hi, this is my first post in the slackware forum- (I think lol) and I'd like to say how much I love slack. I LOVE SLACK!!! The thing I like most is that it is helping me to learn linux, and really learn linux.

Ok, enough gushing, onto my "problem"

how do I set up icewm as my default window manager when I "startx"? I like how slack boots into cli mode, so, which file do I edit, what do I add to the file I'm editing and where is it located?

thanks.

titanium_geek

ooops! I forgot to say that I have icewm properly installed yadda yadda.

I assume you want to keep booting on runlevel 3 without any graphical login manager.
To achieve what you want, you have to take some xinitrc file from /etc/X11/xinit and copy it to /home/youruser/.xinitrc or /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (to be global).
Then edit the line in the file you've copied where it starts the window manager, and change it to run icewm.

Can't you also run 'xwmconfig' and get the same effect? Seems to work for me when I want to try out new window managers.

That works with preinstalled wms. If you add your own xinitrc.icewm to /etc/X11/xinit you'll be able to choose it with xwmconfig too.

--Shade

If you use the icewm package from LinuxPackages it includes xintrc.icewm.
If you compiled icewm from source then you can use this xintrc.icewm:


#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

# run profile to set $PATH and other env vars correctly
# . $HOME/.bash_profile
# start some nice programs

icewm-session
"xscreensaver &"

#-----------------------------------------------------------

thanks for the responses. The instructions to do the text file were confusing. I just ran xwmconfig and that was fine. Now I am running ice and I am very happy.

titanium_geek