Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!csus.edu!ucdavis!csusac!unify!openlook!openlook-request
From: Stuart.Marks@Eng.Sun.COM (Stuart Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Specifying icon bitmaps in olwm
Message-ID: <lvttxs9@openlook.Unify.Com>
Date: 8 May 91 20:07:26 GMT
Lines: 25


    Is there any way to attach a bitmap file as the icon for a
    precompiled X application running under olwm. twm allowed you
    to specify "class-name" "icon-filename" pairs in .twmrc. Does
    olwm allow something similar ?

Not exactly, but there is an interface whereby applications can request
that the window manager display a particular icon, and most applications
allow this to be customized from the command line or by using resources.
For example, XView applications use the -WI option to specify an alternate
icon.  Xterm uses the iconPixmap resource to do this.

(NOTE: XView's icon files are in SunView icon format, editable by
iconedit, whereas Xterm's are in X bitmap format.)

Examples:

    shelltool -WI /usr/include/images/hello_world.icon
    xterm -xrm '*iconPixmap: /usr/openwin/include/X11/bitmaps/xlogo32'

s'marks

Stuart W. Marks			ARPA: smarks@eng.sun.com
Windows & Graphics Software	UUCP: sun!smarks
Sun Microsystems, Inc.