Hi,

Help! I am running Slack 8.0 and its default kde. Version 2.1.2
of Konqueror refuses to display images with the extension
.jpg. It is probably very simple to fix but I cannot figure it out.
It is driving me nuts since my other browser (Netscape, for
example) can display it without any problems. Does anyone
know how to fix this?

Thanks,

I am running 8.1 with Konq 3.0.1. But from the Settings menu item at the top select "Configure Konqueror".

Click on the Konq Browser Icon, and on the first screen, is the option enabled to "automatically load images"? If it is not X'ed then click and then apply.

See if that enables your images.

Excalibur,
I have the setup you indicated. I finally got an error message that I had never seen before:
it is a Flash player from Micromedia that I am missing. This happens only in konqueror when
I try to open the washington post main web page whcih usually has a photo. I have no
problems with mozilla, or galeon, or netscape (although for netscape the fonts are really bad).
Anyway, thanks for your feedback. When I checked the micromedia web site, it appears that my
system does not qualify for a flash player. I have a Pentium 166 with 128 mb of ram and plenty of
hard drive space. Oh well, I guess I can do w/o that one site in konqueror for now.

I think I can fairly safely state that the Macromedia Flash player is not required to display JPEG images in any browser. Personally, I am an Opera user and that thing causes my system to hang so I delete it after Slack is installed. I am fairly sure that is what is at least. Since I deleted it I can't go back and verify it. I think it is installed as a netscape plugin. I am not sure why anybody would want it to start with.

I brought up the Washington Post web site and in Konq it displayed fine for me. All graphics and photos, etc. It was interesting though, I also brought it up in Opera, and the layout was the same, the advertising blocks were different though as I would expect, but the main photos were different as well. Multiple refreshes and several photos were displayed. So I have to assume it was written that way. I also got a pop twice. But I concluded it was not from the web page but that It was from the advertising block. Your macromedia flash message may also be coming from the advertising block. Since that can change any second, and on any refresh, and the content is totally uncontrolled and unpredictable it is impossible to deal with it. It is beyond me why they would want to include it on their main web page.

If you haven't solved your problem though, can you display other type of images? Like gif's? I would highly suspect a corrupted library or a missing link. I suppose if a library was updated to a newer version it might overwrite the old symlink to the new library that Konq was not written for. You might want to review the libraries in /opt/kde/lib and see if anything has any great date differences. For instance, mine for Slack 8.1 all look like they are from May/June 2002. Yours should be back in 2001 I would think because Slack 8.0 was released July 2001.

Perhaps it will help locate the problem.

Excalibur,

I did check the directory /opt/kde/lib to see the date range for the libraries but they are ok in
the range that you indicated above. I want to point out that the problem is with .jpg images.
This is not the same as .jpeg images. Konqueror refuses to show the images with a .jpg extension.
I even tried to install a player suggested by Micromedia but did not work, if fact, it broke a lot
of things but I undid the damage. I do not want to upgrade kde since I am in Slack 8.0 and think
that this problem in konqueror is just a pigly thing. Anyway, it sounds like no one else has seen
this problem. I'll continue troubleshooting....

Well then, if it can display .jpeg and not .jpg then it sounds more like a file association problem. Suggest in Konq, select "settings" from the main menu. Now select File Associations icon. There will be a list on the right. Expand the "image" section and click on the jpeg entry. Now on the right it will show a box with a list called "Filename Patterns". See if the *.jpg is in the list. Actually mine has two, *.jpg and *.JPG. If it is missing then use the "Add" button to add them in the list. Perhaps that might help. I would think it has more to do with the File Manager stuff myself than web browsing.