xfdesktop woes

[David Mohr]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar at i-tech.si> wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 04:29, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
>>>> - can not use my custom JPG file as desktop background as I used to -
>>>> stock files seem to work just fine, FWIW they are PNG though
>>> As Christoph mentioned earlier, this might be related to the
>>> dependencies GTK+ was build with. GTK+ (and thus all Xfce apps) uses
>>> GdkPixbuf to load images. GdkPixbuf is part of GTK+ and ships loaders
>>> for several image formats that are enabled/disabled depending on the
>>> libraries that are present at build time. So you might want to
>>> recompile GTK+ with JPEG support. This doesn't sound like a problem
>>> with xfdesktop itself.
>>
>> Especially if this guy is on Gentoo like I believe he stated -- there
>> was recently a move from the years-long-stable libjpeg6 to libjpeg7.
>> Likely the OP just didn't properly rebuild all reverse-dependencies.
>>
>
> After adding jpeg2k support and rebuilding gtk+ I can load JPG files as
> desktop images too.

Just for completeness' sake, jpeg2k is a completely different file
format and has nothing to do with the regular jpeg images that I
assume you use as background images. So the fix would have been
recompiling, as Brian explained already..

~David