FreeBSD Manual Pages
ICEWM-PROGRAMS(5) Standards, Environments and Macros ICEWM-PROGRAMS(5)
NAME
icewm-programs - icewm programs configuration file
SYNOPSIS
$ICEWM_PRIVCFG/programs
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/programs
$HOME/.icewm/programs
/usr/local/etc/icewm/programs
/usr/local/share/icewm/programs
DESCRIPTION
The programs file is an automatically generated menu configuration file of
installed programs. This file should be automatically generated by
xdg_menu, wmconfig (Redhat), menu (Debian), or icewm-menu-fdo, perhaps as
part of the login or X startup sequence.
FORMAT
The format of the file contains one of the following line syntax:
prog "title" icon program options
Specifies a program to execute when the menu item is selected.
restart "title" icon program options
Specifies a program to replace the window manager when the menu item is
selected. This is for launching other window managers from within
icewm(1).
runonce "title" icon "[name][.class]" program options
Specifies a program to execute when the menu item is selected; however,
if a window of the specified name and class is present, the program
will not be run again.
menu "title" icon { # contained items }
Specifies a sub-menu. The lines that appear between the braces can be
any menu item described here.
menufile "title" icon "filename"
Specifies a file from which to collect sub-menu items (lines) and place
them at this point in the menu.
menuprog "title" icon program options
Specifies a program that will print sub-menu items on standard output
and will be collected and placed in the sub-menu at this point.
menuprogreload "title" icon timeout program options
Similar to menuprog, but after at least timeout seconds the menu is re-
generated.
include "filename"
Read additional entries from the file filename
includeprog program options
Read additional entries from the output of program options.
separator
A separator for menu items.
Where
prog, restart, runonce, menu, menufile, menuprog, menuprogreload, include,
includeprog, separator
These are literal string keywords.
"title"
This is the title string associated with the menu item that is dis-
played in the menu. When the title contains spaces, the title must be
surrounded by double quotes (""").
iconIs the name of the icon file (with or without extension) or the full
path to an icon file.
"[name][.class]"
name is the resource name of a window launched by program and class is
the resource class of the window. Only one of name or class need be
specified. This is used to determine whether the program is already
running. It is used with the runonce keyword.
program options
program is the name of the executable or full path to the executable
file that will be run in response to selecting the menu item. When
used with the menuprog keyword, the program must print on standard out-
put the contents of the menu and is used for dynamic menus.
options is the options and arguments passed to the program verbatim.
filename
filename is the name of the file relative to one of the icewm(1) con-
figuration directories, or the full path to a file. The file is used
with the menufile keyword and specifies the file from which to read
further menu items.
EXAMPLES
Following is the example programs file that ships with icewm(1):
# This file is intended to be customized by the distributions.
# (they should place it in /etc/X11/icewm)
#
# mostly obsolete, fixme
menu Editors folder {
prog vim vim gvim
prog emacs emacs emacs
prog Lyx emacs lyx
}
menu "WWW" folder {
prog Galeon galeon galeon
prog Arena arena arena
prog Lynx lynx xterm -e lynx
prog Links lynx xterm -e links
}
menu "Document Viewers" folder {
prog "DVI Previewer" xdvi xdvi
prog "Ghostview" ghostview gv
}
menu Graphics folder {
prog Gimp gimp gimp
prog XV xv xv
prog XPaint xpaint xpaint
prog XFig xfig xfig
}
menu Games folder {
prog Xboard xboard xboard
prog "Tux Racer" tuxracer tuxracer
}
menu System folder {
prog "Control Panel" redhat control-panel
}
menu Utilities folder {
prog XPlayCD xplaycd xplaycd
prog XMixer xmixer xmixer
prog Clock xclock xclock
prog Magnify xmag xmag
prog Calculator xcalc xcalc
prog Colormap xcolormap xcmap
prog Clipboard xclipboard xclipboard
prog xkill bomb xkill
prog xload xload xload
prog xosview xosview xosview
separator
prog "Screen Saver" xlock xlock -nolock
prog "Screen Lock" xlock xlock
}
menu "Window Managers" folder {
restart icewm - icewm
restart metacity - metacity
restart wmaker - wmaker
restart fluxbox - fluxbox
restart blackbox - blackbox
restart enlightenment - enlightenment
restart fvwm2 - fvwm2
restart fvwm - fvwm
restart sawfish - sawfish
restart sawfish2 - sawfish2
}
FILES
Locations for the programs file are as follows:
$ICEWM_PRIVCFG/programs
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/programs
$HOME/.icewm/programs
/usr/local/etc/icewm/programs
/usr/local/share/icewm/programs
The locations are searched in the order listed; the first file found is
read and the remainder ignored.
SEE ALSO
icewm(1), icewm-menu(5), icewm-menu-fdo(1).
AUTHOR
Brian Bidulock <mailto:bidulock@openss7.org>.
LICENSE
IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See the
COPYING file in the distribution.
icewm 4.0.0 2026-01-01 ICEWM-PROGRAMS(5)
Want to link to this manual page? Use this URL:
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=icewm-programs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+Ports+15.1.quarterly>