al_x_set_initial_icon(3)

💅 al_x_set_initial_icon(3)

okay bestie, this page lives in the Library Functions Manual and it’s giving Allegro 5 API realness. The main character is al_x_set_initial_icon, and honestly? iconic. ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

al_x_set_initial_icon — Allegro 5 API. Short, sweet, slay 💖.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro_x.h>

bool al_x_set_initial_icon(ALLEGRO_BITMAP *bitmap)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here’s the tea, bestie: on some window managers — notably Ubuntu’s Unity — al_set_display_icon doesn’t work, and you need to use a .desktop file instead. Kinda annoying, but we move 💅.

Enter this function 🫶. With al_x_set_initial_icon you can set an icon before calling al_create_display. This works by setting the icon before XMapWindow. Lowkey clever, highkey useful. No cap. ✨

🌈 SINCE 🌈

5.2.3

[Unstable API]: New API. 🫶

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Bye bestie 🫶 — this came from the Allegro reference manual, all about al_x_set_initial_icon(3) (and the footer doesn’t show a date, so we’re not making one up 🙈).