[SOLVED] Is there a trick to get webcollage working on Xscreensaver?
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However, its saving grace is that it can be run against images on local directories instead of images pulled randomly from the web, so it does have safer uses too.
My view is that if you're going to ship it, it might as well be a working version. There's really not much point shipping a broken one.
So I ran into the same issue with vidwhacker which uses some of the same functions to generate images as webcollage but it turns out the culprit is actually the shared-mime-info package: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261332
It seems that as of 0.51 someone added
Code:
<match value="#" type="string" offset="3"/>
to each image/x-portable-* entry in the file freedesktop.org.xml found in (/usr/share/mime/packages).
After I commented out those lines and ran
Code:
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
and then reverted the changes previously made to webcollage and vidwhacker they both generate images without errors.
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