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    Last updated on 9/Apr/2006

      Project purposes

    • Providing an efficient configurable icons distribution.
    • Creating a framework for easy configurable icon themes.
    • Staying window manager independent, but with fvwm in mind.
    • Releasing the distribution under GPL.

      Download current

    wm-icons-0.4.0.tar.bz2 (3.3MB) - NEWS - README - FAQ - browse.

    There are also gzipped version and rpm package among released files. Debian package is here.

    We are slowly, but persistently working on new versions, check out wm-icons cvs or freshmeat entry, if you like.

      Icon set preview

    Currently supported icon sets (all implement the growing standardized list):

    Icon SetImageListingColors used
    01x01-templatepreviewbrowse1
    14x14-generalpreviewbrowse36
    16x16-aquafusionpreviewbrowse>255
    16x16-crystalclearpreviewbrowse>255
    16x16-generalpreviewbrowse38
    16x16-gnomepreviewbrowse>255
    16x16-kdepreviewbrowse44
    17x14-3dpixmapspreviewbrowse>255
    20x20-martyspreviewbrowse61
    20x20-martys2previewbrowse33
    21x18-3dpixmapspreviewbrowse249
    22x22-aquafusionpreviewbrowse>255
    22x22-gartoonpreviewbrowse>255
    24x24-infoxpreviewbrowse15
    32x32-aquafusionpreviewbrowse>255
    32x32-gantpreviewbrowse>255
    32x32-kdepreviewbrowse75
    32x32-kde2previewbrowse>255
    44x52-penguinspreviewbrowse>255
    48x48-aquafusionpreviewbrowse>255
    48x48-crystalclearpreviewbrowse>255
    48x48-gartoonpreviewbrowse>255
    48x48-generalpreviewbrowse>255
    48x48-gnomepreviewbrowse>255
    48x48-infoxpreviewbrowse15
    48x48-kde2previewbrowse>255
    56x46-3dpixmapspreviewbrowse104
    56x56-martyspreviewbrowse17
    56x56-martys2previewbrowse33
    64x64-aquafusionpreviewbrowse>255
    64x64-gantpreviewbrowse>255

      Example screenshots

           

    Note, fvwm-themes project is fully wm-icons compatible, which means it uses the same icon names and icon aliases for all its icons, as described here. You may take a look at fvwm-themes screenshots.

      How to use

    With fvwm-themes

    Basically, just enable "external wm-icons" in the settings and choose the icon sets from the menu (see FAQ).

    If your icon set of choice is not reflected yet in the menus, then just manually execute commands like these: 

    wm-icons-config --personal mini 22x22-gartoon
wm-icons-config --personal norm 64x64-gant
wm-icons-config --personal menu 32x32-gant
wm-icons-config --personal 16x16 16x16-crystalclear
wm-icons-config --personal bar 32x32-kde

    With fvwm

    Here is an example of using wm-icons with fvwm. After installing wm-icons, put the included fvwm2rc-wm-icons and optionally fvwm2rc-compact-buttons into your ~/.fvwm directory, Read them from your fvwm config. You probably will need to slightly edit these files.

    Decide which icon types (so called icon aliases) and which icon set for every icon alias you want to use for your desktop. The standard aliases are:

    • mini - can be used for window titles (default is 14x14-general)
    • norm - can be used for iconified windows (default is 48x48-general)
    • menu - can be used for menus (default is 16x16-general)
    • 16x16 - can be used in fixed button bars (default is 16x16-general)
    • bar - can be used in resizable button bars (default is 14x14-general)

    Other icon sets for any alias can be chosen from Window Operation menu. You can get something similar to what is on this screenshot. It shows 3 different icon sets for 4 icon aliases.

    With other window manager

    There are similar (auto-generated) configugurations for several other window managers. If yours is absent, feel free to contribute your config.

      Contact info

    If you think you may help to this project or you need a help on the wm-icons usage, please contact fvwm-themes-devel (at) lists.sourceforge.net or migo (at) cpan.org (Mikhael Goikhman).