Bug 453518 - Wallpaper reverts to default after a restart when the wallpaper is set from an externally mounted (NTFS) drive.
Summary: Wallpaper reverts to default after a restart when the wallpaper is set from a...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 323151
Alias: None
Product: Plasma Workspace Wallpapers
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.24.5
Platform: Manjaro Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2022-05-07 19:06 UTC by Jinu
Modified: 2023-01-04 19:50 UTC (History)
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Description Jinu 2022-05-07 19:06:56 UTC 
SUMMARY
Wallpaper reverts to default wallpaper after a restart when the wallpaper is set from an externally mounted (NTFS) drive.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Desktop Folder Settings -> Add Image -> Select wallpaper from externally mounted (NTFS) drive -> Apply.
2. Restart system.
3. Wallpaper reverts to default wallpaper at the time of installation.

OBSERVED RESULT
Wallpaper reverts to default wallpaper at the time of installation.

EXPECTED RESULT
Wallpaper should be the same applied wallpaper before restart or shutdown even if the wallpaper resides on an externally mounted drive.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSION
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.93.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.15.30-xanmod1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080/PCIe/SSE2
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-05-09 17:06:53 UTC 
Do you have automount turned on? If not, then the external NTFS disk isn't automounting, so when Plasma starts and looks for the wallpaper, it isn't available yet.

If that's what's happening, you should be able to resolve the problem by either turning on automount, or copying the image to a location on a local disk, and then telling the wallpaper config window to look for it there.

This would be improved if we ever implement the "wallpaper cache" feature proposed in https://phabricator.kde.org/D26720.
Comment 2 Jinu 2022-05-12 22:24:52 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Do you have automount turned on? If not, then the external NTFS disk isn't
> automounting, so when Plasma starts and looks for the wallpaper, it isn't
> available yet.
> 
> If that's what's happening, you should be able to resolve the problem by
> either turning on automount, or copying the image to a location on a local
> disk, and then telling the wallpaper config window to look for it there.
> 
> This would be improved if we ever implement the "wallpaper cache" feature
> proposed in https://phabricator.kde.org/D26720.

Yes I have automount turned on but it still doesn't matter. No matter which drive I choose from, unless it's the root partition the wallpaper reverts to the default one.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-05-12 23:48:52 UTC 
Ok, that's probably plasma starts up before automounted disks have automounted yet. Then it would be Bug 441556.

Or, it could be Bug 389479 if the disks don't automount at all on login. Do they?
Comment 4 Jinu 2022-05-13 01:11:04 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> Ok, that's probably plasma starts up before automounted disks have
> automounted yet. Then it would be Bug 441556.
> 
> Or, it could be Bug 389479 if the disks don't automount at all on login. Do
> they?

The disks all autmount , no problem there.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2022-05-13 14:06:28 UTC 
Got it. Then it has to be Bug 441556.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 441556 ***
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2023-01-04 19:50:54 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 323151 ***