Icewm package for Dingo

Forum member ttuuxx has been working on packages of Icewm for Puppy3 and Puppy4. See forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27358

ttuuxx has used the stable 1.2.x version of Icewm, however for Dingo it is best to use the "testing" 1.3.x series as it uses libraries from GTK2 -- for example, does not require the 'imlib' library. It will work in Dingo without needing any of the extra libraries that ttuuxx supplied in the 'zlib' package.

I was unable to compile it in Dingo -- got a "compiler error", so I compiled it in Puppy 3.01 instead -- and it runs fine in Dingo.

All I have done is confirm that it works -- I ran 'xwin icewm-session' and up she came, tray, menu, desktop -- but I don't have the tray applets like Blinky, nor the icons in the menu. I don't think I've got time to figure those things out. Anyway, my objective here was just to compile the latest 1.3.x version of Icewm (v1.3.2) and provide the binaries, and ttuuxx and others can add the bells and whistles.

Actually, Icewm is running right now, as I type this.

I didn't choose 'lite' version though when configuring. Now, that would be interesting to compare. I have just made my package into a tarball, and it is 719KB. Now I will go and boot Puppy 3.01 and recompile it with 'lite' chosen....

...back again. I tried the configure option '--enable-lite' in 3.01, but compile failed.

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Username: kirk
"Icewm doesn't swallow applets into the tray. The applets have to written as eggtray apps. Same with fb/lxpanel. Icewm did build for me in T2. If your looking for a light window manager, checkout what plinej has done with openbox/lxpanel. It's less than 500k as a compressed tar ball. PlineJ has hacked lxpanel to generate it's own XDG menu and where to look for the pixmaps. It's here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25118 and openbox is here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=353852579&t=25185 I just posted a sfs file that uses them here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28068

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