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howdy guys,
Can someone please tell me how I can have the wicd client automatically start in icewm? If I put it in .xinitrc I get the normal icon plus a strange little black box on the screen that's kind of difficult to get rid of. I'm trying
exec wicd-client &
and I get the strange behaviour.
help?
Last edited by scrawler (2009-08-22 14:11:03)
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Hi,
looks like ~/.icewm/startup is the way to go: http://www.icewm.org/FAQ/IceWM-FAQ-1.html
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Thanks, but that wound up being no different than putting it in .xinitrc. The work-around solution I just came up with is to start /usr/lib/wicd/wicd-curses.py with xterm and to set xterm as a tray icon via .icewm/winoptions. It does the trick, but I still am curious about the mystery box that can't be closed...
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Not familiar with icewm, however wicd can be started as a daemon in rc.conf. Here is my daemon entry. This works impeccably, and btw I much prefer over nm-applet
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng netfs dbus hal wicd cups crond @alsa)
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Thanks, good suggestion, but it's already in there.
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Hi Scrawler,
Yes, I know this little black box very well, as I had the same problem when I started using IceWM. With IceWM, there has to be a sleep added between each command or you get this box which can't be closed.
Here is what my startup file looks like in my .icewm folder
rox --pinboard=my-desktop &
sleep 1
numlockx &
sleep 1
wicd-client &
sleep 1
adesklets --rox &
Without the sleep 1 in between each command, you'll get the black box. Hope this helps
Last edited by Antonio777 (2009-08-22 08:31:14)
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sleep...
such a simple thing and yet so elusive--thanks.
btw, I've used icewm off and on for quite a while but I've never tried to configure it to the extent that I am now. You have inspired me to try adesklets and the pinboard (already use panels). pretty nice.
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Glad I could help IceWM is a terrific wm, and you can make it really elagant looking with very little effort. You should post a screenshot when you get it all up and running.
All the Best!
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Without the sleep 1 in between each command, you'll get the black box. Hope this helps
Finally found your recommendation (even though it's almost 2 years old) and it seems to work well for me too.
Thank you; as a new IceWM user I much appreciate the tip!
Added later: I've actually found it better to create an additional script (say, called sleepy) and call it at the end of startup thus:
sleep 4 && ${0%/*}/sleepy &
Every program that puts an icon in the system tray is called in sleepy, without any other sleeps being required.
Last edited by ninian (2011-05-21 19:36:27)
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