Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

"Ronald F. Guilmette" <[email protected]> writes:

> In message <[email protected]>, 
> Dan Espen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>>Style *Firefox  EWMHDontDonateIcon, Iconoverride, Icon myfork.xpm
>>>>
>>>>Worked for me (with my icon).
>>>
>>> Yessss!  Thank you.   That seems to have worked for me too.
>
> (See below.  This works also for introducing an icon to represent Xterm.)
>
>>>>When testing this stuff, it's easier to use FvwmCommand.
>>>>Just type in a terminal:
>>>>
>>>>FvwmCommand 'Style *Firefox  EWMHDontDonateIcon, Iconoverride, Icon myfork.xpm'
>>>
>>> Hummm... I tried that and that didn't work.  I got the following
>>> error message (which I don't have the first clue about):
>>>
>>>     No such file or directory FvwmCommand error in opening message fifo
>>
>>Sorry, for FvwmCommand to work you need this in your config:
>>
>>AddToFunc StartFunction I Module FvwmCommandS
>
> OK.  Is that extra capital S on the end supposed to be there?  Or was that
> just a typo?

The S is on purpose.  The one with the S is the server which must be
started first.

>>> No matter.  I have gotten the Firefox icon I wanted, so I'm pretty
>>> overjoyed.  Now if I can just get fvwm to use my choice for an XTerm
>>> icon and then install my digital xclock I'll die a happy man.
>>
>>I'm not having any luck with xterm.
>
> That's odd. I just reproduced the command shown at the top (above) and
> changed *Firefox to *Xterm and then substituted in also the path where
> I had put a nice xterm icon that I wanted to use and it works great
> for me!

Good, for reference I'm running:

  home> xterm -version
  XTerm(334)

Fedora 29.

-- 
Dan Espen