boberg@june.cs.washington.edu (Bruce Oberg) (06/30/89)
i used to start my X11R3/Ultrix2.3 day with a bunch of windows spawned by xdm from my .xsession file. just recently, however, i've had this uncontrollable urge to have most everything start up as their respective icons via "-iconic" clauses in my .xsession. having found woefully numerous ways to do virtually everything else i've ever wanted to do with X, imagine my astonishment at the non-existence of any convienient way to specify startup locations for my icons. no matter what "-geometry" says, they all end up on top of each other at +0+0! stumbling through the manuals, i can find no way to change this. but wait!, i find in the Xtoolkit *sources* that there are two resources called iconX and iconY which can be set to specify the icon's location. but do they understand "-geometry"'s [-+]XX[-+]YY format for placement at various corners? you might think they would. you'd be wrong. please, oh benevolent and merciful X11R3 gods, tell me there is a hidden "-icongeometry" parameter encrypted into the Xtoolkit sources! please deliver me from the hell of having all my icons in the upper left corner! i will be forever grateful. bruce "...a just machine to make big decisions, programmed by fellows, with compassion and vision..." -donald fagen
ugwiles@sunybcs.uucp (Dale Wiles) (06/30/89)
In article <8620@june.cs.washington.edu> boberg@june.cs.washington.edu (Bruce Oberg) writes: > >i used to start my X11R3/Ultrix2.3 day with a bunch of windows >spawned by xdm from my .xsession file. just recently, however, i've >had this uncontrollable urge to have most everything start up as their >respective icons via "-iconic" clauses in my .xsession. > I use uwm as a manager, and this works for me: v--------------------------------------v xterm -iconic -xrm 'XTerm*iconGeometry:-50+30' -geometry +50+60 -fn -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1 +ut -n sybil -e sybil& The hi-lighted section pops up a xterm window (On our computer "Sybil") as an icon 50 pixels left of the right side, and 30 pixels below the top. While on the subject of Icons, does anyone know how to substitute an arbitrary bitmap for the dull icons that uwm defaults to? *Emacs came, Dale, lad, Emacs came. *(c) Marty Storer, Goog Inc. *Disclaimer: I disclaim nothing! I am THE official*Looks more (bonk) *opinion of my college, state, country and of all *like a sick-e-more (bonk) *carbon based life forms in the universe. *to me. Yogi the Space Bear.
swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (06/30/89)
> tell me there is a > hidden "-icongeometry" parameter encrypted into the Xtoolkit sources! > please deliver me from the hell of having all my icons in the upper > left corner! Sorry, there's no such convenient argument. I could try to justify this on the basis that the ICCCM doesn't generally allow applications to specify their icon size, only the position; so the general-purpose geometry syntax is inappropriate, but I suspect you might laugh at me. Actually, the window manager developers seem to be generally loath to give up much control over icons and proliferating yet more command line arguments that might or might not be respected by the wm seemed like an unwise thing to do. It would be inappropriate to re-use the -geometry argument, as that specifically applies to the application's window(s). Granted, it's less convenient but you can always say myprog -xrm '*iconX:nnn' -xrm '*iconY:mmm' or even, myprog -name mystyle1 mystyle1.iconX:nnn mystyle1.iconY:mmm Some applications have added a command line argument to specify x&y as a single option (e.g. xterm). This may have been a mistake, but since I was the perpetrator (well, it _was_ there before X11) it would be hypocritical for me to say so directly :-)
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (07/01/89)
We are running X-11 R3. "xterm" has a # option that will set the icon
geometry. The only place I found information on it was in "xterm -help".
An example is:
xterm -g 80x24+0+0 -C -iconic -name "CONSOLE" -xb $HOME/.tinysun.xbm \#+894+62
The backslash in front of the # sign is so that csh doesn't take the
rest of the line as a comment.
As for having bitmaps as icons a news article by Suresh Krishnamurthy
shows how to patch xterm to allow this. I have applied the patches to a
copy of xterm here and they seem to work really well. Here is the article:
cps3xx!eecae!shadooby!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!tektronix!orca!krish
From: krish@orca.WV.TEK.COM (Shelley Gallaher)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Icon bitmap for (X11) xterms
Message-ID: <3311@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 11 May 89 23:52:45 GMT
Reply-To: krish@orca.WV.TEK.COM (Suresh Krishnamurthy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR.
Lines: 86
Keywords: xterm, icon, bitmap
I have modified (X11) xterm to display bitmap for icons. You
have to change only main.c file.
The syntax is similar to X10 xterm, except that
instead of "-ib", I have used "-xb" (xterm bitmap).
"xterm -iconic -xb bitmap_filename" would invoke xterm as an icon
using specified file as icon bitmap. Note that bitmap_filename should
include the path also.
Good bye labels, hello bitmap icons.
-- Suresh
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Here are the diffs for main.c in R3.
---------------------- beginning of main.c (R3) diff -------------------------
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#define MAKE_ICON /* I think this should be defined in Makefile */
251a254,256
#ifdef MAKE_ICON
char *iconfile;
#endif MAKE_ICON
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#ifdef MAKE_ICON
{"iconFile", "IconFile", XtRString, sizeof(char *),
offset(iconfile), XtRString, (caddr_t) NULL},
#endif MAKE_ICON
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#ifdef MAKE_ICON
{"-xb", "*iconFile", XrmoptionSepArg, (caddr_t) NULL},
#endif MAKE_ICON
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#ifdef MAKE_ICON
Pixmap xtermPixmap;
#endif MAKE_ICON
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---
#ifdef MAKE_ICON
MakeCuteIcon( resource.iconfile ); /* Set icon pixmap */
#endif MAKE_ICON
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#ifdef MAKE_ICON
MakeCuteIcon( icon_filename )
char *icon_filename;
{
int junk;
Pixmap xtermPixmap;
XWMHints wmhints, *hints;
if (!strlen(icon_filename)) /* if no icon file specified */
return;
XReadBitmapFile( XtDisplay(XtParent(term)),
XtWindow(XtParent(term)), icon_filename,
&junk, &junk, &xtermPixmap, &junk, &junk );
/*
* Get WMHints and save initial_state and position, otherwise
* iconic option and icon position may not work properly.
*/
hints = XGetWMHints( XtDisplay(XtParent(term)),
XtWindow(XtParent(term)) );
wmhints.flags = InputHint | StateHint | IconPixmapHint | IconPositionHint;
wmhints.initial_state = hints->initial_state; /* take care of iconic */
wmhints.input = hints->input;
wmhints.icon_pixmap = xtermPixmap;
wmhints.icon_x = hints->icon_x; /* restore icon position */
wmhints.icon_y = hints->icon_y;
XSetWMHints( XtDisplay(XtParent(term)),
XtWindow(XtParent(term)), &wmhints);
}
#endif MAKE_ICON
---------------------- end of main.c (R3) diff -------------------------
I hope this helps... John
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