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Bug 697235 - Wallpaper replaced with Solid White Color
Wallpaper replaced with Solid White Color
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 699019 701847 707506 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-04 01:24 UTC by Russ Adams
Modified: 2013-09-05 14:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Russ Adams 2013-04-04 01:24:49 UTC 
In Gnome 3.8 running Nautilus 3.7.92 via the ~gnome3-team PPA in Ubuntu 13.04, the wallpaper is unexpectedly set to white.



Perform the following to reproduce:

1. Use System Settings to set the wallpaper to any image.

2. Launch Gnome Tweak Tool.

3. Set Desktop -> "Have file manager handle the desktop" to ON.

Upon completing Step #3, your background should be set to solid white.

Please let me know if I can provide any logs or dconf exports.



Workaround:
Set "Have file manager handle the desktop" to OFF.  This has the unfortunate side effect of losing file management on the Desktop.
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2013-04-04 01:48:58 UTC 
What exact version of mutter and gnome-shell are you testing this with?
3.8.0 works fine here on Fedora.
Comment 2 Russ Adams 2013-04-04 01:53:43 UTC 
$ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.8.0.1

My 'mutter-common' package claims to be 3.8.0.
Comment 3 Russ Adams 2013-04-24 21:06:19 UTC 
This is still a problem for me.  I've seen the same behavior on another machine running Ubuntu 13.04 with the gnome3-team ppa.

Here are my latest versions of gnome-shell and mutter-common:

$ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.8.1

mutter-common is 3.8.1-0ubuntu1~rar
Comment 4 António Fernandes 2013-04-25 10:30:02 UTC 
Report on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1159430

Is this perhaps a downstream problem, specific to Ubuntu 13.04 with GNOME3 PPA?
Comment 5 Russ Adams 2013-04-25 15:47:26 UTC 
Yes, I think so.. Cosimo says all is well on Fedora, and the other machine I've seen this problem on was a Ubuntu 13.04 w/ GNOME3 PPA.

I read some comments on lp:1159430 and saw that the problem is actually in the GTK themes "Ambiance" and "Radiance".  These themes are apparently making transparent windows--like a nautilus managed desktop--opaque.  I can change my GTK theme from Ambiance to Adwaita and all is well.
Comment 6 António Fernandes 2013-04-25 16:25:24 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
Thanks for the investigation and feedback!

I'm closing this as NOTGNOME, then.
Comment 7 António Fernandes 2013-04-27 10:21:15 UTC 
*** Bug 699019 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 António Fernandes 2013-06-08 14:38:58 UTC 
*** Bug 701847 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Gene Czarcinski 2013-09-05 14:36:42 UTC 
*** Bug 707506 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***