Ice, Ice Baby

MarkW · 2025-10-07 11:59:43

Any theme scientists here fancy having a go at making a Bunsenlabs IceWM theme?

MarkW · 2025-10-08 20:05:04

I have no idea why, but the pop up window that appears asking for your password when you open Synaptic in any other DE or WM doesn't seem to appear in IceWM. Which is odd

PackRat · 2025-10-08 20:22:46

Probably need a polkit agent running. I don't think IceWm reads the /etc/xdg/autostart files, so start the polkit agent from your IceWm startup file.

I can't recall which polkit agent BL has by default, check /etc/xdg/autostart for the polkit desktop file.

Edit - mate polkit agent. Check /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1.desktop with your preferred text editor for the command.

MarkW · 2025-10-08 22:25:21

I copied the relevant line from the bunsenlabs autostart file into my icewm startup file. That worked.

johnraff · 2025-10-09 03:25:39

^There should be no polkit agent line in the BunsenLabs autostart file now, because mate polkit agent gets started by its .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart/ But that won't have any effect unless either bl-xdg-autostart or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openbox-xdg-autostart is run. So I guess 'bl-xdg-autostart' is the line you copied?

MarkW · 2025-10-09 08:12:16

PackRat · 2025-10-09 09:25:06

johnraff wrote:

^There should be no polkit agent line in the BunsenLabs autostart file now, because mate polkit agent gets started by its .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart/

He's running Debian 12/bookworm based on his screenshot. Must have gnome-polkit installed, too.

I thought he had installed BL carbon alpha.

@MarkW, did you copy BL configs to your bookworm install?

MarkW · 2025-10-09 09:42:35

I didn't. What happened is that I wanted to have a look at GNOME without having to bother downloading a GNOME based distro and put it on a USB stick. So I installed the GNOME desktop from the repos, but that pulled in GDM... Which doesn't recognise the existence of any DE or WM beyond GNOME and doesn't like being replaced as the DM. GDM futzed up the system. I had to install something and all I had was the Carbon alpha on a 4GB USB stick.

It's a long and complicated story involving not being able to do anything in Carbon that requires root privileges outside the terminal and ends with me reinstalling Boron

MarkW · 2025-10-09 18:29:39

@hhh. Have you had any problems with Conky on IceWM?

hhh · 2025-10-09 19:25:40

MarkW wrote:

@hhh. Have you had any problems with Conky on IceWM?

I haven't run it yet. Just a moment...

hhh · 2025-10-09 19:39:04

No issues. My startup...

#!/bin/sh

/usr/libexec/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1 &
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps &
synclient VertEdgeScroll=0 VertTwoFingerScroll=1 HorizEdgeScroll=0 TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=2 PalmDetect=1 PalmMinWidth=4 PalmMinZ=100 &
syndaemon -i .5 -K -t -R -d &

nm-applet &
picom &
conky &

MarkW · 2025-10-09 19:59:05

Indeed it is

I can get Hydrogen, Sargas and Big Clock Conkies to show, but none the others save for the very basic one.

Here's mine with Sargas

Hmm. The time is wrong.

Last edited by MarkW (2025-10-09 20:07:29)

hhh · 2025-10-09 20:13:32

I deleted my "freaking cool screenshot" post out of embarrassment just as you posted.

hhh · 2025-10-09 20:14:42

Conky is not my thing, start a thread in the conky forum.

MarkW · 2025-10-09 20:16:45

You really shouldn't have.

I need to learn out to incorporate the IceWM specific parts of the icewm-menu into jgmenu. Where would be the best place to start?

MarkW · 2025-10-11 19:33:33

I'm wondering how I can add BL specific items to the Icewm menu

Colonel Panic · 2025-10-11 20:16:24

MarkW wrote:

Indeed it is
I can get Hydrogen, Sargas and Big Clock Conkies to show, but none the others save for the very basic one.
Here's mine with Sargas
https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/32/40/oS7D6Ocj_t.png
Hmm. The time is wrong.

Nice picture though, is that Cornwall?

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2025-10-11 20:17:03)

MarkW · 2025-10-11 20:21:22

Maybe?

MarkW · 2025-10-14 14:23:57

How might I add the Utilities, Places and Recent Files menus from Bunsenlabs to the icewm-menu?

PackRat · 2025-10-14 14:59:53

MarkW wrote:

How might I add the Utilities, Places and Recent Files menus from Bunsenlabs to the icewm-menu?

IceWm ships with a menu generator - https://ice-wm.org/man/icewm-menu-fdo

That should add any BL specific *.desktop files. Anything else will probably require manual editing of the icewm-menu - https://ice-wm.org/man/icewm-menu

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