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aurocha

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Registered: 2011-07-18

Posts: 5

GDM3 sets a 'base' desktop background instead of xfdesktop

Hi all,

1st post to this topic as I've recently changed to XFCE 4.8.
I'm running Debian SID and having a little annoyance I'd like to fix.

The problem is that gdm 3 (Gnome Display Manager) which I'm using, is setting the desktop. On top of that, xfdesktop also sets a desktop.
But if I quit xfdesktop (xfdesktop --quit) I can see the debian Spacefun as background.

It's annoying, specially because I'm using a transparent xfce4-terminal.
The background image I see while using xfce4-terminal is NOT the one I set up using xfdesktop-settings but rather the one gdm3 sets.

Question: Is there a way to prevent GDM from setting a background image?
Or, after logging in to XFCE4, to unset that background and then have xfdesktop set it again?

It's annoying!

Regards,

- aurocha

aurocha

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Registered: 2011-07-18

Posts: 5

Re: GDM3 sets a 'base' desktop background instead of xfdesktop

Hi all,

I've taken a screenshot to show you what I mean, after adjusting the transparency level and setting a background using xfdesktop-settings.

Here's the link: http://goo.gl/nh3aX

Regards,

- aurocha

etnlWings

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Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 218

Re: GDM3 sets a 'base' desktop background instead of xfdesktop

Two options that I can think of:

1 - don't use GDM.

2 - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s … gle.com.au

Also pretty confident that the transparency problem will go away if you enable compositing in Window Manager Tweaks.

bluebell

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 4

Re: GDM3 sets a 'base' desktop background instead of xfdesktop

Two options that I can think of:

1 - don't use GDM.

2 - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s … gle.com.au

Also pretty confident that the transparency problem will go away if you enable compositing in Window Manager Tweaks.

Seems that GDM is broken since it's in the process of being reinvented (4 TEH LULZ or god knows why).

I had the problem when using a remote session to GDM's via xdmcp. I could fix it by disabling the second screen in XFCE using Settings->Display in the menu. There was an unwanted screen named "Laptop".

aurocha

Member

Registered: 2011-07-18

Posts: 5

Re: GDM3 sets a 'base' desktop background instead of xfdesktop

Also pretty confident that the transparency problem will go away if you enable compositing in Window Manager Tweaks.

You're right, it did. Now xfce4-terminal draws the correct wallpaper, the one of xfdesktop.
But I'm not sure I want compositing active. It makes the system a bit sluggish.

I'll try and report back if needed.

Thank you for replying, regards.
- aurocha

aurocha

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Registered: 2011-07-18

Posts: 5

Re: GDM3 sets a 'base' desktop background instead of xfdesktop

I had the problem when using a remote session to GDM's via xdmcp. I could fix it by disabling the second screen in XFCE using Settings->Display in the menu. There was an unwanted screen named "Laptop".

Hmmm... I'll check that. It would be great if the problem was the one you mention.
Thanks

- aurocha

Jerome

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Registered: 2011-07-21

Posts: 10

Re: GDM3 sets a 'base' desktop background instead of xfdesktop

Hi.

Sorry for being off-topic. I'd like to know the icon theme you're using on that scrrenshot : http://goo.gl/nh3aX.

I'm using Tango, which is pretty close (blue directories), but it defaults to GNOME (brown directories) for all specific XDG directories (music, pictures, etc), and the result is ugly.