Re: icon theme in icewm ?

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:04:39 +0200
olive <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:47:51 +0530
> "J. Bakshi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:06:56 +0200
> > Olive <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:31:49 +0530
> > > "J. Bakshi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > How can I get a gnome style busy icon theme in icewm ?
> > > 
> > > Icewm is a window manager only and it has nothing to do with that.
> > > This has to be configured independently and depend on the toolkit
> > > used by the application. lxappearence
> > > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXAppearance is able to configure this for
> > > GTK2 applications (it is part of the lxde desktop but can be used
> > > stand alone).  
> > > 
> > > Olive
> > > 
> > Thanks a lot !!!
> > Installed LXAppearance and also get some effect, though need to
> > install mouse theme which doesn't come with it. One more thing. In
> > gnome you can set any installed font as default font of your desktop.
> > Is there any stand alone GUI to do the same under icewm ?
> 
> Once again, icewm do nothing more than managing window. It does not
> take any configuration for the applications. Typical Desktop
> environment like Gnome comes with a toolkit and are able to configure
> applications that are written for the desktop, but not the other
> applications (some distributions try to install some level of
> compatibility between desktop). Icewm is just a window manager, do
> not configure any applications and there is no default toolkit for
> applications that run on it.
> 
> For the default font used by the applications, it's depend what kind of
> application. lxappearence is able to configure fonts for GTK2
> application. I think qtconfig can do the same for Qt applications.
> 
> For the fonts used by icewm itself (i.e. font on the title of the
> windows, in the taskbar and in the icewm menu); they can be configured
> by editing the icewm/preferences and icewm/prefoverride file. (typical
> present in /usr/share/icewm; if you put a file named like this in
> ~/.icewm it will take precedence). They are various tools to edit these
> files but I think it is simpler and safer to edit them by hand. These
> files are well commented and it should be easy to do.
> 

One issue with .icewm/prefoverride is you can't preview how your fonts settings
looks like. hence any standalone GUI font selector can help, so I asked the same.

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