IceWM Guide
IceWM is a delightful little window manager, which aims to be must faster than the standard desktop environments like Gnome or KDE, without being as sparse as, for example, Openbox. Default IceWM is perfectly usable, but ugly, and changing the look and feel can take some time.
I’ve installed and configured IceWM on Arch and on Ubuntu. This step-by-step guide will help anyone who tries to install, configure and use IceWM.
Installation
Personally, I think the best way to install Ubuntu + IceWM, is to use the alternate install CD, install a console system, and then grab and configure xorg. That way, you’ll get the best/fastest results. Of course, if you want things a bit easier, you can always install plain (K)Ubuntu first, and IceWM later. It works both ways. I’ll go over them both.
Configuration
Various guides around the web, and even the Ubuntu Wiki, recommend using tools like iceme, iceconf, icewmconf, and icepref, but I won’t mention them in this guide, simply because they’re not maintained. They’re not even in the Hardy repositories anymore. Editing the various configuration files by hand isn’t that hard anyway.
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