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Bug 637938 - Background becomes black
Background becomes black
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: background
2.91.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-settings-daemon-maint
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-12-24 11:09 UTC by Vincent Untz
Modified: 2011-05-07 02:18 UTC
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Description Vincent Untz 2010-12-24 11:09:04 UTC 
Smoketesting GNOME 2.91.4 (with g-s-d 2.91.6.1), and with gnome-shell, I see this on login:

 - for a few seconds, nothing happens and I keep the background from gdm. Then it becomes my background. This could be because of bug 568385.

 - very quickly, my background becomes black. It's only happening with GNOME Shell, as far as I can tell.

 - if I start nautilus, then the background is drawn by nautilus and is fine. When I stop nautilus, it stays fine.

I've no idea how to properly debug this, but I can help if you tell me how :-)
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2010-12-24 11:10:35 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
>  - for a few seconds, nothing happens and I keep the background from gdm. Then
> it becomes my background. This could be because of bug 568385.

I don't even know if we want to start nautilus by default in GNOME 3, btw. So the 8 seconds delay might be something we should just skip.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2011-03-11 19:10:22 UTC 
I can't reproduce this, do you still see it with a newer GNOME 3?

nautilus doesn't draw the desktop by default any more, which should help. There's also plans to make nautilus' background just be an RGBA window with transparency, so it doesn't get in the business of drawing the background any more (which should allow us to clean this code up...).
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2011-03-11 19:32:07 UTC 
I also committed a fix for bug 568385, so there's no 8 seconds delay anymore.