I have installed a small app using Wine under Ubuntu 8.04 however the desktop launcher icon isn't the correct one for the application.
Windows frequently stores application icons in the programs exe file. So to fix my launcher icon I need to extract the icon from the exe.
To extract the icon under Linux:
You need to install icoutils
For Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install icoutils
For Fedora (Update: 2011-09-24)
yum install icoutils
Others:
Check for and download the latest rpm from http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/icoutils/
wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/icoutils/icoutils-0.26.0-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh icoutils-0.26.0-1.i386.rpm
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/;
e.g ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/eXeSMS
wrestool -l eXeSMS.exe
You will see heaps of output but look for the line that identifies the icon (from what I understand you need the 'group_icon')
e.g.
--type=14 --name='MAINICON' --language=3081 [type=group_icon offset=0x15d6d8 size=20]
Once you have identified your icon you need extract it to a file
wrestool -x -n MAINICON eXeSMS.exe > myicon.ico
#Another way
# this will out put the icon as a name similar to eXeSMS.exe_14_1_0.ico
wrestool -x --output=. --type=14
Note the use of the > character because by default wrestool sends it to stdout (your console)
What I did then was copy the file to a safe place and then edit my launcher to use the icon file.
Note: You can also open the file in Gimp and change it's format to whatever you wish
Here is how I got the icons from iexplore.exe:
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Internet\ Explorer
for i in `wrestool -l iexplore.exe | grep group_icon | awk '{ print $2}' | cut -f2 -d=` ; do wrestool -x -n $i iexplore.exe > $i.ico ; done
When I try install icoutils, get error 'invalid dependencies'
$ rpm -Uvh icoutils-0.26.0-1.i386.rpm
b??d: Niespe?nione zale?no?ci:
perl(HTTP::Status) jest wymagany przez icoutils-1:0.26.0-1.i386
perl(LWP::Simple) jest wymagany przez icoutils-1:0.26.0-1.i386
... or you could be really lazy and just install something like IcoFX (freeware) under wine and open the .exe with it.
Excellent tip Trevor. I tried IcoFX and it installs and runs well under wine. Extracting icons with it is easy and exporting to png format works fine.
No matter what, I just can't manage to extract utorrent's icons. I guess thats because the executable is compressed. Nice trick though.
Try this
This will create a multi layer ico file. To make it a single image:
Open in gimp
select layers dialog
delete the layers you don't want
save the file as an ico or png
Or you could install imagemagick and use convert:
convert name.ico name.png
This will create several images, if the icon has more than one.
Nice,
Thanks for the tip Stephen.
TIMTOWTODI (There is more than one way to do it)
I don't understand the language but this guy has created a post showing a geticon script used to automate the process of extracting the icon.
Excellent. Works in Ubuntu 14.04 and just takes a little work to select the correct icon.
Thanks