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has caused the Debian Bug report #547397,
regarding gnome-settings-daemon: gnome-setting-daemon doesn't display wallpaper
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.26.1-2
Severity: normal
Hi,
I'm using Debian testing.
Yesterday I made a apt-get dist-upgrade that has upgraded
gnome-session/gnome-settings-daemon to 2.26.x version (previously I was in
2.22.x).
I use a .xsession script looking like:
gnome-settings-daemon &
cairo-dock &
conky &
metacity
To launch only metacity (not the whole gnome environment).
Before the yesterday upgrade, it worked like a charm but just after the
upgrade, gnome-setting-daemon doesn't display any wallpaper. The window and
icons look and feel is still here but no more wallpaper.
I tried using another wallpaper, same issue.
I tried using gnome (login on gdm using gnome session) and it works, I got the
wallpaper.
So it seems that the problem is only when using gnome-settings-daemon outside
gnome (without gnome-session).
I took a look inside gconf but I haven't found any properties around wallpaper.
Please, could you renable the support of wallpaper in gnome-settings-daemon
outside gnome ?
Is there any workaround by tuning gconf ?
Thanks,
Regards
JB
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.4-nanthrax (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii gconf2 2.26.2-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.82-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library
ii libgconf2-4 2.26.2-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2-11 2.26.1-1 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnomekbd3 2.26.0-1 GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10 0.10.24-1 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.24-1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxi6 2:1.2.1-2 X11 Input extension library
ii libxklavier12 3.9-1 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii libxxf86misc1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
gnome-settings-daemon recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii gnome-screensaver 2.26.1-2 GNOME screen saver and locker
ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.26.0-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii ratpoison [x-window-manager] 1.4.5-1 keyboard-only window manager
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.4+2 X server utilities
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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