Ubuntu :: No Background In IceWM
Apr 2, 2010
I've got no background desktop image in IceWM.I've got Ubuntu 9.10 PowerPC installed. I did a bare-bones installation of Ubuntu, and installed the latest version of IceWM.To make this work properly, I edited /etc/X11/default-display-manager to have no code whatsoever, so I just manually boot up, and type "startx." To point startx to IceWM, I edited /etc/X11/Xsession to just say "exec icewm-session"
IceWM comes up, and does stuff that I need it to, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to configure a desktop background.
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Jun 23, 2010
My Notification area on icewm is coming up in a X window.
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May 11, 2011
I like the view of dfm but the project seems to be dead (last update in 2001) and it hangs up with my IceWM, so I can't use it at all. Is there anything else like dfm (it should look very oldschool) that I can use with IceMW on the desktop area?
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Aug 30, 2010
Running a stripped-down Debian distro identified as 'Debian GNU/Linux 4.0'
ICEWM version 1.2.29pre1
I need to suppress the TaskBar ... I have made numerous edits to preferences (including the obvious ShowTaskBar=0), they make No Difference Whatever
To eliminate confusion about paths, I made sure there is only one preferences file: /usr/share/icewm/preferences
To eliminate confusion about themes, I removed all themes directories
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Sep 23, 2010
I gave it 6 months, "Plasma" is still as disappointing as it was on day 1 :-( , even more so on SuSE 11.3, but I love the KDE apps. Any suggestions on a lightweight window manager (XFCE or Icewm) Don't care about effects, I like dark and minimalistic where I can define colours, window size and placement, before I rototill this installation.
Plasma has too many irritating features that I cant turn off, just too much like Windoze
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Apr 6, 2010
I logged out of KDE and started a new session in IceWM just to check it out. When I logged out of IceWM my system crashed and I had to restart. Now it logs in automatically to IceWM. If I log out of IceWM it crashes and I have to hard restart it. When I log out of IceWM it just shows a messed up nvidia logo.
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Jun 15, 2011
IceWM, buttons of windows in the panel, to change their order like Gnome and KDE allow (drag and drop method).
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Jul 10, 2010
I'm trying to use mmaker to build my .icewm menu, but get this: $ mmaker icewm
Code:
parsing xpdf.desktop...ok
parsing xfce4-run-program.desktop...ok
parsing thunar-volman-settings.desktop...ok
[Code]....
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Sep 4, 2010
I installed Debian 5.04 with only "basic system", then xorg and the proprietary nvidia driver, then iceWM. ( I had to give up on KDE and Gnome because KDE was incredibly slow, and both of them had a heavy emphasis on visual decorations while I wanted minimalism. ) It was interesting and fun to get this far - and it all works.Now I need a file manager. This page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... e_managers has a chart. This enabled me to rule out the ones that don't have OSI-type licences (GPL or similar), and those which don't offer a "list view" of files.That still leaves 20+ choices. I've looked at some of the project sites but they don't give the information I'm looking for. I could install one after another, but I'm not sure whether apps can be removed without leaving a lot of debris like on Windows, and it may be quicker to ask.
My problem with file managers has been that they default to an "icon view". There's usually an option for a "detail view", but it has to be set over and over again, for every new window. I want one that can be configured to *always* give text-based file lists, without having to repeatedly set this option. (I don't mind command line usually, but having to type filenames and paths all the time gets tedious.)So my criteria are: * GPL or equivalent* Fast* Minimum "eye candy"* Can set it for text lists with details, just once and it "remembers"I've searched here and on Google but haven't found which ones (if any?) fit this description.
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Jan 15, 2010
I have a Debian machine running IceWM. I want to set it up so when userA signs in they get a screen resolution of 1280x1024 and normal size icons and normal size cursors. Then I want it setup so if UserB signs in they get a screen resolution of 800x600 larger icons and larger mouse cursor icons. How can I customize the display settings per user with IceWM? I did not see where I can set these options in ~/.icewm/preferences.
