Change modifier key to move window with mouse (currently is Alt+mouse drag)

[morfeus2]

I looked everywhere and I can not find a way to redefine the modifier key to allow moving window by clicking everywhere on the window. The default is "Alt" that is perfect for standard use, but I use very often a second instance of icewm inside VNC and I would like to have the possibility to set another modifier key for it. If it's not possible to change it at runtime I would appreciate if someone could point me where to change it in the sources.

[gijsbers]

icewm --postpreferences | grep MouseWin should give you those settings. cp ~/.icewm/preferences /tmp/p && vi /tmp/p && icewm -c /tmp/p -d :1 should succeed.

[morfeus2]

Wow thanks for the very fast and useful answer!! icewm --postpreferences does not work, I think cause my icewm version is quite old (Debian still ships 1.3.8+mod+20161220-1), but the key was the setting keyword "MouseWinMove". I'm sorry I did not find it before. Adding MouseWinMove="Super+Pointer_Button1" in preferences file did it!!

Since this resolution was so fast I dare to as another question (I promise this is my last one!) Any way to have the mouse button 2 click on window title to lower the window? (as found in other window manager like for eg. xfwm4)

From what I tried, I think KeyWinLower only accepts keys as parameters, not mouse clicks unfortunately. For the moment the most similar behavior I found is LowerOnClickWhenRaised=1

[gijsbers]

You may want to upgrade because of the many many many new features and improvements since 1.3.8. https://packages.debian.org/buster/icewm and https://github.com/Code7R/icewm/releases are 2 places to look for Debianics. Note that 1.3.8 is from 2013-11-17!

I agree it's inconsistent that we do have a MouseWinRaise but not a MouseWinLower. I'll add it sometime someday.

[morfeus2]

You may want to upgrade because of the many many many new features and improvements since 1.3.8. https://packages.debian.org/buster/icewm and https://github.com/Code7R/icewm/releases are 2 places to look for Debianics.

Sure, i'll have a look.

Note that 1.3.8 is from 2013-11-17!

Yeah, I just noticed today and I was really surprised too.

I agree it's inconsistent that we do have a MouseWinRaise but not a MouseWinLower. I'll add it sometime someday.

Thanks for everything, I love this WM (it's the default of my laptops and runs inside VNC on all my desktops)