In message <20190530185519.b4840320...@apps1.cs.toronto.edu>, 
Chris Siebenmann <c...@cs.toronto.edu> wrote:

>> Fvwm doesn't come with a set of icons. Fvwm will honor the apps icon
>> that it provides via EWMH standards. This is also the case for xterm
>> or any other program.
>
> There is a tricky qualification on this, which is that applications
>can supply a range of sizes for their icons and Fvwm has a hard-coded
>default and maximum size it will use. I'm not sure if this default size
>has changed over time, but if it has, this is one of the potential causes.
>It's also possible that Firefox is now offering bigger icons and fvwm is
>picking them now that they're available.
>
>(I ran into this when I switched to a HiDPI display and started looking
>at why fvwm was now only using tiny icons even when various programs had
>larger ones available.)
>
> Interested parties can look at the various #define's related to
>icon size in fvwm/ewmh_icons.c in the source code. Unfortunately I
>don't think there's a way to set these in your fvwmrc, although
>maybe I overlooked some icon size settings in the manual page.

Thanks for all of this additional info.

As I said earlier, this is all more than a little bit bewidering to me.
I'm just an (exceptionally ignorant) fvwm end-luser, and I had hoped not
to have to go groveling around in the source code -or- that I might have
to diddle something and then rebuild the thing from the FreeBSD ports tree.

This seems like such a simple thing.  I just want the Firefox icon smaller.
given all fo teh obvciously massive configurability of Fvwm, I have to
believe that there -must- be a simple solution to this fairly trivial
little problem.  And I'm holding out hope that somebody will just tell
me what it is.

Just one more thing:  It may perhaps -seem- as if I'm fretting about
something that's really inconsequential, but for me, it actually isn't,
and none of you have ever seen my destop.  I routinely have dozens and
dozens of Firefox windows active, but minimized, and even with the small
sized icons, they often line up along the botom edge of my screen, from
left to right, often until some of them end up partially obscured by the
block of Fvwm stuff that, but default, apparently, appears in the lower
right hand corner of my primary (upper left) desktop.  (And that's
something else I wish I could find a solution for.  It's too bad that
whatever logic is responsible for placing those icons in a neat row
along the bottom edge of my screen doesn't seem to realize that if enough
of them get all lined up there, some of them will be obscured by the
Fvwm-generated box in he lower right hand corner.)

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