 |
index.md - sites - public wiki contents of suckless.org |
 |
git clone git://git.suckless.org/sites |
 |
Log |
|
Files |
|
Refs |
|
--- |
|
index.md (2466B) |
|
--- |
|
1 netwmicon |
|
2 ========= |
|
3 |
|
4 Description |
|
5 ----------- |
|
6 Enables to set \_NET\_WM\_ICON with a png-image. |
|
7 |
|
8 Generally the icon of an application is defined by its desktop-entry. Th… |
|
9 [desktopentry](../desktopentry) serves this purpose. Unfortunately, some |
|
10 programs like [tint2](https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2) or |
|
11 [alttab](https://github.com/sagb/alttab) can't make use of the desktop-e… |
|
12 rely instead on a hardcoded icon which has to be defined by the applicat… |
|
13 itself with the window-propery \_NET\_WM\_ICON. Since st doesn't define |
|
14 \_NET\_WM\_ICON this programs can't display the correct icon for st even… |
|
15 desktop-entry exists. This patch solves this problem. |
|
16 |
|
17 Dependencies |
|
18 ------------ |
|
19 - gd |
|
20 |
|
21 Defining an icon |
|
22 ---------------- |
|
23 By default each time st starts it will search for a file with the name *… |
|
24 under */usr/local/share/pixmaps/*. If you put an image with this name in… |
|
25 root-directory of the st-repository and call `make install` the image wi… |
|
26 installed in */usr/local/share/pixmaps/* automatically. Otherwise you ha… |
|
27 put the file there manually. You can try it out with this icon [st.png](… |
|
28 (credit: [flat-remix](https://github.com/daniruiz/flat-remix)). |
|
29 |
|
30 Using with desktopentry |
|
31 ----------------------- |
|
32 If you use the [desktopentry](../desktopentry)-patch you should adjust t… |
|
33 in the file *st.desktop* by replacing the line `Icon=utilities-terminal`… |
|
34 `Icon=st`. |
|
35 |
|
36 Most programs which use the desktop-file to determine the icon should be… |
|
37 find *st.png* under */usr/local/share/pixmaps/*. If not report it to me … |
|
38 changing in *confing.mk* the line `ICONPREFIX = $(PREFIX)/share/pixmaps`… |
|
39 `ICONPREFIX = $(PREFIX)/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/` and install t… |
|
40 there. |
|
41 |
|
42 Call to action |
|
43 -------------- |
|
44 Maybe somebody would like to create an icon with the st-logo so we could… |
|
45 here instead of using the icon from flat-remix. |
|
46 |
|
47 Credits |
|
48 ------- |
|
49 The code for loading and transforming the image to an appropriate format… |
|
50 large part from [xseticon](https://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/xseticon/) wh… |
|
51 developed by Paul Evans. |
|
52 |
|
53 Download |
|
54 -------- |
|
55 * [st-netwmicon-0.8.5-v2.diff](st-netwmicon-0.8.5-v2.diff) |
|
56 * [st-netwmicon-0.8.4.diff](st-netwmicon-0.8.4.diff) (Deprecated) |
|
57 * [netwmicon.sh](netwmicon.sh) (Deprecated. Used for 0.8.4-patch. Look at |
|
58 patch-description to understand how its supposed to work. It seems to … |
|
59 the icon.) |
|
60 |
|
61 Authors |
|
62 ------- |
|
63 * Aleksandrs Stier - <[email protected]> |
