Bug 378693 - Activities are listed with a black background although wallpaper is set
Summary: Activities are listed with a black background although wallpaper is set
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Activity Switcher sidebar (show other bugs)
Version: 5.8.5
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Ivan Čukić
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Reported: 2017-04-12 13:17 UTC by Svenn-Arne Dragly
Modified: 2022-10-16 02:46 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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The attachment shows the activity and part of the default background. As can be seen, the activity is listed with a black background. (37.10 KB, image/png)
2017-04-12 13:17 UTC, Svenn-Arne Dragly 		Details
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Description Svenn-Arne Dragly 2017-04-12 13:17:39 UTC 
Created attachment 104987 [details]
The attachment shows the activity and part of the default background. As can be seen, the activity is listed with a black background.

In the Activities list (Meta+Q), new activities are shown with a black background although the desktop wallpaper is the default wallpaper. Changing the wallpaper to any other picture (or even selecting the default) fixes the issue. 

Considering that the default wallpaper is not listed as selected when changing it for the first time makes it seem likely that the wallpaper is not properly registered in both the Desktop settings and Activities view.

I am running vanilla Ubuntu with KDE Plasma 5.8.5 from the backports PPA by installing kubuntu-desktop.
Comment 1 Alexander Mentyu 2017-08-27 14:36:01 UTC 
Can confirm this bug in:

Distribution: KDE neon Developer Edition Unstable Branches
KDE Plasma Version: 5.10.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.37.0
Qt Version: 5.9.1
Kernel Version: 4.10.0-32-generic
Comment 2 Ivan Čukić 2017-09-03 11:23:00 UTC 
Confirmed. If the wallpaper is not changed, but left to be the default one, the configuration file will not contain any info about it and the switcher will not be able to load it.
Comment 3 postix 2020-07-25 12:29:28 UTC 
I can still confirm it on 

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.73.0
Qt Version: 5.15.0

Creating a new activity results in having a black background / no wallpaper for it by default.
Comment 4 ]\/[ ]\/[ ]_ 1357 2022-10-16 02:46:59 UTC 
Same bug on Plasma 5.26
Operating System: KDE neon 5.26
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6