Re: GTK can't load images
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 06:58:56PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-11-11 at 17:57, mmDebMail2020@marwedels.de wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 11 November 2020 07:06:31 The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> >> At a glance, this doesn't look like it means the program thinks the
> >> file isn't present, but that it thinks the file is in an invalid
> >> format.
> >
> >> Have you confirmed that this file is in fact a valid PNG, and can
> >> be opened and displayed correctly?
> >
> > data=data@entry=0x555555c9120c "\211PNG\r\n\032\n"
>
> Where does this come from? I don't recognize it at a glance.
>
> > I think is clearly png. Moreover ristrettro stopped to display all
> > images I have tested so far.
>
> I've never heard of 'ristrettro' before, and I don't find it mentioned
> with 'apt-cache search'. A few of the Google results for that search
> term look like they may be related, but don't seem helpful in finding
> out what it actually is.
>
> What I was thinking of as a way to confirm whether this is a PNG is to
> A: first check e.g. the output of 'file' on the file, and then B: open
> it in an image viewer which can handle PNGs and is known working, maybe
> even one on a different computer.
>
> >> $ grep .-debug /etc/apt/sources.list
> >> #deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ stable-debug main non-free contrib
> >
> > Thanks, I never knew about those repositories, this made debugging
> > easier :)
>
> They're a comparatively recent addition to Debian; the idea as I
> understand it is to both split out the debug-symbols packages so that
> people who don't care about them don't need to have them show up in
> package searches, and make it practical to have such packages be
> autogenerated for all relevant packages rather than only existing if the
> maintainer set things up to specifically generate one.
>
Ristretto (no r before the final o) is an image viewer. It's in debian main
Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers
Homepage: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/start
Cheers,
Don MacDougall
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