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Problem with IceWM (startup file)

Ok, I'll get to the major issue here:

I'm running Gentoo, just so you all know, with IceWM as my desktop. I love it so far. Clean, simple, loads faster then KDE could ever DREAM of, ect. Well, anyways, the documents for it seem, lacking, online. In the online guide (which is what I've used mostly), there is a startup file which I want to use, the problem being that it doesn't work.

I ran a Google search on the problem, got the email list, and there are alot of questions but very few if any answers. I've looked for awhile, tryed various things, and nothing seems to be quite getting it. Anywho, I was hoping someone here could shed some light on this seemingly uncommon WM (why its uncommon evades me. Its the only one I know of that actually has a CPU monitor and net monitor in the taskbar o.o).

ok, not much usable info about what exactly you want to do but a generic answer (for my working icewm):
1) create a directory .icewm in your home directory
2) copy the contents of /etc/X11/icewm to your ~/.icewm
3) adopt the files to your favorite behaviour
3) create a file startup with executable rights (I use 755 here) (touch startup && chmod 755 startup)
4) the contents is a simple shell script like this one (be shure that all commands inside are run in the background! (if they don't fork themselves, use the & sign):

Code:

#!/bin/bash



###########################################

#

# Sample icewm startup file

# to have an a syslog console

# a nice world background,

# a living screensaver and

# GPG-Agent running...

#

# Author: Florian Harbich (doc.nice)

# written for linuxquestions.org

# (Thread 465028)

#

# This code may be freely used

# or redistributed without

# any restrictions

# (and without any warranty)

#

###########################################



# kill a running xconsole

if [ -e /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid ]; then

  pid=$(cat /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid 2> /dev/null)

  if [ "$pid" ]; then

    kill $pid 2> /dev/null

  fi

  rm /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid

fi

# start new xconsole at upper screen border

xconsole -notify -daemon -geometry 1024x200+0+0 -file /dev/xconsole

# remember the PID of running instance

echo $! > /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid



# become an astronaut

xplanet -wait 120 -target earth -origin moon -label&



# support GPG passphrase asking for kmail

[ -z "$GPG_AGENT_INFO" ] && eval "$(gpg-agent)"



# enable the screensaver

xscreensaver&

HTH,
Flo

BTW: the command in your sig lacks an R ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by doc.nice

Code:

#!/bin/bash



###########################################

#

# Sample icewm startup file

# to have an a syslog console

# a nice world background,

# a living screensaver and

# GPG-Agent running...

#

# Author: Florian Harbich (doc.nice)

# written for linuxquestions.org

# (Thread 465028)

#

# This code may be freely used

# or redistributed without

# any restrictions

# (and without any warranty)

#

###########################################



# kill a running xconsole

if [ -e /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid ]; then

  pid=$(cat /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid 2> /dev/null)

  if [ "$pid" ]; then

    kill $pid 2> /dev/null

  fi

  rm /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid

fi

# start new xconsole at upper screen border

xconsole -notify -daemon -geometry 1024x200+0+0 -file /dev/xconsole

# remember the PID of running instance

echo $! > /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid



# become an astronaut

xplanet -wait 120 -target earth -origin moon -label&



# support GPG passphrase asking for kmail

[ -z "$GPG_AGENT_INFO" ] && eval "$(gpg-agent)"



# enable the screensaver

xscreensaver&

HTH,
Flo

BTW: the command in your sig lacks an R ;)

Yeah, I know. rm -rf / would be better :)

Anywho, do you know how to place a program on like, desktop 4 and execute a command at the same time? I've got mine setup where I run tail -f on the syslog, along with XMMS and then another empty console to take up the space on workspace 4 that I use for general system work and whatnot.

EDIT:

Seems klauncher isn't started when I use the startup file. How annoying...

maybe (but I didn't check) you can specify --desktop :0:3 for the fourth desktop (counting from 0).
but iirc this means display 0, screen 3 for multihead configurations...

what do you mean with "place a program on desktop 4 and execute a command at the same time"? start one app on the fouth desktop and another one somewhere else?

I ment like start aterm, then execute tail within that terminal.

Mostly I feel like being lazy, lol (aren't most linux users? I mean, between cron jobs, gpm + console browsers, ect?)