file for icons and programs to appear on the toolbar. Myself, I've had problems with the kde and gnome menus ignoring what I put in (probably because kde and gnome weren't installed when I built icewm, and mine is now somewhat old), but the basics of these files are: (space in first column) the word prog (this implies there are other options, I guess) program name to appear on the display full path and filename for the icon the name by which the program is invoked e.g. prog Xterm /usr/share/myicons/Konsole_16x16.xpm xterm These lines can also be commented out by a `#' in the first column. The real hard part is finding suitable icons: they have to be 16x16 in xpm format. There are icons with packages such as kde, but most of them left me underwhelmed (the format doesn't help). If you can find a suitable icon in a slightly bigger size, the ImageMagick tools can shrink it and save it in the correct format. Ken -- Peace, love, linux - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
