Changing Icon Placement

By default, minimized icons are placed in the top left corner of the MaXX Interactive Desktop. These can be changed by editing your X defaults file located in your $HOME directory : ~/.Xdefaults.

You can also edit the system-wide 5DWm resource file, but we don't recommend it unless you know what you are doing. The file is located in:

/opt/MaXX/share/X11/app-defaults/

Warning: If you are going to edit the system-wide 5DWm file , you must be root (super user). Be careful!

Here are the steps:

1. Edit your X defaults resource file from a terminal window

On Ubuntu

$ nedit ~/.Xdefaults

2. There are many defaults you can change here, but for icons placement, you can add and change these lines:

*iconPlacement: top left tight
*iconPlacementMargin: 10
*iconPlacemenrtLeftMargin: 25
*iconPlacementLeft:10

3. Season to taste.

4. Save.

5. Logout/login or reload your settings with xrdb and restart 5Dwm

$ xrdb -load -quiet ~/.Xdefaults
$ xrdb -merge -quiet ~/Sgiresources
$ tellwm restart

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