Error using fbsetbg, FLuxbox
 

Hey all,

Another question from another newbie. This one has me puzzled though. I am having trouble...get ready...setting my background. In the past I have been able to do this just fine but not today. I have emerged/installed feh but when I try to use the command: fbsetbg -f <file location> I get the following error: Any ideas? Am I doing something ridiculously stupid?

Appreciate your help,

Zac

You're missing xmessage. Search your package manager for it (xorg-apps is the package is *should* be in)

That's what thought as well but the command revealed no xorg-apps and when I simply tried there was no corresponding package.

still stumped...

Zac

Ehh, jeez...typo.

Try emerge x11-apps...sorry.

http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-apps/xmessage

alight that worked...kind of. the x message part of the error is gone but I received an error from xmessage:I ran it and:almost there I hope. Thanks again.

Zac

Did you compile fluxbox or are you using a precompiled version? If you compiled it yourself, you need to compile it with support for imlib.

well I emerged the latest version of imlib earlier today. I am not sure if I had to do anything else. I set imlib as a USE flag also. the actual package was imlib2 not sure if that makes a difference.

Sorry if that wasn't the most helpful thing in the world

Zac

Run this:

equery uses fluxbox

and tell me what that gives you. (equery is part of the gentoolkit package, so emerge gentoolkit if you get something like "bash: equery: command not found").

It said:thanks so much

Zac

Umm, is it working now? I've found that using Eterm's background setter works nice, but it might be linked to the one in fluxbox...I don't know.

Alright....So I looked in the folder /usr/lib/imlib2/loaders and found out that I just don't have jpeg support along with a couple of others. I tried running fbsetbg with a .bmp file and it worked fine. I can't seem to find the package with the rest of the loaders though. so that's where I am at now....

Zac

Oh...

tell me the output of

You might need to rebuild imlib2 with support for jpeg (duh...should've had you check that quite a while ago...my bad). If jpeg isn't highlighted (turned on), run this:

and that should fix it.

Working great. Thanks for all your help man, I can't thank you enough. Now on to my bigger problems Sound and Wireless internet. But those will need new posts.

Cheers,

Zac

:D

Glad I could help.

Thanks for help :D