IceWM packages incomplete

[dedanna1029]

I've decided to go minimalist with IceWM. It appears I no longer have enough RAM to run things like Gnome and KDE, and IceWM so far seems much faster, and doesn't use the resources that the others do.

I'm wondering however, in Mageia 3, I've searched the repos out, and there are no packages for IceWM Control Panel, for IcePref, or anything of the like to tweak the desktop with. idesk is also missing. The config files seem rather intensive to delve into manually, and with those who have little time, building them is not an option.

I'm wondering if there is anywhere I can get these needed packages to set up IceWM a bit more? I have Core Release, Core Updates, Nonfree Release, Nonfree Updates, Tainted Release and Tainted Updates enabled. I am assuming these things would be in one of these repos.

Thanks.

[djennings]

You can download an rpm for IceWM Control Panel here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/icesoundmanager/files/Control%20Panel/
It is noarch so it does not need to be compiled.
The rpm is a bit out of date and will not install with urpmi, but you can install it with

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urpmi pygtk2.0
rpm -ivh --nodeps IceWMControlPanel-3.2-1.noarch.rpm

start it with

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icepref

It starts OK, but I have not tested if it all works.
If you open an RPM request in Bugzilla someone may package it up for you.


BTW: Be aware if you try editing your menus with icepref that Mageia uses dynamic menus for IceWM that are rebuilt at every login.