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First I have read all questions about this subject, so this is not a repeated question.
What I want to ask about, how an application written in Java (such as eclipse) uses an icon instead of the default jar icons.
I don’t care about compatibility, I always can make 2 different versions of my program to Windows and Linux.
How to make it in Linux and Windows.
Thanks very much.
In the case of programs like eclipse, which are written in java and have a specific icon in Windows (or Linux or Mac for that matter), they actually have an OS specific executable file, e.g. eclipse.exe for windows, that initialises the java program.
It is this executable that contains the application icon, not the Java program. If you want to do the same, you’ll need to create the executable ‘front door’, as it were, and give it an icon.
If it’s just for your own personal aesthetics, just create a short cut to the jar file and change the icon of the shortcut.