IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows, OS/2 Warp 3,4, and Motif. It tries to take the best features of the above systems.
The IceWM suite consists of the following core applications provided by the main package:
- icewm.
- icewmbg – the background setting applications. It can assign plain background color or images in different formats to the X background, shared or separated for different workspaces.
- icewmtray – catches the Docklet objects installed by various applications like PSI.
- icewm-session – runs all of the above when needed.
- icewm-menu-gnome1 – used internally, generates IceWM program menus from located GNOME(1) menus.
- icewm-menu-gnome2 – used internally, generates IceWM program menus from FreeDesktop .desktop files.
- icewmhint – used internally.
IceWM can be configured from plain text files stored in a user’s home directory, making it simple to customize and copy settings.
There is also an even lighter version of IceWM called IceWM-lite. It doesn’t have all the features of the regular version but is perfect for very slow CPUs (<200MHz) or even for network terminals.
Features include:
- Fully usable with keyboard.
- Alt+Tab window switching.
- Efficient resource usage.
- Task bar (optional).
- Multiple workspaces.
- Opaque move/resize.
- Window list.
- Mailbox status.
- Digital clock.
- Themes.
- Usable with GNOME and KDE environments.
- Internationalization support.
Website: github.com/bbidulock/icewm
Support: Wiki
Developer: Marko Macek, Mathias Hasselmann
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
IceWM is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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