Backdrops in .xpm format

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Rich,

You need to have either imlib or gdk-pixbuf installed (I think the
latter is preferred now).

Jasper

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:47:42 -0400
Neal Haslam <linuxer at ptd.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:31:46 -0700 (PDT)
> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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,
> There are two files that are not listed in your ldd output that are
> listed in mine.  In other words, my system has two additional files:
> 
> neal at CigarBox:~$ ldd `which xfce`
> 	libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x4002c000)
> 	libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 (0x4012b000)
> 
> Here's my ./configure statement that I use to build XFce:
> ./configure --enable-taskbar --with-data-dir=/usr/share/xfce
> --with-conf-dir=/etc/X11/xfce --with-locale-dir=/usr/share/locale
> 
> Except for the above statement, I use the defaults for everything
> else.
> 
> -- 
> Neal
> Registered Linux User #159445, Libranet Linux 2.0/ext3/XFce
> Athlon 800 MHz Desktop and Toshiba 5105 laptop. 
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