Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!wuarchive!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Apps not iconizing properly. Message-ID: <53177@brunix.UUCP> Date: 14 Oct 90 04:13:06 GMT References: <5731@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 35 In article <5731@mace.cc.purdue.edu> abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes: >In article velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) writes: >>I have managed to successfully download binaries and sources from Purdue. >>I can uncompress them, untar them, compile them, and get them to run properly. >>For some reason, I can't get the icons that come with some of the programs to >>show up. What am I doing wrong? > >Sometimes you can get the custom icon if you put the application in > > ~/Apps > /LocalApps > /NextApps > /NextDeveloper/Apps > /NextAdmin > /NextDeveloper/Demos > >and use the Find Applications command in the Workspace's Utilities menu. >See page 161 of the NeXT User's Reference manual. The Workspace manager only shows the custom icons for applications that are in the application path. When you log in on the console, the WS looks in all of these directories to get the icons. If you add an application later, you will have to use the Utilities -> Find Applications command from the WS-manager menu to register them for the current session. If you log in the next time, they will be found automatically. If you want to add other directories to the above listed Workspace managers application path, then you need to do the following from the command line: dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths "" Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet