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From: tjl@siva.bris.ac.uk (Tim Llewellyn)
Subject: Re: Specify smaller font for Motif icons?
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 13:17:55 GMT


In article <3rahp8$9f4@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>, tagoodhart
<tagoodhart@koman0.delcoelect.com> writes:
|>
|>koehler@bessta.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) wrote:
|>>
|>>In article <D9tEBx.8Hr@info.bris.ac.uk>, tjl@siva.bris.ac.uk (Tim Llewellyn)
|>writes:
|>>>
|>>>
|>>>Hi,
|>>>
|>>>Yesterday I enabled the small Motif icons (I'm debugging multi-process
|>>>systems again, and the icon box was getting too cluttered to find
|>anything).
|>>>I like the small icons, EXCEPT, the font used is too large, only the first
|>>>two characters of the icon title are visbile. I'd like, if possible, to
|>>>specify a slightly smaller font for the icons, so I can see at least 3-4
|>>>characters without selecting anything.
|>>>
|>>
|>>Just a suggestion from another physicist:  eliminate the icon box.  

No, that doesn't cut it for me. I need to be able to top the icon box window
so I can see all the icons at one go, otherwise they dissappear under all the
other windows :-).

|>>
|>>I get 3 3/4 characters on my small icons.  This is sufficient for the
|>current
|>>time display I like to have on the decw$calendar icon.  A quick search for
|>>"icon" and "font" in decw$user_defaults:*.dat gives me:
|>>
|>>MOSAIC.DAT;1
|>>
|>>Mosaic*XmIconGadget*fontList:          
|>-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-iso1

Thats just for Mosaic, yes? So I have to create a resource file for each
application and change the icon font. OK, I'll try this when I get the
time.


|>>
|>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|>--
|>>Bob Koehler                     |
|>>koehler@bessta.gsfc.nasa.gov    | rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov
|>>
|>
|>The above changes Mosaic's icon
|>
|>
|>I changed all the icons to have a smaller italics font in
|>DECW$MWM.DAT which is where the Window Manager looks.
|>
|>Mwm*fontList:     -Adobe-Times-Bold-I-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1
|>
|>You can edit it and restart your window manager.

OK. this is more like what I want. It does however change the font used
in the title bar of windows too, it would be nice just to change the font
for the actual icon and leave the larger font in the title bar of the windows.

Thanks.

|>-- 
|>Tom Goodhart
|>Systems Engineer				Electronic Data Systems
|>e-mail: tagoodhart@koman0.delcoelect.com	Kokomo, Indiana 46902
|>
|>
|>
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