Re: Program icon in tabs on taskbar

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Sam Tran wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I am running Gnome 2.8 on a Debian Sarge.
>
>I would like to know how to set the icon that appears in a given
>program tab on the taskbar? For instance I installed the program
>aterm. Everytime I run aterm the icon associated to it is a simple
>sheet of paper. I would like to change it to something else.
>
>Any input would be much appreciated.
>  
>
Aterm would need to be modified to set the appropriate property on its
window (_NET_WM_ICON).  This is documented here:
    http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest/ar01s05.html#id2523483

I don't think there is a way a user can assign custom icons to
applications in the task list, unfortunately.

James.