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I have done many terrible things to my 4D Irix Interactive Desktop. Lets share!

Some useful tidbits:

Some complaints?

  • The built-in Irix file manager defaults to "move" with files, hold ctrl to copy
  • The Icon bar has a large minimum size

Custom "minimize/window" icons in 4Dwm:

  • They go in /usr/lib/images, ~/.icons or another path set by ENV
  • Any image file format so far seems fine, at least PNG and SGI RGB both work
  • The size is weird, around 90x70 but usually smaller, and it varies. EG 85x68 for Mouse.icon
  • They only get loaded once, then saved in memory, so playing with a bunch will require a login-cycle

Basic process is to use xprop on an open window, grab WM_CLASS, take an image, pop it in ~/.icons/ and name it $WM_CLASS.icon

Now to just figure out the color depth requirement, probably 8 bit, and some stuff that looks good at that size and without transparency.

WindowMaker icons might work well, they're boxy lower color and not-transparent.

EG: http://www.aiei.ch/gnustep/icons/icons.html

Check out the "Icons" section for the 4Dwm manpage https://nixdoc.net/man-pages/IRIX/man1/Xm/4Dwm.1.html

Some apps in SGUG-RSE properly set their own icons, I'm not 100% on how that fully works yet.

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