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I just rebooted with MX Linux 23.5 (Xfce 4.20.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.38) and my wallpaper changed to a dark blue background with stripes along with (most amusingly) the image of a running mouse! This isn't a bad wallpaper, but I can't change it to one of the standard choices. So far, everything else seems to be working fine, but I'm concerned that other system changes may have been made that may cause problems in the future!

Any comments would be appreciated..

Wayne

See news and announcements: viewtopic.php?t=83423

That happened to me on a VM with the default wallpaper.
Somehow it changed the wallpaper folder from /usr/share/backgrounds to /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce. (this was before the latest fix was issued)

If you want the stock MX wallpapers then select the backgrounds folder in Desktop Settings > Background or if you had your own wallpaper select that folder instead.

That wallpaper is XFCE's default, with the mouse the XFCE "mascot"...kind of?

The whiskermenu we ship is named that because of the mouse.

All has been well with my Desktop Background for quite awhile, but after the last set of updates (114 of them!) the background is now solid BLACK. (The program icons are still there with the correct appearance so I can run the system with no problem.) would, though, like to get back to using the old backgrounds which are visible under the Desktop > Background app. However, selecting one of those backgrounds does nothing!

From an earlier question it seems that there is someplace where I can manually change the path to the background folder, but so far I haven't found exactly where that can be done...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Wayne

A cute small mouse can t hurt anyone .....:) I have this wallpaper embeded on thunar

I just noticed the announcement, below, which seems to address the wallpaper problem that I'm seeing. Unfortunately, it isn't clear when this "fix" will actually be issued and/or if I'll need to take any action (other than rebooting) to have this fix take effect...

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Xfce 4.20 wallpaper issues fix coming up
January 17, 2025
For those that haven’t applied a fix to settings to deal with not being able to change desktop wallpapers on Xfce 4.20, we have a fix coming in desktop-defaults-mx-xfce-system 25.01.05mx23.

The update will have a one-time run fix for wallpaper settings issues for those that haven’t made changes already. New user default settings will also be provided for any new user created so that fix is not needed.

The fixes will be applied on the next user’s login, and at first login of any new users created. This will only run on xfce desktops and existing settings, if valid, should not be affected, even if your current settings do not match the properties being set. The fix will only be applied one time.

Thanks!
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There were some setting missing with the underlying xml-file, and the upgrade itself did not adde the missing entries
and xfce got confused.
Maybe post the output of these two commands: to check whether the settings are stil missing, and are the cause of the issue.

The first command gives "true", while the second gives 0. Does this indicate a problem and, if so, what can I do to fix it?

Thanks, Wayne

wbrells wrote: Sat Mar 22, 2025 12:04 pm The first command gives "true", while the second gives 0. Does this indicate a problem and, if so, what can I do to fix it?

Thanks, Wayne

it indicates that those values are correct and perhaps some other issues are the reason for this misbehaving.
Maybe, before any further "fixing" attempts, try just for testing this:
Create a new user with help of the tool "MX users" logout and login to the new user.
Verify that you can change and adjust the background/wallpaper of the desktop for the new user.
If that works for the new user, we might just completely reset the corresponding desktop setting
to the default for the existing user.
+++EDIT+++
Would it change something if you set to 1