I have a disturbing problem. I would really need to get Icewm working on my
SuSE Professional 9.3 system. It looks like it would be installed in yast, but
when I try to change from KDE to Icewm, then Icewm is´nt in the list with
KDE, blackbox, fvwm and other window managers.
Could somebody tell me how to get Icewm woking? It think it should be
possible but I don´t know how to do.

I would also really enjoy that Icewm would start as default, how do I do that?


Please somebody help me!


Fjodor

I'm having the same problem, this is a copy of what I just posted as a question to another thread.

I've installed icewm, it's there, confirmed as such, however Suse93 refuses to allow it to be shown on the windowmanager as one of the choices. All the others are there. So, how to get it to show up there is the question.
I've installed and uninstalled a couple of times (using synaptic) which normally would add it to the start menu choices.

Any help is appreciated.

Could somebody also tell if there is any other easy-to-use distribution where it would be easier to use icewm.

Is this impossible to do or why doesn't anybodu answear?

I have never done this, but you could try to set icewm as default WM in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager

Mandriva will do this for you. It installs icewm (you have to tick a box during install, it's quite easy, and is nice/easy to use.

BTW, you're right I use icewm, it is a great window manager. Edit your /etc/X11/icewm/preferences
and try also to get iceme (ice menu editor), to use the full features of icewm !!

Cheers !

Not everyone can answer on your schedule, and you will find people will grow LESS responsive if you say stuff like that. That being said, the configuration for your windowsmanager is, as abisko00 said, under /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager. Switching the line:

DEFAULT_WM="kde",

to IceWM (Not sure what the abbv version is, but it's listed at the top of the file)

Thanks very much for the help!

Hi

I stuck in the same trouble and it seems to me, that it is a decent SuSE Bug (or perhaps I'm to stupid for that thing);

Those things with "change DEFAULT_WM in sysconfigs/windowmanager" were useless, but for now I've got it running:

1) You can use xdm as displaymanager, add following lines to your home-dirs .xinitrc (below startkde for example):
elif test -x /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm ; then
WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/icewm
Then of course change in sysconfig/windowmanager DEFAULT_WM to icewm, kill your running displaymanager and restart xdm, login and enjoy icewm (okay, the login-screen isn't quite as colourful as gdm or kdm)

2) if you're using gdm or kdm its gettin' rough with a simple trick: edit /opt/gnome/share/gnome/default.wm, there you have just 2 lines, default and WM=gnome-wm
simply replace gnome-wm with icewm, thats all, this makes icewm to your systems-default winmanager (you have to select "default system blablabla" explicit at your next logon, you wont get a line with "icewm" in the logon menu).

That was it for me, okay, got kdm, gdm and xdm installed as displaymanager, I don't know if you'll find this default.wm file if you haven't installed gnome too, but I think, it should be there.

Good luck