This section shows preferences that can be set in /.icewm/preferences.
Themes will not be able to override these settings.
Default values are shown following the equal sign.
The following settings can be set to value 1 (enabled) or value 0 (disabled).
- ClickToFocus = 1
Enables click to focus mode.
- RaiseOnFocus = 1
Window is raised when focused.
- FocusOnClickClient = 1
Window is focused when client area is clicked.
- RaiseOnClickClient = 1
Window is raised when client area is clicked.
- RaiseOnClickTitleBar = 1
Window is raised when titlebar is clicked.
- RaiseOnClickButton = 1
Window is raised when title bar button is clicked.
- RaiseOnClickFrame = 1
Window is raised when frame is clicked.
- PassFirstClickToClient = 1
The click which raises the window is also passed to the client.
- AutoRaise = 0
Windows will raise automatically after AutoRaiseDelay when focused.
- StrongPointerFocus = 0
When focus follows mouse always give the focus to
the window under mouse pointer - Even when no mouse motion has occured. Using this
is not recommended. Please prefer to use just ClickToFocus=0.
- FocusOnMap = 1
Window is focused after being mapped.
- FocusOnMapTransient = 1
Transient window is focused after being mapped.
- FocusOnAppRaise = 1
The window is focused when application raises it.
- PointerColormap = 0
Colormap focus follows pointer.
- SizeMaximized = 0
Window can be resized when maximized.
- MinimizeToDesktop = 0
Window is minimized to desktop area (in addition to the taskbar).
- QuickSwitch = 1
enable Alt+Tab window switcher.
- QuickSwitchToMinimized = 1
Alt+Tab switches to minimized windows too.
- QuickSwitchToAllWorkspaces = 1
Alt+Tab switches to windows on any workspace.
- ShowMoveSizeStatus = 1
Move/resize status window is visible when
moving/resizing the window.
- ShowWorkspaceStatusAfterSwitch = 1
Show name of current workspace while
switching workspaces.
- ShowWorkspaceStatusAfterActivation = 1
Show name of current workspace after explicit activation.
- WarpPointer = 0
Pointer is moved in pointer focus move when focus is moved using the keyboard.
- OpaqueMove = 1
Window is immediately moved when dragged, no outline is shown.
- OpaqueResize = 0
Window is immediately resized when dragged, no outline is shown.
- Win95Keys = 0
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.
- ManualPlacement = 0
Windows must be placed manually by the user.
- IgnoreNoFocusHint = 0
Ignore no-accept-focus hint set by some windows.
- MenuMouseTracking = 0
If enabled, menus will track the mouse even when no mouse button is pressed.
- SnapMove = 1
Snap to nearest screen edge/window when moving windows.
- SnapDistance
Distance in pixels before windows snap together
- EdgeSwitch = 0
Workspace switches by moving mouse to left/right screen edge.
- AutoReloadMenus = 1
Reload menu files automatically if set to 1.
- ShowThemesMenu = 1
Show themes submenu.
- ShowHelp = 1
Show the help menu item.
- MsgBoxDefaultAction = 0
Preselect to Cancel (0) or the OK (1) button in message
boxes
- UseRootButtons
Bitmask of root window button click to use in window manager
- ButtonRaiseMask
Bitmask of buttons that raise the window when pressed
- EdgeResistance = 32
Resistance to move window with mouse outside screen
limits. Setting it to 10000 makes the resistance infinite.
The following settings can be set to value 1 (enabled) or value 0 (disabled).
- ShowTaskBar = 1
Task bar is visible.
- TaskBarAtTop = 0
Task bar is located at top of screen.
- TaskBarKeepBelow = 1
Keep the task bar below regular windows
- TaskBarAutoHide = 0
Task bar will auto hide when mouse leaves it.
- TaskBarShowStartMenu = 1
Show button for the start menu on the task bar.
- TaskBarShowWindowListMenu
Show button for window list menu on taskbar.
- TaskBarShowWorkspaces = 1
Show workspace switching buttons on task bar.
- TaskBarShowAllWindows = 0
Show windows from all workspaces on task bar.
- TaskBarShowClock = 1
Task bar clock is visible.
- TaskBarShowMailboxStatus = 1
Display status of mailbox (determined by $MAIL environment variable).
- TaskBarMailboxStatusBeepOnNewMail = 0
Beep when new mail arrives.
- TaskBarMailboxStatusCountMessages = 0
Display mail message count as tooltip.
- MailBoxPath
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%[email protected]/
imap://mathias@localhost/INBOX.Maillisten.icewm-user
- TaskBarDoubleHeight = 0
Double height task bar
- TaskBarShowCPUStatus = 1
Show CPU status on task bar.
- TimeFormat
format for the taskbar clock (time) (see strftime(3) manpage)
- DateFormat
format for the taskbar clock tooltip (date+time) (see strftime(3) manpage).
- UseMouseWheel
mouse wheel support
- DelayPointerFocus
similar to delayed auto raise.