On 05/20/2017 06:33 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: >> Michael Milliman wrote: >> >>> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >>> ceased to be displayed. >> [...] >>> I have attempted to re-set the desktop >>> background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop >>> background on the desktop to no effect. >> >> I don't know what caused your old wallpaper to go away, but the >> inability to set it is tracked by >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862355 >> > This appears to be the same problem. I will be watching this bug report > with interest!! It also seems to have been reported around the same > time my system went belly-up, so it is probably an update that was > installed. Thanks for the info, at least I know it isn't something that > I botched up! :) > >> The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). >> The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the background image. This does work, however, it has to be done each time you log-in. It is better than nothing. Upstream also appears to have a bug reported on it, and they suggest installation of mate-desktop 16.2 with caja 16.3, neither of which has made it to the Debian distribution as of yet.
>> mike >> > -- 73's, WB5VQX -- The Very Quick X-ray
