Solved: Re: no jpg support in xfce 3.8.18 on mandrake 8.2?

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Hi wolfgang,

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:23:07 +0200
wolfgang <GeneralP.Fault at gmx.net> wrote:

> In an older episode (Wednesday 21 August 2002 23:49), wolfgang wrote:
> > > i compiled and installed xfce-stable from cvs on mandrake 8.2
> > > xfce is unable to use jpg files as desktop backgrounds
> >
> > i downloaded and installed
> > xfce-3.8.14c-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > and that one supports jpg as backgrounds, strange.
> >
> > i want 3.8.18 with taskbar tho ;)
> >
> 
> solved the riddle by noticing an X error:
> ** WARNING **: Unable to load module: libpixbufloader-jpeg.so:
> libpixbufloader-jpeg.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
> *** WARNING ***: Cannot load image file
> /usr/local/share/xfce/backdrops/A-Little-Exercise.jpg
> 
> libpixbufloader-jpeg.so exists in /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/, but
> not in /usr/local/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders, where xfce apparently looks
> for it. so i fixed the problem with
>  ln -s /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so.1.0.0 
> /usr/local/lib/gd
> k-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so
> 
> wouldnt it be easier if ./configure would detect it there by itself?
> 

It's a gdkpixbuf problem, not xfce's. Can it be you have two versions
of gdk-pixbuf installed?

Jasper


> regards,
> wolfgang
> 
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