Package: gnome-settings-daemon Version: 2.22.2.1-1 Severity: normal On invoking the gnome-settings-daemon, which is required for certain GNOME applications to run, the desktop background is changed.
This occurs whether or not a full GNOME session is being run or not. The behavior is being observed in a WindowMaker session in which the gnome-settings-daemon is invoked via an ~/.xsession script: # Xsession stuff. # Karsten M. Self # Thu Jun 7 02:03:51 PDT 2007 export SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/bin/ssh-askpass gnome-settings-daemon & # Doesn't start on its own. xscreensaver -no-splash & # Be secure ( sleep 60; xset -b ) & # No beep # xlogo & # Test only # Root window logging ( sleep 20; tail -40f /var/log/messages | xrootconsole -fg grey60 -geometry 80x40-64+8 & vmstat 4 | xrootconsole -fg Medium\ Purple -geometry 80x15-64+532 & tail -10f /var/log/auth.log | xrootconsole -fg sienna1 -geometry 80x16-64+730 & ) & wmaker Invoking the gnome-control-panel, there is no apparent way to disable this behavior of the gnome-settings-daemon. I haven't explored gconf yet. Suggestions: - Global settings (desktop wallpaper, etc.) which aren't appropriate when a full GNOME environment isn't being run should be disabled by default. - It should be possible to specify _no_ wallpaper via gnome-control-panel. Peace. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (950, 'testing'), (750, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on: ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-7 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libesd0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.22.3-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomekbd2 2.22.0-1 GNOME library to manage keyboard c ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-4 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.19-2 GStreamer libraries from the "base ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.19-3 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.10-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii liborbit2 1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpixman-1-0 0.10.0-2 pixel-manipulation library for X a ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library ii libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxklavier12 3.5-1 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.3-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxxf86misc1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime gnome-settings-daemon recommends no packages. gnome-settings-daemon suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SFI / Cadence Design Systems http://linuxhelp.cadence.com/wiki/index.php/User:Kself -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]