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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange desktop happening following update world
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:15:16
Message-Id: 87ocp9jmtb.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange desktop happening following update world by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > In short, jpeg-7 breaks some things :) It's not compatible with
4 > previous versions and while most programs don't have a problem with
5 > that, some do.
6 >
7 > I'm not sure exactly what causes XFCE to break, but gtk+ is broken
8 > with jpeg-7 and causes other apps like gqview to be screwed up as
9 > well. There's a patch on the gtk+ bugzilla that fixes it. If XFCE uses
10 > gtk+ that might be the cause. Recompiling all of XFCE might fix it,
11 > too.
12
13 I see... thanks... I'm so lazy I've sort of gotten to liking no
14 background wallpaper... I imagine stuff will eventually start working
15 again with future updates... maybe I'll be ready for wallpaper again
16 by then.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange desktop happening following update world Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>