Desktop background?

[andrewthomas]

Did anyone's desktop & gdm backgrounds get changed?

Mine never cleared from plymouth.

Here I was, happy that I didn't need to use --skip-broken

EDIT: I logged out and back in and the background is now black.

[vallimar]

It's probably because you installed the new gtk3 version. As usual, it breaks stuff since it changed api's again and other gnome bits need to be recompiled against it. They might already be done, haven't checked in a day or so. Downgrade and relog or try to update to freshest koji bits to see if that works.

[Raphos]

Hi,

I have the same problem with background. Right click with the mouse in the desktop do nothing.

And on top of that I don't have any icons shown on the desktop after login.

Toolbar at the top and the bottom of screen are ok.

If I run "nautilus" in a terminal, background and icons appears until I close the terminal.

[andrewthomas]

My background came back for about a month, but now I have none either. I will have to see what happens when I run nautilus from a terminal.

[infernosoft]

Why not just set nautilus to be a startup application?

[Raphos]

Yes that's a good idea.

I created a launcher in my toolbar with the command "nautilus" and start it manually. So when the bug will be fixed, I will see it at once.

[glennzo]

Interesting desktop behavior. Good thing rawhide is just a toy.

[Dangermouse]

Hi,

I have the same problem with background. Right click with the mouse in the desktop do nothing.

And on top of that I don't have any icons shown on the desktop after login.

Toolbar at the top and the bottom of screen are ok.

If I run "nautilus" in a terminal, background and icons appears until I close the terminal.
In theory this should bring them back and set them to appear by default.
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible true

[Raphos]

I ran the command as user and root gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible true but nothing change.

If I use gconf-editor and go to /apps/nautilus/desktop/ I can see the "volumes_visible" set as true.

On the other hand, keys "computer_icon_visible, home_icon_visible..." are missing. I added a new boolean key "trash_icon_visible" and set it as true but nothing appears on the desktop.

I saw that both gnome desktop are installed :
gnome-desktop.x86_64 2.32.0-4.fc15 @rawhide/14
gnome-desktop3.x86_64 2.91.3-1.fc15 @rawhide

When I restart or shutdown my computer, a message appears and tell me that "GNOME Settings Daemon" is still running.

Is this in relation with my desktop problems ?

[glennzo]

Raphos, you're describing my Rawhide installation to the letter. Are you standing behind me?

Since this is a toy for me I'm removing gnome-desktop.i686 and all dependencies. Let's see what happens. Nothing good will come of this.

Removed:
gnome-desktop.i686 0:2.32.0-4.fc15

Dependency Removed:
brasero-nautilus.i686 0:2.91.2-1.fc15 cheese.i686 1:2.32.0-1.fc14
cheese-libs.i686 1:2.32.0-1.fc14 deja-dup.i686 0:17.1-1.fc15
evince-nautilus.i686 0:2.91.2-2.fc15 evolution.i686 0:2.91.2-1.fc15
evolution-help.noarch 0:2.91.2-1.fc15 file-roller.i686 0:2.91.1-1.fc15
gnome-applets.i686 1:2.32.0-3.fc15 gnome-disk-utility.i686 0:2.32.1-1.fc15
gnome-panel.i686 0:2.32.0.2-2.fc14 gnome-user-share.i686 0:2.30.1-4.fc15
nautilus.i686 0:2.91.2-1.fc15 nautilus-extensions.i686 0:2.91.2-1.fc15

We all know what the result of that was. :eek:

[Raphos]

Hi,
Are you standing behind me?
I don't think so. unfortunately I've never been in Massachusetts ! But maybe one day...

I'll search at Red Hat Bugzilla if I'll find a open bug. If not I will create a new one for this problem.

[glennzo]

Well, this is, after all, Rawhide. One needs to expect things to go wrong. Personally, I'll just keep booting it and applying updates. Eventually it will all be sorted. I also am running it in VirtualBox so if it really goes south I'll just blow it away and reinstall. Just a toy at this point in time.

[Raphos]

Ok.

That's the first time that I've installed a Rawhide.

I've search on Bugzilla, there is a bug open here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632058

[glennzo]

Here's the newest from my Rawhide installation. If I boot the system to runlevel 3, log in as glenn and run startx my log in is successful. However, I have only a plain blue desktop background and no desktop icons If I use the ATL/F2 run dialog and type nautilus my desktop icons appear. The background doesn't change.

If I boot normally, by pressing enter on a boot menu selection, then the system comes up with black screen and the greeter. The greeter shows the host name and the Fedora icon. Nothing else. There is nothing for me to select that would allow me to log in.

I do have SSH access to the box.

[glenn@fedora15 ~>$ dmesg | grep -i failed
[ 0.043999] NMI watchdog failed to create perf event on cpu0: fffffffe
[ 9.501468] systemd-sysctl[340]: Failed to write '0' to '/proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-ip6tables': No such file or directory
[ 9.638396] systemd-sysctl[340]: Failed to write '0' to '/proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables': No such file or directory
[ 9.756984] systemd-sysctl[340]: Failed to write '0' to '/proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-arptables': No such file or directory
[ 13.503870] microcode: CPU0: update failed (for patch_level=0x1000083)
[ 16.837743] systemd-tmpfiles[622]: Failed to insert item /var/run/console: File exists
[ 16.868982] systemd-tmpfiles[622]: Failed to insert item /var/run/utmp: File exists
[ 16.877664] systemd-tmpfiles[622]: Failed to insert item /var/log/wtmp: File exists
[ 16.920054] systemd-tmpfiles[622]: Failed to insert item /var/log/btmp: File exists
[ 17.041902] systemd[1]: Unit systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service entered failed state.
[ 27.551747] systemd[1]: Unit readahead-collect.service entered failed state.

[tox]

you can change the background by going into controil-center and then to background anclick on the Drop down menu thingy on the bottom of backgrounds ang change it to either "center" or " Fill Entire screen" and then change you background

---------- Post added at 11:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 AM ----------

dont ask me how to change the Theme.

[glennzo]

The point is that there is no background. I would assume that there would be one and that the lack of may be the result of the larger issue.

[tox]

The point is that there is no background. I would assume that there would be one and that the lack of may be the result of the larger issue.

as you said Glenn,, its Rawhide. i dont think there is a "set in" Background for a rawhide release. untill maybe official Alpha and or official beta. the user can always change the background to suit there own needs/wants

i would think the Developers main concern at the moment is getting GTK+3 right and Gnome3 Apps right before they tackle with getting a Background in

[NBZ]

@glennzo, have you got gnome-themes-standard installed? That fixed another issue for me and game me the stripy background too.