xubuntu 14.04 'xfdesktop --reload' no longer cycles wallpaper image
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Xfce4 Desktop |
Fix Released
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Medium
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| xfdesktop4 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
In the past I have relied on the following behavior (still) described in the xfdesktop man page to change my desktop wallpaper:
-R, --reload
I realize that the wallpaper image code is significantly improved in 14.04, however this feature seems to have gone missing. I also realize that there are built in options to rotate the wallpaper automatically in a variety of ways, however the particular method I like to use (rotate at set times, like <hour>:00, <hour>:30, etc.) isn't one of those options.
If 'xfdesktop --reload' were fixed to do the rotation again my old script would work, problem solved. :) If that's not possible then consider this a feature request to add the ability to schedule rotation every N minutes relative to the top of the hour (as opposed to relative to log in, which it does now).
To reproduce:
1. Right-click on desktop, choose "Desktop Settings"
2. Under the Folder: pull down menu choose a folder with multiple images
3. Optional: Click Change the Background, choose "Every hour" from the pull down, and check the "Random Order" box
4. Click Close
5. On the command line, run 'xfdesktop --reload'
The desktop should refresh itself, but nothing will happen to the wallpaper
FWIW, the way that it worked for many releases of XFCE prior to xubuntu 14.04 was to go to Desktop Settings and configure an image list without checking the "change the background" box. Then 'xfdesktop --reload' just did the rotation randomly.
| affects: | gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) → xfdesktop4 (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in xfdesktop: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in xfdesktop4 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in xfdesktop: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
| Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #7 |
| Changed in xfdesktop4 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
| Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #8 |
xfdesktop -V
This is xfdesktop version 4.11.3, running on Xfce 4.10.
Built with GTK+ 2.24.22, linked with GTK+ 2.24.22.
Build options:
Desktop Menu: enabled
Desktop Icons: enabled
Desktop File Icons: enabled
Please see the details listed at https:/
FWIW, the option to change the background "every hour" does sort of what I want, it changes every <hour>:00. It would be nice if that feature could be expanded to that, plus every N minutes after the hour, perhaps only for divisors of 60 to keep the math easy ...