Backdrops in .xpm format

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Mark Welker wrote:

> I normally don't answer to this e-mail list. I just read and learn.
> 
> But,
> I don't understand why you want to convert a .jpg to a .xpm
> I tried it with gimp with a .jpg I have.
> It made the file size about 30 times bigger.
> The .jpg was 218 kb
> The .xpm was 6086 kb
> .jpg works for me with 3.8.18 as my backdrop.

  .jpg worked just fine through 3.7.4. As soon as I upgraded to the 3.8.x
series I could not use any jpeg graphic as a backdrop, only xpm. Do I want
to use them? Not really. But, as this thread points out, every time I try to
use the .jpg file, xfce's backdrop manager tells me I have an invalid file
format.

  Since I used them with xfce before we can probably assume that libjpg is
installed and functioning properly.

  Any libraries missing here?

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ ldd `which xfce`
	libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4001e000)
        libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x4002b000)
        libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x40142000)
        libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x40173000)
        libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x40177000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4019a000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4019e000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401aa000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4024e000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4026b000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40275000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4028c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Rich

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