Re: system-dependent variables
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:20:50PM EDT, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:56:43PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
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> Supported image formats: XPM PPM PNG JPEG
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> I remember that, that there in the pixmaps and icons directories out
> there weren't these .tiff images, or mayhap I'm wrong?
>
> And now, when there are these .tiff images, WPrefs can't load these
> .tiff images, because wmaker Version 0.91.0 not support tiff images.
>
> What is the solution?
>
Well this _is_ the solution. Or maybe the explanation.
Your version of wmaker does not support the .tiff format.
And I am running wmaker on Debian sarge and it has .tiff support.
One thing that I don't understand is that your wmaker is 0.91.0 while
mine is 0.80.2.
As it happens I installed sarge when it was still in "testing". That
might explain why you have a different version.
But in any case these symptoms suggest that:
1. There's a bug in the current wmaker .deb .. or
2. apt didn't find .tiff libs on your system
I'm no wmaker or debian packaging expert but explanation #2 would
appear much likely.
But then shouldn't "apt" be able to fix your lib's .. ??
.. install .. upgrade them.. ?
Maybe not .. assuming that the problem only surfaced after you
installed the tarball version, I would assume that that is what broke
.tiff support.
Maybe it's as simple as the tiff lib's that are active on your system
are not compatible with wmaker 0.91.0.
Did you get any error messages when installing wmaker that might give
us a clue?
Are you able to open the .tiff's in the WPrefs.app directory using
something like:
$ display whatever.tiff
??
Not sure where to go from there -- ie. fixing the problem rather than
making things worse.
Thanks
cga
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