Universal Applets

[WallpaperClock] WallpaperClock doesn't work on XFCE

Bug #263310 reported by Julien Lavergne on 2008-08-31

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Individual Screenlets	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned
Universal Applets	Fix Committed	Undecided	Unassigned
screenlets (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #497222
screenlets (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
screenlets-extra-pack (Kiwi Linux)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

On XFCE, the WallpaperClock just doesn't work. When you try to apply the WallpaperClock, nothing happens.

Related branches

lp://staging/screenlets

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Natan Yellin (aantny) wrote on 2008-09-01:

Have you tried enabling the XFCE workaround under the options dialog?

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2008-09-01:

I tried but it doesn't work, with no output in the terminal.
It was also reported in Debian : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497222

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-09-03

Changed in screenlets:
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-09-12

Changed in screenlets:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Natan Yellin (aantny) wrote on 2008-09-29:

Do you know if this is specific to any versions of XFCE?

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2008-09-29:

I can only test with the 4.4.2 version. I don't know if others versions are affected.

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2009-01-14:

The cause of the bug is that the applet change the key in gconf-editor, which can't work. It need to modify a config file in .config/xfce4/ and tell xfce to update the path.

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2009-01-14: Re: [Bug 263310] Re: WallpaperClock doesn't work on XFCE

Well I found it in .config/xfce4/mcs_settings/desktop.xml
But it's seems that xfdesktop --reload didn't reload the settings, a log
out is necessarry.

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 20:06 +0000, Julien Lavergne wrote:
> The cause of the bug is that the applet change the key in gconf-editor,
> which can't work. It need to modify a config file in .config/xfce4/ and
> tell xfce to update the path.
>

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2009-02-21: Re: WallpaperClock doesn't work on XFCE

11-xfce-wallpaper-setting.patch Edit (755 bytes, text/plain)

Patch to fix the problem on XFCE >= 4.5.93.
If there is no objection, I'll commit it for Universal-applets

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Natan Yellin (aantny) wrote on 2009-02-21:

Thanks for the patch.

Feel free to commit.

Julien Lavergne (gilir) on 2009-03-12

Changed in universal-applets:
status:	New → Fix Committed

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JinYoung (classpath) wrote on 2009-11-03:

I upgraded my laptop from Xubuntu 9.04 to Xubuntu 9.10. This bug also happens again on XFCE. The background image is updated only when I input 'xfdesktop --reload' command. Is there any workaround?

I use XFCE 4.6.1 with Xubuntu 9.10.

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2010-11-01:

#10

Fix committed in revision 469.