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Bug 601957 - Adding a desktop-background-picture - you cannot choose a file with dotted file-name (e.g.: .Picture.jpg)
Adding a desktop-background-picture - you cannot choose a file with dotted fi...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 48004
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Display
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Soren Sandmann Pedersen
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-15 11:43 UTC by Werner Meyer
Modified: 2009-11-15 18:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Werner Meyer 2009-11-15 11:43:23 UTC 
If you want to set a Picture to use as background of your desktop, gnome doesn't show files, whose name starts with a dot. Also when you write the filename an press enter, you won't get it.
Comment 1 Werner Meyer 2009-11-15 11:45:52 UTC 
Btw. - It would be nice to get the possibility, to put different backgrounds to the different workplaces.
Comment 2 Jens Granseuer 2009-11-15 12:04:10 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> If you want to set a Picture to use as background of your desktop, gnome
> doesn't show files, whose name starts with a dot. Also when you write the
> filename an press enter, you won't get it.

We're using the standard GTK+ file selector. Press the right mouse button and select "Show hidden files".

(In reply to comment #1)
> Btw. - It would be nice to get the possibility, to put different backgrounds to
> the different workplaces.

That's bug 48004.
Comment 3 Werner Meyer 2009-11-15 18:46:21 UTC 
duplicate of
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136077 (solved but strange)
and
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48004 (not yet solved)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 48004 ***