IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System (freedesktop, XFree86). The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.

Releases

• IceWM releases at SourceForge
• View Change Log 1.2.x branch, 1.3.x branch
• Unofficial but maintained branch on github.

Other downloads

• Fedora packages can be found in the official Fedora repository
• RHEL/CentOS packages can be found in the Fedora EPEL repository
• Debian/Ubuntu packages are present in thier repository
• -
• Slackware packages are available also on linuxpackages.net
• RPM packages you can find on ATrpms and DAG

Features

• Fully usable with keyboard
• Alt+Tab window switching
• Efficient resource usage
• Task bar (optional)
• Multiple workspaces
• Themes
• Usable with GNOME and KDE environments

Screenshots

See themes.

Themes

• box-look.org

Translations

• Belarusian (Hleb Valoska)
• Catalan (Toni Cuñat i Alario)
• Croatian (Vlatko Kosturjak)
• Czech (Jan Horák)
• English
• Finnish (Mika Leppänen)
• French (Laurent Pouillet, Frederic Dubuy)
• German (Mathias Hasselmann)
• Hungarian (Gabor Suveg)
• Indonesian (Arif E. Nugroho)
• Italian (Yuri Bongiorno)
• Japanese (Yoichi ASAI)
• Lithuanian (Martynas Jocius, Gediminas Paulauskas)
• Norwegian (Petter Johan Olsen)
• Polish (Przemysław Sułek)
• Portuguese (pt_BR) (Fernando Brunelli)
• Romanian (Tiberiu Micu)
• Russian (Alone, Anton Farygin)
• Slovenian (Jernej Kovacic)
• Spanish (Antonio de la Torre)
• Swedish (Per Larsson)
• Ukrainian (Volodymyr M. Lisivka)
• Vietnamese (Phan Vinh Thinh)
• Simplified Chinese (LI Daobing)
• Traditional Chinese (Wei-Lun Chao)

Documentation

There you can find almost everything you need to know:

• IceWM Manual
• IceWM FAQ and Howto pages
• IceWM Themes Howto page

Bug Tracking

If you have a patch, a bug report or a feature request to submit, please do so at the icewm project page at SourceForge.

Mailing Lists

• icewm-user - icewm user discussion

  To subscribe to the mailing list send an email to: icewm-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net with body or subject "subscribe", or visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/icewm-user.

• icewm-devel - discussion of icewm development

  To subscribe to the mailing list send an email to: icewm-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net with body or subject "subscribe", or visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/icewm-devel.

• Old yahoo/egroups list archive.

IRC

The official IRC channel is #icewm at freenode.

CVS

• Anonymous CVS Login
  Use the following commands to check out the latest icewm source from CVS:

  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@icewm.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/icewm login
  # blank password
       

• icewm-1.2 maintenance branch
  

  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@icewm.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/icewm co -r icewm-1_2_mnt icewm-1.2
       

  
  
• development branch
  

  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@icewm.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/icewm co -r icewm-1-3-BRANCH icewm-1.2
       

  
  
• Browse CVS

Links

• IceIcons - package of icons suitable for IceWM
• Polish IceWM portal - IceWM full wypas sajt
• IceWM on OSNews - IceWM - The Cool Window Manager

Credits

• Adam Přibyl - for the new logo image and web page improvements.
• Mathias Hasselmann for maintaining icewm in 2001.
• Markus Ackermann for maintaing icewm.org web pages.
• Beret, Brabbel provide the domain and DNS.
• ... (many others)

License

IceWM is released under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License.