IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System, originally written by Marko Maček. It was written from scratch in C++ and is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. It is customizable, relatively lightweight in terms of memory and CPU usage, and comes with themes that allow it to imitate the GUI of Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 7, OS/2, Motif, and other graphical user interfaces.

openSUSE for Raspberry Pi uses IceWM by default as a lightweight GUI. The Raspberry Pi 3 only version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server also uses IceWM.

Screenshots

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File:IceWM with Xeyes.png|IceWM with Xeyes on Debian Buster

File:IceWM in action.png|alt=IceWM on Debian Buster, featuring Xcalendar and LXappearance|IceWM in action

File:Icewm-default.jpg|IceWM, featuring the IceDesert theme

File:Icewmstartmenu.png|IceWM's Start Menu is intended to resemble that of Windows 95.

File:IceWM 1.3.ogv|IceWM 1.3 Xsession running on Debian 7 Linux

File:IceWM NanoBlue openSUSE.png|IceWM, featuring the NanoBlue theme on openSUSE

File:IceWM on AntiX Demonstration.webm|IceWM running on AntiX 23.1

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See also

  • FVWM95
  • Comparison of X window managers
  • Spri, a former lightweight Linux distribution which used IceWM as its default user interface

Notes

References

  • IceWM Themes
  • IceWM Control Panel
  • IceWM Themes