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.
On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 2:27 PM, David Wright replied: > ... If you look at the man page, it explains the > old option -n and says "If no suitable icon is found, xterm provides a > compiled-in pixmap" which would correspond to your reported behaviour > as it can't find /usr/share/pixmaps/fvwm/null.xpm. Thanks. That could to explain how it comes up with the mini.xterm_48x48.xpm image in /usr/share/pixmaps even when I overwrite it with something else. As a test, I put this line into ~/.fvwm/config: Style xterm Icon /usr/share/pixmaps/gimp.xpm I also had these in ~/.xinitrc: xterm -geometry 125x58+964+56 -iconic -title syrano -e ssh syrano & xterm -geometry 125x58+964+56 -iconic -title numbat -e ssh numbat & Then I went through many cycles of exiting fvwm and calling startx. The icons for the two xterms varied a lot from one trial to the next but were always either the mini.xterm_48x48.xpm image, a live screenshot, or the intended gimp.xpm. At some point I noticed that whichever xterm icon came up first usually got gimp.xpm, while the second xterm got one of the other two images. This seemed to be time-dependent, in other words. When I added "sleep 1" between the two xterm calls in .xinitrc, I consistently got gimp.xpm for both icons, as well as for any xterms I called from the command line and iconized. For reasons I can't guess, this did not work with another standard xpm (inkspace.xpm). It did work with smplayer.xpm. It did not work with my 0-byte null.xpm or a 1-pixel red xpm that I created. The icons display in reproducible positions on the desktop, but they are not the same positions I saw before switching to gimp.xpm. I have a little more work to do. Thanks again. ________________________________________ From: David Wright [deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 2:27 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: where does fvwm get its xterm icon? As you seem to be having trouble, here's a fuller answer than the one I posted before. 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. >From /usr/share/pixmaps/. > 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. Then you need to have Style xterm Icon fvwm/null.xpm or it won't be found in that subdirectory. That said, I would put the Icon in a directory like /usr/local/share/fvwm/ or /home/david/.fvwm/null.xpm rather than polluting the package's own files. Again, that said, a zero-length file doesn't work for me on stretch. I haven't tried jessie or wheezy. > When startx is called, it gets this from ~/.xinitrc: I use .xsession … > xterm -geometry 125x58+964+56 -iconic -title syrano -e ssh syrano & … and I don't use -iconic so that's untested here. > 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. That does seem likely. If you look at the man page, it explains the old option -n and says "If no suitable icon is found, xterm provides a compiled-in pixmap" which would correspond to your reported behaviour as it can't find /usr/share/pixmaps/fvwm/null.xpm. > 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. That's because at this point I assume you hadn't added Style xterm IconOverride to prevent it. As I wrote before, iconification is quite complex, even before you add in fvwm's options. > 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. If you just want a small icon, why not just shrink it; say: $ convert /usr/share/pixmaps/…whatever….xpm -resize 48x24 .fvwm/small.xpm Even a 1x1 icon makes a (not very useful) mark on the screen (until you hover over it). Cheers, David.
