icewm-prefoverride(5)

icewm-prefoverride5

Name

 icewm-prefoverride - override themable preferences file

Synopsis

 $ICEWM_PRIVCFG/prefoverride
 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/prefoverride
 $HOME/.icewm/prefoverride
 /usr/etc/icewm/prefoverride
 /usr/share/icewm/prefoverride

Description

Settings that override the settings from a theme. Some of the icewm preferences that control the look may be set by the theme. However, the settings in this prefoverride file override that. It is safe to leave this file empty initially. Note that this file is meant for themable preferences and a few icewm startup settings cannot be set here, like "Splash".

Files

Locations for the prefoverride file are as follows:

 $ICEWM_PRIVCFG/prefoverride
 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/prefoverride
 $HOME/.icewm/prefoverride
 /usr/etc/icewm/prefoverride
 /usr/share/icewm/prefoverride

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).

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

Author

Brian Bidulock <mailto:[email protected]>.

License

IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See the COPYING file in the distribution.

From icewm 4.1.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.