Re: FVWM: another ICON problem

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_math.uh.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:44:06 +0100

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:16:50PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
> Abinash Yadav <abinash_y_at_yahoo.com> writes:
> > Hi,
> > however same user when login in cde environment, icon
> > colour is perfact(blue and grey), what is turning that
> > in to white in case of FVWM ?
>
> Fvwm is not turning the gray into white. The icon is half blue
> and half TRANSPARENT. There is a difference between white and
> transparent. You are seeing the background thru the transparent
> parts of the icon.
>
> Apparently, CDE doesn't support shaped icons and its providing its
> own background.

The shape extension can be disabled with the --disable-shape
option of configure. You will have to recompile.

> > 2.3.25, is probably not supporting icon over-riding as
> > i didn't see any change after doing this in .fvwm2rc
> > file.
 
The IconOverride style was introduced in 2.3.2.

> > and for some reason i want to stick to 2.3.25.
> > any other possibilties?
>
> Huh?
>
> If you want to override the Netscape icon and use fvwm,
> I think you are going to have to use the version of fvwm
> that contains that feature.

Well, if you insist on using a buggy, unstable version you will be
on your own fast, especially when talking about icon styles. We
spent quite some time to get icon handling straight, and you are
insisting on one of the releases that had the responsible code
screwed up.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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