X icon was not updated in XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-42

[Harold L Hunt II]

Earle,

Earle F. Philhower, III wrote:

> Hi Harold,
> 
> ---------- Original Message -------------
> Subject: X icon was not updated in XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-42
> ..
> Benny was right.  A newly compiled XWin.exe is 2 KiB larger than 
> 4.2.0-42, which accounts for the 2 KiB increase in the size of X.ico.
> Additionally, I was looking at the icon on the upper left-hand corner of 
> an X term, not the tray icon... the tray icon is indeed 20 pixels by 20 
> pixels.  Finally, the tray icon did change under magnification from 
> Test91 to my newest build.  So, it is using the 24 x 24 icon to generate 
> the 20 x 20 icon, rather than the 16 x 16 or the 32 x 32.
> However, my 24 x 24 icon still looks crappy when scaled down to 20 x 
> 20... not sure if it looks better than the 16 x 16 scaled up to 24 x 24 
> though.  It really is a close call.
> Can somebody else spend some time on X.ico with the free icon editor I 
> found and fix this once and for all?
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> Not to be silly, but instead of hand scaling/etc have you just
> tried running "xlogo -geometry 20x20" and PrntScrn'ing the window
> and pasting it into the .ico?

Nope, I hadn't thought of that.  I really don't know much about using 
X... this is a great tip.

Harold