As you seem to be having trouble, here's a fuller answer than the one I posted before.
On Mon 17 Sep 2018 at 12:05:35 (+0000), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > I can't figure out where fvwm is getting the xpm icon for an xterm. The > issue started when I upgraded from Debian v7 (fvwm 1:2.5.30) to Debian v9 > (fvwm 1:2.6.7-3). In both cases fvwm-icons was also installed. >From /usr/share/pixmaps/. > I have this in ~/.fvwm/config: > Style "XTerm" Icon null.xpm, SloppyFocus, IconBox 200x200-1+8 > > where null.xpm is intended to call /usr/share/pixmaps/fvwm/null.xpm, a > zero-byte file I created. Then you need to have Style xterm Icon fvwm/null.xpm or it won't be found in that subdirectory. That said, I would put the Icon in a directory like /usr/local/share/fvwm/ or /home/david/.fvwm/null.xpm rather than polluting the package's own files. Again, that said, a zero-length file doesn't work for me on stretch. I haven't tried jessie or wheezy. > When startx is called, it gets this from ~/.xinitrc: I use .xsession … > xterm -geometry 125x58+964+56 -iconic -title syrano -e ssh syrano & … and I don't use -iconic so that's untested here. > No matter what I list in config, the xterm icon that comes up matches > /usr/share/pixmaps/mini.xterm_48x48.xpm (an icon with a blue `T' over a red > `X'). If I copy some other xpm on top of that and do startx again, I still > get the original mini.xterm_48x48.xpm image. Furthermore, > /usr/share/pixmaps/mini.xterm_48x48.xpm still shows an access time from weeks > ago. It seems that fvwm has that image cached or built in somehow. That does seem likely. If you look at the man page, it explains the old option -n and says "If no suitable icon is found, xterm provides a compiled-in pixmap" which would correspond to your reported behaviour as it can't find /usr/share/pixmaps/fvwm/null.xpm. > Once > fvwm is up, if I call "xterm &" and convert that to an icon, it appears as a > live window screenshot, not as mini.xterm_48x48.xpm. That's because at this point I assume you hadn't added Style xterm IconOverride to prevent it. As I wrote before, iconification is quite complex, even before you add in fvwm's options. > In Debian 7, calling null.xpm gives me no xpm icon, just a title bar labeled > "syrano". I prefer this because it's very small. If you just want a small icon, why not just shrink it; say: $ convert /usr/share/pixmaps/…whatever….xpm -resize 48x24 .fvwm/small.xpm Even a 1x1 icon makes a (not very useful) mark on the screen (until you hover over it). Cheers, David.
