Re: icewm releases

WHo the hell wants a blinking pidgin anyway?
Icewm has been working for me for 5 years. It has everything one needs for a wm.
It is light and good looking and you can put all the goo-gaws on it you want.
Woo Hoo icewm!!!





On 09/21/2013 08:23 PM, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> Unfortunately IceWM is not perfect for me. It has a few glitches.
>
> I do have patches for some (notably there was an issue with some windows getting size
> mangled when going to full screen and back). But unfortunately, one glitch - that a
> blinking pidgin icon disappeard from the tray soon (I had to disable blinking)  remains
> unfixed.
>
> This is very sad for me as I feel I have to move off IceWM to something like LXDE and I
> really don't want to! The simplicity of configuration, speed, absence of annyiong
> drag-drop reactions, and possibility of complete foolproof lockdown apply to me strongly.
>
> Perhaps I should make a last ditch try by trying to build an upstream-sourced IceWM on
> Debian, instead of the distro one with whatever patches I need, and hope the issue goes
> away? but somehow I doubt it...
>
>
> On 21 September 2013 11:43, Josef Kufner <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     IceWM works well. It may look dead, but that's becouse it is already
>     perfect. Well... not perfect, but these few problems are too small to
>     overcome my laziness...
>
>     I have not significantly changed my desktop configuration for last five
>     years (maybe more). I guess that is what "and they lived happily ever
>     after" means.
>
>     Enjoy ;)
>
>
>     On 21.9.2013 04:07, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>      > Hello,
>      >
>      > I am considering moving to a new WM and I am considering icewm along
>      > with openbox and pekwm. However, I see that the last release is on
>      > 2010. There appears to be a 1.3.8pre1 release in 2011. So I wonder how
>      > active is this project? Or is it pretty much dormant?
>      >
>      > Many thanks,
>      > Ranjan
>      >
>
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