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nopsuedo
10-07-2002, 06:08 PM
I just replaced sawfish with icewm (to get around the gnome status docklet bug). I'm trying to configure icewm as explained in the manual, I copied the preferences file from the global directory to the .icewm direction underneath my home directory and removed the # in front of the options I wish to alter but my changes have no effect (after logging out and logging back on).

Any ideas?

Thanks
howdyboby
10-16-2002, 10:41 AM
did you move it to the /home dir or the $HOME dir, theres a big diffrence. if you are logged in as root the $HOME dir is /root if say you are user "newuser1" your $HOME dir could be "/home/newuser1".
nopsuedo
10-16-2002, 11:09 AM
It's within my home directory (of my user account). Weird thing is that it only doesn't load the preferences with 1.2.2. I downgraded to 1.0.9 and they load fine, I then upgraded to 1.2.0 and they also work fine. It's just 1.2.2 that is giving me problems.
howdyboby
10-16-2002, 04:09 PM
hum, i haven't read anything that said that one was diffrent in anyway. i am only useing 1.2.0, might upgrade to see if this is true tonight. for now all i can sugest are some simple things to dble check. type cd and push enter, this will take you to your home dir, make sure it is the correct one. watch the case of the dir and file. make sure you uncommented the lines in the preferences file. make sure everyone has read permissions to the dir, and file. other then that all i can think of is the the preferences file has a bad line in it and it is kicking it to the system default. I will try 1.2.2 tonight and see if it works ok with my config.
jglen490
10-16-2002, 05:40 PM
If you have an rpm-based distro, go to rpmfind.net and search for "icepref". The icepref package is a configuration tool for IceWM that works very well. If you're not rpm-based, go to google.com/linux and search for "icepref" -- it's all over the place!!
tournesol
10-16-2002, 11:34 PM
If my memory is good I seem to remember that for every change made in config you have to restart icewm ( it is somewhere in their doc.)

tournesol
jglen490
10-17-2002, 10:34 AM
Originally posted by tournesol
If my memory is good I seem to remember that for every change made in config you have to restart icewm ( it is somewhere in their doc.)

tournesol
I believe you're right. Icepref has a "Restart" button that will do that for you after you make changes.
nopsuedo
10-17-2002, 11:50 AM
Actually, I've tried using IcePref. It works great as far as changing the preferences file goes but again, changing the preferences file isn't the problem I'm seeing, the problem is that my preferences file is not loaded in 1.2.2, period. And yes I do restart icewm after making the changes. Something changed between 1.2.0 and 1.2.2 that makes it so that my preferences file is no longer used.
cage47
10-17-2002, 01:13 PM
Hmmm sounds like a bug to me. If using icepref doesn't even get IceWM to recognize the config file then you have a real problem. Is there a spot in there that shows the path to the config file? (Not at my computer so can't check right now)