The icon search path directs the desktop to search specified locations for files containing bitmap and pixmap image files used by the desktop.
The default icon search path includes personal, system-wide, and built-in locations. The default language is C.
Personal location--HomeDirectory/.dt/icons
System-wide location--/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/language
Built-in location--/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/language
When a location is added to the application search path, the appropriate icon subdirectory is automatically added to the icon search path (see "How the Application Search Path Affects the Database, Icon, and Help Search Paths").
For example, if the application server hosta: is added to the application search path, the directory hosta:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/language is automatically added to the icon search path.
The database search path is assembled from the built-in locations and the following input variables:
DTSPSYSICON
--system-wide
icon search path input variable
DTSPUSERICON
--personal
icon search path input variable
Use these input variables to specify locations outside the application search path.
The assembled database search path is specified by two output variables:
XMICONSEARCHPATH
--used
by color displays
XMICONBMSEARCHPATH
--used
by monochrome displays
The syntax for the variables DTSPSYSICON
and DTSPUSERICON
is:
VARIABLE=location [,location...]
where location can have the syntax:
/path--specifies a directory on the local (session server) system. Use this syntax to add a local directory.
To specify a location on another system, use its network file name--for example, /nfs/servera/projects/icons.
The value of the icon search path (XMICONSEARCHPATH
and XMICONBMSEARCHPATH
)
is created by assembling the following locations, listed in order of precedence:
Locations specified using the DTSPUSERICON
variable
Locations derived from the DTSPUSERAPPHOSTS
variable
The default personal location: HomeDirectory/.dt/icons
The default location: /etc/dt/appconfig/icons/language
Locations specified using the DTSPSYSICON
variable
Locations derived from the DTSPSYSAPPHOSTS
variable
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/language
The color and monochrome search paths differ only in the precedence
given to pixmap and bitmaps. The XMICONSEARCHPATH
variables lists pixmaps before bitmaps; XMICONBMSEARCPATH
lists bitmaps before pixmaps.