al_x_set_initial_icon(3alleg5)

✨ al_x_set_initial_icon ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro 5 API corner of the internet 🎀 this one's a lil function called al_x_set_initial_icon, and she's here to fix your window icon drama. let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_x_set_initial_icon — the Allegro 5 API, but make it ✨icon✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro_x.h>

bool al_x_set_initial_icon(ALLEGRO_BITMAP *bitmap)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea, bestie ☕ on some window managers — and notably Ubuntu's Unity is the main character here — al_set_display_icon literally just does not work 😭 and the workaround is that you have to use a .desktop file. which is fine but also, like, annoying.

BUT. with this function you can set an icon before calling al_create_display 🫶 and it actually works, because the way it does this is by setting the icon before XMapWindow happens. no cap, that's the whole trick. iconic behaviour fr fr 👑

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

5.2.3 — so she's been around a minute 💜

[Unstable API]: New API. ⚠️ heads up bestie, this one's flagged unstable — tread accordingly 🙈

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and that's the whole vibe check, babe ✨ this page came to you straight from the Allegro reference manual (al_x_set_initial_icon(3alleg5)) — go forth and icon-ify your windows, you absolute legend 💖🎀🦋