Xfce Xfce4 Desktop Background Issues

Phishfry

Phishfry

I have been having problems with Xfce4 desktop background image. I usually turn off the feature and use a solid color of my choosing.

I set Wallpaper Style to None. It still displays a wallpaper image.

So I delete /usr/local/share/backgrounds/xfce directory and I end up with a solid black background.

Is this a known issue or just me?
 
No luck with that. I tried fiddling with other settings too in the desktop dialog box with no luck.

Might try nuking configs.
/home/xorg/.config/xfce4/

This started on Xfce4.20 and still persists after recently upgrading. The backgrounds directory was recreated for me after upgrading.
 
I considered the completely ridiculous approach of making a solid background color PNG and placing in the background folder.

But that would be admitting defeat.
 
Hi Phishfry,

I use xfce4 on my virtualbox installation (i'm not ready to replace Windows 10 just yet = lots to learn about FreeBSD). I simply right-click on the desktop then select Desktop Settings from the context menu. Set style to none, select a solid color and check apply to all workspaces (unchecked maintains the wallpaper on other desktops).

So i hope that you do not misinterpret my post because i am simply wondering if you are looking at a desktop other than the default desktop/workspace. If you didn't apply to all workspaces, then you will see the wallpaper in other workspaces.

I hope that you do not find my post to be insulting or offensive. I am just wondering if that is the problem.

By the way, everytime that i see your display name (Phishfry), i think of Louis Jordan. LOL
Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_7DOCTFniA

I hope that you figure out a solution,
John
 

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Phishfry said:
I have been having problems with Xfce4 desktop background image. I usually turn off the feature and use a solid color of my choosing.

I set Wallpaper Style to None. It still displays a wallpaper image.
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I had that happen; I kept toggling different wallpaper settings and eventually it activated a solid color.
 
Strange, because it works for me regardless of the number of workspaces.

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You may need to switch from and then back to Solid Color too, as Espionage says.
I'm on FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64
 
This usually happens when/during "suspend" or power problem and session is some how messed up. Close all windows in all desktops. Open session manager. Delete current session. Log out. Log in. Restore whatever u like how u like. Open session manager and save session. This has worked for me in the past. At present I do not use suspend but rather only lock, shutdown, restart, or logout. I have had intermittent problems with suspend for a long time now. Its just not reliable?
 
I didn't notice any problems. All switches related to wallpaper work fine. Yes, there was a recent update. After it the background "flew off", but I restored it in the traditional way, without breaking and deleting cache directories, settings, etc. I also noticed that the appearance of the mail notification indicator was changed in the design (if there was a new mail, there was a "blue envelope", and now there is an "envelope with a yellow star").
 
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