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libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.o missing

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Juanito:
..and a background image is probably not a priority...

PDP-8:
I don't need a background image either.  In fact, my setup looks exactly like the default TC Aterm.

When the dependency error first showed up, I thought that *maybe* I could fool it by using some sort of urxvt configuration foo to make it go away and not need the dependency.

in .Xdefaults:   (note - not a real urxvt option, just for example)


--- Code: ---URxvt.pixelBuffer: false
--- End code ---

I thought just adding something like this in .Xdefaults might work, but I'm not a urxvt zen master.  Not sure if something like this would work...

andyj:
I wouldn't use a background image either, not because of the bloat, but it's just distracting (which is why I disable the core wallpaper, sorry). For posterity, it would look something like this:



There isn't a way to not have the dependency on gdk-pixbuf2 optional because it's not a plugin, so I'll recompile it without the background image and Asian font support. That will leave it just under 400kb and without the gdk-pixbuf2 dependency.

PDP-8:
Thanks Andy!  Appreciate your efforts on this and other submissions.

I'm spoiled by TC though - where bloat is relative.   Is it ram-bloat, or disk-space bloat where multi-gigabyte storage devices are normal now. :)

For example, my 32 bit stick running Xvesa, loaded up with options from tc-install gui, and installing not much more than rxvt, and a single DejaVu ttf font to look good, along with the gdk-pixbuf2 dependency, results in only 70mb of ram use when seen with free-m.

And usually a little less when I clear the cache first.

Maybe I'm drifting OT, but personally I'm ok with that dependency if it turns out to be a splitting-hairs thing.

andyj:
For now I'm looking at the size of rxvt.tcz, but according to Apps the combined size of the dependencies is more than 5 MB without gdk-pixbuf2. I don't know how much more space would be required with gdk-pixbuf2 or how likely it would be that it will already be loaded if it is a common dependency, but I do know that gdk-pixbuf2 for the background image is the only purpose it serves so it falls into my personal definition of bloat.

On other notes, there are a few patches to rxvt-unicode that I am experimenting with, like 24-bit color which adds about 4k. Another is sixel support, which lets you display graphics directly in the terminal window:



In theory with a script like lsix you could "ls" thumbnails of images in the terminal. This works in xterm on Slackware. Unfortunately, the sixel code for rxvt seems to use a lot of RAM (> 100 MB) and has some other problems so it will have to wait until someone fixes it. Seeing that it has been three years since the last update, that doesn't seem likely anytime soon.

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