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hhannine / superpaper

A cross-platform multi monitor wallpaper manager.
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Alternating blank screen in 2.1.0 #109

Closed jvaccaro closed 2 years ago

jvaccaro commented 2 years ago

I recently upgraded to Superpaper 2.1.0 from 2.02. Version 2.0.2 worked perfectly on my 3 monitor Ubuntu 20.4LTS, Gnome 36 desktop correctly changing to a different random wallpaper image every 2 hours.

Upon upgrading to 2.1.0, every other timed switch to a new wallpaper image yields 3 blank screens. If I wait for the delay time to elapse or force a change with CTRL-ALT-W a new set of wallpapers appears.

I downgraded back to 2.0.2 but the problem persisted. I have deleted the profile and re-added it, keeping the Default name for the profile.

My Superpaper photo folder is a Dropbox folder holding 3.7GB of images; a mixture of .webp ,jpg and .png formats.

It sounds like some sort of corruption in whatever index(ing) method 2.1.0 uses and the reversion to 2.0.2 happily continued using the malformed indexing.

Please advise what logs and config files you need to troubleshoot

Thank you in advance

John Vaccaro eMail: jvaccaro at gmail.com

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hhannine commented 2 years ago

Please run superpaper in the terminal with the debug option '-d' and post your results here. Take care that you see the issue during the debugging.

This seems peculiar since any behavior should not persist between different Superpaper versions. Hopefully I can tell what's going on from the log.

hhannine commented 2 years ago

Is this issue still ongoing? If it is, please come reopen this issue, and post the debugging log.