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Bug 506336 - Nautilus uses random background color on each launch
Nautilus uses random background color on each launch
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 557660 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-12-29 22:18 UTC by Felix Neumann
Modified: 2010-06-02 11:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Felix Neumann 2007-12-29 22:18:34 UTC 
Since two or three days, each time I launch Nautilus it provides another background color in the file view. Changing the color via menu doesn't really help, because the colors seem to be mapped wrongly: currently for example, Nautilus started with a black background. Assinging a white background results in a black one, assigning a yellow background results in a blue one, and so on. Using the "reset" background randomizes it again.

Greetings and thanks for your time!
Felix Neumann
Comment 1 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2008-07-31 15:09:12 UTC 
Can you still reproduce this?
Comment 2 Felix Neumann 2008-07-31 15:21:48 UTC 
Well, I can't reproduce the colour thing anymore, but there's another bug connected with this one: I used a small, white png file as background image, which was a workaround for the colour bug. At that time - and this one IS still reproducable - I noticed, that switching to list view and then back to symbolic view caused the background to be really messy, just like it is displaying the contents of some obsolete part of memory (e.g. an old display buffer).
Comment 3 Michael Terry 2009-04-03 13:31:43 UTC 
I've seen this too (the random background color).  For me, it's not as reproducable as the original reporter suggests.  It only happens sometimes, but it happens (roughly 1 in 30?).

I've seen it on 2.22 and 2.24 (haven't played with 2.26 long enough).
Comment 4 Draycen DeCator 2010-02-06 23:46:04 UTC 
This bug has been reported on Ubuntu's Launchpad. In this case, the background color randomly changes whenever a folder is opened. I will link these two bugs. The system seeing this issue is Ubuntu 8.04. More information can be found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/517777
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-04-17 11:09:44 UTC 
*** Bug 557660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-04-17 11:13:13 UTC 
Never seen this bug happening on Fedora. Could it be ubuntu-specific? It seems to happen a lot on Dell Mini 10 systems.

Could you still reproduce the issue with Nautilus and GNOME 2.30?
Comment 7 Tobias Mueller 2010-06-02 11:17:33 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!