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Thursday, April 5th 2007, 3:35pm

Changing icons in Alt-Tab list

Hi All,

Is there a way to change the icon for a program that is used in the window list on the panel and in the Alt-Tab list?
I often have many xterm windows open connected to different servers and they all have the same dull grey X icon. Having a different icon for each server would make it easier to quickly pick the window I want. I have changed the icon that open each window in the KDE menu but that icon is not used in the Alt-Tab list or on the panel.

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Rinse

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Thursday, April 5th 2007, 3:54pm

AFAIK you can set a custom icon with the command you use to start the application.

For example:

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kwrite --icon /opt/kde3/share/icons/crystalsuse/16x16/devices/hdd_win_unmount.png

makes the kwrite window use hdd_win_unmount.png as icon in stead of its default icon.
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Thursday, April 5th 2007, 5:41pm

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Originally posted by Rinse
AFAIK you can set a custom icon with the command you use to start the application.


Thanks but xterm doesn't have an --icon option.
When I tried it with kwrite it also didn't have the desired effect: the task list in the panel and the Alt-Tab list still had the default kwrite icon.