From 46e953e3bd435814eeca399dc81d6c859864d089 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: patrick96 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 08:36:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Describe libjsoncpp linkage issue --- Known-Issues.md | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Known-Issues.md b/Known-Issues.md index eab263d..c66eeb7 100644 --- a/Known-Issues.md +++ b/Known-Issues.md @@ -1,11 +1,21 @@ This page lists some of the issues one can encounter when using polybar. Either quirks in polybar's behaviour or actual bugs we haven't been able to fix yet. # Contents +- [Error While Loading Shared Libraries: libjsoncpp](#error-while-loading-shared-libraries-libjsoncpp) - [Setting Module Backgrounds when using Gradients](#setting-module-backgrounds-when-using-gradients) +## Error While Loading Shared Libraries: libjsoncpp +**Problem:** When you update the `jsoncpp` package, you might get the following error, when trying to run polybar: +``` +polybar: error while loading shared libraries: libjsoncpp.so.XX: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory +``` +This issue occurs because `jsoncpp` changes the name of their `.so` file every release and there really isn't anything we can do about that. + +**Fix:** You have to recompile polybar, so that it links to the new `.so` file. If you use precompiled binaries from a repository, you either have to compile polybar yourself or contact the packager so that they can recompile polybar and publish a package with proper linkage. Alternatively you can symlink the `libjsoncpp.so.XX` file from the error message to `libjsoncpp.so` (most likely in the `/usr/lib` directory). + ## Setting Module Backgrounds when using Gradients **Problem:** When you use a gradient as your polybar background, explicitly setting any module's background color to whatever you have set as `background-0`, either through the `-background` setting or the `%{B}` formatting tag, will not change the background color at all. **Workaround:** If you want to explicitly set a module's (or parts of its) background to `background-0`, use a color that is almost the same. E.g. if `background-0` is `#FFFF00` use `#FFFF01`. -This behaviour was introduced in [`#831`](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/pull/831), to resolve the issue described in [`#759`](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/issues/759). There is no way to resolve this without some major code changes to the renderer. \ No newline at end of file +This behaviour was introduced in [`#831`](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/pull/831), to resolve the issue described in [`#759`](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/issues/759). There is no way to resolve this without some major code changes to the renderer.