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Does anyone know how to stop Cinnamon from setting the desktop background on login? I'm trying to use nitrogen because it has better options for multiple monitors. I have "nitrogen --restore" in my startup programs, but Cinnamon immediately overrides it. Setting a delay doesn't help either.
Last edited by unlimitedbacon (2014-09-07 02:31:48)
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I never used Cinnamon for long, so I am a novice here. According to wiki ~/.cinnamon/backgrounds holds the wallpapers. What if you symlink it into nirvana?
mv ~/.cinnamon/backgrounds{,.disabled} && ln -sv /dev/null ~/.cinnamon/backgroundsAlthough it probably will fallback to the stock ones from /usr/share/somewhere.
Last edited by emeres (2014-07-21 00:43:09)
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Interesting idea but it didn't work. The Cinnamon's background control panel stopped working, but it still setting the same wallpaper as before.
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Was the same wallpaper in the background folder before? Maybe doing the above for one file wihing backgrounds folder would be a progress. There must be some configuration files in ~/.cinnamon with naming the current wallpaper, maybe it accepts 'none' value. Also check ~/.local recursively and gsettings/gconftool.
Last edited by emeres (2014-07-21 09:36:58)
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Obviously this is workaround rather then actual solution, but I just have a cron-job which runs nitrogen --restore every minute. Why that way? Because Cinnamon periodically resets to "it's" wallpaper, not only once.
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If it has not been requested so far as a feature, to disable the whole background management, maybe now is a good time. Also it may be worth to take a look at cs_backgrounds.py and find out if it is being called periodically or how the background setting process works, and then change it accordingly.
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I tried changing org.cinnamon.desktop.background.picture-uri to "file:///dev/null" in dconf, but it still sets the background to a flat color. Looks like dRaiser's method is the only way to do it right now. Going to put in a feature request.
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It's still better then Gnome, where Nitrogen cannot be forced to run (and Gnome & Cinnamon sucks for dual/triple+ monitors with different wallpapers).
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This issue has been addressed in the Cinnamon nightly builds.
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Should you consider this issue solved, then please mark the thread as such.
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