Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am 2005-06-03 07:33:49, schrieb Mark A. Nicolosi: > > Hi, > >=20 > > I'm trying to get fvwm-root to use an image piped to it. I thought if I > > used /dev/stdin as the filename it would work. It doesn't. I'm using > > this command: > >=20 > > $ convert file.jpg png:/dev/stdout | fvwm-root -r /dev/stdin > >=20 > > This is what I get: > > [fvwm-root] failed to load image file '/proc/self/fd/0' > >=20 > > /dev/stdin being a symlink isn't the problem. I checked to see if > > fvwm-root decides if the file is a png or xpm by extension or content. > > It decides by content (ie I copied file.png to file and tried it). > >=20 > > Is this a bug? Is there a way around it? I guess I could use temporary > > files, but that ugly... > > And if you use > > convert file.jpg png:/dev/stdout | fvwm-root -r - > > which is the standard way to tell a program STDIN is used.
That's a convention. A convention that fvwm-root doesn't use. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
