Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib window icon

>>>>> "Frederic" == Frederic Back <fre...@gm...> writes:

    Frederic> Hello, I'm developing a plugin in pygtk, which
    Frederic> indirectly (via networkx) uses matplotlib to display
    Frederic> graphs.

    Frederic> Now, I have the following problem: When I import pylab,
    Frederic> my window icon (the small icon in the window decoration)
    Frederic> gets replaced by the matplotlib icon. I pasted a sample
    Frederic> script below to illustrate.

    Frederic> This is amazingly annoying for me since I am merely
    Frederic> writing a plugin for an existing application and cannot
    Frederic> simply replace the original window icon.

    Frederic> Is there any way to supress this behaviour?

You can comment out the code in backends/backend_gtk.py

try:
    gtk.window_set_default_icon_from_file (
        os.path.join (matplotlib.rcParams['datapath'], 'matplotlib.svg'))
except:
    verbose.report('Could not load matplotlib icon: %s' % sys.exc_info()[1])


or physically remove the icon in which case you'll just get a report
that it is missing.  

You can also set the icon yourself after import matplotlib/backend_gtk
using the same code.