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psyodin

Member

From: rocky mountains USA

Registered: 2008-11-13

Posts: 30

Set Window & Panel Icons For Terminal Programs in Openbox

Hello

Arch Linux 64
openbox
tint2
ranger fm (example)

Perhaps I have not discovered the correct search terms to google this question & I may be just missing the obvious here. My Wife likes to have openbox with a tint2-vertical setup on her laptop. Is there a non-temporary way to set panel icons (and maybe window icons) for terminal based programs such as ranger, htop, ncmpcpp etc. After seaching I was able to set a icon I made for any terminal in the .xdefaults file. This does not allow the ability to distinguish between various terminal programs from the tint2 panel at a glance.

xterm*iconPixmap:/usr/share/pixmaps/xterm.xbm
xterm*iconMask: /usr/share/pixmaps/xterm-mask.xbm

i noticed in the /usr/share/pixmaps folder there are already xpm/png icons for htop and xterm, however It appears to set the xterm icon in .xdefaults it has to be a xbm file. xbm files are not as visually elegant as xpm imo and so far I was only able to set the same icon it for all open xterms.

so

1. can i set separate panel icons that appear in tint2's panel for different terminal based programs?
2. is it possible to use xpm or even png files for such icons?

I would appreciate any help or a link to a webpage.

Thank you.

Last edited by psyodin (2010-10-06 16:05:24)

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kowalski

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Registered: 2009-05-07

Posts: 82

Re: Set Window & Panel Icons For Terminal Programs in Openbox

Might that be something helpful?!

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