Solved icewm configuration

I've got x11-wm/icewm running on FreeBSD 10.1. However, it seems that configuration files don't exist in their expected location ~/.icewm. when I looked in /usr/share, there's not an icewm folder either.

How do I configure the Icewm in FreeBSD?
 
It has been a while since I used x11-wm/icewm and it was not in FreeBSD. Currently, there is an effort to centralize configuration files in an xdg directory.

icewm-configuration.

Configuration files can be moved by the porters and it is best to look at the list of packaged files that comes with every port:
icewm/pkg-plist. I belive that %%DATADIR%% places the config files in /usr/local/share/icewm.

If you are manually editing your local configuration files you can copy the system wide files to your local directory. If you are using a GUI it will likely write the files for you.

There often is an option to use an alternative configuration file location. I do not know the syntax for icewm but for the mutt email client the default is ~/.muttrc. I use an alternate with mutt -F ~/.config/mutt/muttrc.

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