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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Icon problem. UGH!!! Information wanted ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.221016.29218@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 22:10:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.205529.664096@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec28.205529.664096@sue.cc.uregina.ca> skagos@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (P. Takis Skagos) writes:
- >I recently re-installed OS/2 and the Service Pack and I am experiencing a
- >bloody annoying problem. I've created a shadow of one of the PROMPT icons
- >and then I went into SETTINGS and created another, customized, icon for
- >it because the default icon looks pretty ugly. Creating the new icon
- >works nicely (I save it as wp!1.ico), and it even alters the apperance of the
- >shadow and original, but when I double-click on the icon to open, say, a
- >windowed command prompt, and then minimize that windowed session, it doesn't
- >use my new icon ... it uses the default OS/2 icon. Before I re-installed
- >OS/2 and the SP, everything worked fine ... my icon was used all the time,
- >not the OS/2 default.
-
- I know that PM apps ignore the icon in WPS, using their internal icon,
- but I think this solution works with text-based apps: Create an .ico
- file bearing the same name as the program you intend to run and place
- that file in the directory with the app. For prompts, the program is
- \OS2\CMD.EXE or \OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM. So placing a CMD.ICO or
- COMMAND.ICO file in these directories may work. I used to do this
- under OS/2 1.3, where there was no WPS - this was the only way to get
- icons for non-PM apps. It might still work.
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