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NAME
icewm-theme - icewm theme configuration file
SYNOPSIS
$ICEWM_PRIVCFG/theme
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/theme
$HOME/.icewm/theme
/usr/local/etc/icewm/theme
/usr/local/share/icewm/theme
DESCRIPTION
The theme file contains the name of the default theme. On startup icewm
reads this file to obtain the theme name, unless icewm was started with the
--theme option. Whenever a different theme is selected from the icewm Menu
then the theme file is overwritten with the name of the selected theme.
FORMAT
This theme file contains the keyword "Theme", followed by an equals sign,
followed by a double-quoted string with the theme name. The theme name is
the name of the theme directory, followed by a slash, followed by the theme
file.
Usually the theme file is just default.theme, but a theme may have alterna-
tives. Alternatives are small tweaks of a theme. These are specified in
their own .theme file, which replaces default.theme.
If no theme file exists then icewm will use the default setting of
"Theme="icedesert/default.theme"".
EXAMPLES
Following is a theme file. The comments show that icewm(1) keeps a history
of previous theme settings.
Theme="CrystalBlue/default.theme"
#Theme="icedesert/default.theme"
##Theme="default/default.theme"
FILES
Locations for the theme file are as follows:
$ICEWM_PRIVCFG/theme
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/theme
$HOME/.icewm/theme
/usr/local/etc/icewm/theme
/usr/local/share/icewm/theme
The locations are searched in the order listed; the first file found is
read and the remainder ignored.
SEE ALSO
icewm(1), icewm-preferences(5), icewm-prefoverride(5).
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-THEME(5)
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