On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >>> On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is >>> not able to display the former desktop wallpaper or even the >>> wallpapers packaged with the install. >> >> Did you upgrade to jpeg-7 recently? > > Sure did... at the same time as the other stuff Sep 13. > > A couple of quick googles didn't enlighten me as to what difference > that might make. > > The wall paper I had up before updating is a *.png file. > > `equery files jpeg-7' turned up a /usr/share/doc/jpeg-7/usage.txt.bz2 > > Again... not much enlightenment there.
In short, jpeg-7 breaks some things :) It's not compatible with previous versions and while most programs don't have a problem with that, some do. I'm not sure exactly what causes XFCE to break, but gtk+ is broken with jpeg-7 and causes other apps like gqview to be screwed up as well. There's a patch on the gtk+ bugzilla that fixes it. If XFCE uses gtk+ that might be the cause. Recompiling all of XFCE might fix it, too.
