On Friday 13 Mar 2015 09:44:36 Anton Aylward wrote:

On 03/13/2015 09:38 AM, ianseeks wrote:

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Hi

i tend to play around with my desktop wallpapers to make it a bit interesting but whatever i set it to on my desktop, it eventually gets reverted to the opensuse default image without any intervention by me. Is there anyway to stop this?

Opensuse Tumbleweed kde 4.14.5

This happens to me too. The thing is that there *IS* intervention. Things like running 'zypper up' Things like logging out and back in again Things like rebooting

Why should any of those change a user config? Is it a symptom of Tumbleweed? there a few oddities with the basic opensuse distro, for example, there should be a default file called ".default.face" thats used at the login dialog for an image to assign to a user name but this doesn't exist so it always gets flagged in the logs as missing. it was logged on Bugzilla in 2009.

Any of the above seem to have caused my desktop wallpaper, which is the astronomical picture of the day, to reset to the default.

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On 03/13/2015 11:16 AM, Yamaban wrote:

Mail-archive: "Re: [opensuse] opensuse packaging oddity for kdm?" http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2013-04/msg00188.html

To be fair, even though I wrote that I'm now in a similar position to Ian. Update to KDM overwrite that file again and again and again so that the .rpmsave is now no longer of any use. There is something seriously wrong with the way that config file is being generated. That its not in /etc/ is another problem! There's some 'Broken by Design' going on here, but that may simply be that X11 was over-engineered in the first place. A side effect, no doubt, of being a multi-year university project. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 14/03/15 05:42, John Andersen wrote:

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Why should any of those change a user config? Is it a symptom of Tumbleweed? Not related to Tumbleweed I suspect. I see the same on 13.2 upon installing

On 03/13/2015 07:03 AM, ianseeks wrote: the last KDE changes. (I'm now at 4.14.5).

Very strange.... I, too, have 4.14.5 on my 13.2 system and don't see this problem at all. The desktop wallpapers for each of my 8 virtual desktops haven't moved since I "installed" them.

The only way I can see this affecting a user's settings is changing the name of the file these settings are stored in. When the user fires up KDE, that new file is not found in their personal directory, so the ones from /etc (or wherever defaults are stored) are applied. Once the user chooses the wallpaper again it stays put.

I expect a bit of feature creep when KDE is busy working on KED 5, but this can be pretty annoying.

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On 03/13/2015 07:13 AM, ellanios82 wrote:
> On 03/13/2015 03:44 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
>> On 03/13/2015 09:38 AM, ianseeks wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> i tend to play around with my desktop wallpapers  to make it a bit interesting
>>> but whatever i set it to on my desktop, it eventually gets reverted to the
>>> opensuse default image without any intervention by me.
>>> Is there anyway to stop this?
>>>
>>> Opensuse Tumbleweed kde 4.14.5
>> This happens to me too.
>> The thing is that there *IS* intervention.
>> Things like running 'zypper up'
>> Things like logging out and back in again
>> Things like rebooting
>>
>> Any of the above seem to have caused my desktop wallpaper, which is the
>> astronomical picture of the day, to reset to the default.
>>
>> ..........
>  - just a remark: with XFCE desktop environment : after choosing Wallpaper
>  it stays with it : No probs
> 
> ...........
> 
>  regards
> 
> 


On OS 13.2 I've only seen it change once on the latest minor change updates
to the KDE packages.

Other than that, I have had the same wallpaper selections
for months.  The last update to the KDE packages was the first revision
I've seen in ages, and I don't understand how it reached into my home
directory and altered the settings. (I suspect they changed the name of the
file used to store these settings, causing my settings to be abandoned).


Note:  I have exactly ONE activity defined, (and I still curse the day the KDE project
forced activities upon us).  If you allow multiple activities to some how get defined
all bets about wallpaper are off.



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