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  icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2021-09-01 21:20 +0200
    Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2021-09-02 00:10 +0200
    Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade Lotek <lotek07@gmail.com> - 2021-09-02 01:00 +0200

#239573 — icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade

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?

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#239575

Hi,

On Wed, 1 Sep 2021 15:17:11 -0400 (EDT)
Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> wrote:

(...)
> 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.

seems to work as usual here.

> 
> 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?

What exactly does the line beginning with WorkspaceNames= look like?
What exactly is displayed resp. not displayed in the taskbar?
What is the output of `cat ~/.icewm/preferences | grep -i workspace` ?

Best regards

Michael

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#239577

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.

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