On 2008-05-17 23:01, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
On 2008-05-17 22:36, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On F8 I used the package wp_tray (wallpaper tray) to change my
background at
fixed intervals, but on F9 that doesn't work anymore. What's more, I
also
can't change the background image using the System -> Preferences ->
Look
and Feel -> Appearance dialog, and also not using the command line
gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
/path/to/image.jpg
all of which used to work.
When I log in again (i.e. restart of X server and of the Gnome
environment)
the last image that was set as background appears as the new background.
Has anybody else seen this?
Even though I usually use the proprietary nVidia driver (172.08
Beta), it
also doesn't work with the open source nv driver, so it's not that.
Try turning off the xfs service. 'service xfs stop' on the command
line and do a ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X only (not reboot). If
that helps you, make sure you turn it off permanently on all runlevels
using the system-config-services tool. That cleared up many issues
like this for me due to a X-xfs bug causing many things not to start,
including nautilus.
If that doesn't help, I don't know what's up on your system.
/Mike
Thanks for the suggestion, but the xfs service was already off:
# service xfs status
xfs is stopped
# chkconfig --list xfs
xfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off
6:off
So that isn't it.
I just found out what *was* it. It's Nautilus. I don't use Nautilus to
draw my desktop, and then background images don't get changed. When I
change my preferences to use Nautilus to draw the desktop, the
background images do work.
This is different from F8 and before.
--
Sjoerd Mullender
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