#25570 icewm configuration better if fvwm2.deb-style

Package:
icewm
Source:
icewm
Description:
wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager
Submitter:
Lars Wirzenius
Date:
2025-06-03 13:41:01 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#25570#5
Date:
1998-08-09 22:56:41 UTC
From:
To:
It would be nice if icewm supported the style of configuration that
Debian's fvwm2 and fvwm95 packages do: if a user wants to change only
a small detail of the configuration in /etc, he can write a configuration
file in his home directory that does only that, and inherits everything
else from the global configuration. This is much better for users who do
not want to maintain their own configuration when, say, the icon paths
change.

Also, it would be nice if the delay for the automatic raise would be
settable.

(I understand that these changes probably need to made upstream.)
#25570#8
Date:
1998-08-09 23:27:45 UTC
From:
To:
Hello!

I got another wishlist bug for icewm...

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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 01:56:41 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#25570: icewm configuration better if fvwm2.deb-style
Resent-Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 23:03:02 GMT
Resent-From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org
Resent-cc: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>

Package: icewm
Version: 0.9.11-1
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if icewm supported the style of configuration that
Debian's fvwm2 and fvwm95 packages do: if a user wants to change only
a small detail of the configuration in /etc, he can write a configuration
file in his home directory that does only that, and inherits everything
else from the global configuration. This is much better for users who do
not want to maintain their own configuration when, say, the icon paths
change.

Also, it would be nice if the delay for the automatic raise would be
settable.

(I understand that these changes probably need to made upstream.)
#25570#9
Date:
1998-08-10 17:09:04 UTC
From:
To:
Gergely Madarasz wrote:

I plan to rewrite the configuration file handling sometime soon. This
will be one of the features.
The current problem is that some options are not really (atomic)
options, AddWorkspace for example.

This is already possible in recent versions (0.9.11 and 0.9.12). Please
report any problems with it.

Mark
#25570#14
Date:
2025-06-03 12:07:12 UTC
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Close as outdated, no activity, no interest. Maybe not relevant anymore
because upstream version is much higher then in this report.

Feel free to reopen the ticket or open a fresh one.