Disable gnome background setter [unsolvable, it seems]

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i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:32 am

Hi,

I recently started using gnome on a given machine. I'd like to know how to disable the gnome background setter. Things are like this right now:

I am booting gnome manually via startx with "exec ck-launch-session gnome-session" from my ~/.xinitrc file.
I use my own background setter on my xinitrc file, it's a fairly simple shell script that set's a random picture that it picks from a given folder, then it sleeps in the background and periodically changes my background from time to time at a given interval.
When gnome starts my script runs and sets a random picture (I can see that), some seconds after that gnome set's a orange gradient as background instead, my script is still running so after some time another background is set and everything is like I'd like it to be.
Yes, I have used gconf-editor and disabled the sticky box at desktop->gnome->background->draw_background[], gnome seems to ignore this settings though.

So, my problem is that gnome is still setting my background and hence overriding the effects of my custom script even though I explicitly disabled the gnome background setter feature. I am not too smart about gnome so maybe I am missing some other important setting. Ideas are all welcome.

Thank you beforehand

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:17 pm

Does it help if you open the background settings and set it to no background?

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:16 am

audiodef wrote:Does it help if you open the background settings and set it to no background?

Sorry for the long delay, for some reason I missed the notification.

I've tried that but it makes no differences.

One thing I forgot to mention is that I am not using nautilus as my desktop manager. I have no icons, no right click menu on my root window. I am not sure that is relevant at all but just in case...

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:33 pm

Did you emerge the Gnome meta package or Gnome-light? If the latter, you might want to switch to Gnome-light and add what you need. I have no idea if it will help with your issue, but I'm thinking it might. Gnome tends to have a mind of its own unless you strip it down to bare essentials.

pizzach · Post by **pizzach** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:01 pm

Since work on Gnome 3 started, a bunch of those gconf settings have stopped working because of the Gnome devs slacking on upkeep.

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:34 pm

pizzach wrote:Since work on Gnome 3 started, a bunch of those gconf settings have stopped working because of the Gnome devs slacking on upkeep.

I'm sorry, but...

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:58 am

I've found that to be true. Some gconf settings are simply ignored. I use gnome-light by the way.

86me · Post by **86me** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:09 pm

This is definitely a bug. I've created a patch it and submitted it to bugs.gentoo.org

[bug=344301]You can view the report and download the patch here[/bug]

If you have PORTDIR_OVERLAY set to /usr/local/portage you can copy gnome-settings-daemon/ to /usr/local/portage/gnome-base/ and put the patch in the "files" directory. I've also attached the modified ebuild (2.30.2-r1)

Hope this helps.

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:18 pm

Unfortunately, I have no gnome machine around to test. I will keep this in my bookmarks for the future though. Thank you for taking the time and the interest to fix this and to let us know. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next Gnome release. Marking the thread as solved