ICEWM-SET-GNOMEWM(1)

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version 4.1.0 · 17 versions
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💅 icewm-set-gnomewm — the manual page, but make it cute

okay so bestie, welcome to icewm-set-gnomewm(1) ✨ this is the whole page, every flag, every fine-print detail, nothing skipped. let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

icewm-set-gnomewm — no cap, its whole job is to mess with your GNOME settings so that IceWM becomes the window manager. that's it. that's the vibe. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

icewm-set-gnomewm [OPTIONS]

literally just the command, optionally with some options. nothing complicated, i promise 😌

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so icewm-set-gnomewm is a little helper script 🧚 and what it does is instrument GNOME to swap out GNOME's own WM and put icewm in its place instead. yes bestie, it's giving "glow-up via config" 💅 and honestly? iconic.

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

🌈 GENERAL OPTIONS 🌈

  • -h, --help — prints a brief usage statement to stdout and then dips out, exit stage left 🚪✨
  • -V, --version — prints the program version to stdout and then also dips out. short and sweet fr fr 🍓
ngl that's the entire options list. two options. two. and honestly? sometimes minimalism ate 💀

🙈 BUGS 🙈

found a bug? don't suffer in silence bestie 😭 please report it over at:

https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/issues

like. actually go tell them. they wanna know 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Brian Bidulock — mailto:bidulock@openss7.org

and psst 👀 if you want the full copyright notice and the copying permissions spelled out, just peep --copying. it's all in there 💜

🎀 LICENSE 🎀

IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. ✨ you can find it in the COPYING file in the distribution, or honestly just run the --copying flag and let it display the copying permissions right at you 🌸

and that's the whole page, bestie!! no details left behind, every single line accounted for 😤💖

so this lil doc is from icewm 4.1.0, dated 2026-08-06 — go forth and slay your window manager setup 👑💅✨

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