Re: Program icon in tabs on taskbar

[Sam Tran <stlist gmail com>]

On 7/4/05, James Henstridge <james jamesh id au> wrote:
> Sam Tran wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am running Gnome 2.8 on a Debian Sarge.
> >
> >I would like to know how to set the icon that appears in a given
> >program tab on the taskbar? For instance I installed the program
> >aterm. Everytime I run aterm the icon associated to it is a simple
> >sheet of paper. I would like to change it to something else.
> >
> >Any input would be much appreciated.
> >
> >
> Aterm would need to be modified to set the appropriate property on its
> window (_NET_WM_ICON).  This is documented here:
>     http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest/ar01s05.html#id2523483
> 
> I don't think there is a way a user can assign custom icons to
> applications in the task list, unfortunately.
> 

Thanks James.
I'll see if I can hack it.

Sam