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Apr 15, 2011
Anyone know why each time I boot up the machine the cube background image goes away and the background colour is left. This image i am placing is in Apparency/Skydome
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Jan 15, 2011
I have an older laptop (P4 Compaq Presario 2110; 512mb RAM) on which I installed Lubuntu 10.10. I am using a Buffalo wireless G PCMCIA card (Broadcom 43xx chip set) on the LXDE side which works perfectly. Out of curiosity I installed 'icewm' and 'openbox.' My wireless card shows when I check lspci as "UP." Using wicd, I can see networks, but my router will not resolve an IP address. NetworkManager does nothing.
I have tried using both ifconfig and iwconfig commands with no love.
Is this something inherent with lighter WMs and desktops? Is there a means to allow my router assign an IP and why would it be different for a different WM? Should the IP address be assigned to the computer?
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Mar 12, 2011
I normally use a very lightweight Linux setup. No desktop like Gnome or KDE, just Icewm as the windows manager and nothing else that normal users might consider essential. Well, I do need a file manager - I use Thunar.
Recently I've been trying Gnome. Whenever I shove a memory stick into a USB port, or connect my digital camera, it can automatically pop up a file manager showing all the goodies on that device. KDE does this too. I like this. Although quick at the command line, I like not having to go sudo to mount the device and all that.
If I want to stick with a lightweight setup using Icewm+Thunar, is there something non-huge I can install to make external devices fire up a Thunar window, or otherwise make access to the contents brainlessly easy?
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Apr 3, 2011
I have spent the most part of 5 hours trying to fix this issue. For some reason I cannot change the background image to any of mt .jpg wallpaper files (and .png files). I've tried using the Ubuntu-Tweak application, but I end up getting a purple screen (default) or a black screen (default). So then I tried using the terminal method by making the Appearance window appear when I would log out. That works, except when I go to use my background image, it shows as a question mark for the image preview, and the icon for the file is a gray box. All while doing this my background images that I tested are all in the /usr/share/backgrounds location. Please help! I really want to get rid of the default images and use my images... :/ My desktop/screen in 1440x900, and most my background images are around that size. They work with my regular desktop for my account.
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Mar 24, 2010
I originally have Ubuntu Lucid on my machine. I just installed opensuse 11.2 on another partition without bootloader installed. So I'm still using the Ubuntu Lucid default bootloader grub2. I can boot up opensuse correctly. the nagging thing is that there's no splash screen show up during the boot process, instead, lines of command are flashing, the console background is also missing and the font under console (tty1-6) is huge. what can I do to have these back to opensuse? the current entry in grub2 for opensuse
Code:
menuentry "openSUSE 11.2 (i586) (on /dev/sda2)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,2)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9ac05ede-e7c4-47f3-b55b-66d5844$
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop root=/dev/sda2
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop
}
which parameters should I add?
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May 18, 2011
I have been searching for what causes these error messages from icewm. The moment I log out of the icewm session I see the following errors:XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":1.0"after 154 requests (154 known processed) with 0 events remaining.icewmbg: Can't open display: :1. X must be running and $DISPLAY set.I see this with 1.3.6 and also 1.3.7. I see the errors in Slackware 12.2, 13.1, and 13.37; and both run level 3 and 4. The errors appear with the proprietary nvidia, s3virge, tdfx, and virtualbox drivers.With 1.3.6 I was seeing concurrent segfault errors in /var/log/messages from icewmtray, but not in 1.3.7.I don't notice any related errors in the Xorg log.I see these errors only with icewm.Browsing the web reveals other people see these error messages too. Some people blame icewmbg and others blame X. I have not noticed anything definitive as to the cause.
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Feb 16, 2010
I want to change installation background image in fedora 12.
How to change the installation background not desktop background.
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Apr 22, 2010
I would like to know what's going on underneath the GUI, is there a tool for me to see what's going on at the command line while using the GUI?
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Feb 9, 2010
Ok ill be quick. When i go from my start menu preferences, change background wallpaper, i get the message that the application for changing the background cant write somewhere and that is banned by my administrator or supervisor..... i think the path was /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options. I tryed to find it but impossible..
