I've written some notes about icons below.  I had a few icons that I had made
or modified in this directory.  But, I tossed them later when I decided that it
is better to use icons that are already on the system when possible.  Here are
my notes, for what they're worth:

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I've been playing with icons in fvwm, especially in the FvwmButtons.  In
fact, I made a button with a picture of my notepad taken with my camera.

It's not perfect, yet.  It has a white background instead of a clear one or
one that matches the gray of the mini button, but it looks good and it shows
how to do it.

steps.

1.  I took a picture with my camera.  The notepad was on a white sheet of
paper, and the camera was as close as I could and still get the whole note
pad.  I saved it as .jpg.

2.  I erased the shadows around the notepad in xpaint and I rotated the
image.  I cropped it pretty close and saved it.

3.  I reduced the image from 200 wide x 280 high (pixels) to 15 x 21 (wxh). 
I then saved it as .xpm.  I did both of these in xv.

4.  There might be a better place, but I put the image in

/usr/include/X11/pixmaps

I had to be root to do this.

Note that now I see it is also in /etc/X11/xfm/pixmaps.  I swear I didn't
put it there.  The system did it.  I don't know why.  It even does a
name change for me if I do a mv.  Wow.

(I found out why.  Duh.  There are links involved.  The two above are
apparent locations (for the same place) after following links.  That
same place is /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps)

5.  Then I fixed ~/.fvwm2rc to reference gnp and my picture.  See my install
notes about this.

By the way it was fun looking for a place to put the icon.  I used ls -R
/mini-bomb.xpm then /* then /*/*, and so on.  I found another place where
mini-bomb.xpm lives.

That place is /etc/X11/xfm/pixmaps.

I've yet to learn what man says about this.
