Subject: Re: FVWM: Fvwm - xpm icons

From: Robert Tarrall <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 11:27:58 -0700

David Kennedy wrote:
-> I'm having a bit of trouble with xpm icons.
-> What is the most popular utility for preserving shaped xpm
-> icons or making them from transparent gifs for example?
-> 
-> Xv tends to leave a lovely rectangle of a solid garish random
-> colour about my nice new icons. Any help appreciated.

This is perhaps rather silly, but I've just been using my favourite
icon editor "vi" to replace the relevant random colour with "none".
Usually the first colour in the XPM file is the one that needs changing;
you end up changing from something like:
   "       c #EEEEEEEEEEEE",
to
   "       c none",
The ImageMagick package can be used to create transparent backgrounds
interactively, but I found "vi" to be a lot faster.

			-Robert Tarrall.-
			Unix System/Network Admin
			Laboratory for Computational Dynamics
			CU - Boulder
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