Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

To: Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust
From: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 11:56:10 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 30788.1495306570@alto>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 May 2017 23:52:56 -0500." <[🔎] 6861cad5-eb7f-6036-745c-5e9609261650@gmail.com>

Michael Milliman wrote:

> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has
> ceased to be displayed.
[...]
> I have attempted to re-set the desktop
> background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop
> background on the desktop to no effect.

I don't know what caused your old wallpaper to go away, but the
inability to set it is tracked by

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862355

The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried).

mike

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