Bug 14374 - Can't refresh desktop picture in Cauldron
Summary: Can't refresh desktop picture in Cauldron
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2014-10-26 12:31 CET by Doug Laidlaw
Modified: 2015-05-21 09:00 CEST (History)
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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.

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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


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