anything special about a recent update or something in Eterm that brakes
Esetroot's ability to load png files?

Thanks in advance.

examples:
$ Esetroot gentoo_rust.jpg
result: the background is successfully set.
$ qiv blackbx.png
result: the image displays.
$ Esetroot blackbx.png
Esetroot: Unable to load image file "blackbx.png".
result: no new root image.

Here is some extra info that may help:
# uname -a
Linux laptop 2.4.26-gentoo-r6 #2 Fri Dec 17 14:10:53 GMT 2004 i686 AMD
Athlon(tm) XP Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

/etc/make.conf USE flags:
USE="alsa userlocales -kde -gnome dvd cdrom -arts"

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