Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On Feb 7, 2008 3:03 PM, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I decided to move parts of my home directory to a partition where it
would be easy to keep things that I would like to have common to
multiple distributions. I mount that partition as /share. On that
partition I have /share/home/myUser/Pictures (among other directories
like Music and such). I deleted the empty directory ~/Pictures and
created a link ~/Pictures pointing to /share/home/myUser/Pictures. I
don't have any problem, until I finally discovered one. Everything
works as expected (like when I click on the Gnome menu bar Places =>
Pictures) except the screensaver.
I had the screensaver set to show fotos from ~/Pictures, and it *used
to* work. But now it doesn't. It's been a while since I had the
screensaver turned on, so other things I have done may be to blame, but
my suspicion is what I described above.
Could anyone point me in the right direction? TIA
Preferably, I shouldn't have to settle for a link *inside* the actual
~/Pictures directory pointing to the other place (which *did* work).
Everything else seems to be happy with replacing the ~/Pictures
directory with a link to the other place. Why not the screensaver?
What happens if you go to screensaver setup and browse for the
directory it uses for pictures? Maybe you have to delete the old
information and replace it. Even it if gets replaced with a directory
name that looks exactly the same to the naked eye.
carl
Screensaver setup gives no such option. It has themes, one of which
is "Pictures folder". Just for grins, I selected another theme, and
exited setup. The alternate theme came up. I went back in and
switched it back to "Pictures folder", but it still doesn't see the
pictures.
I seem to recall recently stumbling onto a file that identified the
locations of the Places menu item (on the Gnome desktop menu). But I
don't recall where that was. Command history won't help me, because I
was in mc when I viewed the contents of that file.
I don't have the skills to search contents of files recursively, tho I
didn't do too bad at it just now. I still have too much to learn about
it for it to be useful to me.
I didn't find that file using that method. I just went poking around
more or less where I was before and found the file. Somehow, my
rearranging stuff caused a few lines in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs to be
changed from 'XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy"' to 'XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/.Trash/yyy"'.
Problem solved by changing back to:
XDG_Pictures_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
Since that works, I will now change back the other 3 lines that got
changed in the same way.
Interesting that this file somehow was aware of the moves I made to
those directories. But if I move the target of a link, the link is
unaware and becomes broken.
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Ralph
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