Figured it out - I enabled the png flag globally for gentoo and rebuilt world. It fixed the problem. Something between awesome and libpng wasn't correctly linked.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:59 PM, tenspd137 . <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all - following is more detailed data for what I am seeing. > > udiskie & > exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session awesome >> > ~/.awesome_stdout 2>> ~/.awesome_stderr > > .awesome_stdout has nothing, .awesome_stderr has: > > error while running function > stack traceback: > [C]: in function 'load_image' > /usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/ > surface.lua:39: in function > </usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/surface.lua:24> > (tail call): ? > (tail call): ? > /usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/wallpaper.lua:128: in function 'maximized' > /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua:76: in main chunk > error: /usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/surface.lua:39: Couldn't recognize > the image file format for file > '/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/background.png' > E: awesome: main:535: couldn't find any rc file > > the only rc file I should be using is in /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua - I > moved all the ones in my home directory out. I am pretty sure it > isn't in libpng, as I can open png files with other programs that use > it. > > Thanks. > > -C > > I am using the default rc files installed from the package manager -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
