Re: x-face problems

["Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Excerpts from mail: (25-Feb-98) Re: x-face problems by John H Palmieri

John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@nd.edu> writes:
John> I just realized that I haven't been seeing any x-faces today.

Francois Felix Ingrand <felix@laas.fr> writes:
Felix> I had a smimilar pb a while ago. It appeared that an hook was cleaning
Felix> up headers before X-Face where display. Prepending instead of
Felix> appending fixed the pb.
Felix> 
Felix> (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-display-x-face t)
Felix> 
Felix> Note the t...

John> I tried adding the t, but it didn't help.  Maybe I should back up:
John> when I first set up gnus, I tried having x-faces displayed, but had
John> problems until I put in the lines:
John>
John> (make-variable-buffer-local 'shell-file-name)))
John> (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 
John>           '(lambda ()
John>              (setq shell-file-name "/bin/sh")))))
John>
John> Now, for instance, if I comment these out, when I read a message with
John> an X-Face header, xv starts up and tells me
John>
John> File '/tmp/xva003Gl' contains no data.  (Zero length file.)
John>
John> As of a day or two ago, if I don't comment these lines out, then
John> nothing seems to happen when I read a message with an X-Face header.
John> So I ask again, how can I figure out what's going wrong?

Sorry, I don't know how to figure out what's going wrong in your situation.
(Did you change your shell at all in the past few days?) But maybe it will be
of some help to you if I tell you what I use and know to work in my
configuration. My shell is tcsh, and the default gnus-article-x-face-command
is simply incompatible with csh-like shells, as you probably know since you
set shell-file-name to "/bin/sh" in gnus-article-display-hook. But instead of
doing what you do and changing shell-file-name, I instead change
gnus-article-x-face-command to be csh-compatible (in addition to specifying
the geometry for xv). Here's the elisp lines that I use:

(add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-display-x-face t)
(setq gnus-article-x-face-command "( echo '/* Width=48, Height=48 */'; uncompface; ) | icontopbm | xv -geometry +0+195 -quit -")

Later,
Ed