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how do I get iceWM in Puppy 4.3.1?
Posted: Wed 18 Nov 2009, 21:52
by Shugo974
I hate JWM i loved iceWM found a link but it didnt work
can anyone tell me how I can i get it?
Posted: Wed 18 Nov 2009, 23:49
by alienjeff
Click the Pet Install icon on desktop
icewm-1.3.2 is under "Puppy 4" and "Desktop"
In the words of
Ricky of Trailer Park Boys fame, "It's not rocket appliances" for goodness sake.
Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009, 12:50
by francisco88
with puppy installd on hd an cd puppy asked me for directory wich i do not know
after all said
failed to download icewm-1.3.2.pet
Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009, 13:08
by francisco88
I installed it but icon do not appear on menu - desktop.
Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009, 15:33
by alienjeff
francisco88 wrote:I installed it but icon do not appear on menu - desktop.
AFAIK, no icon is supposed to appear on the desktop.
You'll need to click the "console" desktop icon and type: fixmenus
To test your icewm installation:
click menu > shutdown > exit to prompt
at prompt, type: xwin icewm
You should then get the icewm desktop.
click menu > logout > confirm logout "ok"
at prompt, type: reboot
computer should reboot with icewm
ODDITY: computer doesn't shutdown as in JWM. Must manually type "poweroff" @ command prompt after logout of icewm
Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009, 15:48
by alienjeff
I've found the installation of icewm far from seamless in Puppy v4.3.1. I'm writing something up on this. The wiki doesn't seem to have anything on this, so I might start a page for it.
In the meantime, do any users, preferrable icewm-heads, have any forum links on this?
Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009, 22:18
by francisco88
I reboot pc with icewm logged, but now how can I change theme? I dowloaded one from this forum and i do not know to to use it.
Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009, 22:34
by alienjeff
Use the forum search feature for "icewm themes"
Search Google for "puppy icewm themes"
Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009, 22:44
by francisco88
Thanks for help.
I tried to install one theme but now every reboot end with a prompt and puppy do not start.
Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009, 02:15
by francisco88
I formatted HD and retry wit an other theme.
After have selected it and reboot system, puppy do not start. End with command line # and waiting.
What i've to do?
Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009, 02:44
by alienjeff
At the prompt, type: xwin
Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009, 05:33
by James C
How to change icewm themes?
Try clicking menu/settings/themes/.........
Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009, 12:51
by francisco88
alienjeff wrote:At the prompt, type: xwin
Done, but it continue to show me that screen rebooting every 5 seconds.
Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009, 13:16
by alienjeff
Try "xwin jwm" or "xwin icewm" (without the quotes, of course). See if either of those work.
If not, try "xorgwizard" and reconfigure.
Posted: Sat 21 Nov 2009, 00:17
by francisco88
Reboot after xwin jwm: missing desktop, missing icons.
Unable to run xwin icewm, return to prompt w/o open desktop.
Xorgwizard done as before but w/o retults.
What's wrong?
Francesco
Posted: Sat 21 Nov 2009, 00:36
by runtt21
try xwin icewm-session
I believe that themes go in root/.icewm/theme
Posted: Sat 21 Nov 2009, 01:48
by francisco88
When prompted xwin icewm-session system do not start and reopen prompt.
themes are at root/.icewm/themeS
Posted: Tue 24 Nov 2009, 19:01
by francisco88
Nothing to do I've to change puppy if it continues to give me problems.
I'll use an other distro.
Posted: Tue 24 Nov 2009, 19:45
by Sit Heel Speak
01micko posted an updated icewm pet over in the dpup-482beta testing thread, see
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 780#365164
I'm using 01micko's icewm in Karmic Woof upup-450, with my rt-smp kernel. This Icewm is very stable, I like it a lot.
Posted: Thu 22 Apr 2010, 20:23
by battleshooter
For anyone still struggling with Icewm in 4.3, Jemimah's made an icewm pet that fixes the menu icons issue as well as adding a shutdown option in the menu.
Right this way:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 225#410225
Battleshooter