eli@haddock.ima.isc.com (Elias Israel) (10/11/88)
I am a relatively new user of X, and I have been spending a great
deal of time lately trying to customize my X environment through the
use of resources and xrdb. My latest hack is an attempt to assign
default pixmaps to icons for each different client. I have found the
iconPixmap resource, but cannot assign anything to it through any of
the standard channels because Xtk complains that it doesn't have a
converter from string to pixmap.
Am I doing this wrong? My guesses are:
(1) yes. This is a window manager function because it's a
"look-and-feel" issue. Your WM should have some way of doing this.
(if so, anyone have an idea as to how to convince Awm to do this?)
(2) No. I am doing essentially the right thing but for some reason,
the string->pixmap converter never made it into R2.
(if so, is there a work-around?)
(3) None of the above. (in which case, I assume, this is all some mild
form of User Brain Damage. Please diagnose.)
Thanks,
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| -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_ swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (10/12/88)
> I have found the > iconPixmap resource, but cannot assign anything to it through any of > the standard channels because Xtk complains that it doesn't have a > converter from string to pixmap. R2 did not have such a conversion function. R3 does, in a library of "miscellaneous functions". Clients built with parts of Xaw will be able to specify pixmap icons through a resource file.