My DeLi Linux computer’s main application is an internet access “kiosk” for guests who stay at my house. To this end I needed the machine to automatically login the guest user and launch Firefox.
Changing the IceWM start menu button is actually easier than I expected, and you don’t even have to be logged in as root to do it. It turns out that you can override any theme image if it’s in the same relative location under ~/.icewm. Everything else will remain unchanged. So let’s change the start menu button for the default theme in DeLi Linux (goldiKwarc).
After loading DeLi Linux I was a little disappointed with the way things looked. Fonts were WAY too small. So I started poking around to find a way to rectify the situation. I saw this nifty little app in the IceWM Start menu called Font Selector (xfontsel). Unfortunately, the program is cursed with a name that makes you think it does more than it actually can. The Font Selector simply previews fonts based on a series of properties you select. Initially, it didn’t seem to be all that useful, until I figured out how that font selection syntax was used.
My beloved Mule keeps on trucking. She’s a Dell Dimension XPS P133c and has been quite the workhorse for me since I bought her back in 1996, serving many roles from desktop, to server, to testbed, and anything in between. It’s almost archaic by today’s standards which is why I’m glad Linux et al. are around because you can breathe new life into your old machines using a lightweight distro.