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Title: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: dgpenny on May 27, 2017, 11:29:19 PM: I have installed a few apps using the Apps program. A few have appeared as icons on the wbar, but neither those nor other installed apps show under the IceWM>Programs menu.

I have:
xterm
Programs
Toolbar
Windows
Help
Settings
Logout

Toolbar, Windows, Settings, and Logout have sub-menus/selections, but Programs has nothing but a 1/2" long by 1/16" thick bar/menu stub.
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: Misalf on May 28, 2017, 01:32:14 AM: Hi dgpenny,
providing info about the version and architecture might help to help you.
Also, not sure what this means
Quote
nothing but a 1/2" long by 1/16" thick bar/menu stub
Are you getting an empty menu?
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: Juanito on May 28, 2017, 02:24:38 AM: Nothing is being created in ~/.icewm (for example by icewm_makemenu), but I don't know why...
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: dgpenny on May 28, 2017, 08:18:57 AM: Quote from: Misalf on May 28, 2017, 01:32:14 AM
Hi dgpenny,
providing info about the version and architecture might help to help you.
Also, not sure what this means
Quote
nothing but a 1/2" long by 1/16" thick bar/menu stub
Are you getting an empty menu?

Version is 8.0
System is Celeron 600 MHz

Yes, empty programs menu.
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: coreplayer2 on May 28, 2017, 03:06:27 PM: Hello

By architecture we mean 32bit, or 64bit (either core64 or corepure64)??

:)

You can try another Window manager.. there are many WM's available
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: dgpenny on May 28, 2017, 09:13:52 PM: Quote from: coreplayer2 on May 28, 2017, 03:06:27 PM
Hello

By architecture we mean 32bit, or 64bit (either core64 or corepure64)??

:)

You can try another Window manager.. there are many WM's available

32 bit.

I have looked into others but they do not appear in the apps repository.
Menumaker for example does show in the tcz repository but not in the Apps repository.
Others do not appear in either.
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: coreplayer2 on May 28, 2017, 09:39:11 PM: Hi dgpenny

OMG!!! @!@

OK so TC-8 x86 repo search revealed these "Window managers":
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tce - Tiny Core Extension browser 1. dwm-doc.tcz 2. dwm.tcz 3. fluxbox-locale.tcz 4. fluxbox.tcz 5. flwm.tcz 6. flwm_topside.tcz 7. grub4dos.tcz 8. hackedbox-doc.tcz 9. hackedbox-locale.tcz 10. hackedbox.tcz 11. i3.tcz 12. icewm.tcz 13. jwm.tcz 14. openbox-dev.tcz 15. openbox-doc.tcz Enter selection ( 1 - 21 ) or (q)uit, (n)ext, (p)revious: :(I don't know why it lists grub4dos..?)

However the most commonly used window managers are all present i the repo:
openbox
hackedbox
fluxbox
dwm
flwm_topside
jwm
icewm

I'm of course using my favorite HackedBox window manager
8)

Update: I just tried i3 but it's hard to recommend when it appears to be something missing something (like a window manager)...
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: coreplayer2 on May 28, 2017, 10:24:48 PM: hello

I just downloaded, installed and ran these Window Managers from the tc8 x86 repo without issue.

HackedBox
OpenBox
FluxBox
flwm_topside
jwm

However, I don't know if I could ever get used to dwm??
i3 appears to be broken..
and icewm also appears to be broken..
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: Juanito on May 29, 2017, 12:45:10 AM: icewm is not really broken, it's just that one or more of the scripts that populates the programs menu is not working.
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: dgpenny on May 29, 2017, 08:55:10 AM: Thanks for the help and suggestions.

I'll give these a look.
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: polikuo on May 30, 2017, 11:55:52 PM: Quote from: coreplayer2 on May 28, 2017, 09:39:11 PM
(I don't know why it lists grub4dos..?)

I guess the "Windows" tag is responsible for the result.

Title: grub4dos.tcz
Tags: GRUB bootloader use Microsoft Windows bootmanager

There are 2 more WM for x86, by the way.
pekwm, wmfs2
I never use pekwm and I know little about wmfs2.
Title: Re: No installed apps listed under IceWM>Programs
Post by: Juanito on May 31, 2017, 01:14:42 AM: ..and there are also gnome-session and weston in the corepure64 repo