Re: Setting window icons

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 22 Feb 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> The real problem with that for the window manager icon is that we have
> no way to ask the window manager what it wants from an icon, I guess.
> All you can do is provide a list, where presumably the WM would pick
> by size. So this is maybe a deficiency that should be solved by fixing
> the WM spec a bit.

There is the XGetIconSizes function that can be used to retrieve a list of
icon sizes the window manager would like.  I don't know how many window 
managers actually set their prefered icon sizes though.  Not sure what to
do about other gdk targets.

James.

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