Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade

[Lotek <lotek07@gmail.com>]

On 9/1/21 12:17 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Here's what I have onboard now after upgrading to bullseye:
>
> cat /etc/os-release
> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
> NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
> VERSION_ID="11"
> VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
> VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
> ID=debian
>
> I have never had a situation wherein the number of workspaces in the 
> taskbar was _not_ determined by the contents of the line:
>
> WorkspaceNames= " Web ", " Term ", " VNC ", etc.
>
> in ~/.icewm/preferences. The pkgs now installed are:
>
> $ dpkg -l |grep icewm
> ii  icewm                                        2.1.2-1 amd64        
> wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager
> ii  icewm-common                                 2.1.2-1 amd64        
> wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager
>
> In order to access workspaces not displayed in the taskbar I must have 
> recourse to the Window List Menu button on the extreme left side ot the 
> task bar.
>
> Thoughts?

Search "preferences" for "TaskBarShowWorkspaces"

I haven't been able to upgrade Icewm from Stretch, because the fonts in 
Buster were so bad.  So I've waiting for Bullseye with the hope that the 
fonts will look better.

Icewm was popular in the late nineties and I haven't seen anything  that 
makes me  want to change.