Re: x-face problems

[John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@nd.edu>]

Francois Felix Ingrand <felix@laas.fr> writes:

> John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@nd.edu> writes:
> 
> > GNU Emacs 20.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit), qgnus-0.32
> > 
> > I just realized that I haven't been seeing any x-faces today.
> > 
> > My questions:
> >   Has anything related to x-face handling changed in the recent
> > versions of gnus?
> 
> I had a smimilar pb a while ago. It appeared that an hook was cleaning up
> headers before X-Face where display. Prepending instead of appending fixed the
> pb. 
> 
> (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-display-x-face t)
> 
> Note the t...

I tried adding the t, but it didn't help.  Maybe I should back up:
when I first set up gnus, I tried having x-faces displayed, but had
problems until I put in the lines:

      (make-variable-buffer-local 'shell-file-name)))
      (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 
		'(lambda ()
		   (setq shell-file-name "/bin/sh")))))

Now, for instance, if I comment these out, when I read a message with
an X-Face header, xv starts up and tells me

  File '/tmp/xva003Gl' contains no data.  (Zero length file.)

As of a day or two ago, if I don't comment these lines out, then
nothing seems to happen when I read a message with an X-Face header.
So I ask again, how can I figure out what's going wrong?

By the way, I do have the same problem as David Goldberg (Re: [PB]
window configs / new frames): 

> On another note, does anyone else have trouble with Didier's messages
> having two x-face headers.  They caused emacs to core dump on me.
> Next time I'm going to run without a coredump size limit and submit a
> bug report, but I'm curious if I'm the only one.

-- 
John H. Palmieri, Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
Email: palmieri@member.ams.org
URL: http://www.nd.edu/~jpalmier/