icewm has no programs

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Mon May 12 16:01:46 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 22:58 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> atm I have SL5 on two systems, I have IceWM on one of them. It seemed 
> pretty quick (and I didn't see a problem with the menus), that was (in 
> part) why I installed it on Fedora.

Here's what I do on my VM's:
Install the both the icewm and the icewm-xdgmenu.
Login once. (To generate the program list.)
Create a local startup ($HOME/.icewm/startup) file that will only
regenerates the menus if programs.programs.autogen is N days old.
Shazam! icewm logs in within 1 second.

As for SL5, I'd venture and guess that are using IceWM's built-in gnome
and/or KDE support.
Sadly enough, I found that under Fedora, neither one generated
satisfying results. (Missing applications; missing icons; etc)
Only xdgmenu gave me the necessary flexibility I needed. (E.g. use
custom font-sets)

... You could try icewm-gnome (also in the repos) and see if it works
better for you.

- Gilboa





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