Bug 14374

Summary:	Can't refresh desktop picture in Cauldron
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Doug Laidlaw 2014-10-26 12:31:02 CET

Description of problem:
I have an image for desktop which updates from a webcam.  This happens OK in Official, but in Cauldron, under either XFce or Mate, I see the launchers refresh, but the image doesn't change. I haven't tested KDE, because I don't know how to get out of themed mode.

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How reproducible:
Set desktop to refresh with cron, or try to select the updated image in Desktop Settings.

Steps to Reproduce:
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This may be a permission problem, but with Cauldron, I prefer to report everything.  If it is common to two desktops, it must be outside them.

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Comment 1 Doug Laidlaw 2014-11-16 12:55:09 CET

This is still present in Beta 1 after a clean install, including formatting /home.

Comment 2 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-20 00:30:15 CEST

Did it work in Mageia 4? After updating the image, do you trigger a desktop refresh? 

It's not shocking to me that the desktop would load the image only once. The way I see you could do it set the desktop to slideshow with only one image, so that it's reloaded from time to time.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 Doug Laidlaw 2015-05-20 03:47:24 CEST

This is done from a script I downloaded.  I haven't tried since.  I will test and report back.

It did work in Mageia 4.

Comment 4 Doug Laidlaw 2015-05-21 02:55:28 CEST

I am not sure what is going on, but in normal use, the desktop image changes as it should.  The scrip has a cron job that runs xfdesktop --reload after each new image is downloaded.  That command seems to see the same filename, and do nothing.

Since it is only my quirky problem, ignore it.

Comment 5 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-21 09:00:54 CEST

Closing then, please reopen if you find more information about it and think there is an actual bug.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX