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Bug 723042 - Changing wallpaper causes the picture to copy itself
Changing wallpaper causes the picture to copy itself
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 688812
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-01-26 18:29 UTC by maxx
Modified: 2015-04-25 13:27 UTC
See Also:
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Description maxx 2014-01-26 18:29:30 UTC 
If you have your wallpaper pictures in the Pictures/Wallpapers folder and right-click on a picture there to set it as the current wallpaper a copy of the file is created.

It should just set the wallpaper.

See this Fedora bug for more details https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922879
Comment 1 Ricardo Vizcaya 2014-02-07 22:06:25 UTC 
I can confirm this bug hapening to me as well. If I set a wallpaper from a different folder, the image is copied to Pictures/Wallpapers. If I assign a file from that folder as wallpaper, it copies itself. Should be an easy fix.
Comment 2 Aiko Barz 2015-02-06 20:16:22 UTC 
Bug confirmed.

OS: Debian/Sid, Gnome version: 3.14

Kind regards,
Aiko Barz
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2015-02-07 01:56:27 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> If you have your wallpaper pictures in the Pictures/Wallpapers folder and
> right-click on a picture there to set it as the current wallpaper a copy of the
> file is created.

There's no "Set as Wallpaper" menu item provided by gnome-control-center, nautilus does that.

gnome-control-center copies files to the cache if they're not in ~/Pictures (or in a sub-folder) or they're remote files (Flickr source).
Comment 4 António Fernandes 2015-04-25 13:27:57 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 688812 ***