GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 77924
Error message when background properties windows opens
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Procedure: 1. Open nautilus 2. Open the preferences window by choosing the 'Preferences' option from the 'Edit' menu. 3.Click on the 'Windows & Desktop' option on the left pane in the references window 4. Check the 'Use Nautilus to draw desktop' checkbox in the 'Desktop' settings 5.Right click on desktop and choose 'Change Desktop Background' option. The "Background Properties" window doesnt come up.
works for me on linux. Is this solaris specific?
This bug might be already solved, i think that the background capplet changed from gnome2-background-properties to gnome-background-properties when Seth's impl. when back in. It should work.
Dave: Yes. This is solaris specific. Rewording the summary to make it solaris specific
anand and all wipro hackers in general: please make a point of marking all solaris specific bugs in this manner, and please specify in the report that a bug is solaris specific. This will prevent me and other linux bug hunters from accidentally closing your bugs. thanks.
dimes to dollars this is an installation problem. Can you run gnome-background-properties from the command line?
Louie: Yeah. The gnome2 background properties window come up fine from the command line. Is this a generic installation problem ? Can anyone else reproduce this ?
Hackish testing shows me that Nautilus is calling "gnome-background-properties", not "gnome2-background-properties", which was its previous name. Anand, is it possible your control-center is not as up-to-date as your Nautilus?
NEEDINFO. Anand?
Sorry for the delay John, Louie. I ain't seeing this in the latest Solaris snapshots. But the moment I open the background properties capplet, I get a error dialog window, which goes like this: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Couldn't find the file '/usr/share/nautilus/patterns/dark-gnome.jpg'. Please make sure it exists and try again, or choose a different background picture. --------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm having my Gnome 2 binaries under "/opt/gnome-2.0/*", and I'm able to locate the "dark-gnome.jpg" file under /opt/gnome- 2.0/share/nautilus. Should I make settings elsewhere to prevent seeing this dialog? Or is this a bug? I'm seeing this problems on Linux platforms as well. Changing Platform to Linux. Reopening / rewording this bug at the moment. Will close if this is a configuration problem.
I think that filename is the default setting for the background in the background gconf schemas file. If should probably be changed to use $prefix instead of hardcoding /usr.
This new problem is bug 76993. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76993 ***