Wallpaper change not save after login

joseh55| · 2018-05-20 16:04:22

Hello Everybody!

I have a problem.. when in change my wallpaper via > Preferences >> Wallpaper and press button apply the change is efective.. but after logout - login or reboot the appear again the green/blue wallpaper again..

Any can help me with this little problem??

http://imgur.com/qAHuh30l.png

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2018-05-20 20:07:29)

hhh · 2018-05-20 17:54:22

I'm not having this issue with my current official Helium 64 bit setup, but I did experience it several times while testing our alpha, beta and RC1 images. My quick-fix was to use feh to set the wallpaper instead, comment out the nitrogen entry in the Openbox autostart file and add the following line...

sh ~/.fehbg &

@johnraff posted a fix, but since feh works I never tried it. I'll look for it and post back...

hhh · 2018-05-20 17:57:23

Here it is...

johnraff wrote:

You've probably still got an old-style nitrogen/bg-saved.conf. Make sure it has
[xin_-1]
at the top, not whatever it was before.

hhh · 2018-05-20 19:54:02

Grr, I just got bit by this issue again. Moving this thread to Bug Reports.

hhh · 2018-05-20 20:08:10

I set my wall via nitrogen to BL-Beam-grey.png, Zoomed Fill, Apply, logout and in, I still have the default wall. Nitrogen's GUI shows the grey version as "Currently set background". Running 'nitrogen -restore' in a terminal or clicking Apply in the GUI sets the grey wall, but it is lost again if I logout. ~/.config/nitrogen/bl-saved.cfg shows the following...

[xin_-1]
file=/usr/share/images/bunsen/wallpapers/default/BL-beam.png
mode=5
bgcolor=#001e44

[:0.0]
file=/home/rachel/Pictures/wallpapers/bunsen/default/BL-beam-grey.png
mode=5
bgcolor=#000000

I have no svg files in my wallpaper folder, nor anything other than the default BL wallpapers.

The only terminal output is...

rachel@TyrellCorp:~$ nitrogen --restore
UNKNOWN ROOT WINDOW TYPE DETECTED, will attempt to set via normal X procedure
rachel@TyrellCorp:~$

@joseh55|, let me know if you need a walk-through for using feh to set your wall while we try to resolve this.

hhh · 2018-05-22 03:43:31

No problems saving a wallpaper setting on a fresh install. I'll try and see if and where it goes wrong.

dbvolvox · 2018-05-22 10:54:08

Confirming it was the [xin_-1] for me
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 494#p60494

joseh55| · 2018-05-22 15:39:22

hhh wrote:

I set my wall via nitrogen to BL-Beam-grey.png, Zoomed Fill, Apply, logout and in, I still have the default wall. Nitrogen's GUI shows the grey version as "Currently set background". Running 'nitrogen -restore' in a terminal or clicking Apply in the GUI sets the grey wall, but it is lost again if I logout. ~/.config/nitrogen/bl-saved.cfg shows the following...
[xin_-1]
file=/usr/share/images/bunsen/wallpapers/default/BL-beam.png
mode=5
bgcolor=#001e44

[:0.0]
file=/home/rachel/Pictures/wallpapers/bunsen/default/BL-beam-grey.png
mode=5
bgcolor=#000000
I have no svg files in my wallpaper folder, nor anything other than the default BL wallpapers.
The only terminal output is...
rachel@TyrellCorp:~$ nitrogen --restore
UNKNOWN ROOT WINDOW TYPE DETECTED, will attempt to set via normal X procedure
rachel@TyrellCorp:~$
@joseh55|, let me know if you need a walk-through for using feh to set your wall while we try to resolve this.

Hi!

At this moment i resolv the inconvenient deleting this lines
######################
[xin_-1]
file=/usr/share/images/bunsen/wallpapers/default/BL-beam.png
mode=5
bgcolor=#001e44
#####################

and moving "nitrogen --restore" at the final lines of autostart script

Thank You for your answer.. I like very much bunsenlabs
If bunsenlabs need help translating to spanish i can help

hhh · 2018-05-24 14:18:09

joseh55| wrote:

If bunsenlabs need help translating to spanish i can help

See this Google+ group...

https://plus.google.com/communities/102 … 1db4cd86df

/Off Topic

thoro · 2018-05-25 17:16:23

joseh55| wrote:

At this moment i resolv the inconvenient deleting this lines [...]

