cannot set background to new image (Gnome on F9)

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 2008-05-17 22:36, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:
>> On F8 I used the package wp_tray (wallpaper tray) to change my background at
>> fixed intervals, but on F9 that doesn't work anymore. What's more, I also
>> can't change the background image using the System -> Preferences -> Look
>> and Feel -> Appearance dialog, and also not using the command line
>>
>> gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
>> /path/to/image.jpg
>>
>> all of which used to work.
>>
>> When I log in again (i.e. restart of X server and of the Gnome environment)
>> the last image that was set as background appears as the new background.
>>
>> Has anybody else seen this?
>>
>> Even though I usually use the proprietary nVidia driver (172.08 Beta), it
>> also doesn't work with the open source nv driver, so it's not that.
> 
> Try turning off the xfs service. 'service xfs stop' on the command
> line and do a ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X only (not reboot). If
> that helps you, make sure you turn it off permanently on all runlevels
> using the system-config-services tool. That cleared up many issues
> like this for me due to a X-xfs bug causing many things not to start,
> including nautilus.
> 
> If that doesn't help, I don't know what's up on your system.
> 
> /Mike
> 

Thanks for the suggestion, but the xfs service was already off:
# service xfs status
xfs is stopped
# chkconfig --list xfs
xfs            	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off

So that isn't it.


-- 
Sjoerd Mullender