Re: grey screen?

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Nils Jeppe wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Gleef wrote:
> 
> > I started GNOME with session management, why am I just getting this grey
> > screen (no panel, nothing)? 
> 
> I did get this to work... I am not quite sure how, but I did. ut you
> might want to add that the first time you start gnome after a complete
> delete of the config files, it'll take a bit to come up.
> 
> > Make sure you have a working version of libpng other than 1.0.2, make
> > sure your programs are finding the right version of libpng (eg. "ldd
> 
> I only have 1.0.3, no others (i am pretty sure I deleted all remaining
> files).
> 
> > panel").  If that doesn't work, I've found that it happens on one of
> > my systems if I use any optimization on gmodule or imlib.  Try
> > recompiling glib and imlib with no optimization, and see if that fixes
> > it.
> 
> panel doesn't directly link to libpng it seems?

My bad.  I forgot, the reason that PNG's with Imlib is so fussy (on my
machine, anyway) is that Imlib loads it's PNG code through gmodule (which
gets screwed up when I use optimization on my compiler).  Libraries loaded
through gmodule don't show up on ldd (since they're linked dynamically at
runtime).

In the source tree, go to imlib/Imlib/TEST and imlib/gdk_imlib/TEST.  They
both have files called TEST.c, and scripts called COMPILE.  If you use
COMPILE to make the test commands, and run them on a known PNG file, you
can see what's going on.  The gdk_imlib version is what GNOME uses, and
it's the one which uses gmodule.  The Imlib version does not use gmodule.
If neither works, your problem is with the png library.  If Imlib works
but not gdk_imlib, you've got gmodule problems.

Best of Luck,
-Gleef