On Mon Sep 10 08:47:39 EDT 2018, I wrote: >> I can't figure out where fvwm is getting the xpm icon for an xterm. >> ... >> I have this in ~/.fvwm/config: >> Style "XTerm" Icon null.xpm, SloppyFocus, IconBox 200x200-1+8 >> where null.xpm is intended to call /usr/share/pixmaps/fvwm/null.xpm, a >> zero-byte file I created.
On Monday, September 17, 2018 9:41 AM, Thomas Schmitt replied: > Maybe fvwm is not happy with the zero size. > What happens if you put a file with a picture there ? If I put ANY other xpm there, I still see an icon that matches /usr/share/pixmaps/mini.xterm_48x48.xpm or a live window screenshot. > Did you already try searches like > find /usr -name mini.xterm_48x48.xpm In fact I obsessively viewed all 386 xpm files on the whole system. None other than /usr/share/pixmaps/mini.xterm_48x48.xpm matched the icon displayed. > Does "live window screenshot" mean that the icon is willing to execute > blindly toggled shell commands ? Yes. If I put the cursor in the little screenshot and type a command (echoed in a font too small to read), it does execute there. > The icon pixmap is probably > /usr/share/X11/fvwm2/pixmaps/display.xpm > but the same one is also in > /usr/share/pixmaps/fvwm/display.xpm I have the second of those. It gives an error about a corrupt image when I try to display it. On Monday, September 17, 2018 12:43 PM, David Wright replied: > I think the intention is that you use NoIcon for no icon. I just tried this, and it causes .xinitrc to bring up the xterms in the background with no icon whatsoever. They show in a process list (ps), and if I right-click on the desktop I can bring them up from the fvwm menu. That's not a bad solution (two clicks), but I was a little happier when I had an icon with a small name bar and no picture (one click). Thanks to all for the suggestions. ________________________________________ From: David Wright [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: where does fvwm get its xterm icon? On Mon 17 Sep 2018 at 12:05:35 (+0000), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > I can't figure out where fvwm is getting the xpm icon for an xterm. The > issue started when I upgraded from Debian v7 (fvwm 1:2.5.30) to Debian v9 > (fvwm 1:2.6.7-3). In both cases fvwm-icons was also installed. > > I have this in ~/.fvwm/config: > Style "XTerm" Icon null.xpm, SloppyFocus, IconBox 200x200-1+8 > > where null.xpm is intended to call /usr/share/pixmaps/fvwm/null.xpm, a > zero-byte file I created. I think the intention is that you use NoIcon for no icon. Anyway, you probably want to read the man pages for fvwm and xterm as they interact in quite a complicated manner. Use less on both and read all the hits made by /icon. > When startx is called, it gets this from ~/.xinitrc: > xterm -geometry 125x58+964+56 -iconic -title syrano -e ssh syrano & > > No matter what I list in config, the xterm icon that comes up matches > /usr/share/pixmaps/mini.xterm_48x48.xpm (an icon with a blue `T' over a red > `X'). If I copy some other xpm on top of that and do startx again, I still > get the original mini.xterm_48x48.xpm image. Furthermore, > /usr/share/pixmaps/mini.xterm_48x48.xpm still shows an access time from weeks > ago. It seems that fvwm has that image cached or built in somehow. Once > fvwm is up, if I call "xterm &" and convert that to an icon, it appears as a > live window screenshot, not as mini.xterm_48x48.xpm. Yes, that's the xterm built-in that Nicolas alluded to, and when you press (un)maximise and (un)iconify you can get some remarkable effects. And some of the iconification options are "sloppy" for want of a better word, as in "With this style, fvwm uses application provided icons if the icon is changed but uses the icon provided in the configuration file until then." > In Debian 7, calling null.xpm gives me no xpm icon, just a title bar labeled > "syrano". I prefer this because it's very small. I'm guessing things have changed in the meantime, judging by fvwm's version numbers and changelogs. I tend not to notice as I'm not a fan of menus and iconifying, prefering everything left open on a large area of real-estate (5x4 rather than 2x2). Cheers, David.
