Comments on: IceWM — a desktop for Windows emigrants

By: Adam C. Sieracki

Adam C. Sieracki — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:52:09 +0000

I’m using IceWM right now (on Vector Linux 6.0).

One thing that struck me is that IceWM actually supports rubber-banding–pre-4.6 Xfce doesn’t.

By: adz

adz — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:14:06 +0000

Green theme is called IceBuntu http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/icebuntu/

By: BlahBlahx

BlahBlahx — Wed, 09 May 2007 23:42:52 +0000

What is the name of that green theme in the screenshots?

By: michuk

michuk — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:35:37 +0000

“Developers say it’s ” Not only did you misuse its but you didn’t need it at all

Thank you. I fixed the spelling.

By: Motorcycle Guy

Motorcycle Guy — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:09:09 +0000

“Developers say it’s ” Not only did you misuse its but you didn’t need it at all

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:16:06 +0000

I tried IceWM. I was disappointed and went back to fluxbox in about 10 minutes.

By: Aaron Seigo

Aaron Seigo — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:17:51 +0000

> You can change WM in kde and it should take less memory, I
> think that GNOME is better desktop environment for such
> experiments becasue it’s more modular.

this is a misconception.

for window managers, both gnome and kde share the same window manager hints, standardized at freedesktop.org. it’s trivial to swap in a different netwm-compliant window manager in kde. see: http://developer.kde.org/~seli/kdewm/

By: adz

adz — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:12:34 +0000

@proog Yes, I use IceWM at top of my desktop, screenshots were made on Ubuntu 6.06. IceWM Lite was only a metapackage and it used IceWM from Ubuntu repository.
@marc You can change WM in kde and it should take less memory, I think that GNOME is better desktop environment for such experiments becasue it’s more modular. If you want replace default WM in GNOME (metacity) and use IceWM simply type in terminal

icewm —replace

@will I think that IceWM’s ‘look and feel’ is more similar to MS Windows than XFCE which was inspired by CDE.
@phred14 If you are looking for ligh-weight but powerful try conky