On Sun, Nov 01, 2026 at 12:11:12PM -0700, David Raymond wrote: > Dear Antoine, > > I now have shotwell working satisfactorily after following your advice, but > in the process I > discovered (the hard way!) that shotwell crashes without certain adwaita > fonts packages being > installed. This crash only occurs when it is trying to report another error. > > Here are the packages having to do with adwaita in 7.9: > > adwaita-fonts-- > adwaita-icon-theme-- > adwaita-icon-theme-legacy-- > adwaita-qt-- > adwaita-qt6-- > > I didn't know which ones were needed, so I loaded them all and the adaita > problem went away. > Shotwell then reported the original problem, which I then fixed (max > openfiles too small). > > It seems to me that the needed adwaita packages should be included as part > of shotwell's > dependencies. It would be easy to overlook this, as the problem doesn't > manifest itself until > some other problem needs to be reported. It may be that if using Gnome or > something similar, > these packages might already be loaded, thus hiding the problem. However, I > use i3, which is > pretty bare bones. > > Thanks for your help!
Hi David. I just tested current on an empty installation with fvwm only and shotwell works fine. So I guess the newer version in current fixed this. Thanks. -- Antoine
