Re: Black PNG Files and Window Managers

["Ryan Nideffer" <spud lordofthe net>]

>Hi,
>
> I just compiled GNOME (all the latest sources) on this stock Debian 2.1
system.
>However, there are two nagging problems which are really annoying me:
>
>1. PNG files that apparently are supposed to have transparent backgrounds
do
>not, they have black ones. I don't know if this is a problem with libpng or
>something else, but GNOME is having a problem displaying PNGs properly.
This
>affects all the desktop icons, as well as almost everything on the panel.
Any
>insight as to what could be causing this would be appreciated.


Make sure you are using a version of libpng other than 1.0.2. Either 1.0.1
or 1.0.3 will work fine. Also, make sure you compiled zlib with the --shared
option.


>2. The "Window Manager" section in gnomecc won't load. Therefore, I can't
run
>only "gnome-session" in .xsession, I have to have:
> /usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenmnet &
> gnome-session
>for it to work. Again, any help on this would be great.
>
>Thanks,
>Evan
>
>
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