Hi! If I have a Windows-program, which comes with an installer and the program wants to create icons on the desktop, then Wine creates on the desktop a link to the installed program, extract an xpm icon from it and use it as icon for the desktop. But if I have a program with no installer and I want to bring it manually on the desktop (what I already have done), how can I extract the nice icon from an Windows EXE-file? Comes Wine with a command-line program, which doing it? What have I to input, to become a xpm of an EXE-icon? Greatings theuserbl
Hi! If I have a Windows-program, which comes with an installer and the program wants to create icons on the desktop, then Wine creates on the desktop a link to the installed program, extract an xpm icon from it and use it as icon for the desktop. But if I have a program with no installer and I want to bring it manually on the desktop (what I already have done), how can I extract the nice icon from an Windows EXE-file? Comes Wine with a command-line program, which doing it? What have I to input, to become a xpm of an EXE-icon? Greatings theuserbl
>But if I have a program with no installer and I want to bring it manuallyon>the desktop (what I already have done), how can I extract the nice iconfrom>an Windows EXE-file? >Comes Wine with a command-line program, which doing it? >What have I to input, to become a xpm of an EXE-icon?What I've done before is to use IrfanView (www.irfanview.com), which is a free Windows image viewer. It installs nicely under Wine as well. To extract the icon from an EXE, simply open the .exe file inside irfanview, and it will show you the first icon in the file. At the top of the window is a "Page x/y" box and up/down arrows next to it. this will scroll through the icons in the file. Then you can do a "File | Save As" to save the icon out to a seperate file. It doesn't create XPM files, however, so you will have to use PNG (or BMP, etc.)