iconbitmap does not work with ico file, gives "not defined" error-CodePudding

I can not set an icon (.ico file)

root.iconbitmap("stuff/icon.ico")

I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/kekx/Dokumente/VS/Shorty/shorty.py", line 213, in <module>
    root.iconbitmap("stuff/icon.ico")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/tkinter/__init__.py", line 2109, in wm_iconbitmap
    return self.tk.call('wm', 'iconbitmap', self._w, bitmap)
_tkinter.TclError: bitmap "stuff/icon.ico" not defined

My folder structure looks like this:

.
 -- shorty.py
 -- stuff
     -- icon.ico
     -- ...

When I start the script via terminal the same error occurs (of course I changed into the directory of the script)

Does anyone know what this can be?

I have also already tried:

root.iconbitmap(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))   "/stuff/icon.ico")

CodePudding user response：

You have to use iconphoto instead of iconbitmap on Linux/macOS systems, to try:

icon = tk.PhotoImage(file='/path/to/img.png')
root.iconphoto(True, icon)