please help: xv on FC6 x86_64 won't set root window

[William W. Austin]

I have been running FC6 on an x86_64 box for several months and have a  
problem.

Normally I have a script which cd's to an image directory hierarchy and  
starts xv with a visual schnauzer to display the thumbnails.  Then I  
pick out my current favorite, send it to the root screen and exit.

However under FC6, this no longer works - unless xv is brought up with  
the "-root" option, when you bring up the "xv controls" box, everything  
except window is greyed out and cannot be selected.  (If you use the  
'-root' option then it works as expected, and all root options are  
selectable.

Up through FC5 on x86, this worked fine, but I got the x86_64 box only  
a few days before I moved to FC6, and I don't remember whether I ever  
tried xv under FC5 on it.

Does anyone have any suggestions on this one?  I have redone the build  
for x86_64 (same problem remains) and none of the x86 versions work  
correctly on this either.  It is not a permissions problem, because the  
same thing occurs for root as well as for my normal login.

I went through the code, and nothing obvious popped out at me, so any  
suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated.  (It's minor, I know  
- but small things tend to sit there and annoy me until I do something  
about them...)

The options +/-noresetroot don't seem to have any affect, and of course  
the +root option does not help at all.

FWIW, I did try reading the manuals and all the other docs - all with  
not luck. :-(

I realize that xv doesn't appear to have been maintained for several  
years (that I can tell, anyway), and I have tried other programs.  If  
anyone knows of another image-manager/manipulator which can use the  
.xvpic directory thumbnails (or has a similar capability) I'd be glad  
to try it and possibly switch.  I have tried a few, but with an  
astronomy image collection of > 10 GB, I don't really like the programs  
which generate the thumbnails on the fly - they take far too long  
overall.

Thanks,
- Bill
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william w. austin                               waustin at speakeasy.net
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