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tvicol

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Registered: 2011-12-28

Posts: 66

Slitaz with icewm window manager

Happy New Year!!!

At home I have an old PC PII@350Mhz 384MB sdram. Well my phone is by far more powerful. :-D

Even openbox is a very light WM, I use icewm at work and extremely light and in my opinion faster.

Slitaz is one of the few distro's who make this PC usable and able to run few modern applications- google-chrome, openoffice etc.

I think that below procedure can be used for other WM's as well.

Please note that "user" is my home directory and you should chamge with yours.

I'm just a linux fan, so please correct me if something can be corrected or better made.

login as root

user@userx:~$ su  -

Password:

root@userx:~#

tazpkg recharge

Install icewm from repo

tazpkg get-install icewm

Edit

nano /home/user/.config/slitaz/aplications.conf

and change

WINDOW_MANAGER="openbox-session"

to

WINDOW_MANAGER="icewm-session"

My file looks like this

# File manager.

FILE_MANAGER="pcmanfm"

# Web browser.

BROWSER="google-chrome"

# Text editor.

EDITOR="leafpad"

# X terminal.

TERMINAL="xterm"

# Window manager.

WINDOW_MANAGER="icewm-session"

edit $HOME/.xinitrc and add below lines

    icewm|ICEWM)

        exec icewm-session ;;

nano $HOME/.xinitrc

Finally the file should look like this:

. $HOME/.config/slitaz/applications.conf

case $1 in

    icewm|ICEWM)

        exec icewm-session ;;

    openbox|openbox-session|ob)

        exec openbox-session ;;

    fluxbox|startfluxbox)

        exec startfluxbox ;;

    awesome)

        exec awesome ;;

    karmen|karmen-session)

        exec karmen-session ;;

    jwm)

        lxpanel &

        exec jwm ;;

    xfce|xfce4|xfce4-session)

        xfce4-session ;;

    *)

        exec $WINDOW_MANAGER ;;

esac

Edit slim.conf

nano /etc/slim.conf

look for the sessions line and change the look like:

sessions            icewm,openbox

A this time you can reboot or restart slim

Ctrl+Alt+F1 log as root and type:

root@userx:~# /etc/init.d/slim restart

At this time you should see icewm gui.

Login as root again.

Now you may want to copy icewm configuration file to your home directory, otherwise at next icewm upgrade all config files will be overwritten and you will loose configuration.

First make .icewm directory

mkdir /home/user/.icewm

Now copy the files

cp -R /usr/share/icewm/* /home/user/.icewm/

Change owner to your user

chown -R user:user /home/user/.icewm/

In order to get desktop icons, now I want pcmanfm to start automatically and also resolution changed to 1280x720

To get resolutions supported by your video card, open a new terminal and run

user@userx:~$ xrandr

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 720, maximum 1920 x 1080

default connected 1280x720+0+0 0mm x 0mm

   1920x1080      60.0

   1680x1050      60.0

   1400x1050      75.0     60.0

   1600x900       60.0

   1280x1024      75.0     60.0

   1280x960       60.0

   1152x864       75.0

   1280x720       60.0*

   1152x720       60.0

   1024x768       75.0     60.0     70.0

   896x672        60.0

   832x624        75.0

   800x600        75.0     60.0     72.0     65.0     56.0

   700x525        75.0     60.0

   640x512        75.0     60.0

   640x480        75.0     60.0     73.0

   720x400        70.0

   576x432        75.0

   512x384        75.0     70.0     60.0

   416x312        75.0

   400x300        75.0     72.0     60.0     56.0

   320x240        75.0     73.0     60.0 

Count from top to bottom starting from 0 (0,1,2 ... ) to get the number for your resolution.

For example, if you want 1920x1080 resolution than run "xrandr -s 0"

Im my case I want 1280x720 and I had to run "xrandr -s 7"

Or for a 1024x768 resolution and refresh rate 70Hz you may run "xrandr -s 1024x768 -r 70"

Under /home/user/.icewm directory, create a file named "startup"

cat>/home/user/.icewm/startup

#!/bin/sh

pcmanfm&

(xrandr -s 7)&

Now press Ctrl+D

Make this file executable and change owner

cd /home/user/.icewm/

chmod +x startup

chown user:user startup

For further icewm configuration please read http://www.icewm.org/manual/

Enjoy !

Guest

Guest

Re: Slitaz with icewm window manager

Can you make a live iso of this would be great ;D