Works very well!

hhh · 2018-05-28 22:39:32

nitrogen --restore WFM on a fresh install. I'm wondering if setting a Blob theme is corrupting bg-saved.cfg, because here's what my new, working one looks like, the default entry has been overwritten and there's no second entry...

[xin_-1]
file=/home/deckard/Pictures/wallpapers/bunsen/default/BL-beam-grey.png
mode=5
bgcolor=#001e44

DeepDayze · 2018-05-29 00:23:24

hhh wrote:

nitrogen --restore WFM on a fresh install. I'm wondering if setting a Blob theme is corrupting bg-saved.cfg, because here's what my new, working one looks like, the default entry has been overwritten and there's no second entry...
[xin_-1]
file=/home/deckard/Pictures/wallpapers/bunsen/default/BL-beam-grey.png
mode=5
bgcolor=#001e44

So should the extraneous entries be removed from bg-saved.cfg?

hhh · 2018-05-29 00:53:21

DeepDayze wrote:

hhh wrote:
nitrogen --restore WFM on a fresh install. I'm wondering if setting a Blob theme is corrupting bg-saved.cfg, because here's what my new, working one looks like, the default entry has been overwritten and there's no second entry...
[xin_-1]
file=/home/deckard/Pictures/wallpapers/bunsen/default/BL-beam-grey.png
mode=5
bgcolor=#001e44
So should the extraneous entries be removed from bg-saved.cfg?

No, I'm just reporting what I'm seeing, I'm not proposing a fix. But my workaround of using feh instead works fine if you are bitten by this bug ATM.

johnraff · 2018-05-29 06:48:23

I can't reproduce this issue. Changing wallpaper directly via the menu or via a BLOB theme change works and survives logout/in. bg-saved.cfg has only a single entry the whole time. There is no entry starting [:0.0], and nor should there be.

If anyone is still getting this problem on a new install (not upgrade from Hydrogen/Deuterium) could you please post instructions on how to reproduce it?

hhh · 2018-05-29 19:18:25

@johnraff, WFM with a fresh install. I have 2 partitions now breathing fresh helium, I'll keep one as a control and mess with the other, see what I can see over the next week or two.

DeepDayze · 2018-05-30 00:32:33

What if you deleted bg-saved.cfg so will nitrogen recreate it?

hhh · 2018-05-30 00:45:28

DeepDayze wrote:

What if you deleted bg-saved.cfg so will nitrogen recreate it?

I tried that and it didn't work, but now with a fresh install I can't reproduce, bg-saved.conf is instantly and correctly overwritten every time.

DeepDayze · 2018-05-30 01:45:26

hhh wrote:

DeepDayze wrote:
What if you deleted bg-saved.cfg so will nitrogen recreate it?
I tried that and it didn't work, but now with a fresh install I can't reproduce, bg-saved.conf is instantly and correctly overwritten every time.

Ahh I see...sounds like a bug to me.

hhh · 2018-06-04 00:35:36

It's happened again after installing Gimp and gimp-extras via the menu. The wall stuck for a couple of reboots, but now it's back to Beam...

[xin_-1]
file=
mode=5
bgcolor=#001e44

[:0.0]
file=/home/rachel/Pictures/wallpapers/KDE/Code_Poets_Dream/contents/images/1280x1024.jpg
mode=5
bgcolor=#000000

Honestly, I'm ready to strip nitrogen, pnmixer, tint2 and a whole bunch more (conky, for one) out of BL. It's a great desktop, but it could be leaner and more reliable.

johnraff · 2018-06-04 03:43:25

I still can't reproduce this issue, even after installing those packages (what led you to think they were involved btw?) Have to test this on a VM unfortunately, because I'm setting the desktop differently on my main system, but it all seems solid enough.

@hhh how did you set that wallpaper? I'm really struggling to imagine where that [:0.0] entry came from. Are you sure there aren't some archaic config files left in your $HOME?

I'm also curious to hear what you object to about pnmixer. It worked fine in #! and still does for me in Helium. Maybe a separate topic?

There are alternatives to tint2 of course, if it turns out to be buggy - is it though? Or do you plan to work with no panel at all?

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