Default values are shown following the equal sign.
The following settings can be set to value 1 (enabled) or value 0 (disabled).
Enables click to focus mode.
Window is raised when focused.
Window is focused when client area is clicked.
Window is raised when client area is clicked.
Window is raised when titlebar is clicked.
Window is raised when title bar button is clicked.
Window is raised when frame is clicked.
The click which raises the window is also passed to the client.
Windows will raise automatically after AutoRaiseDelay when focused.
Window is focused after being mapped.
Transient window is focused after being mapped.
The window is focused when application raises it.
Colormap focus follows pointer.
Window can be resized when maximized.
Window is minimized to desktop area (in addition to the taskbar).
enable Alt+Tab window switcher.
Alt+Tab switches to minimized windows too.
Alt+Tab switches to windows on any workspace.
Move/resize status window is visible when moving/resizing the window.
Show name of current workspace while switching workspaces.
Show name of current workspace after explicit activation.
Pointer is moved in pointer focus move when focus is moved using the keyboard.
Window is immediately moved when dragged, no outline is shown.
Window is immediately resized when dragged, no outline is shown.
Makes 3 additional keys perform sensible functions. The keys must be mapped to MetaL,MetaR and Menu. The left one will activate the start menu and the right one will display the window list.
Windows must be placed manually by the user.
Ignore no-accept-focus hint set by some windows.
If enabled, menus will track the mouse even when no mouse button is pressed.
Snap to nearest screen edge/window when moving windows.
Distance in pixels before windows snap together
Workspace switches by moving mouse to left/right screen edge.
Reload menu files automatically if set to 1.
Show themes submenu.
Show the help menu item.
Show GNOME's folder icon in GNOME menus
Create GNOME application menu at toplevel
Create GNOME user menu at toplevel
Create KDE menu at toplevel
Preselect to Cancel (0) or the OK (1) button in message boxes
The following settings can be set to value 1 (enabled) or value 0 (disabled).
Task bar is visible.
Task bar is located at top of screen.
Keep the task bar below regular windows
Task bar will auto hide when mouse leaves it.
Show button for the start menu on the task bar.
Show button for window list menu on taskbar.
Show workspace switching buttons on task bar.
Show windows from all workspaces on task bar.
Task bar clock is visible.
Display clock using LCD style pixmaps.
Display status of mailbox (determined by $MAIL environment variable).
Beep when new mail arrives.
Display mail message count as tooltip.
Path to a mbox file. Remote mail boxes are accessed by specifying an URL using the Common Internet Scheme Syntax (RFC 1738):
scheme://[user[:password]@]server[:port][/path]
Supported schemes are "pop3", "imap" and "file". When the scheme is
omitted "file://" is prepended silently. IMAP subfolders can be access by
using the path component.
Reserved characters like slash, at and colon can be specified by using escape sequences using a hexadecimal encoding like %2f for the slash or %40 for the at sign.
Examples:
file:///var/spool/mail/captnmark
pop3://markus:%2f%40%3a@maol.ch/
imap://mathias@localhost/INBOX.Maillisten.icewm-user
Double height task bar
Show CPU status on task bar.
format for the taskbar clock (time) (see strftime(3) manpage)
format for the taskbar clock tooltip (date+time) (see strftime(3) manpage).
mouse wheel support
similar to delayed auto raise.
The following settings can be set to a numeric value.
Left/right border width.
Top/bottom border height.
Left/right border width of non-resizable windows.
Top/bottom border height of non-resizable windows.
Width of the window corner.
Height of the window corner.
Height of the title bar.
Resistance to move window with mouse outside screen limits. Setting it to 10000 makes the resistance infinite.
Bitmask of root window button click to use in window manager
Bitmask of buttons that raise the window when pressed
Movement before click is interpreted as drag.
Time (ms) to recognize for double click.
Time to auto raise (must enable first with AutoRaise)
Time to auto hide taskbar (must enable first with TaskBarAutoHide).
Time before showing the tooltip.
Time before tooltip window is hidden (0 means never)
Initial scroll bar autoscroll delay
Scroll bar autoscroll delay
Auto scroll start delay
Auto scroll delay
The following settings can be set to a string value.
Name of the title bar font.
Name of the menu font.
Name of the status display font.
Name of the font for Alt+Tab switcher window.
Name of the normal task bar item font.
Name of the active task bar item font.
Name of the window list font.
Name of the tool tip font.
Name of the task bar clock font.
Color of the active window border.
... TODO (see default preferences for complete list)
Color of the desktop background.
Image (.xpm) for desktop background. If you want icewm to ignore the desktop background image / color set both DesktopBackgroundColor ad DesktopBackgroundImage to an empty value ("").
Display desktop background centered and not tiled. (set to 0 or 1).
List of workspace names, for example
WorkspaceNames=" 1 ", " 2 ", " 3 ", " 4 "
Path to the icewm/lib directory.
Path to the icon directory. Multiple paths can be entered using the colon (UNIX) or semicolon (OS/2) as the separator.
Path to the icewm/lib directory.
Root directory for KDE data (/usr/share by default).
program to run when the clock is double clicked.
program to run when mailbox icon is double clicked.
program to run to lock the screen.
program to run when Run is selected from the start menu.