On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, David Kennedy wrote:
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble with xpm icons.
> What is the most popular utility for preserving shaped xpm
> icons or making them from transparent gifs for example?
>
> Xv tends to leave a lovely rectangle of a solid garish random
> colour about my nice new icons. Any help appreciated.
>
> --
> David Kennedy, Dept. of Pure & Applied Physics, Queen's University of Belfast
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Email: D.Kennedy_at_Queens-Belfast.ac.uk | URL: http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~dcjk/
>
Use pixmap, the program to xpm as bitmap is to xbm. But, I have
intermittent (many) problems with it. I get segmentation faults, odd
unknown crashes, etc. But, it is worth the hassel to get transparent
(NONE) pixels. Of course, if anyone knows of a better one for Linux, let
us know.
David Johnson
dej4_at_columbia.edu
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Received on Tue Feb 20 1996 - 13:41:51 GMT