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Re: Can rxvt use other icons?
It appears that somebody else has already done this. Thank you, whoever you
are.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Lunn" <neillunn@gunz.com.au>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 7:17 PM
Subject: RE: Can rxvt use other icons?
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: C. Porter Bassett [mailto:cporterbassett@home.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:20 AM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: Can rxvt use other icons?
> >
> >
> > I am using win2k, and I tried what you said. On the desktop
> > the icon looks
> > different, but when I alt-tab, I still just get the generic
> > windows icon. I
> > also get the windows icon in the upper left-hand corner of
> > the rxvt window.
> > Is there any way to change those icons?
>
> An explaination: An icon is a Windows resource. To display any base icon,
> one would have to be added to the rxvt executable using the resource
> compiler. To support the changing of icons, this would have to be done
with
> a command line switch where code is in place to load the icon resource
from
> a file (ie foo.ico).
>
> Is it possible? Yes. Is it currently supported? Does it look like it?
Again
> if this is important to you, I am sure your contribution will be welcome.
> Use the source.
>
> Neil
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Randall Schultz said:
> > I'm unfamiliar with the details of what differs between
> > Windows NT and 2K
> > and their "consumer" counterparts, but in the "professional" OSes
> > shortcuts
> > can bear custom icons overriding the default taken from the
> > target of the
> > shortcut (view the "Shortcut" tab of the properties window
> > for a shortcut;
> > it's near the bottom). An icon set in this manner will appear in the
> > taskbar when that shortcut is used to launch the program.
> > Shortcuts also
> > have the extremely valuable ability to invoke a command
> > with arguments and
> > options, start in a particular current directory and lots
> > of other handy
> > features to control the program launched by the shortcut.
> >
> > As I said, I only know these features to be available in
> > Windows NT4 and
> > NT5 (2K). If Windows ME doesn't have them, I don't know how
> > to achieve
> > what
> > you're looking for.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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