fluxbox background setting [SOLVED]

apiaio · Guru Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 417

Hi there.
I have read some threads about it but no one could solve my problem. Trying set the background using xterm I can see errors:

SiberianSniper · Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 9:45 pm Post subject:

Do you have media-gfx/feh installed? fbsetbg often doesn't work without it.

apiaio · Guru Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 417

Yes.I do.

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 5:51 am Post subject:

It's been years since I last used Gentoo but I seem remember that "String to FontSet" warning being annoying but not really affecting anything.

Just to ask an obvious question, can you view the image file in question in your browser or any other program capable of displaying a jpeg file?

If not on your Gentoo box, how about on another machine?

apiaio · Guru Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 417

I can see the picture in my browser. It is new installation and up to now I have installed only gqview and it does not see .jpg files. Should I install something?

i92guboj · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:42 am Post subject:

You should check the USE flags for gdk-pixbuf and imlib (don't know what the g* stuff use to load images nowadays). You are probably missing the jpeg support in one or both of these. You probably should just set USE="jpeg png" globally and then "emerge -auDvN world" and won't have to worry about this again.

apiaio · Guru Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 417

Thanks. USE flags solved problem.