RE: XpmOpenFailed

[da S. J. <Joe...@em...>]

Sorry for the delay, I've been away for a little while ...

In reply to Gert, I was (still am;-) using 1.0.9-2.

In reply to Mathias, I use the "blue plastic" theme, although I
think I tried some other themes, without effect.

I don't believe the XPM file was broken/corrupted at any point. It
worked fine with the "default" compilation, but not "gnome".

I used the standard "gnome" distribution, since I'm too new
to Linux to be playing around doing my own compilations.

Anyway, as I said earlier, I'm not fussed. I don't care to use
bloated XPM images anyway. BTW, I use Jih-Shin Ho's
"Display V1.90t5" (DOS) to convert files between JPG and
XPM formats (or others). OK, so this program has a lousy
user interface, but I'm used to it and it has plenty of features.

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mathias Hasselmann [SMTP:mat...@gm...]
> Sent:	Saturday, August 17, 2002 12:40 AM
> To:	'ice...@li...'
> Subject:	Re: XpmOpenFailed
> 
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Gert Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> > da Silva, Joe wrote:
> > 
> > > that this supported JPG images. After doing this I found that the
> > > XPM background image no longer worked. This is simply an
> > 
> > Well, a friend of me used to have a xpm-background-image, too. After 
> > compiling icewm1.0.2 with imlib support the images were still displayed 
> > correctly. Nevertheless he converted the images to jpg to save space.
> > 
> > Did you try this with a recent version of the imlib and/or icewm?
> 
> 	Ok, so let me join this discussion. The error message descibed by 
> Joe occures exactly if libXpm failes to parse a XPM image (the message is 
> generated by libXpm). So the conclusion is: If libXpm -- the reference 
> implementation of a XPM loaders failes to parse an image the image file is
> 
> damaged. Which theme is affected?
> 
> 	About .xpm vs. the rest of the world: Main advantage of having
> background images in another format than .xpm is to safe diskspace and
> startup time. So .xpm is bad for background images and since it doesn't 
> support an alpha channel it's a bad choice for icon files. But since you 
> can fine tune .xpm file with vi it's a really good choice for window 
> decorations.
> 
> Ciao,
> Mathias
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