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IceWM 3.8 Brings New Optimizations & Changes

Written by Michael Larabel in Desktop on 23 June 2025 at 03:00 AM EDT. 24 Comments
For those preferring an X11-based desktop experience on Linux, IceWM 3.8 released on Sunday as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager focused on speed and simplicity.

IceWM 3.8 now presents the theme minimize button as a preview icon within the Themes menu. IceWM 3.8 also brings various performance optimizations and other changes, including less LLVM Clang compiler warnings on OpenBSD:
Features

- Show the theme minimize button as a preview icon in the Themes menu.

Changes

- Optimize the Themes menu to load faster.
- Optimize the CPU and MEM graph to reduce cpu usage.
- Extend the Help menu with some manpages.
- Convert hotkeys to uppercase with respect for the current locale.
- Use a non-deterministic random number generator in icesh and icewmbg.
- Silence clang warnings on OpenBSD.

Downloads and more details on the IceWM 3.8 window manager release via GitHub.

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