Re: program icon

Jesse Ruffin <[email protected]> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:19:36 -0500
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-c-programming
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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The standard for desktop entries, including associated icons:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

On 12/11/2011 03:57, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Krzysztof <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> How to set the program icon to be showed e.g. on GUI desktop?
>> 
>> -- Regards Krzysztof J.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Not sure if I understand your question, but if what you want is to 
> have an application launcher with an icon in your desktop. You have
> to create an .desktop file an copy it to ~/Desktop/. For example 
> app.desktop could be:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
> 
> [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false 
> Exec=/usr/local/myapp/bin/myapp Name=MyApp 
> Icon=//usr/local/myapp/img.png
> 
> Hope it helps,
> 
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