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wbrells wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:19 am Well, I now have a fairly ugly black&white MX Linux wallpaper that I can't change. Is there something else I should try? (If not can you tell me how to get back the much more attractive "mouse" on a blue wallpaper?

Thanks, Wayne

Ok if you can't change the wallpaper, then remove the symlink we made, logout and login.

If selecting a different wallpaper doesn't actually change the wallpaper, then whatever the issue is, the actual build of xfdesktop4 doesn't seem to be the issue.
should put things back to the way they were before.

dumb question: rather than using the Desktop settings application, have you tried selecting a wallpaper in thunar, right click and use the Set Wallpaper option? It should be the same as the desktop app, but this situation is strange enough that might be worth at least checking.

I'm now back to having a solid black wallpaper which is tolerable if not as attractive as the "mouse" with the blue wallpaper.

I couldn't find the Thunar option for selecting wallpaper. Where should I be in Thunar when right clicking?

Thanks, Wayne

wbrells wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 9:04 am I'm now back to having a solid black wallpaper which is tolerable if not as attractive as the "mouse" with the blue wallpaper.

I couldn't find the Thunar option for selecting wallpaper. Where should I be in Thunar when right clicking?

Thanks, Wayne

it should be present when right clicking on a graphic file.




second dumb question: do you have desktop icons? does the right-click desktop menu come up when you right-click on desktop?

I found the option in Thunar, but it did not change the wallpaper. I've attached an image showing my current desktop.

wbrells wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 10:24 am I found the option in Thunar, but it did not change the wallpaper. I've attached an image showing my current desktop.

ok that answers many questions thank you.

let's check the complete settings situation.

Here we are. I see that the image I selected via Thunar is shown as the wallpaper, but it doesn't show as such...

xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop --list -v

/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path /home/wayneb/Google Drive/Meanderthal_Hikes/Wintergreen Falls 07.17.2024/images/Marker 9.jpg
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-show true
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-style 5
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace0/backdrop-cycle-enable false
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace0/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace0/image-style 3
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace0/last-image /home/wayneb/Google Drive/Meanderthal_Hikes/Wintergreen Falls 07.17.2024/images/Marker 9.jpg
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace1/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace1/image-style 3
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace1/last-image /usr/share/backgrounds/Honesty.jpg
/backdrop/screen0/monitorHDMI-1/workspace0/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorHDMI-1/workspace0/image-style 3
/backdrop/screen0/monitorHDMI-1/workspace0/last-image /usr/share/backgrounds/Honesty.jpg
/backdrop/screen0/monitorHDMI-1/workspace1/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorHDMI-1/workspace1/image-style 3
/backdrop/screen0/monitorHDMI-1/workspace1/last-image /usr/share/backgrounds/Honesty.jpg
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS/workspace0/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS/workspace0/image-style 3
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS/workspace0/last-image /usr/share/backgrounds/Honesty.jpg
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS/workspace1/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS/workspace1/image-style 3
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS/workspace1/last-image /usr/share/backgrounds/Honesty.jpg
/backdrop/single-workspace-mode true
/backdrop/single-workspace-number 0
/desktop-icons/file-icons/migrated-4.19 [ec67f7b6761b77649a1825c5601d0dd17c7f582e,f0073946de40555648e2b49c47fde448f2e40e3b]
/desktop-icons/file-icons/show-filesystem false
/desktop-icons/file-icons/show-home false
/desktop-icons/file-icons/show-removable false
/desktop-icons/file-icons/show-trash false
/desktop-icons/icon-size 56
/desktop-icons/single-click false
/desktop-icons/tooltip-size 120.000000
/last-settings-migration-version 1
/last/window-height 572
/last/window-width

Just an fyi ... I had a machine that was using images on their google drive for screensaver not working... and you may be seeing a version of this here. I believe some of the google drive capabilities are broken when doing some low level xfce things like this.

Try copying that image to your pictures file and then right clicking on it there and setting it as wallpaper.

your settings pretty well match mine. the only difference is that your monitor is "monitor0" whereas mine is "monitorVGA-1".

this shouldn't matter, but lets try setting the image display mode to he same between the two workspaces.

Well, I chose an image from the Pictures directory and also made the monitor change you suggested. Neither of these made a any difference - still black wallpaper. I wonder what happened to the "mouse" and blue background from the xfce folder?

Do you suppose this problem could be caused by incorrect file permissions somewhere?

Wayne

wbrells wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:51 pm Well, I chose an image from the Pictures directory and also made the monitor change you suggested. Neither of these made a any difference - still black wallpaper. I wonder what happened to the "mouse" and blue background from the xfce folder?

Do you suppose this problem could be caused by incorrect file permissions somewhere?

Wayne

possibly, if the user didn't have permission to use the folder, or the folder containing the wallpaper isn't available when xfce starts up.