Wednesday, May 22, 2024

IceWM

IceWarm is beat out of the lot with everything in one place. 

I am going to use on Regular Basis.

IceWM

IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System. 

The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user’s way.          It comes with a taskbar with pager, global and per-window keybindings and a dynamic menu system. Application windows can be managed by keyboard and mouse. Windows can be iconified to the taskbar, to the tray, to the desktop or be made hidden. They are controllable by a quick switch window (Alt+Tab) and in a window list. A handful of configurable focus models are menu-selectable. Setups with multiple monitors are supported by RandR and Xinerama. IceWM is very configurable, themeable and well documented. It includes an optional external background wallpaper manager with transparency support, a simple session manager and a system tray.

IceWM is available on popular Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, OpenSUSE, Gentoo, Slackware, CentOS, antiX, NixOS and on most *BSDs.

Software

IceWM was coded from scratch in C++ by Marko Maček since 1997. It is now maintained at Github.

Releases

The latest released version is 3.5.0 (2024-05-20).

Features

Easy to use, simple and fast

Standards compliant

Fully usable with keyboard

Alt+Tab window switching

Efficient resource usage

Task bar (optional)

Multiple work spaces

Fully documented

A large number of themes

Usable with GNOME and KDE environments

Regenerates menus when configuration changes

Support for sound effects

Multiple focus modes

Manual placement of windows option

Auto raising of windows option

Tool tips

Configurable keybinding

Supports Dock Apps in a container

Tabbed windows

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