Re: [Lynx-dev] Minor XLOADIMAGE quirk

[Patrick]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:41:54 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Patrick wrote:
> 
[...]
> >
> > It's still minor.  I can work around it by defining a downloader,
> > external URL handler or something, but now I'm curious.
> 
> I can look into it (am not at home at the moment).

Okay.  Wherever you are, I hope it's a good place.

[...]
> >
> > Seems to be a unique problem, so where else in the source would
> > it explicitly point to xli?  Guess I could mess with that...
> 
> You might be able to see the issue in the trace-file (lynx -trace 
> -trace-mask=127, etc).

Thanks.  The compile time options show;

[...]
MIME_LIBDIR                         "/etc/"
[...]
and a few lines from the trace look like it's reading
from /etc/mailcap .

In /etc/mailcap ;
[...]
image/png; /usr/X11R6/bin/xli '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description=PNG 
Image; nametemplate=%s.png
image/x-ms-bmp; /usr/X11R6/bin/xli '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; 
description=BMP Image; nametemplate=%s.bmp
image/x-cmu-raster; /usr/X11R6/bin/xli '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; 
description=CMU-RasterFile Image; nametemplate=%s.ras
[...]

[Please excuse the long lines.]


And in the trace file;
[...]
./HTInit.c: 465: ProcessMailcapEntry Setting up conversion image/png : 
/usr/X11R6/bin/xli '%s'
./HTInit.c: 430: ProcessMailcapEntry: Found testcommand:test -n "$DISPLAY"
./HTInit.c: 452: ProcessMailcapEntry: Ignoring mailcap flag 'nametemplate'.
./HTInit.c: 853: PassesTest: Testing for XWINDOWS environment.
./HTInit.c: 855: PassesTest: Test passed!
./HTInit.c: 465: ProcessMailcapEntry Setting up conversion image/x-ms-bmp : 
/usr/X11R6/bin/xli '%s'
./HTInit.c: 430: ProcessMailcapEntry: Found testcommand:test -n "$DISPLAY"
./HTInit.c: 452: ProcessMailcapEntry: Ignoring mailcap flag 'nametemplate'.
./HTInit.c: 853: PassesTest: Testing for XWINDOWS environment.
./HTInit.c: 855: PassesTest: Test passed!
[...]

Just two of many tests, of course.  Those are the first two
entries that mention xli, in both files.

That seems more or less as it should be, except I don't see why
it's being so stubborn.  Are these values compiled in, or does it
re-read /etc/mailcap whenever it runs?  Changing it between
launches didn't seem to have any effect.

I'm running Xubuntu 6.10 , by the way -- can give version
numbers for whatever packages seem relevant.



Thanks,

Patrick.

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