NightSky

Ok i have dedicated lots of time googling, looking in icewm manual, howto, and 2 posts by Dapper Dan.
I have tried various combinations of in the /h ome/user/.icewm/preference line 1236
I checked .xinitrc and there is:

#Start IceWM
icewmbg &
icewmtray &
exec icewm-session

This is my .icewm/preferences:
DesktopBackgroundColor="rgb:231/211/128"

DesktopTransparencyColor="rgb:231/211/128"

Tried it with just the background color and with the transparencycolor... don't work

In one of the post it said to:
#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
icewmbg &
exec icewm

( I don't know how to do this) put it in .xinitrc? where

2) Why can't i shutdown from icewm?
Tried to follow some tutorials and posts but no luck... most articles are for distros other than slackware but i tried variations.... In any case I do not have a "preoverride" directory or option???

3) Initially I installed icewm on fresh slackware12.2 install along with all the Xfiles but have never started another wm... to set icewm as the default instead of Xfce is this right?

4) I also intalled icewm slackbuild as root from /usr/local/src - directory is this a problem.... just read somewhere it was godd to install from here to keep things organized? Thanks

reed9

I don't use icewm and I don't know Slackware well, but usually not being able to shutdown from your session means the session isn't registered with consolekit. In ~/.xinitrc, preface icewm with ck-launch-session as so According to the icewm website in regards to icewm-session So I'm not sure you need to manually start icewmbg manually. Using icewm-session also reads the file ~/.icewm/startup for programs to launch when the session starts, so if need be, you can also put icewmbg there.
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/IceWM

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bash: exec: ck-launch-session: not found

I do startx to start icewm... i have access to browser and other setting in the preferences config file work

If i try to run icewmbg from xterm it just says:
the curser then just hangs on a blank space.... then to get back to normal cursor i have to do ctrl+z

Guess what i changed the rgb code to just a "colorname"
Then ran icewnbg and it changed the color... but there must be a way to control the actual color because i have seen some beautiful samples of icewmbg.
Any Slackware users out there using icewm - i know there are. I tried to view the slackware icewm tutorial on utube but i can't get any sound and my sound is working..... have flash installed and java activated