Favicons in Linux Made Easy
There are a couple of sites on the net (favicon.com and favicon.co.uk) where you can make your own Favicons. (See my other post for an explanation.) Well, I decided to try to do it myself, and using just two programs in about fifteen minutes, I had the thing done. The little gem png2ico is available for Linux and Windows.
A well-written tutorial about how to create and install Favicons describes a little program called png2ico that will turn your PNG graphic of 16×16 pixels (and/or 32×32 pixels) into a little Favicon. Incidentally, you can have icons of a specified color depth, though 16 is usually sufficient (32 can be hard on dial-up modem connections: remember, not everyone lives in Broadband America or Fatpipe Western Europe 
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So whip open the GIMP, create a new file of 16 pixels square, and have at it. The little program will do the rest. You have to compile it, but it’s as simple as typing “tar zxf png2ico-src-2002-12-08.tar.gz ; cd png2ico ; make” and you’ve got it!
Yes, yes I am still procrastinating.
