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trentster222 · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

How do you uninstall icewm. I can get back to the normal window manager, and I have decided not to use icewm. How do I remove it from the HD?

rarsa · Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 17:26 Post subject:

Just run the IceWM dotPup again. It has an option to uninstall.

Bruce B · Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 17:29 Post subject:

To get back to the default wm, boot from X to the prompt, maybe the instructions are on the screen.

# startx fvwm95

or

# xwin fvwm95

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I think I'd remove it this way:

Delete this directory

/root/.icewm

Delete these files:

/root/my-applications/bin/icewm
/root/my-applications/bin/icewm-session2
/root/my-applications/bin/icewmbg
/root/my-applications/bin/icewmclockcmd
/root/my-applications/bin/icewmpoweroff
/root/my-applications/bin/icewmreboot
/root/my-documents/bin/doc/icewm.html

Bruce B · Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 17:49 Post subject:

Of course you could do it like Rasa says and run it again and take the uninstall option. I forgot about that. Smile

rarsa · Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 17:56 Post subject:

Actually I started writing a response that looked 95% like yours (mine had the commands in [ code ] sections Cool

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Then I went to see the contents of the dotPup to confirm the list of filesand once I was there I checked the dotpup.sh script. That's how I remembered that there was an uninstall button.

I will suggest GuestToo to add that to his DotPup example. I don't even know if that part is on the Well behaved DotPups thread.