login icons: summary

[Claude.P.Cantin at nrc.ca]

Last week I asked how login icons could be created.  I got a number of
answers.  What follows is ideas presented in the answers received.  All
those work and are very good.

Icons are EASY to make, especially using "snapshot", then ipaste to
display in to see how it looks...


1. gif images can be ftp'ed from the anonymous account at 128.194.27.6.
   On those files, use the "fromgif" utility, posted on the discussion
   list a few weeks ago.

2. /usr/people/4Dgifts/iristools/imgtools contains MANY image manipulation
   utilities.  Go in the directory and "make" all of them.  They are
   useful to resize images, saturate them with colours, etc...  I
   mostly used "izoom"...

3. Use "snapshot" to take a portion of an image and store it into another.
   It is an excellent utility that I used to create most of my icons.

4. Many resident images can be displayed on the screen.  Look at the
   NeWS demo directory (/usr/NeWS/demo) and type "imagedemo".  Or from
   the demochest.  Then use "snapshot" to capture part of an image, or
   the entire one. and put the reslu

5. To get the login icon, put the file (must be an icon at MOST 100 X 100
   pixels) in either /usr/local/lib/faces/logon, or in
   $HOME/.4sight/icons/login.icon

6. You could create your own image using quickpaint, then use "snapshot"...



A special thank to all who responded:

Peter Jaspers-Fayer (SOFPJF at VM.UoGuelph.CA)
Rober Briber (rbriber at poly1.nist.gov)
Eugene Gholz (eugholz at athena.mit.edu)
Brent L. bates (blbates at aero4.larc.nasa.gov)
Charles Foley (foley at iris03.niehs.nih.gov)
Loki Jorgenson (loki at physics.mcgill.ca)
Scott Drellshak (sfd at ocf.berkeley.edu)


       Claude Cantin (cantin at vm.nrc.ca, cantin at nrccsb3.di.nrc.ca, and more...)