[SOLVED] How to change main icon of Total Commander?

[tomek]

Total Commander has a lot of possibilities to change its appearance.
In addition to the toolbar icons, I would like to change the icon on the title bar (upper left corner of the program).

How to do it?

[gdpr deleted 6]

You would have to use some 3rd-party program to patch the Total Commander executable(s). Those kind of programs are usually called "resource editors" or similar (as in, editing the resources inside a PE binary, such as the program icon, for example). I haven't used such programs myself since a long long time, thus i cannot recommend a good current one. Google for some and try them would be my suggestion (and while you are googling, you might perhaps also google for some tutorial or step-by-step instructions for how to change program icons with the resource editor of your choice)

(By the way, while TC has full control over what is inside its program window, it doesn't really have much control over the program icon. While the window frame and titlebar can be configured in some way, particularly the program icon is handled by Windows itself without giving a program much choice over it. Windows will just look up the respective resource in the executable file and display it. There is not much TC can do about it, aside from not using the Windows-provided window frame and titlebar, and completely reskin those. The chances of such an implementation happening in the future is probably slim to none because of what i would consider a rather unfavourable cost-risk-benefit ratio.)

[Dalai]

Patching TC's EXE files will probably cause it to complain about that, thinking it would have been infected by a virus. So I recommend to not do that.

Using a different icon library (IconLib setting in wincmd.ini) might work, but I'm not sure if that's applied to the main icon.

Regards
Dalai

[petermad]

I can confirm that if you use an iconlib with a replaced first icon, the that icon is used by Windows in titlebar, alt-tab menu, process line etc.

2tomek
Do you have an icon you want to use, thne i will make the iconlib for you

[tomek]

I tried Resource hacker, and after changing exe Total Commender noticed exe is modified and made Msgbox with warning and ending
@petermad: I've found some "flat_FileIcons 1.0.0" iconlib and it really changing main icon in titlebar. It is great
I want to try make iconlib by my self. How to do it?

I found now also setiing IconLibDir=%COOMANDER_PaTH%\Icons
Will this also do the trick? Maybe it will be easier?

[petermad]

You can make an icl file with the ICLView plugin - https://totalcmd.net/plugring/iclview.html

I found now also setiing IconLibDir=%COOMANDER_PaTH%\Icons

You are close, except for the typos - it would be something like:
IconLib=%COMMANDER_PATH%\totalcmd.icl

You only need to have 1 icon in the icl.file

[gdpr deleted 6]

Patching TC's EXE files will probably cause it to complain about that, thinking it would have been infected by a virus. So I recommend to not do that.

I tried Resource hacker, and after changing exe Total Commender noticed exe is modified and made Msgbox with warning and ending

Oh dang! I am sorry for my bad and utterly useless advice.

[petermad]

Here are some examples of iconlibs to change TC's program icon: https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/iconlibs.zip

BTW - you have to disable the option: "Configuration" -> "Options..." -> "Icons" -> "Show default folder/file icons from Explorer" - to make it work

[tomek]

[SOLVED]

I tried to use ICLView plugin, but although it is good for viewing, editing is very hard.
I used Greenfish Icon Editor Pro (freeware) to make ICL file with one icon

In wincmd.ini I wrote:

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[Configuration]
IconLib=%COMMANDER_PATH%\new_icon.icl

After restart Total Commander had the new icon.

Thank you all for your help