IceWM 3.9 brings improvements particularly around its cursor handling to now support Xcursor files rather than requiring XPM cursors. There is also now support for themed cursors in gdk-pixbuf without depending upon the libXpm library. Plus IceWM 3.9 brings a few fixes.
The official change-log for IceWM 3.9 includes:
Features
- If a theme doesn't define a cursor, prefer the system Xcursor theme.
- Add support for themed cursors to gdk-pixbuf without requiring libXpm.
- Add support for Xcursor files as an alternative to XPM cursors.
- Add new -kovered filter to icesh to test if a client is covered.
Fixes
- When lseek on /proc/net/dev fails, avoid it for the future.
- Ensure that _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING is always up-to-date.
- Correct red and blue colors in icesh for loadicon and saveicon.
- When truncating a title in icesh, respect UTF-8 codepoint boundaries.
Changes
- When the cursor X/Y-hotspot is absent in a XPM, smart guess it.
- Updated languages: Spanish, Hungarian, Portuguese_Brazil.
Downloads and more information on the IceWM 3.9 window manager release via GitHub .