Re: Various troubles, firstly icewmbg

On 08/17/2014 12:21 AM, Dave wrote:
> OK, so.... I'm really reaching the end of my tether with icewm. I have
> loved this wm for years now... I particularly love the Blueheart theme
> that I use with it.
> 
> But I use it together with KDE3.5, because that's how I get it to do
> what I want, specifically make my Konsole window transparent, and also
> put my own bg image up, in place of the one used by the theme. Other
> than that I have little or no use for KDE.
> 
> I have tried numerous times over several years to figure out how to get
> off of KDE3 and run icewm standalone, along with xcompmgr and transset
> for doing the transparent thing, but..... after trying again today and
> being frustrated in EXACTLY the same way for the Nth time.... well... I
> don't know each time why I expect to be able to figure something out
> that I didn't before. Nothing changes - I'm just as smart (or not) as I
> ever was :=\
> 
> One of my biggest perennial frustrations has been with icewmbg. This
> program, quite simply, DOES NOT DO anything. In particular it does not
> do what it is advertised to do. I have followed all the instructions for
> configuration. icewmbg DOES NOT WORK. How does anyone tolerate this
> situation?? If there is some kind of "magic" to make it work, how does
> anyone tolerate that this magic is not documented?
> 
> I have been interested in switching to a wm called "awesome" (whose name
> I hate), but it has a steep learning curve and it has just been easier
> to stay where I'm at. But I think I'm stretching my ability to depend on
> the long-dead KDE3 too far by now, and I really need a simpler and more
> sustainable work environment.
> 
> If anyone cares enough to try to give me some help, I may stay with
> icewm longer. The first thing, I think, is to get my bg image loaded. It
> is a JPEG and is properly configured in ALL of the different files:
> preferences, prefoverride, etc, with full (absolute) file path. No luck.

You happened to leave out the environment upon which you are running
IceWM, and whether you have used that environment's precompiled packages
or built it yourself. This is important, as IceWM may not have been
built with support for imlib, without which it is limited to loading
xpm-format images, and cannot load png, jpg, et alia.

I have been using IceWM exclusively, on Gentoo, for years, and I have no
problems using custom backgrounds with the Infadel2 theme, along with
pseudotransparency with aterm and, more recently, urxvt (composited
transparency is too distracting at small font sizes).

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