On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:25:16PM -0800, Ben Sferrazza wrote:
> I've always had problems using PNG icons in FVWM, despite configuring
> make to support PNG on my Sun Solaris 2.7 system. Here's the error
> output to FvwmConsole.
>
>
> *FvwmConsole version 2.5.6
> [FVWM][GetIconFromFile]: <<ERROR>> Failed to load
> /lsi/home/bsferraz/bin/fvwm-icons/konsole.png
>
>
> The PNG file clearly exists there, and I've correctly added that
> directory to the ImagePath in my .fvwm2rc file and have no problems
> loading XPM pixmaps from that same directory.
>
> When I use fvwm-configure to check that I indeed built in PNG support, I
> get the following output.
>
>
> % fvwm-config --supports
> gettext
> gtk
> perllib
> png
> readline
> shape
> shm
> sm
> xpm
>
>
> So it appears that I've successfully added PNG support (using
> libpng-1.2.5), yet I cannot view the PNG icon in FVWM. I have no
> problems viewing the same PNG using GIMP, and when trying to load in
> other PNGs in FVWM, I get the same error.
>
> Are there other things I can do to nail down the cause of this problem?
> Are there other users using SPARC-based Solaris that can correctly
> load PNGs with FVWM?
Can you try a recent snapshot? Dorothy Robinson report a problem with
png on a solaris/sparc system (2002-11-28). The problem was fixed just
at 2.5.6 release time and I am not sure that the fix is in 2.5.6.
> Would using FvwmDebug help? For whatever reason
> when I try loading the FvwmDebug module in the resource file I'm not
> getting anything.
>
I do not think that FvwmDebug can help for this png problem.
Regards, Olivier
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Received on Wed Apr 16 2003 - 03:05:27 BST