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Cannot change background picture without restarting Gnome #318

Closed jyavorska closed 2 years ago

jyavorska commented 2 years ago

How did you upgrade to 21.10? (Fresh install / Upgrade)

Upgraded from 21.04

Related Application and/or Package Version (run apt policy $PACKAGE NAME):

Gnome

Issue/Bug Description:

Changing the background in the settings app or gnome-tweak-tool doesn't change the background, except for within the workspace picker. While the picker is up, the background is correct on all monitors, but as soon as it goes away, it returns to the current setting.

Steps to reproduce (if you know):

Not sure how to get it into this state.

Expected behavior:

Changing the background in settings changes the setting on the matching monitor, or all monitors.

Other Notes:

Setting seems to be correctly applied, it's just not actually drawing it:

jason@wintermute:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri
'file:///usr/share/backgrounds/pop/nick-nazzaro-ice-cave.png'

Restarting Gnome manually (alt+f2 then r) causes the background to be shown.

jacobgkau commented 2 years ago

This sounds like https://github.com/pop-os/beta/issues/230, which was supposed to be fixed by a DING (desktop icons extension) update. Can you please provide the output of apt policy gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng?

jyavorska commented 2 years ago

Sure, here you go:

jason@wintermute:~$ apt policy gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng
gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng:
  Installed: 20-1pop0~1637682135~21.10~2a407ca
  Candidate: 20-1pop0~1637682135~21.10~2a407ca
  Version table:
 *** 20-1pop0~1637682135~21.10~2a407ca 1001
       1001 http://apt.pop-os.org/release impish/main amd64 Packages
       1001 http://apt.pop-os.org/release impish/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     20-0ubuntu3 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main i386 Packages
jyavorska commented 2 years ago

This isn't happening after my computer got an update yesterday, not sure if it was a one off bit of weirdness or fixed by the upgrade. If I see it again, though, I'll reopen this. Thanks for all your hard work to make such a great DE!