icons for windows / window list

[mwette]

I just installed FC5 (was FC4, reformatted partition). I noticed that the icon for Thunderbird
does not appear in the window title bar or the window list. I'm running GNOME. How can I
find/add the icon for this application? Any help would be much appreciated.

[Skunk Worx]

I think it's no longer installed by default.

Depending on your skills you need to see if it's installed.

$ rpm -qa | grep thunderbird
thunderbird-1.5.0.2-1.1.fc5

If it's not there you have to install it...

# yum -y install thunderbird

Finally I just drag it from the menu (Applications->Internet->Thunderbird Email) to the toolbar.

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John

[mwette]

Thanks for the response. I do have thunderbird installed and working. However the thunderbird icon
does not show up in the window tab or the window list. I'm guessing this is a window manager issues.
Somewhere there has to be an association between applications and the tiny icons that
the window manager uses to decorate windows and the window list. I would like to understand
how this association happens and where are the right files or front-end application to
tweak this assocation.

[Skunk Worx]

Originally Posted by mwette

...the thunderbird icon does not show up in the window tab or the window list...

Ah. I use t-bird myself and really like it.

I have to admit, I'm not sure what a window tab or window list refers to. For example, I use gnome, and (repeating myself) I can drag the t-bird icon off the menu and onto the gnome menubar (top of display, by default), or the desktop, and the icons work as launchers...click 'em and t-bird starts up.

If I right click on them, I can get to the properties...the command, icon setting, etc. I know they are stored below the "." files and directories in the user's home, and in KDE there is a menu editor in the control center...does that help at all?

Ah, I wonder if, when you hit something that wants to launch email, the association is for evolution, and you want t-bird...that's in (under gnome) System->Preferences->More Preferences->Preferred Applications. Change it from evo to t-bird.

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John

[cypher543]

Skunk Worx:
He means that Thunderbird's icon does not display in the titlebar or the list of currently open windows that is (by default) displayed at the bottom of the screen. I have this problem as well. Anyone know the solution?

[Skunk Worx]

I'm not sure but I think it's a developer or package issue. The t-bird window proper has a generic window icon in the title bar...and all the apps I've launched so far show that is the icon used in the open window list.