From: Diego Z. <za...@ce...> - 2001-03-03 23:41:44
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pe...@he... said: > So, my question is, how to I put a Netscape item on my pinboard that > actually has the netscape.xpm icon? There are actually two ways you can go about this: - If you just want to point to the real executable (say, /usr/local/bin/netscape), then you can locate that file in a filer window, right-click on it, and in the "File 'xxx'" submenu select "Set Icon". Then you can either type the path of the icon you want, or drag the icon to the dragbox in the dialog. Now, whatever you do with the file (link to it, drag it to the pinboard or panel, etc.) will show the appropriate icon. - ROX-Filer uses what is called "application directories", a directory that contains a program (called AppRun) and its icon (on a file called AppIcon.png or AppIcon.xpm). The idea of application directories is that all the files corresponding to an application are inside that directory, so that you can move it around, copy, transfer it without fear of having things scattered all over the place. For now, however, the main use of application directories is to act as wrappers around regular applications. So you can created a directory called Netscape, inside it put a shell script called AppRun that runs netscape, and a file called AppIcon.png (AppIcon.xpm also works) with the icon you want. Now, ROX-Filer will allos you to run that directory as if it were a program, and will show the appropriate icon. As you probably suspected already, someone has done this already. If you go to the "Wrappers" section in ROX's web page (http://rox.sourceforge.net/), you can download a good set of wrappers (including one for Netscape) to get you started. You can also find some other wrappers at my ROX webpage (http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homes/zamboni/rox/). Hope this helps, --Diego |