Bug 221054

Summary:	No picture loaded for desktop slideshow
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Josef <lists>
Component:	wallpaper-image	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	asraniel, notmart, PTrenholme, ronnybrendel, thelwyn
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.5 and older
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Josef 2010-01-03 03:17:28 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

No background is shown after login when Wallpaper Type is set to Slideshow, it's just blue. If I open Desktop Settings and click OK, without changing any of the settings, a background picture is loaded.

Comment 1 Marco Martin 2010-01-06 15:32:10 UTC

it does this regardless what folder is chosen for the slideshow?

Comment 2 Josef 2010-01-11 16:02:19 UTC

It seems so. 
I tried with the default ('/usr/share/wallpapers') as well as directories in my home dir, one with only wallpapers in sub directories and one with no sub directories. It's the same problem each time. 

I am using different activities for each desktop, and it seems that a wallpaper is always loaded for one of my four activities.

Comment 3 Peter C. Trenholme 2010-06-08 03:42:07 UTC

I have a similar problem on Fedora 13, using KDE 4.4.3:

I have six workspaces defined, with "slideshow" running on each of them, changing each minute. Each "slideshow" is pointing to /Wallpapers as it's image directory. That directory contains about 500 jpeg and png images. (The default directory has been removed.)

I'm using KDM 4.4.3-1 as the window manager, not the Fedora default GNOME.

When the KDE session is opened, all the workspaces except the first one have no wallpaper displayed. If I right-click on one of the blank workspaces and select the "Next Wallpaper Image" menu item, the slideshow starts running.

Not that having the image displayed on each workspace being different from the image on any other workspace is VERY GOOD and MUCH APPRECIATED. Please don't change that part of the app.

Comment 4 Peter C. Trenholme 2010-06-08 03:48:24 UTC

The first word of the last paragraph in my description in #3 above, should have been NOTE, not NOT.

Sorry if it confused anyone.

Comment 5 Kolia 2011-12-03 17:19:58 UTC

I can't reproduce this bug with KDE 4.7.3 Can you try again with a more recent version? Feel free to reopen if still valid :)

Comment 6 Kolia 2011-12-03 17:22:53 UTC

*** Bug 247210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-05-16 11:38:26 UTC

Closing based on comment #6. Please feel free to reopen if you can reproduce this with KDE 4.8.3 or later.