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clauder44

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Background fades to black

When I start up, my original background appears briefly, then disappears and the background turns black. Here is the journalctl output: https://pastebin.com/CbvhryKQ Thanks in advance.

seth

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Re: Background fades to black

Sep 15 02:36:21 clauderArch cinnamon-session-binary[1092]: WARNING: t+0.09339s: Could not read /home/clauder/.config/autostart/Proton Mail Bridge.desktop: Could not parse desktop file Proton Mail Bridge.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary
Sep 15 02:36:22 clauderArch polkitd[940]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:2 (system bus name :1.47 [cinnamon --replace], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Sep 15 02:36:22 clauderArch NetworkManager[856]: <info>  [1757892982.8943] agent-manager: agent[707a50a71a1f3c6a,:1.47/org.cinnamon.NetworkAgent/1000]: agent registered
Sep 15 02:36:22 clauderArch systemd[1075]: Created slice Slice /app/dbus-:1.2-org.cinnamon.ScreenSaver.
Sep 15 02:36:22 clauderArch systemd[1075]: Started dbus-:1.2-org.cinnamon.ScreenSaver@0.service.
Sep 15 02:36:23 clauderArch cinnamon-screen[1378]: Locale not supported by C library.
Sep 15 02:36:23 clauderArch cinnamon-killer-daemon[1373]: Bound Cinnamon restart to <Control><Alt>Escape.
Sep 15 02:36:23 clauderArch cinnamon-screensaver[1378]: CsNotificationWatcher: Could not add match rule to bus - GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.MatchRuleInvalid: Invalid match rule
Sep 15 02:36:23 clauderArch cinnamon-screensaver[1378]: Loading AccountsService
Sep 15 02:36:23 clauderArch cinnamon-screensaver[1378]: Fractional scaling active: False
Sep 15 02:36:23 clauderArch cinnamon-screensaver[1378]: Trying to connect to logind...
Sep 15 02:36:23 clauderArch cinnamon-screensaver[1378]: Starting screensaver...
Sep 15 02:36:23 clauderArch cinnamon-screensaver[1378]: Cinnamon Screensaver support not found in current theme - adding some...
Sep 15 02:36:23 clauderArch cinnamon-screensaver[1378]: AccountsService ready
Sep 15 02:36:23 clauderArch cinnamon-screensaver[1378]: Successfully using logind

Sounds like the screenlocker just activates immediately?

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