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> patch
> 
> We lost a crucial piece of code at some point.

-sorry im a newbie at this, but how do i impliment this patch?

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> > Created an attachment (id=147620) [details] [review] [details] [review]
> > patch
> > 
> > We lost a crucial piece of code at some point.
> 
> -sorry im a newbie at this, but how do i impliment this patch?

Hi,

Just download sources of libgnome-desktop:

apt-get source libgnome-desktop-2-11

Then enter directory gnome-desktop-2.28.1
Edit file ./libgnome-desktop/gnome-bg.c according to the patch
then type:
./configure
make
sudo make install

Notice that you may have to install packages intltool and libgconf2-dev if ever you have some errors at ./configure script execution.

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> (In reply to comment #1)
> > (In reply to comment #0)
> > > Created an attachment (id=147620) [details] [review] [details] [review] [details] [review]
> > > patch
> > > 
> > > We lost a crucial piece of code at some point.
> > 
> > -sorry im a newbie at this, but how do i impliment this patch?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just download sources of libgnome-desktop:
> 
> apt-get source libgnome-desktop-2-11
> 
> Then enter directory gnome-desktop-2.28.1
> Edit file ./libgnome-desktop/gnome-bg.c according to the patch
> then type:
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
> 
> Notice that you may have to install packages intltool and libgconf2-dev if ever
> you have some errors at ./configure script execution.

Hmm, make install doesn't work.

Just copy the ~/libgnome-desktop/libgnome-desktop/.lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.11.4.2 and ~/libgnome-desktop/libgnome-desktop/.lib/libgnome-desktop-2.a to /usr/lib (save the original ones before)

I just did it and now slideshows are transitioning

The same problem has been reported downstream in gentoo and sabayon:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299242

please commit it

Thanks

This still happens in Gnome 2.28.2 on OpenSUSE 11.2: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577733

It's obvious that this bug should be in "NEW" status at least, since some people from different distributions have confirmed it and a patch was provided by Matthias some time ago. Thanks a lot :-)

Comment on attachment 147620 [details] [review]
patch

Fix looks right, commited:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-desktop/commit/?id=f2d2ad73988315529ceab9677e8584f7e20241ce

Thanks a lot