Can IceWM on MX-23 work with IceWM tools developed for Antix?

[Durhammer]

I said that because I am on antiX and you are on MX Fluxbox.
I just figured a .zip file was safer to test than a .deb.

Makes sense, of course. But does the .deb file mostly still unpack to the same script files? Does it also bring in dependent apps? Just curious....

I might be just fine without it anyway. Getting a tint2 panel up and running with the fluxbox app finder menu makes it so much easier to use than relying on the IceWM menuing setup, which I generally abhor.

For what it's worth, @PPC's icewm-manager script GUI is mostly great. It shows useful things I didn't know about (and now use) like the ability to set window location and size values for specific apps. Love that! And, unless I run it to the point of breaking it, the theme setter is a lot hanier than doing it via the IceWM menu. These and other useful actions make it quite a worthy script. I did as much as I could to the script(s) to MX-ify them from their AntiX leanings. I'll keep at it and hopefully fix anything that doesn't work here.

And again, thanks for chiming in on the post!

[rokytnji.1]

All I can tell you about the .deb install. I had to use mlocate to remove unwanted stuff after installing the .deb.

It left behind some hidden files in ~/home/username that the .deb uninstall left behind.
Might not hurt anything but since I messed up my own config settings.
I decided to nuke everything.

No problem helping you out since I am on the team for antiX, Plus they were nice enough to make me a moderator here.

[Durhammer]

This is not related to tools developed for Antix, just IceWM. I'd been using it for its lightness on my widdle HP Stream 13 notebook, but not for my main laptop (this one, a Samsung RF-711 17" laptop with a much more robust set of specs and architecture). I finally got around to installing IceWM here and started fiddling with it. SO FAR, it's impressed me again with its lightness to the point of running the system about 5C degrees cooler than whilst running under "lightweight" Xfce 4. Wow.

(Okay, now that I think about it, I'm using a script-dependent resource-heavy editor back here in Xfce-land, with multiple Brave tabs open, and the temps reported by btop are in the high 50's, low 60's. I'll try the same thing when I get back to IceWM to confirm. EDIT: back in IceWM, and sadly,m not as much of a temp diff as hoped for, but that might be simply due to not having other processes running. Still, even three degrees difference is [ahem, sorry] pretty cool.)

Sure, it doesn't have the niceties of Xfce 4, but I got over that on the HP and I will work on getting over it here. Got over the first challenge already -- having my 22" Dell monitor usable as situated above the 17" laptop and rotated left. Just had to use xrandr rather than the Xfce GUI display app. Need to look into arandr as an alternative, maybe. Next up will be fiddling with tilt2 and the menus. Nice challenges to stay busy with while cooped up for the Winter!