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Bug 126230 - Should not need nautilus to manage the background
Should not need nautilus to manage the background
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Background
2.4.x
Other Linux
: High normal
: ---
Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
: 129455 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-04 22:22 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Sebastien Bacher 2003-11-04 22:22:44 UTC 
This bug was originally reported in the debian BTS, for more info see the
details here :
http://bugs.debian.org/217859


To summarize:

* if "/apps/nautilus/preferences/background_set" key is set to true
gnome-settings-daemon use nautilus to set the background
* if the key is set to false, nautilus is not needed.

So if nautilus is removed and the key is set to true, the control-center
can't be used to change the  wallpaper anymore. 

The control-center should be able to manage the background even if nautilus
is not installed ...
Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2003-11-04 22:40:55 UTC 
Possible dupe of bug 95282, see the 2nd paragraph.
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2003-11-04 22:56:57 UTC 
I've seen this bug report, but I'm not sure of how the control-center
handles the background. What's the
"/apps/nautilus/preferences/background_set" for ? I've not found where
it's used in the sources with some greps ...

BTW to summarize : 
* 95282 : should not draw 2 times the background .. first time by
settings-daemon and then by nautilus.
* 126230: should not draw it 0 times .. but I don't understand how it
happens if 95282 is still open (settings-daemon should draw it).

So I think that 95282 is fixed, but create this bug. In fact the
setting-daemon looks on the gconf key and doesn't draw the desktop
because of the true value ... but nautilus is not installed .. so the
background is not displayed at all.
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2003-12-05 23:00:54 UTC 
Ok, no news on this bug for a month. Seems to be an annoying problem
for users (according to some comments on IRC/bug reports/mail on lists).
I'm increasing priority & severity to reflect that.
Comment 4 Jared Johnson 2003-12-31 17:57:13 UTC 
I've used gconf-editor and unset
/apps/nautilus/preferences/background_set, and the settings daemon
apparently still doesn't wish to set my background.  nautilus will
still do it faithfully for me, though; but I don't wish to start
nautilus, of course.  Happy will I be the day this bug is fixed :)
Comment 5 Nikolaus 2004-01-17 17:13:02 UTC 
I've the same problem here - background is not set by control-center,
no matter if nautilus is installed or not or what
/apps/nautilus/preferences/background_set is set to. 

Maybe someone can post a workaround that forces gnome-settings-daemon
to draw the background (src diff) until the bug is completely fixed?
Comment 6 Ross Burton 2004-01-19 11:53:35 UTC 
Interesting, I never saw this with G2.4 but now see it with G2.5.

I don't run nautilus on the desktop as my poor laptop doesn't have the
CPU power I'd like, with G2.4 the wallpaper was still drawn and now
with G2.5 all I get is black.
Comment 7 Andrew Sobala 2004-02-13 00:34:41 UTC 
*** Bug 129455 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Rodney Dawes 2004-03-11 13:01:32 UTC 
This seems to be fixed in current 2.5. Marking this as fixed for now,
and if it still occuring with control-center HEAD, please re-open.