Bug 241407

Summary:	After startup black background and desktop-activity selected (instead of folderview + background image)
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy>
Component:	activities	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, asraniel, chanika
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	messages emited during plasma start

Description Clemens Eisserer 2010-06-11 12:30:18 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

After updating from Beta-1 to Beta-2 plasma always starts in Desktop mode with a black background, instead of Folderview with a background image.

I can change is using the "Desktop Settings" Dialog, but those settings only last till the next start of plasma.
I would be happy to provide more information (config files, ...) to hunt that issue down.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Beat Wolf 2010-06-11 12:50:19 UTC

i think this is fixed in trunk

Comment 2 Clemens Eisserer 2010-06-11 13:20:45 UTC

Sure? I had quite the same problem with Beta1 and you also told me its fixed in trunk ;)

Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-06-11 19:37:06 UTC

if you open the activity manager (meta-q is the shortcut, but it's also in the desktop toolbox and context menus), do you see multiple activities listed? if so, are the other activities your old layouts? if you put a widget on the desktop, kquitapp plasma-desktop and start plasma-desktop again, does the widget remain or is it gone as well? etc..

Comment 4 Clemens Eisserer 2010-06-12 00:03:14 UTC

1. Yes I see multiple activities listed. I see: newspaper, folderview, desktop, search.

2. If I kwuittap plasma-desktop and restart it again, I get again a Desktop view, all applets I added are gone and the desktop background is missing.

I attached the output created during plasma-startup, maybe that contains some information.

Comment 5 Clemens Eisserer 2010-06-12 00:04:38 UTC

Created attachment 47917 [details]
messages emited during plasma start

Comment 6 Chani 2010-06-12 00:15:39 UTC

" Yes I see multiple activities listed. I see: newspaper, folderview, desktop,
search."

uh, you're looking at the 'new activity' menu inside the activity manager, instead of the list of existing activities below that. click one of those. after that, the beta2 bug won't affect you any more. :)

anyways, this is a duplicate, fixed already.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 238699 ***