xfdesktop woes

[Hinko Kocevar]

David Mohr wrote:
> 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..

You are right, I've removed the jpeg2k from the USE flags and recompiled
every package using jpeg library and I can still use the JPEG as
background. I needed to search for all the libs/apps depending on the
libjpeg6 and recompile, since the current JPEG library version is libjpeg7.

Thanks all!

Best regards,
Hinko

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