Dos-Man 64 wrote:
Is there some way to change the icon of a program compiled with gcc or
g++?  I didn't see any compiler options in the man pages.  Perhaps the
linker has a switch?

There is no icon compiled into it unless you place one there yourself.
Adding things like that is not the role of the compiler or linker.

What widget set are you working with?

Is there some way to change the icon of a program compiled with gcc or
g++? I didn't see any compiler options in the man pages. Perhaps the
linker has a switch?

Dos-Man 64 <ChairS... at (no spam) mail.com> wrote:
On Sep 21, 11:32 pm, Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccosk... at (no spam) invalid.invalid
wrote:
Dos-Man 64 wrote:
Is there some way to change the icon of a program compiled with gcc or
g++?  I didn't see any compiler options in the man pages.  Perhaps the
linker has a switch?

There is no icon compiled into it unless you place one there yourself..
Adding things like that is not the role of the compiler or linker.

What widget set are you working with?
None.  This is just a traditional c++ terminal application without any
GUI.

First question is what kind of icon are you talking about?

Do your window manager/desktop environment allows you to
put icons on the screen that, when you click on them, result
in the program getting started and is this the kind of icon
you're talking about?

In that case that's something you have
to adjust in your window mananger/desktop environment since
the program hasn't anything to do with it.

Or do you mean the icon shown when you "iconify" the window
of the program?

Still, if it was a say a gtk+ app, none of the books I got demonstrate
a method of changing the icon of the executable.

That's because an "executable" has no icon. It's just a bunch
of bits in a file on your disk. An icon on the desktop back-
ground is a visualisation of this file and the window manager/
desktop environment takes care of such things. So it's the
window manager/desktop environmen you've got to talk to about
the way it visualizes the file as an icon. Nothing within the
"executable" can do that - it's just bits in a file that are
not looked at until you start the program.

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On Sep 21, 11:32 pm, Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccosk... at (no spam) invalid.invalid
wrote:
Dos-Man 64 wrote:
Is there some way to change the icon of a program compiled with gcc or
g++?  I didn't see any compiler options in the man pages.  Perhaps the
linker has a switch?

There is no icon compiled into it unless you place one there yourself.
Adding things like that is not the role of the compiler or linker.

What widget set are you working with?


None. This is just a traditional c++ terminal application without any
GUI.

Still, if it was a say a gtk+ app, none of the books I got demonstrate
a method of changing the icon of the executable.

On Sep 21, 11:32 pm, Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccosk... at (no spam) invalid.invalid
wrote:
Dos-Man 64 wrote:
Is there some way to change the icon of a program compiled with gcc or
g++?  I didn't see any compiler options in the man pages.  Perhaps the
linker has a switch?

There is no icon compiled into it unless you place one there yourself.
Adding things like that is not the role of the compiler or linker.

What widget set are you working with?

None. This is just a traditional c++ terminal application without any
GUI.

Still, if it was a say a gtk+ app, none of the books I got demonstrate
a method of changing the icon of the executable.

On Sep 21, 11:32 pm, Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccosk... at (no spam) invalid.invalid
wrote:
Dos-Man 64 wrote:
Is there some way to change the icon of a program compiled with gcc or
g++? I didn't see any compiler options in the man pages. Perhaps the
linker has a switch?

There is no icon compiled into it unless you place one there yourself.
Adding things like that is not the role of the compiler or linker.

What widget set are you working with?


None. This is just a traditional c++ terminal application without any
GUI.

Still, if it was a say a gtk+ app, none of the books I got demonstrate
a method of changing the icon of the executable. I also had some
trouble changing the default application icon for free pascal
applications designed with lazarus. Not sure what the problem was;
just didn't seem to work. Also couldn't change the form.icon property.

computers[1].

_ALL_ of it.

Search for "Unix programming"[2] on the web.
Start learning again.

[1] I had to do this as well a while ago.
[2] This will mostly be C and shell script but
the principles are mainly what you need to
learn.

Dos-Man 64 <ChairS... at (no spam) mail.com> wrote:
On Sep 22, 6:02 am, j... at (no spam) toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) wrote:
Dos-Man 64 <ChairS... at (no spam) mail.com> wrote:
On Sep 21, 11:32 pm, Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccosk... at (no spam) invalid.invalid
wrote:
Dos-Man 64 wrote:
Is there some way to change the icon of a program compiled with gcc or
g++?  I didn't see any compiler options in the man pages.  Perhaps the
linker has a switch?

There is no icon compiled into it unless you place one there yourself.
Adding things like that is not the role of the compiler or linker..

What widget set are you working with?
None.  This is just a traditional c++ terminal application without any
GUI.

First question is what kind of icon are you talking about?
The default knoppix icon is a blue "gear".

So I guess it's using KDE as its desktop environment (at least
the last time I looked it was using something like this).

