re postscript viewer icons xbackground in article c rsjf em ccu umanitoba ca roholdr ccu umanitoba ca r ross holder jr writes ever since i started to use xwindows which is to say recently i ve accumulated a few questions about x applications three examples follow it was recently mentioned on comp os linux that there exists a post script viewer i am interested in this and any x editor that is an improvement on xedit which i find annoying try to get axe it s a wonderful x based editor and much simpler to use than emacs what is a overkill of course emacs is no editor but a religion at one point i was the proud owner of an amiga and have since upgraded to a workbench the point and click interface used info files to store the data for icons associated with applications on a given volume i have noticed no such architecture anywhere under linux how does xwindows associate icons with applications can one edit icons or generate new ones for applications somehow if it makes a difference i m running twm don t call going from an amiga to a ibm upgrade the amiga workbench did the job of a desktop manager and there is no really amazing good x desktop manager in the public domain i m currently writing one but it s in very early stage xdtm may be a medium good replacement x associates icons with nothing a number of x window managers associate icons with windows in a way to ease window management but this has nothing to do with icons of a desktop manager application the tool bitmap is there for simple icon drawing i ve noticed some people have somehow discovered a way to display gif or some kind of picture files in the background either replacing or overlapping some the usual grey background employed by xwindows i heard this was done using some application but i don t recall what it was xv root max quit whatever image file o o o brain inside o o o o andre beck abpsoft mehl andre beck irs inf tu dresden de o o o