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May 28, 2010
I would like to run in the background the UREADAHEAD for test speedup
Some of you know a way?
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Nov 10, 2010
I've been trying to find out for the last 2 hours how to make virtualbox run in the background. I've also searched google for an answer.
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Jan 17, 2011
I frequently run teamviewer on my netbook because it's my favorite remote desktop application, but it doesn't have an option to run at startup nor hidden. This is what I need:o be able to run teamviewer automatically at startup, hidden as a "service?" (meaning no taskbar button nor tray icon) and with a delay of 20 seconds (it has to be started after my wifi has automatically connected, not before).Can't be so hard, but I don't seem to be able to find a good answer to this in Google.
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Jan 19, 2011
A couple weeks ago i installed Ubuntu with Gnome on my Dell inspiron 9400, on a fresh new(empty) hard drive. Went without a hitch and has worked great for a couple weeks. A couple nights ago, i opened the update manager and saw that there were a few recommended updates, i browsed through them, none looked spooky or anything so i installed them all. After rebooting, my computer now does nothing at all. I get to the log in, i type in my password and then after that, all that's there is my background picture. No status bars, no wifi connections. I can right click and get a menu, but there's nothing there of any help, just background settings. i'm trying to figure it out as i go along, finding advice in forums and stuff. but i havent seen this problem anywhere. I installed from a live iso. i'm not sure if i can put it back in and somehow undo whatever happened. I'm at a complete impasse with this.
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Jun 20, 2011
AAO D255, all updates, Ununtu 11.04My desktop background and folder icons are dim in comparison to the slider and any program I open. I also notice that when I run a program that installs anything that screen dims (gets like this grey opacity I guess) after a period of time. I am plugged into the wall so the laptop is NOT running on battery.Is there some setting I need to tweak after this latest install? This did NOT occur prior to samesaid.
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Mar 7, 2011
Every day I use the top command to check the processes running on my Kubuntu 10.10 system. Every day I find that apt-get is running under the root account and using 100% of the CPU. It'll run forever if I let it but I use "killall" to stop it. Pressing the "c" key in top shows the command used to start the process and doing that I see that apt-get is being started with "apt-get -qq -y update". The -qq param is for quiet mode and the -y is to answer yes to any questions. The important thing is the update parameter. It seems that some "feature" of Ubuntu is starting apt-get in update mode for me on a daily basis. I installed Kubuntu only 3 days ago and I don't recall turning this "feature" on anywhere. How can I disable this "feature" and prevent the system from auto-starting apt-get.?
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Jan 19, 2010
I'm looking for better tweak my current streaming setup to my analog TV. I'm running everything from the S-Video out on my graphics card to the s-video input on my TV so in essence my computer is occupied if i'm watching something streaming from it.I have an digital converter box hooked up to my tv via coax and a upscaling dvd player to it via component video.Is there a way I could run the streaming in the background or get it so it sends a full true signal and converts it much like the digital video?
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Feb 2, 2010
How do I make Evolution run in the background like Pidgin and Skype? I've looked on Google and all around in preferences, but I can't find anything to make it run in the background!
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Mar 21, 2010
I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop, and are pritty new to Ubuntu, but have used windows computers a lot. So if you have a solution to me, pleas make it simple. I have installed emesene and have it running on the start up, and since I'm using a wireless connection, I have delayed the running of the program whit the command:sh -c "sleep 10 && emesene %u &" .So i don't have to attend to the log in possess. but still the window pops up, something not necessary, since i rearly use th im-client in the start. So what i want is for emesene to start only in the tray without the contact windows opening. Is that possible? I would prefer to only add somthing to the command and not have to install a extra program.
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Mar 30, 2010
I am trying to change the Desktop Background on my Ubuntu 9.1 PC and am getting nothing but a black baxckground. I have tried the right click --> change desktop background --> and then double clicking on the desired background image but it does not work
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Apr 2, 2010
I just restarted my computer, tried to login and all i see is the blue Kubuntu wallpaper, the desktop items never load, i can run terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+f2 however? This happened before and i just reinstalled the kde, but i really need to find out why this keeps happening.
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