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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange desktop happening following update  world
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:35:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0909171435y45b587c4hcf7113e2669e0ae7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocp9jmtb.fsf@newsguy.com>

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In short, jpeg-7 breaks some things :) It's not compatible with
>> previous versions and while most programs don't have a problem with
>> that, some do.
>>
>> I'm not sure exactly what causes XFCE to break, but gtk+ is broken
>> with jpeg-7 and causes other apps like gqview to be screwed up as
>> well. There's a patch on the gtk+ bugzilla that fixes it. If XFCE uses
>> gtk+ that might be the cause. Recompiling all of XFCE might fix it,
>> too.
>
> I see... thanks... I'm so lazy I've sort of gotten to liking no
> background wallpaper... I imagine stuff will eventually start working
> again with future updates... maybe I'll be ready for wallpaper again
> by then.

I use XFCE on my laptop which I haven't used since jpeg-7 stuff came
down the pipe. I may try it again tonight and see if I can make the
problem go away. I'll let you know if I can find any solution.



      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-17 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-14 19:08 [gentoo-user] Strange desktop happening following update world Harry Putnam
2009-09-14 20:54 ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-14 20:55   ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-14 21:21     ` Mick
2009-09-15  1:06   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-09-15 16:55     ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-17 21:14       ` Harry Putnam
2009-09-17 21:35         ` Paul Hartman [this message]

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