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PackRat

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Re: Carbon post-install tweaks

Am I the only one who has a blank (transparent when opened in an image editor) file named Solid_Color.svg in their Pictures/wallpapers folder for no reason after installing?

No, I noticed something like that too, but I borked the system this morning so I can't verify it's the exact issue you have.

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Gaucho

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Re: Carbon post-install tweaks

^ It's ok, I'll do a new install to check.

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Gaucho

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Re: Carbon post-install tweaks

Am I the only one who has a blank (transparent when opened in an image editor) file named Solid_Color.svg in their Pictures/wallpapers folder for no reason after installing?

No, I noticed something like that too, but I borked the system this morning so I can't verify it's the exact issue you have.

Confirmed, but it's not a BL Carbon issue, it's an xwwall issue. Setting a wallpaper with xwwall creates Solid_Color.svg in ~/Pictures/wallpapers

-edit- I created a new issue...

https://github.com/01micko/xwwall/issues/5

Last edited by hhh (2025-10-10 12:55:50)

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micko01

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Re: Carbon post-install tweaks

Am I the only one who has a blank (transparent when opened in an image editor) file named Solid_Color.svg in their Pictures/wallpapers folder for no reason after installing?

There is a reason however it is only a corner case.

feh doesn't have an option to set a colour as the background however it can use a colour to fill transparency in an image or as a border for a centred image whereas swaybg (wayland) does have a colour option simply to fill the screen with a chosen colour.

-B, --image-bg style
Use style as background for transparent image parts and the like. Accepted values: default, checks, or an XColor (e.g. "black" or "#428bdd"). Note that some shells treat the hash symbol as a special character, so you may need to quote or escape it for the XColor code to work. In windowed mode, the default is checks (a checkered background so transparent image parts are easy to see). In fullscreen and background setting mode, checks is not accepted and the default is black.

-c, --color <[#]rrggbb>
           Set the background color.

It's to keep things consistent between X11 and wayland.

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Re: Carbon post-install tweaks

Got it. No hay problema.

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johnraff

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Re: Carbon post-install tweaks

The eid-software problem that already existed in the Boron release (https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 47#p131247) remains in the Carbon release. With the following commands:
sudo apt purge bunsen-os-release
sudo apt purge eid-mw
sudo apt purge eid-archive
sudo apt update
and reinstalling the eid software, everything is working again.

Alternative fix (from the above thread):
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eid.list as root, changing 'bookworm' to 'trixie':

deb https://files.eid.belgium.be/debian trixie main

then 'sudo apt update'.

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Some 3rd-party scripts are going to fail with the BL codename set by bunsen-os-release, as discussed in that linked thread. The workaround is usually going to be to remove bunsen-os-release, run the script, then if you want to keep the "BunsenLabs" grub login entry, re-install it.

EDIT: detailed discussion of what should go in os-release for raspberrypi here :
https://github.com/raspberrypi/Raspberr … t/issues/6
It's complicated, and there doesn't seem to be an obvious Best Practice for Debian derivatives.

Last edited by johnraff (2025-10-11 00:41:36)

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