Fumbled around the options but I can't find answers to these 2 simple
questions:
1) How can I set a background image?

2) How can I add a button to a specific app? I notice there's one for
Mozilla and the standard xterm...hrm??

I really like IceWM by the way and heartily suggest it for anyone used to
the KDE interface but are sick of some of the bloat the goes along with
something as huge as KDE...just having some problems getting the look..

Thanks.

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> Fumbled around the options but I can't find answers to these 2 simple
> questions:
> 1) How can I set a background image?

If you have Eterm installed you can use 'Esetroot' to do it.
It's what I'm currently using w/ my Blackbox setup.

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On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Rocket Robin Hood wrote:

> Fumbled around the options but I can't find answers to these 2 simple
> questions:
> 1) How can I set a background image?
>
> 2) How can I add a button to a specific app? I notice there's one for
> Mozilla and the standard xterm...hrm??
>
> I really like IceWM by the way and heartily suggest it for anyone used to
> the KDE interface but are sick of some of the bloat the goes along with
> something as huge as KDE...just having some problems getting the look..

The trick with IceWM is editing the config files in your /home/user/.icewm
dir. I'm not sure how to go about default backgrounds though as my distro
came with DFM to sort these things out.

If you edit the toolbar, you'll need to restart IceWM to see the changes,
but the menu seems to update straight away on my system.

Hope this is of some use.

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begin "Rocket Robin Hood" < benalto@SPAMMERS_BE_GONE_benal
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> 1) How can I set a background image?

Edit the file:

~/.icewm/preferences

Look for the "DesktopBackgroundImage=xxxxx" entry.


> 2) How can I add a button to a specific app? I notice there's one for
> Mozilla and the standard xterm...hrm??

Edit the file:

~/.icewm/winoptions

Example from my winoptions file:

--------------

pan.icon: pan
xterm.icon: xterm
AcroRead.icon: pdf
Netscape.icon: netscape

(and so on...)

--------------

The icons resides in the "/usr/lib/icewm/icons" directory, your milage
may vary.


> Thanks.

HTH,
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:07:52 GMT, Peter Karlsson wrote:

> > 2) How can I add a button to a specific app? I notice there's one for
> > Mozilla and the standard xterm...hrm??

> Edit the file:
>
> ~/.icewm/winoptions

Or, if you mean that you wish to add a button to your toolbar, edit the
toolbar file in your cleverly hidden ~/.icewm directory. Just follow the
bouncing syntax.

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On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:27:00 +0000, Curt wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:07:52 GMT, Peter Karlsson wrote:
>
>> > 2) How can I add a button to a specific app? I notice there's one for
>> > Mozilla and the standard xterm...hrm??
>
>> Edit the file:
>>
>> ~/.icewm/winoptions
>
> Or, if you mean that you wish to add a button to your toolbar, edit the
> toolbar file in your cleverly hidden ~/.icewm directory. Just follow the
> bouncing syntax.

The problem with every suggestion I've gotten is I just don't have a
toolbar file, or a winoptions file that can be edited....THIS is all I
have:
[whitesnake@localhost .icewm]$ ls -a
../ ../ menu preferences preferences~ .winoptions.swp

Hrm, why is mine so sucky?

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On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:48:43 -0600, Rocket Robin Hood wrote:

> > Or, if you mean that you wish to add a button to your toolbar, edit the
> > toolbar file in your cleverly hidden ~/.icewm directory. Just follow the
> > bouncing syntax.

> The problem with every suggestion I've gotten is I just don't have a
> toolbar file, or a winoptions file that can be edited....THIS is all I
> have:
> [whitesnake@localhost .icewm]$ ls -a
> ./ ../ menu preferences preferences~ .winoptions.swp

Well, you usually have global configuration files and specific user
configuration files.

So you may have to copy some of the global ones (mine are in
/usr/local/lib/X11/icewm/) into your ~/.icewm directory, and then edit
them to taste.

I don't use icewm anymore, but it seems to me that the docs mention this
exceedingly abstruse maneuver.

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begin "Rocket Robin Hood" < benalto@SPAMMERS_BE_GONE_benal
to.com> wrote:

> The problem with every suggestion I've gotten is I just don't have a
> toolbar file, or a winoptions file that can be edited....THIS is all I
> have:
> [whitesnake@localhost .icewm]$ ls -a
> ./ ../ menu preferences preferences~ .winoptions.swp

The toolbar file is not that hard to do yourself. Here's a
snip from my toolbar file:

--------------------

prog Mozilla mozilla mozilla
prog Evolution evolution evolution
prog Pan pan pan
prog Gaim icq gaim
prog GFtp gftp gftp

(and so on...)

--------------------

How to interpret:
prog "Name of program" "icon name" "name of executable"


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In article <PxJM9.412$WX3.83839@news.uswest.net>, Rocket Robin Hood wrote:

> 1) How can I set a background image?

Line 802 in the preferences file.
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begin "Brien@WatchRock.net" <Brien@WatchRock.net> wrote:

>> 1) How can I set a background image?
>
> Line 802 in the preferences file.

Umm. In the version you're using perhaps. It's probably bound to change
with each version of IceWM, since new options are added and/or removed.

It's better to search for the "DesktopBackgroundImage" entry in the
preferences file.


Regards,
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