icon-window, how to use?

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Steve Wa

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Jul 29, 2021, 2:27:14 PM7/29/21

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I am just starting to learn YAD, it's exciting to me

I want to change the icon that is shown in the "taskbar" of Ubuntu 18 when a bash script is running with YAD.

Currently it shows an icon which appears to be a chemical beaker containing green liquid lol

Is the icon supposed to be set by the yad option --window-icon ?

can I set it's value equal to the full path of the svg file?

when it does not appear to display the intended icon, how can I troubleshoot what might be going wrong? i.e. are there GTK3 commands I can issue from inside a terminal which may indicate which icon name or file is being used by the YAD window/dialog?

thank you !

Steve Wa

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Jul 29, 2021, 2:49:29 PM7/29/21

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I figured it out.

I had copied a sample script from a webpage, and instead of a standard dash (hyphen) character,

it had incorrect long dash characters, which was making the arguments be ignored.