Part 6 - IceWM - See what's floating on Debian Stable

[@derwegi3413]

Take a look at the command "icewm-menu-fdo" to configure your menu. It makes it easier. The prog lines are as follows if I remember correctly: prog name icon command. So the icon and the command are often the same which is confusing you at 10:00.

[@lqlarry]

I am LOVIN this series. Thanks. Also, OpenSUSE uses ICEWM when you choose Generic Desktop on the Tumbleweed or Leap install for x86.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Thanks for the info!

[@UnhingedNW]

I really like the look of this one. It seems dead simple, and looks nice. Its cool that it has a ton of functionality out of the box. Also, we all set all our stuff up the same when we do it so no worries haha.

[@silvioklemm3769]

as for now in this series IceWM amazes me the most

[@haplozetetic9519]

When I was using Icewm about 20 years ago, one of the things I liked most was that the menu entries had to be clicked to be activated. I've long found that the "runaway" menus as I call them are too easy to misjudge and end up on a submenu that I didn't want. Not having that option on KDE was one of the contributing factors in my move to Openbox.

[@BonFromageTech]

If you install Debian using the net-install ISO, and you select only "Debian desktop environment" at the top of the list (deselect Gnome), you reboot into IceWM. I found that out by accident, trying to do a minimal Debian install. I might have to give this a second look. Great video!

[@nastykerb34]

No you dont

[@haplozetetic9519]

I don't think that is the case anymore. Debian used to offer something like "Generic Desktop" or similar, and that was Icewm. I've just been installing the LXQt iso and use Openbox since that has changed.

[@BonFromageTech]

@@haplozetetic9519 you're right. I just reinstalled Debian recently on a VM using the Debian desktop option, with Gnome deselected. Still gave me Gnome. I do like LXQT for minimal installs though.

[@haplozetetic9519]

​@@BonFromageTech I don't run LXQT as my main DE either. I set up Openbox with the various utilities required and use it instead. I use a lot of Qt apps so LXQT provides a few utilities that fit with with my preferences. It just gives me a bit of a head start setting things up.

[@dejanzabaljac6950]

Great video man! Really enjoy this series, and for example i never really looked up Ratpoison or JWM so this is giving me some sort of intro into the WM's. Thanks a bunch D!

[@donaldwilliams6821]

Nice! Now that everything is on the table I look forward to more videos soon! haha Great vid

[@JustAGuyLinux]

You and me both! I need a nap!!

[@flipflopski2951]

I'm gonna replace my clock with a sundial. Will be interesting exercise into something nobody in their right mind would ever do.

[@CaribouDataScience]

ICEWM has been around for at least 25 years.

[@haplozetetic9519]

Yup. It was still pretty new when I started using Linux.

[@susanpinochet]

I'm enjoying this series. Yes, you are tailoring each one to your own workflow, but after seeing several of these, I know what is coming, and I can see what I'd need to do to tailor them to my own. I would like to know what display manager you are using. It looks unfamiliar, but I like it.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

This is ly console manager

[@susanpinochet]

Thanks

[@hiralpatel3863]

Hi. How do I fix screen tearing on my T480? Do I need xorg conf file?

[@TheLinuxGallery-qz2vs]

I was doing a project on USB2.0 with featured desktops like XFCE and Budgie, and I came to the conclusion that the Red Hat guys really know their stuff when it comes to smoothing out performance -- even if their desktop is bloat. Then I found IceWM. It made me laugh a little. Then it made me spit my coffee out when it handled the weak drive performance like it was any other disk. My conclusion about it is, if this DE doesn't stop doing designer stimulants all day, it's going to blow its heart out.

[@erikp121]

Talking about Red Hat I have come to the conclusion that Fedora provides the best looking stock install of IceWM I have ever tried (haven't tried OpenSuse though). Debian GNU/Linux and Arch Linux ships the default gray "Win95"-theme but Fedora has a custom theme and I think it comes in 3 versions; Small, medium and large for different display resolutions. Very impressed by Fedoras IceWM package.

[@philippef.4590]

Thank you

[@johnmichalek9802]

Great video! Wish you could go more in depth in a future video.

[@fredmckinney8933]

"I hope it's not Xterm". Yeah, I'm no fan of Xterm, either. The print is too small for my aging eyes. Yet, it's included in my distro, F3OS, all because Systemback, which both creates the ISO and installs F3OS, has it as a dependency (eye roll).