bug#43388: sxiv gif support is not working

[bdju]

September 14, 2020 1:36 AM, "Timotej Lazar"  wrote:
> I tried [1] and it works with `sxiv -a` here. What does `file
> picture.gif` say for your file?
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I had an mp4 named as
a gif! mpv could play it as-is, so I thought sxiv was to blame. Consider
this issue solved (or rather not a real bug).
Apologies for the delay, I've got my email filters set up wrong and
replies to my issues seem to skip my inbox. I've just searched my
bug-guix folder for my handle and found a lot of stuff now.

bug#43388: sxiv gif support is not working

[Timotej Lazar]

"bdju" via Bug reports for GNU Guix  [2020-09-13 
17:08:21-0500]:
> You should be able to run `sxiv -a filename.gif` to view gifs, but I
> just get an error:
> sxiv: /home/user/picture.gif: Error opening image

I tried [1] and it works with `sxiv -a` here. What does `file picture.gif` say 
for your file?

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Rotating_earth.gif

bug#43388: sxiv gif support is not working

[bdju]

You should be able to run `sxiv -a filename.gif` to view gifs, but I
just get an error:
sxiv: /home/user/picture.gif: Error opening image
sxiv: no more files to display, aborting

It works as expected on my friend's machine running Arch.