IceWM

IceWM

IceWM screenshot (IceDesert theme)
Developer(s)	Marko Maček
Initial release	1997 (1997)
Stable release	1.3.8 / November 17, 2013 (2013-11-17)
Preview release	1.3.8pre1 / 19 November 2011 (2011-11-19)
Written in	C++
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	Window manager
License	GNU GPL and GNU LGPL
Website	www.icewm.org

IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System graphical infrastructure, written by Marko Maček. It was written from scratch in C++ and is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. It is relatively lightweight in terms of memory and CPU usage, and comes with themes that allow it to imitate the GUI of Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 7, OS/2, Motif, and other graphical user interfaces. IceWM is meant to excel in look and feel while being lightweight and customizable.

IceWM can be configured from plain text files stored in a user's home directory, making it easy to customize and copy settings. IceWM has an optional, built-in taskbar with menu, tasks display, network and CPU meters, mail check and configurable clock. Official support for GNOME and KDE menus used to be available as a separate package. In recent IceWM versions, support for them is embedded. External graphical programs for editing configuration and menu exist.

Usage

IceWM is installed as the main Window Manager for a live version of Linux called Lightweight Portable Security, Absolute Linux, and Puppy Linux.

The Easy mode default desktop of the Asus Eee PC uses IceWM.

Screenshots

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  IceWM's Start Menu is intended to resemble that of Windows 95.

• Play media

  IceWM 1.3 Xsession running on Debian 7 GNU/Linux]]

See also

• JWM
• FVWM95
• Comparison of X window managers
• Spri, a former lightweight Linux distribution which used IceWM as its default user interface

External links

• IceWM on SourceForge.net
• IceWM Control Panel
• IceWM Themes