[SOLVED] fluxbox menu does not accept png icons

[jsfarinet]

Strangely, fluxbox in Salix does not accept png files as icons in the menu file - those within the <> brackets. Pretty much the same identical version of fluxbox on another machine does. This is according to what the fluxbox page says

"The <'icon'> field is always optional when shown below. If specified, the icon will be scaled down and displayed in the menu alongside the text label of the item. It must be in .xpm or .png format."

So, may be there is something in the general Salix settings that i should tweak?

[gapan]

No, the slackware fluxbox package is compiled without imlib2 support, which is needed for rendering png icons, as imlib2 is not part of slackware. Either stick with it, or install imlib2 and rebuild the fluxbox package the way you like.

[jsfarinet]

No, the slackware fluxbox package is compiled without imlib2 support, which is needed for rendering png icons, as imlib2 is not part of slackware. Either stick with it, or install imlib2 and rebuild the fluxbox package the way you like.

Ah i see, ok so far (no configuration error on my side).

[Atip]

Yes, the menu accepts only .xpm format icons.
I just change the ones needed from .png to .xpm

[jsfarinet]

No, the slackware fluxbox package is compiled without imlib2 support, which is needed for rendering png icons, as imlib2 is not part of slackware. Either stick with it, or install imlib2 and rebuild the fluxbox package the way you like.

Imlib2 is installed here. Now, i tried to rebuild fluxbox from source. But, doing make, i'm getting this error:

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g++: Fehler: @my_libs@: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
make[4]: *** [fluxbox] Fehler 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/uli/Downloads/fluxbox-1.3.5/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/uli/Downloads/fluxbox-1.3.5/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Fehler 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/uli/Downloads/fluxbox-1.3.5/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/uli/Downloads/fluxbox-1.3.5'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

Any ideas here?

TIA!

[gapan]

Are you trying to compile it manually? You should use the slackbuild to create a package.

[jsfarinet]

Are you trying to compile it manually? You should use the slackbuild to create a package.

Yes, it's a tarball i downloaded from the fluxbox site. Where do i get the slackbuild package? In gslapt i'll get the binary without imlib2 support, i guess ...

PS. The one i get from http://packages.slackware.com/?r=slackw ... i486-1.txz seems to have no options (no options at all) regard Imlib2 support.

[gapan]

Download all files from here: http://download.salixos.org/i486/slackw ... p/fluxbox/
put them in the same directory. And...

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chmod +x fluxbox.SlackBuild
fakeroot ./fluxbox.SlackBuild

and after it finishes look for the new package in your /tmp.

[jsfarinet]

Download all files from here: http://download.salixos.org/i486/slackw ... p/fluxbox/
put them in the same directory. And...

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chmod +x fluxbox.SlackBuild
fakeroot ./fluxbox.SlackBuild

and after it finishes look for the new package in your /tmp.

Thanks a lot for all that info. I followed your advice precisely, but unfortunately it ended up with the same error:

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g++: Fehler: @my_libs@: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
make[4]: *** [fluxbox] Fehler 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/fluxbox-1.3.5/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/fluxbox-1.3.5/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Fehler 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/fluxbox-1.3.5/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/fluxbox-1.3.5'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

What's that directory or file @my_libs@ whch is missing?

[laprjns]

mlib2 is installed here. Now, i tried to rebuild fluxbox from source. But, doing make, i'm getting this error:
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There is a bug in imlib2-config. See here. http://git.enlightenment.org/legacy/iml ... 5dde234b2d
The easiest way to fix it is to edit the file directly. Do the following:

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$ sudo geany /usr/bin/imlib2-config

This will open the file in geany for editing. Scroll down to line 49; it should look like this:

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echo $libdirs -lImlib2 @my_libs@

Delete the @my_libs@ text so that it looks like this:

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echo $libdirs -lImlib2

and then save the file and exit geany. Once this is done run the fluxbox.Slackbuild scrip again.

It worked here. I was able to reproduce your build error and then after making the change to the imlib2-config the fluxbox package built without problems. Don't know if the package works, but it does build.