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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:11 pm
by Sniper Fox
Craxx wrote:@Sniper Fox - Please help!!

best regards
Craxx;)
Sorry bud, I've never used idesk. Why spoil a nice minimal window manager with needless bloat like desktop icons and background wallpaper (who wants a giant jpeg / png image loaded all the time? :roll: )

Instead, just put:

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xsetroot blue
or your favorite color in your .xinitrc / xstartup file for a plain, yet colorful background.

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:58 pm
by Craxx
How i get a background i know. I have 128MB Ram so i use xfce and it works very well with KDE progs. ICWM didnĀ“t work well with KDE Progs.

THX and best regards
Craxx;)

Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 8:36 pm
by Sniper Fox
In my screenshot I've displayed Konqueror, Kwrite and Kmines. If IceWM didn't work too well with KDE programs, your mileage CERTAINLY varied from what I had.

icewmcp

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:25 pm
by PITABoy
cp is control panel it looks good i havent used it yet but it only has to emerge 4 packages and they are small 1 am useing home if that makes any difference. if sounds like it will do everything that tools will you might want to try it

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 6:46 pm
by linuxinit
You all can call me crazy, but why not just download the icewm source and its two dependencies sources and config, make, and install them manually. I did that, and it only took about 15 minutes total, and thats with no hardware upgrades. Its just easier and faster that way (If you know what you are doing). I can understand using emerge to install gnome or something, it has 20 something packages. Is there any advantage to using emerge, besides it being automated, because all I see are disadvantages, like taking 4 days to config, make, and install icewm. I'm not trying to start a flame war or anything, but I must be missing out on some feature or something.

linuxinit

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:52 pm
by Bucko
i think emerge just optimizes it for your system?

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:48 pm
by linuxinit
the optimizing must take 3 days ;)
its not worth 3 days to me unless it makes a huge difference, but you can run custom configure commands.

linuxinit

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:12 pm
by roofus
linuxinit wrote:the optimizing must take 3 days ;)
its not worth 3 days to me unless it makes a huge difference, but you can run custom configure commands.

linuxinit
The 3 days is for people who started from a pro version, so the qt libraries that come preinstalled on the home version needed to compile. Hence the 60+ hour compile time. Of course there's a warning about that when you install pro.

SO, future forward you want icewm, then install home first and go from there, you can always remove what you don't want.