Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NIC.GAC.EDU!scott From: scott@NIC.GAC.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Apps not iconizing properly. Message-ID: <9010140648.AA06396@mcs-server.gac.edu> Date: 14 Oct 90 06:48:53 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 33 rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes: >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 >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 "" So far as I've been able to tell, 2.0 automagically detects the icon for pretty much _anything_. If you choose a program with no apparent relation to the WSM search path, it finds the icon, anyhow. Which is _very_ nice, because you need not spend days figuring out where exactly the program should go. Also, it means that multiple programs can have the same name, with different icons. For Your Information . . . scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer (Stuart) NeXT Campus Consultant (Not much, really) GAC Undergrad (Horrid. Simply Horrid. I mean the work!)