Projects/X11-wm/IceWM

IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System (freedesktop, XFree86). The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, to not get in the user's way.

Releases

• IceWM releases at SourceForge
• View Change Log 1.2.x branch, 1.3.x branch

Other downloads

• Fedora packages can be found in the official Fedora repository
• RHEL/CentOS packages can be found in the Fedora EPEL repository
• Debian/Ubuntu packages are present in thier repository
• -
• Slackware packages are available also on linuxpackages.net
• RPM packages you can find on ATrpms and DAG

Features

• Fully usable with keyboard
• Alt+Tab window switching
• Efficient resource usage
• Task bar (optional)
• Multiple workspaces
• Themes
• Usable with GNOME and KDE environments

Screenshots

See themes.

Themes

• We're creating a theme repo, and gallery locally. Which will become the official place for IceWM themes. But until it's complete, please see:
• box-look.org

Translations

• Belarusian (Hleb Valoska)
• Catalan (Toni CuÑat i Alario)
• Croatian (Vlatko Kosturjak)
• Czech (Jan HorÁk)
• English
• Finnish (Mika Leppänen)
• French (Laurent Pouillet, Frederic Dubuy)
• German (Mathias Hasselmann)
• Hungarian (Gabor Suveg)
• Indonesian (Arif E. Nugroho)
• Italian (Yuri Bongiorno)
• Japanese (Yoichi ASAI)
• Lithuanian (Martynas Jocius, Gediminas Paulauskas)
• Norwegian (Petter Johan Olsen)
• Polish (Przemysław Sułek)
• Portuguese (pt_BR) (Fernando Brunelli)
• Romanian (Tiberiu Micu)
• Russian (Alone, Anton Farygin)
• Slovenian (Jernej Kovacic)
• Spanish (Antonio de la Torre)
• Swedish (Per Larsson)
• Ukrainian (Volodymyr M. Lisivka)
• Vietnamese (Phan Vinh Thinh)
• Simplified Chinese (LI Daobing)
• Traditional Chinese (Wei-Lun Chao)

Documentation

Here you can find almost everything you need to know:

• IceWM Manual
• IceWM FAQ and Howto pages
• IceWM Themes Howto page

Bug Tracking

Until we get the IceWM Forum in operation. Please use the FreeBSD bug reports system to report bugs.

IRC

The official IRC channel is #icewm at freenode.

CVS

• CVS, or more accurately; repository access is coming soon!
  Stay tuned, as we'd love to see your proposals!

Links

• IceIcons - package of icons suitable for IceWM
• Polish IceWM portal - IceWM full wypas sajt
• IceWM on OSNews - IceWM - The Cool Window Manager

Credits

• Adam Přibyl - for the new logo image and web page improvements.
• Mathias Hasselmann for maintaining icewm in 2001.
• Markus Ackermann for maintaing icewm.org web pages.
• ... (many others)

License

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

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