Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust
On 05/20/2017 06:33 PM, Michael Milliman wrote:
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> On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
>> Michael Milliman wrote:
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>>> 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
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>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862355
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> This appears to be the same problem. I will be watching this bug report
> with interest!! It also seems to have been reported around the same
> time my system went belly-up, so it is probably an update that was
> installed. Thanks for the info, at least I know it isn't something that
> I botched up! :)
>
>> The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried).
>>
The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the background
image. This does work, however, it has to be done each time you log-in.
It is better than nothing. Upstream also appears to have a bug
reported on it, and they suggest installation of mate-desktop 16.2 with
caja 16.3, neither of which has made it to the Debian distribution as of
yet.
>> mike
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