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Pictures folder: --location requires absolute path
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Rolf, I would say configuration is a separate issue. The bug described
here is about the ~ path not getting expanded correctly.
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the correct way to fix this is to have an easy to configure preference
for it (googling to edit text files doesn't quite cut it)
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which is reported as bug 47604
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Title:
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I don't know how to make a patch but if you change this if statement
around line 100 in savers/slideshow.c from
if (location != NULL) {
g_object_set (engine, images-location, location, NULL);
}
to something like
if (location != NULL) {
wordexp_t expanded_location;
wordexp(location,
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Status: Incomplete = Expired
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Title:
Pictures folder: --location
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Assignee: Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) = (unassigned)
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Importance: Low
Status: New
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Bryce, what's the contents of your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file?
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You can also use --location=$HOME/Pictures as a workaround, but I'm
curious why your pictures directory isn't picked up automatically.
** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu Lucid)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)
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This is with a totally stock ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs (attached anyway).
I've retested this with latest lucid, and while --location=~/Pictures
still does work as I think it should, --location=Pictures does work now,
as does --location=$HOME/Pictures.
(My real ulterior motivation for this is to
So, you actually have three issues?
1- Default pictures directory as set by XDG_PICTURES_DIR isn't being used by
the screensaver
2- screensaver's --location should accept ~/Pictures
3- screensaver doesn't work with pictures directory specified on an NFS mount
point
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:59:47AM -, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
So, you actually have three issues?
1- Default pictures directory as set by XDG_PICTURES_DIR isn't being used by
the screensaver
2- screensaver's --location should accept ~/Pictures
3- screensaver doesn't work with pictures
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Importance: Undecided = Low
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** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28539260/Dependencies.txt
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