Re: FVWM: Application icons in panel and icon man

2010-02-08 Thread despen 
Nathan Hüsken f...@lonely-star.org writes:

 Hi,

 I am using fvwm for not to much time, and I like it very much. Thanks
 for the great work!

 What is nagging me: besides urxvt and gvim, every application is shown
 with the standard rotatet square icon.
 How can I change it?

This is a little simpler than the other reply:

First use FvwmIdent to look at the window's name(s).
You want to look at the name, class or resource.

Then assign an icon using any of the 3 names above:

Style name Icon xyz.xpm


I'm not sure about urxvt, (I use rxvt) but you may
want to use different icons for each urxvt you have open.
In that case, I start rxvt like this:

rxvt -name xyz

The xyz becomes the resource.
Than you can assign an icon base on that resource name.

In some cases, you may need to add OverrideIcon to the style
command.

Re: FVWM: Application icons in panel and icon man

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Adam 
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:53:25PM +0100, Nathan H?sken wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I am using fvwm for not to much time, and I like it very much. Thanks
 for the great work!
 
 What is nagging me: besides urxvt and gvim, every application is shown
 with the standard rotatet square icon.
 How can I change it?

I think you want:

*FvwmIconMan: DrawIcons Always

... and note theat unless the application defines for itself an icon, you'll
want to set a style on the application to define the miniicon.

-- Thomas Adam

-- 
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Re: FVWM: Application icons in panel and icon man

2010-02-08 Thread Nathan Hüsken 
On 02/08/2010 10:08 PM, Thomas Adam wrote:
 On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:11:51PM +0100, Nathan H?sken wrote:
   
 On 02/08/2010 09:02 PM, Thomas Adam wrote:
 
 On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:53:25PM +0100, Nathan H?sken wrote:
   
   
 Hi,

 I am using fvwm for not to much time, and I like it very much. Thanks
 for the great work!

 What is nagging me: besides urxvt and gvim, every application is shown
 with the standard rotatet square icon.
 How can I change it?
 
 
 I think you want:

 *FvwmIconMan: DrawIcons Always

 ... and note theat unless the application defines for itself an icon, you'll
 want to set a style on the application to define the miniicon.

 -- Thomas Adam
   
   
 Hi,
 Thanks for the fast reply.
 *FvwmIconMan: DrawIcons Always
 did not help, its still almost always the not-so-nice rotated square.
 Maybe the applications do not define themeselfs the icons ...

 What could be the reoson, that applications like chromium, firefox,
 thunderbird do not define their icons?
 
 They're under no obligation to.  Welcome to defining your own icon styles.
   
Hi,

OK, I can redefine the icon for those applications.
The Problem I have with that is: I can do this now. But I at some moment
I would like to end up with an fvwm config, that is completly fine. But
if I then install a new application, I have to define a new icon ...

I understand, firefox and co. have no obligation to define their icon.
But it still amazes me, that they do not.

Under other wms (or better under xfce i.E.) these apps have icons. Well,
since they are pretty standard, it could of course be that xfce defines
the icons for them. But midori is not so much a standard program and has
a icon und xfce. How could xfce find the icon for midori and can I maybe
copy that way?

I am also wondering: Can you confirm that firefox,thinderbird,pidgin and
chromium do not define an Icon? Otherwise something might be wrong with
my installation ...

Regards,
Nathan