Summary: | kde configure desktop, background, does not change background | ||
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Product: | kdesktop | Reporter: | Matthew Swaringen <xanas3712> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | David Faure <faure> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | finex, mcrandello+kde, sandro |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Matthew Swaringen
2006-07-26 01:53:30 UTC
Resolved, problem was with my configuration file for the background. It was somehow.. corrupted? I guess. Not sure how that happened and I never edited it manually so that's still kind of a bug but not the one reported here. The exact fix is to do the following in your home dir: mv .kde/share/config/kdesktoprc .kde/share/config/OLD-kdesktoprc And then kill the X-server. I don't know if it is absolutely required but after the above command I went ahead and used <ctrl><alt><backspace> to kill X and make sure it didn't try to rewrite it, then on the next login I was able to set the background normally. This happened immediately after upgrading from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4 so that may have had something to do with it. I hope this helps someone. Right, that's pretty much what I did, and I think it may have happened to me when upgrading as well (though it was 3.5.2 to 3.5.3, I fixed it before I upgraded to 3.5.4 and it didn't show up again). Just one more thing on this since it seems to be a favorite of mine :^) Apparently if you rename, move or remove the folder in which your current background is in it can trigger this bug. Same fix. I'm assuming that when I upgraded it also happened to change the location of my background and that's what caused it. Perhaps should be opened as this is something that could easily affect an end user who's doing some housecleaning in their home directory and the fix isn't very obvious. I've been working with someone on IRC about this bug and what we have in common is xinerama. Does every/anyone else who experienced this have (or has had in the past) xinerama enabled? I've been working with someone on IRC about this bug and what we have in common is xinerama. Does every/anyone else who experienced this have (or has had in the past) xinerama enabled? CC'ed the other responder. Will remove later if requested. I don't believe I was using xinerama at the time, it did seem to result from a fairly recent kde upgrade. I did have xinerama support built into kdes it was in my make.conf (I use gentoo), but I didn't have a 2 monitor setup at the time to make use of it. At least, I think that is correct, it's possible I am wrong because I had been using 2 monitors for awhile until I bought a bigger flat panel display this year. illogic-al wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail] Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained. |