Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gconf
I've been using a cron job that wgets the latest Radar image for my area
from weather.com and then calls gconftool to set my background to this
image. The file name is always the same, and I have wget over-write the
previous image each time it downloads a new one. The gconftool call
doesn't actually change anything in the config, it just sets
"/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename" to the same filename. Up
until 2007-04-18, this was working fine, and the image would always
refresh after gconftool was called. But since then, it hasn't changed
the background image. I've already checked, and wget is working, the
image is current, but the one on the desktop is stale.
The only thing that has really changed is that on 2007-04-19 the
following packages were upgraded: libx11-dev, libx11-data, libx11-6. But
I don't think that necessarily had anything to do with it since they
were upgraded at 11am on that day, and gnome was still showing an image
from 2007-04-18 on the desktop. I imagine it would have to be something
that changed on 4/18, but I can't find anything.
Steps to reproduce:
> ls
foo.jpg bar.jpg
> gconftool --type=string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> `pwd`/foo.jpg #background is now foo.jpg
> mv bar.jpg foo.jpg
> gconftool --type=string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> `pwd`/foo.jpg #background is still of the old foo.jpg
It seems that gnome will only refresh the image if the actual filename
has changed, it would previously get a fresh copy of the image anytime
"/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename" was set.
** Affects: gconf (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Desktop Background Image doesn't refresh when calling gconftool
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108110
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