Jeff Epler wrote:
> Here is a short program that sets Tk's window icon on Linux. My window> manager is icewm, and it uses a scaled version of the "flagup" image> both at the upper-left corner of the window and on the task bar entry> for the window.> > import Tkinter> app = Tkinter.Tk()> app.iconbitmap("@/usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/flagup")> app.mainloop()> > As often happens, the Tkinter documentation doesn't tell the whole> story---you have to dig into the Tk documentation. I started with "man> n wm", and read the following:> If bitmap is specified, then it names a bitmap in the standard> forms accepted by Tk (see the Tk_GetBitmap manual entry for> details).> OK, on to Tk_GetBitmap...> @fileName FileName must be the name of a file containing a> bitmap description in the standard X11 or X10 format.> and I happened to know that some bitmaps in this format exist in the> directory I mentioned above. Note that the "standard X11 format" is> monochrome, so you will not be able to use color images with> "iconbitmap" on Linux. Tk doesn't support _NET_WM_ICON for setting> full-color icons.> > Jeff
Thanks for this, Jeff - I'll do some digging in the Tk docs. My problem is
that I'm trying to use iconwindow() to use a colour image, as opposed to
iconbitmap(), although if push comes to shove I suppose I could use that.
Thanks again for the quick response - on Easter weekend too!
Tim J
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