Re: icon theme in icewm ?

[olive <not...@yo...>]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:47:51 +0530
"J. Bakshi" <bak...@gm...> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:06:56 +0200
> Olive <not...@yo...> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:31:49 +0530
> > "J. Bakshi" <bak...@gm...> 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.

Olive