Re: Changing an icon in Irix

From: UNIX Museum (unixmuseum_at_verizon.com)
Date: 01/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:20:44 GMT

Jim Blowitski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I apologize if the answer is obvious or can be found on the web. I searched
> on google groups but could not find it. I was wondering how to change an
> icon in Irix. Can the icons on the desktop be changed and if so how? Also
> how would you do this for applications that currently have a default icon
> (i.e. a lot of the freeware)?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>
Jim,

The answer isn't obvious, but not too hard to find...
You can find all you want to know about this on the sgi Techpub, here is
the link:

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=bks&srch=&fname=/SGI_Developer/IIDsktp_IG/sgi_html/pr03.html

Some custom icons can be found at
http://masaomi.sendaisou.hn.org/iconsmith.html

Good luck!

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