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KiLoB0

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[SOLVED] swww background fading to black

Hi all,
I installed wine last night and after it finished, i shutdown and passed out. This morning upon startup, the background comes up, and is promptly replaced by black. I have the status bar and can open anything, just no background. I'm using hyprland.

Thanks.

Last edited by KiLoB0 (2023-04-21 13:57:41)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] swww background fading to black

Why do you think that installing wine has any relation to your desktop background? By which means are you setting your desktop background?

KiLoB0

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Re: [SOLVED] swww background fading to black

Why do you think that installing wine has any relation to your desktop background? By which means are you setting your desktop background?

Because everything was fine prior. So clearly something with the wine install had something to do with it.

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Re: [SOLVED] swww background fading to black

How did you install Arch?

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] swww background fading to black

By that logic you should be able to remove wine and have a desktop again is that the case? What can sometimes happen here is that wine gets registered as the default handler for certain mimetypes, that should not in any way shape or form have an effect on the tools used by hyprland to set the wallpaper since that will generally be a specific program rather than a mime type lookup.

In any case, upon login, what's your output for

sudo journalctl -b

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

... And have you tried setting your background again?

Last edited by V1del (2023-04-20 18:19:55)

KiLoB0

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Re: [SOLVED] swww background fading to black

By that logic you should be able to remove wine and have a desktop again is that the case? What can sometimes happen here is that wine gets registered as the default handler for certain mimetypes, that should not in any way shape or form have an effect on the tools used by hyprland to set the wallpaper since that will generally be a specific program rather than a mime type lookup.

In any case, upon login, what's your output for

sudo journalctl -b

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

... And have you tried setting your background again?

journalctl -b : https://pastebin.com/N1pDx21H
I am new to using arch and TLM. What/how do you mean setting my background again?

KiLoB0

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Re: [SOLVED] swww background fading to black

... And have you tried setting your background again?

running `swww init` returns:
WARNING: socket file /run/user/1000/swww.socket was not deleted when the previous daemon exited
Error: "Failed to receive answer: io error: Connection reset by peer (os error 104)"

I am unsure what this means... ill be googling.

KiLoB0

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Re: [SOLVED] swww background fading to black

In case anyone comes by with a similar issue... The issue was swww was crashing from corrupt files in /.cache/swww . Deleting the swww directory in .cache and then running "swww kill" followed by "swww init" fixed the issue for me.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] swww background fading to black

Great, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post and potentially adjust it so that the actual culprit/issue is mentioned.

KiLoB0

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Re: [SOLVED] swww background fading to black

Great, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post and potentially adjust it so that the actual culprit/issue is mentioned.

I will mark as solved. However this is just a temporary work around in my tests.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] swww background fading to black

Then find/use a better wallpaper tool that doesn't break randomly.