IceWM
IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System. It
is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks
including
Windows, OS/2 Warp 3,4, and Motif. It tries to take the best features
of the above systems.
The IceWM suite consists of the following core applications
provided by the main package:
- icewm
- icewmbg - the background setting applications. It can
assign plain background color or images in different formats to the X
background,
shared or separated for different workspaces
- icewmtray - catches the Docklet objects installed by
various applications like PSI
- icewm-session - runs all of the above when needed
- icewm-menu-gnome1 - used internally, generates IceWM
program menus from
located GNOME(1) menus
- icewm-menu-gnome2 - used internally, generates IceWM
program menus from
FreeDesktop .desktop files
- icewmhint - used internally
IceWM can be configured from plain text files stored in a
user's home directory, making it simple to customize and copy settings.
There is also an even lighter version of IceWM called
IceWM-lite. It
doesn’t have all the features of the regular version but is perfect
for very slow CPUs (<200MHz) or even for network terminals.
The Easy mode default desktop of the Asus
Eee PC uses IceWM.
Features include:
- Fully usable with keyboard
- Alt+Tab window switching
- Efficient resource usage
- Task bar (optional)
- Multiple workspaces
- Opaque move/resize
- Window list
- Mailbox status
- Digital clock
- Themes
- Usable with GNOME
and KDE
environments
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