Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 12:12 AM elliot s <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> fvwm should be able to resize icons so theyre of iconable size.
> Presently, either you get supersized icons in menus or a fragment of
> an icon in the "taskbar".  I'm presently manually scaling icons and
> writing out resized ones.
>

It depends on the icon type. Fvwm only supports .xpm, .png, and .svg
images. Both .xpm and .png  images cannot be resized by fvwm (since
the libraries fvwm uses don't support this). If you want to resize
either of these icon types you have to use some third party tool.
Imagemagick is one such tool that you can use to automate resizing if
you want to write custom functions.

If you use .svg, these can be scaled by the library and fvwm supports
setting the size of these icons (check the man page for details). So
if you want to have fvwm resize icons for you, use .svg icons.

jaimos