The icon isn't built into the binary?  Keep in mind I'm coming from
the MS platform and I'm just used to things being done a certain
way...

Now we got to talk about what you call the "binary". I think
on Windows (but I can't say for sure I have hardly ever used
Windows) when you install a program you often get a single
.exe file. But this file is normally some self-unpacking
archive that contains a lot of components, the final exe-
cutable for the program, DLLs, as well as some sort of
install program and probably also a file for the icon. The
install program then takes care of putting the executable
itself (the one that finally is run), the DLLs and the icon
file in the correct places and tells the part of Windows that
is responsible for the desktop environment to use the icon
file for the desktop icon for the program. I would be asto-
nished if the program itself would contain this icon (but
I could as well be wrong, as I said I have nearly no expe-
rience with Windows).

On Sep 22, 1:46 pm, j... at (no spam) toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) wrote:
Dos-Man 64 <ChairS... at (no spam) mail.com> wrote:

The icon isn't built into the binary? Keep in mind I'm coming from
the MS platform and I'm just used to things being done a certain
way...
Now we got to talk about what you call the "binary". I think
on Windows (but I can't say for sure I have hardly ever used
Windows) when you install a program you often get a single
.exe file. But this file is normally some self-unpacking
archive that contains a lot of components, the final exe-
cutable for the program, DLLs, as well as some sort of
install program and probably also a file for the icon. The
install program then takes care of putting the executable
itself (the one that finally is run), the DLLs and the icon
file in the correct places and tells the part of Windows that
is responsible for the desktop environment to use the icon
file for the desktop icon for the program. I would be asto-
nished if the program itself would contain this icon (but
I could as well be wrong, as I said I have nearly no expe-
rience with Windows).



My understanding is that the icon is inside the windows binary. I can
send you a Windows executable and you can see the same icon I'm
seeing. A default icon will be used unless I change the icon. A lot
of it depends on the programming language that was used. A few
languages or tools can generate executables, but with no actual

control over the application's icon. Well, the point is not really how
windows does it, but that I am trying to figure out how X is doing
it. I'm starting to get the idea that there is a list somewhere of
which programs use which icons, but that's only speculation on my part
based on the responses I've heard.

On Sep 22, 3:38 pm, Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccosk... at (no spam) invalid.invalid
wrote:
I think the best advise here is forget everything you know about
computers[1].

_ALL_ of it.

Search for "Unix programming"[2] on the web.
Start learning again.

[1] I had to do this as well a while ago.
[2] This will mostly be C and shell script but
the principles are mainly what you need to
learn.

Well, I am an excellent C programmer already. Well, that's my opinion
anyway. And I am familiar with shell scripting already. Where I
struggle is in determining how X does some things differently than the
way Microsoft Windows was doing it. It's the same general tasks that
are being performed; it's just a matter of the tasks being done
differently.

I'm starting to get the idea that there is a list somewhere of
which programs use which icons, but that's only speculation on my part
based on the responses I've heard.

Dos-Man 64 <ChairS... at (no spam) mail.com> writes:
There is no general way how you can reconfigure someone else's 'GUI
environment' to display a picture you happen to like. After all, maybe
that someone else doesn't like it. This arguably not what a
marketing department would ideally want to have but I consider this to
be a less serious problem. I, for instance, don't use any icons and
not even a taskbar. Minimized windows just vanish and I can recall
them by selecting them from a list which appears on demand.

On Sep 23, 4:18 am, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku... at (no spam) mssgmbh.com> wrote:
Dos-Man 64 <ChairS... at (no spam) mail.com> writes:
There is no general way how you can reconfigure someone else's 'GUI
environment' to display a picture you happen to like. After all, maybe
that someone else doesn't like it. This arguably not what a
marketing department would ideally want to have but I consider this to
be a less serious problem. I, for instance, don't use any icons and
not even a taskbar. Minimized windows just vanish and I can recall
them by selecting them from a list which appears on demand.


Ah, that's what I was wondering. It seems to me to be absurd to spend
a lot of time on an application and not be able to assign an
attractive (and descriptive) icon to it, but I guess it is what it is.

On Sep 22, 3:38 pm, Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccosk... at (no spam) invalid.invalid
wrote:
I think the best advise here is forget everything you know about
computers[1].

_ALL_ of it.

Search for "Unix programming"[2] on the web.
Start learning again.

[1] I had to do this as well a while ago.
[2] This will mostly be C and shell script but
the principles are mainly what you need to
learn.

Well, I am an excellent C programmer already. Well, that's my opinion
anyway. And I am familiar with shell scripting already. Where I
struggle is in determining how X does some things differently than the
way Microsoft Windows was doing it. It's the same general tasks that
are being performed; it's just a matter of the tasks being done
differently.