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I've started using Ubuntu and I like some of the features of the Gnome desktop, but I am used to icewm and anything else feels "not quite right". I don't know why I can't find the documentation that tells me how to do this, but I can't; I figured out a maybe-right maybe-wrong way to do it anyway. After installing the icewm-gnome package and copying your favorite many-years-old config files into ~/.icewm, in .icewm/preferences add:

ShowTaskBar=0 UseRootButtons=0

cp /usr/share/gnome/default.session ~/.gnome2/session

Edit the session file and remove the line

0,id=default0

and change the line that says

0,RestartCommand=gnome-wm --sm-client-id default0

to say

0,RestartCommand=icewm


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