custom application icons?

[thelee]

how do i give custom icons to an application?

or, more specifically, i use fluxbox as my wm. firefox, google earth, etc. all get lovely icons in their title bars and in my pager, but my most frequently used app (xterm) does not. I would really like for it to use the Tango terminal icon, plus this will make my pager and fluxbox toolbar more visually interesting since all my xterm windows will actually have an icon to go with them. I was hoping that maybe there was some X Resource configuration that I could set, but initial research has yielded.

[taipan67]

The icons displayed with programs are configured in the files in /usr/share/applications, and since (on my system, at any rate) xterm doesn't have an entry in there, it just gets the generic Xwindow icon placed in it's title-bar.

If you want it to have some sort of terminal-icon that changes with your icon-theme along with your other app's, you could write an appropriate '.desktop' file for it and store it in the aforementioned directory - the freedesktop.org specifications are available here, and you could also look at your existing ones for referrence.

Post back if you'd like any suggestions about what to include, and i'll probably be having a bash at writing one anyway.
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[taipan67]

Follow-up:-

Something like this might do the trick...