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johnywhy

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 288

Ristretto: trashing on system internal mounts is not supported

On arch.

Trying to delete an image inside Ristretto. Getting

trashing on system internal mounts is not supported

The files are inside

/usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/

The reason i'm attempting to use that folder is because when i tried to point desktop wallpaper to a personal folder in Home, it didn't work, and xfce kept redirecting desktop to it's own backgrounds folder (the dir above).

Any fix?

Thx!

Last edited by johnywhy (2023-08-29 22:37:21)

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ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Ristretto: trashing on system internal mounts is not supported

The files are inside

/usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/

At the end of that error message, I believe it says "permission denied". You don't have permission to delete those file as your user account - need root privileges.

The reason i'm attempting to use that folder is because when i tried to point desktop wallpaper to a personal folder in Home, it didn't work, and xfce kept redirecting desktop to it's own backgrounds folder (the dir above).

In the desktop settings, you need to select a folder then when you return to the dialog, you will see the background images populate. Then you select the background image.

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johnywhy

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 288

Re: Ristretto: trashing on system internal mounts is not supported

In the desktop settings, you need to select a folder then when you return to the dialog, you will see the background images populate. Then you select the background image.

Ok. I didn't select any particular image, because i chose random display, which means not one specific image, but to rotate between all images.

So, intuitively, it seems that selecting the folder should be sufficient.

I'll your suggestion when i get back to my linux machine.

Thx!

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