Re: system-dependent variables
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:18:50PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> > Supported image formats: XPM PPM PNG JPEG
> > 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.
> 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
> 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?
No, I didn't get any error messages when installing wmaker neither with
synaptic, nor with apt-get.
> Are you able to open the .tiff's in the WPrefs.app directory using
> something like:
> $ display whatever.tiff
Yes, I'm able to open with display (imagemagick) any image.tiff .
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