While fiddling with add-start and removing an unwanted app, I inadvertently removed the lot. Could some kind person supply the default list, so that I can get things back to normal again?

FWIW, I was trying to get the ibus-daemon to run at start-up . . . but for the time being I'd just like to see my normal desktop again (IceWM, with a few icons - terminal, Abiword, browser . . . ).

And before you ask, yes I'm backed-up, but none too confident about restoring IceWM without making things worse.

What was that Terry Pratchett quote about"mankind was never meant to understand the things he meddles with"?

The default setup is in /etc/skel/.icewm simply copy this to your home folder

Thanks, Dave, it worked.

cp /etc/skel/.icewm/startup ~/.icewm/startup and a logout/in did the trick.

Before doing this, though, I found that as well as the startup file, my home .icewm folder has a startup.old file, and had I known what I was doing when I lost the original setup, I could simply have copied that to .icewm/startup. However, by the time I posted the query, I had fiddled further and lost it.

It's good to have my original setup back, and to know how to get out of this problem if it ever happens again.

rusti