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#1 2019-04-22 06:35:34

maskiepop
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can't set a wallpaper on xfce4 desktop.

I think I may have broken my xfce4 DE. I now can't set a wallpaper on my XFCE4 desktop. By whatever means. I used to have a working, no-problem wallpaper manager (via variety), but that stopped working. I uninstalled variety, tried feh, wallpaperdownloader, etc. I even tried putting up a wallpaper with the xfce-settings manager. Nope.

I might have other problems. For instance, I can no longer get a menu when I right-click on my desktop.

I suspect this all came about after I installed a tool to manage my desktop styles, etc. But I cannot remember any more what that particular tool was.

I am not particularly keen on restoring from backups. There's a chance I might buy more trouble if I were to do that.

Any suggestions?

Thx

m

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#2 2019-04-22 11:01:35

Roken
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Re: can't set a wallpaper on xfce4 desktop.


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#3 2019-04-23 15:28:12

maskiepop
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Re: can't set a wallpaper on xfce4 desktop.

Roken, thx for your reply. I had a look at the link you gave me. I ran the xfdesktop in debug mode, as suggested. And that worked -- in a fashion. Or rather temporarily. I was getting wallpapers from variety during the session. But not after shutting down and restarting my desktop. This is not the new normal, is it? Do I need to run xfdesktop in debug mode every time I want xfce4 wallpapers.

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#4 2019-04-23 18:12:24

Roken
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Re: can't set a wallpaper on xfce4 desktop.

Downgrade xfdesktop to 4.12.4-2. xfdesktop 4.13 exhibits this problem for a lot of people, and until it's fixed upstream, pinning the version seems to be the best solution.


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#5 2019-04-24 04:29:19

maskiepop
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Re: can't set a wallpaper on xfce4 desktop.

Hi, Roxen,

I think you're right. The latest xfdesktop is, or was, broke -- suspiciously so. I think they've manage to fix the problem somehow, though. The wallpapers are now fully functional. My xfdesktop is 4.13.3-2.

Thx

M

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