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« Reply #45 on: March 26, 2007, 07:59:02 am »
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before i try, any success using IceWM with Meanie's pdaxii13 ?
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« Reply #46 on: March 26, 2007, 08:03:35 am »
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before i try, any success using IceWM with Meanie's pdaxii13 ?
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pdaXii13 Spitz full 5.3.x has icewm and fluxbox pre-installed. you can use xselect to switch wm...
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Meanie which version of icewm?
I tracked my problem to the APM preference - not sure why its failing though - anyone know what icewm uses as plugin/applet for APM?
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« Reply #47 on: March 26, 2007, 10:30:13 am »
so here we go !

(in live with latest pdaxii13 5.3.3)

1)
exit x
xselect
-> IceWm
it launchs, splash screen, then it exits X ........

2)
xselect
-> fluxbox
it launchs, splash screen, i think i see the menu bar at the bottom then i see only the wallpaper and the arrow........
ha yes there's a maximized window in fact that is taking all the screen!
windows - hide
now i see the bottom menu bar.

do you know why icewm doesn't want to launch itself ?

EDITED: i find alt-space to have the application menu but there is no "suspend" item...
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« Reply #48 on: March 26, 2007, 11:31:56 am »
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so here we go !

(in live with latest pdaxii13 5.3.3)

1)
exit x
xselect
-> IceWm
it launchs, splash screen, then it exits X ........

2)
xselect
-> fluxbox
it launchs, splash screen, i think i see the menu bar at the bottom then i see only the wallpaper and the arrow........
ha yes there's a maximized window in fact that is taking all the screen!
windows - hide
now i see the bottom menu bar.

do you know why icewm doesn't want to launch itself ?

EDITED: i find alt-space to have the application menu but there is no "suspend" item...
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Try mv ~/.icewm/preferences  ~/.icewm/oldpreferences
This worked for me ymmv..... but then again I had an older version of Icewm which I had upgraded....
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« Reply #49 on: March 26, 2007, 01:38:12 pm »
>Try mv ~/.icewm/preferences ~/.icewm/oldpreferences

this .icewm directory doesn't exist...
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« Reply #50 on: March 26, 2007, 03:32:15 pm »
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>Try mv ~/.icewm/preferences ~/.icewm/oldpreferences

this .icewm directory doesn't exist...
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Then try any or all of the following: (from [a href=\"http://www.icewm.org/manual/icewm-7.html)]http://www.icewm.org/manual/icewm-7.html)[/url]

/home/root/.icewm
/etc/X11/icewm
/usr/share/icewm OR /usr/local/share/icewm

What I did was rename my entire directory - then when I got it working I copied back menu/themes/prefs until it broke - but that shouldn't be necessary in your case. Weird .... did you do a fresh install or upgrade?
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« Reply #51 on: March 26, 2007, 03:59:08 pm »
Actually I also have difficulties with getting 1.2.30 to run with the old (1.2.20) settings. As tanjian2 says it seems to be a preference issue.  I will try his solution then.
And I am not sure whether the issue of not being able to launch the wm may also be related to the existing "icewm-pdaxrom" package, which installs its own settings (~/.icewm/... ) and uses its own customized script to launch (/usr/bin/icewmsession) instead of the one from icewm (/usr/bin/icewm-session).
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« Reply #52 on: March 26, 2007, 05:21:43 pm »
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Actually I also have difficulties with getting 1.2.30 to run with the old (1.2.20) settings. As tanjian2 says it seems to be a preference issue.  I will try his solution then.
And I am not sure whether the issue of not being able to launch the wm may also be related to the existing "icewm-pdaxrom" package, which installs its own settings (~/.icewm/... ) and uses its own customized script to launch (/usr/bin/icewmsession) instead of the one from icewm (/usr/bin/icewm-session).
Any idea? 
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When I tested the package that  I believe you made, I made my own startup script following the outline in the ultimate Fluxbox config thread and replacing fluxbox with icewm and a few other details.
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« Reply #53 on: March 26, 2007, 05:35:28 pm »
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/home/root/.icewm
/etc/X11/icewm
/usr/share/icewm OR /usr/local/share/icewm

What I did was rename my entire directory - then when I got it working I copied back menu/themes/prefs until it broke - but that shouldn't be necessary in your case. Weird .... did you do a fresh install or upgrade?
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none of these directories exists... i've upgraded from 5.3.2 to 5.3.3 using pdaxii13-custom....
icewm is not working, however fluxbox seems ok. i think i'll stick to openbox for now  
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« Reply #54 on: March 26, 2007, 06:55:47 pm »
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/home/root/.icewm
/etc/X11/icewm
/usr/share/icewm OR /usr/local/share/icewm

What I did was rename my entire directory - then when I got it working I copied back menu/themes/prefs until it broke - but that shouldn't be necessary in your case. Weird .... did you do a fresh install or upgrade?
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none of these directories exists... i've upgraded from 5.3.2 to 5.3.3 using pdaxii13-custom....
icewm is not working, however fluxbox seems ok. i think i'll stick to openbox for now  
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Not sure how the upgrade works.. perhaps if you don't have these directories then thats why icewm won't start?  I checked the 1.2.30 ipk and it creates /usr/share/icewm directory and puts preferences/menu and themes there.
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« Reply #55 on: March 27, 2007, 06:32:02 am »
i've tried creating ~/.icewm and /usr/share/icewm ...  no effect
i've tried creating a .xsession file with ice-session in it .... no effect

x starts then shuts down.....

--loading icewm
--killing X

perhaps mr meanie would help us ?
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« Reply #56 on: March 27, 2007, 07:26:43 am »
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i've tried creating ~/.icewm and /usr/share/icewm ...  no effect
i've tried creating a .xsession file with ice-session in it .... no effect

x starts then shuts down.....

--loading icewm
--killing X

perhaps mr meanie would help us ?
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Try re-installing from the icewm-1.2.30 ipk...
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« Reply #57 on: March 27, 2007, 08:51:03 am »
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i've tried creating ~/.icewm and /usr/share/icewm ...  no effect
i've tried creating a .xsession file with ice-session in it .... no effect

x starts then shuts down.....

--loading icewm
--killing X

perhaps mr meanie would help us ?
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Try re-installing from the icewm-1.2.30 ipk...
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well, i'm afraid i'm in a bad situation:
i installed icewm package from this thread then
i selected icewm with xselect -> no way ....
i installed .xinitrc from this thread -> doens't work either.......
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« Reply #58 on: March 27, 2007, 09:32:17 am »
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When I tested the package that  I believe you made, I made my own startup script following the outline in the ultimate Fluxbox config thread and replacing fluxbox with icewm and a few other details.
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How about posting the full script you use for the needy?  

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« Reply #59 on: March 27, 2007, 02:13:41 pm »
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When I tested the package that  I believe you made, I made my own startup script following the outline in the ultimate Fluxbox config thread and replacing fluxbox with icewm and a few other details.
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How about posting the full script you use for the needy?  
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I meant .xinitrc, and they are posted on the previous page.

If you've tried those, what isn't working with them?
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