Here are some interesting links
- IceWM project home page http://www.icewm.org/∞
- Themes for many different window managers http://themes.freshmeat.net/∞
- KDE art (you can use the backgrounds and the icon collections) http://www.kde-look.org∞
- GNOME art (you can use the backgrounds) http://art.gnome.org/∞
(Actually if you know how to convert svg to pixmap let me know to be able to use the icons)

And here some tips

Setting a new background
To use a background from one of the collections:
1. Download the background. (I recommend downloading all of your backgrounds to a common folder to make it easy to switch between backgrounds)
2. From the start menu select "Control Panel | Change Desktop Image"
3. Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the background. (If the file selector is already in that folder, sometimes it only shows the current background. Double click the 'path selection' drop down box and you'll be able to see all the images.
4. Select the image and click OK
5. Select how you want to resize the image and click OK

Install a new theme
To install one of the iceWM themes from http://themes.freshmeat.net/∞:
1. Download the corresponding <theme>.tar.gz file
2. From the start menu select "Utilities | guiTAR archiver"
3. Open the downloaded file
4. Extract the file. It extracts to a new folder.
5. Move the whole folder to the following location:
/root/.icewm/themes
6. Your new theme will appear in the 'Themes' menu of the start menu.

It's that easy.

Replace the default icons
To use the icon collections in iceWM do the following:

1. Set the theme that's closer to what you want
2. Then download the icon collection and extract it somewhere.
3. Rename the icons you want to match the icons you want to replace. (you can rename the .png to .xpm)
For example, if you find a nice folder pixmap size 16x16, you just rename it to folder_16x16.xpm
4. Copy to the following folder (replace <yourtheme> with the name of your theme's folder)


Or if you want to make it the default for all themes, move it to:

You can increase/decrease the volume of your sound card by holding ctrl+alt and pressing / or * on the number keypad. (if you have aumix installed)

Some other keyboard shortcuts:

Ctrl+Alt+T rxvt
Ctrl+Alt+E text editor
Ctrl+Alt+N internet browser (N is for Netscape)
Ctrl+Alt+M email
Ctrl+Alt+P screenshot (or pressing the PrintScrn key might work)

You can right-click a window's title bar and select Tray Icon to put an icon on the right side of the task bar. Clicking the tray icon will make the window appear and disappear. Gaim, Sylpheed, gzine, aumix, and xtmix have tray icons by default.

You can move the menu and sub-menus up and down by rolling the mouse wheel.

Clicking Logout in the Menu will shutdown IceWM and X windows.
To restart X, type startx (or type xwin).

To make fvwm95 the default window manager again, click Logout in the Menu,
then type startx fvwm95 (or xwin fvwm95) to restart X windows.

To make IceWM the default window manager, shut down X (ctrl+alt+backspace will work), then type startx icewm-session
or startx icewm-session2 (if you want icewm to set the background for you)
or startx icewm
if startx doesn't work, xwin might work
(this won't work for older versions of Puppy ... for older versions it will be necessary to edit .xinitrc)

Press Ctrl+Alt+Space to get a quick command line

Press Ctrl+Alt+Esc or Win+Esc to bring up Window List, then type the first character of the window title you want to switch to.

To shut down Evilwm (if you try it), press ctrl+alt+backspace. Then type startx to restart X windows. Read the Evilwm documentation before trying it (there isn't any with the gt002 installer).
Some Evilwm keyboard shortcuts:
ctrl+alt+enter rxvt window
ctrl+alt+Q close window
ctrl+alt+X maximize window
ctrl+alt+1 desktop 1
ctrl+alt+2 desktop 2


See: IceWM Website∞ IceWM Faqs∞ IceWM Manual∞

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