On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:25:16PM -0800, Ben Sferrazza wrote:
> I've always had problems using PNG icons in FVWM, despite configuring 
> make to support PNG on my Sun Solaris 2.7 system.  Here's the error 
> output to FvwmConsole.
> 
> 
> *FvwmConsole version 2.5.6
> [FVWM][GetIconFromFile]: <<ERROR>> Failed to load 
> /lsi/home/bsferraz/bin/fvwm-icons/konsole.png
> 
> 
> The PNG file clearly exists there, and I've correctly added that 
> directory to the ImagePath in my .fvwm2rc file and have no problems 
> loading XPM pixmaps from that same directory.
> 
> When I use fvwm-configure to check that I indeed built in PNG support, I 
> get the following output.
> 
> 
> % fvwm-config --supports
> gettext
> gtk
> perllib
> png
> readline
> shape
> shm
> sm
> xpm
> 
> 
> So it appears that I've successfully added PNG support (using 
> libpng-1.2.5), yet I cannot view the PNG icon in FVWM.  I have no 
> problems viewing the same PNG using GIMP, and when trying to load in 
> other PNGs in FVWM, I get the same error.
> 
> Are there other things I can do to nail down the cause of this problem? 
>   Are there other users using SPARC-based Solaris that can correctly 
> load PNGs with FVWM?

Can you try a recent snapshot? Dorothy Robinson report a problem with
png on a solaris/sparc system (2002-11-28). The problem was fixed just
at 2.5.6 release time and I am not sure that the fix is in 2.5.6.

> Would using FvwmDebug help?  For whatever reason 
> when I try loading the FvwmDebug module in the resource file I'm not 
> getting anything.
> 

I do not think that FvwmDebug can help for this png problem.

Regards, Olivier
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