On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > 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. Note that the version numbers above should have been mate-desktop 16.0.2 and caja 16.0.3. > >>> mike >>> >> >
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