seticons(1)

✨ seticons(1) — the girlies' guide to icon glow-ups ✨

okay so bestie, you know how Window Maker has icons and sometimes those icons are giving absolutely nothing? yeah. this little command is the one that fixes that. it's the seticons manual, General Commands Manual vibes, and we're gonna go through it together 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

seticons — sets the icon images used in Window Maker 🎀

like. literally what it says on the tin. it sets the icons. slay.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

seticons iconsfile

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the tea, bestie: seticons reads iconsfile and writes its contents straight into the WMWindowAttributes domain. which basically means it's setting the icons Window Maker uses for a given class. iconic behavior, no cap.

and when I say "a given class" I mean stuff like XTerm, "xterm.XTerm", "rxvt.XTerm", "pine.XTerm", etc. you get the vibe — class names, all of them, that's the group chat it's posting to 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help — prints a help message with the list of options. the "what do I even do here" button, we love her 💖
• --version — prints the version of Window Maker from which the program comes. receipts! 👑

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• WMAKER_USER_ROOT — specifies the initial path for the Defaults directory. here's the thing: "Defaults/" gets appended to this variable to figure out the actual location of the databases. and if you never set it? it defaults to "~/GNUstep". so either way she's got somewhere to be 🧚

🍓 FILES 🍓

• WMAKER_USER_ROOT/Defaults/WMWindowAttributes — this is the actual file that's written. the main character file, the one getting all the attention 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

geticonset(1), wmaker(1)

the whole friend group fr fr. go say hi.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This man page was written by Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>. 💖

Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.info>. 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie — this one's dated March 1998, comes from the seticons(1) era of things, and yeah, the girlies were setting icons before it was cool. periodt. 🎀✨