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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 keybindingsand 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 switchwindow (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 backgroundwallpaper manager with transparency support,a simple session manager and a system tray.IceWM is available on popular Linux distributions likeDebian, Ubuntu, Arch, OpenSUSE, Gentoo, Slackware, CentOSand also compiles on most *BSDs.

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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 1.8.3 (2020-09-17).

Features

  • Easy to use, simple and fast
  • Standards compliant
  • Fully usable with keyboard
  • Alt+Tab window switching
  • Efficient resource usage
  • Task bar (optional)
  • Multiple workspaces
  • Fully documented
  • A large number of themes
  • Usable with GNOME and KDE environments
  • Menus are automatically redefined when configuration changes
  • Sound support
  • Multiple focus modes
  • Manual placement of windows option
  • Autoraising of windows option
  • Tooltips
  • Configurable keybindings

Screenshots

The IceWM Screenshots Collection

Themes

IceWM is themeable.Every setting from the preferences file can be changedby a theme. This includes titlebars, borders, icons, events, the taskbar,etc. IceWM supports pixmapped and non-pixmapped themes and comes with anexample theme for all the theme types (warp3, warp4, win95, motif, nice,pixmap, metal, gtk) that IceWM supports.Currently, more than 400 themes can be downloaded frombox-look.org.

Translations

IceWM is translated into three dozen languages.

Documentation

Bug Tracking

See issues on Github.

Install the latest release as follows

Install from unreleased development source code

Install package dependencies

To install all package dependenciesin one go use the following script.

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More installation and configuration

  • IceWM from scratch.
  • IceWM on arch wiki.
  • IceWM by arch user.

Links

  • IceWM sound files.
  • IceWM release history.
  • Compare window managers.
  • List of all window managers.
  • GNOME window manager hints.
  • The anatomy of the modern window manager.
Windownaut 1 2 6 – Lightweight Window Manager

Windownaut 1 2 6 – Lightweight Window Manager Software

Verify package dependencies by:

More installation and configuration

  • IceWM from scratch.
  • IceWM on arch wiki.
  • IceWM by arch user.

Links

  • IceWM sound files.
  • IceWM release history.
  • Compare window managers.
  • List of all window managers.
  • GNOME window manager hints.
  • The anatomy of the modern window manager.

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License

IceWM is released under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License.

Donate

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