bpm wrote:
>
> But I get an Icon on the desktop. When I click on the icon, it
> expands but gets swallowed by the button!! How can I swallow just the
> icon??
You don't need (or want) to swallow the icon. What you want to do is
capture the icon, and create a "button" that will launch the
application.
There are two ways to do this:
1. Find the sources, and look for the icon file. Copy it to where fvwm
looks for icons or pixmaps (as in Pixmappath), and use that file to
represent the button to launch the application.
2. Run the application and iconize it, and then "grab" the screen
image with xv, convert it to an XPM file, put it into the pixmap
directory, and use that file as the pixmap.
Then, set up a button to use the pixmap file you created, with an Action
to launch the program.
This is basically what I do to add applications to my button bar.
However, I take the additional time to scale the pixmaps down to 14x16
or so (with mini icons, I can have a lot more apps on my button bar).
And yes... we could use a repository for mini-icons! I've a few that I
could contribute if there was one.
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Received on Thu Oct 10 1996 - 14:02:30 BST