cannot set background to new image (Gnome on F9)

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 2008-05-17 23:01, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

I just found out what *was* it.  It's Nautilus.  I don't use Nautilus to 
draw my desktop, and then background images don't get changed.  When I 
change my preferences to use Nautilus to draw the desktop, the 
background images do work.

This is different from F8 and before.

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender