Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

From	Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust
Date	2017-05-19 12:00 +0200
Message-ID	<tIMRs-nW-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On 05/18/2017 10:27 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> On 5/19/17, Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has
>> ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot
>> the problem.  The salient information is: OS is fully updated Testing,
>> MATE desktop environment.  I have attempted to re-set the desktop
>> background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop
>> background on the desktop to no effect.  Thinking that probably the
>> issue was associated with my normal login (the only one on the system),
>> I created a new user from root terminal and logged in with newly created
>> skeleton home folder; the problem persisted with the new user, so it is
>> a system-wide issue.  Past that, I have no clue.  Any ideas/help will be
>> greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

> I'm in Stretch Testing using Xfce4. Mine got zapped a while back. I
> hadn't stopped to nose around about it until just yesterday. This
> might not work for your problem, but I found mine are now at
> /usr/share/images/desktop-base/.

All the system wallpaper installed can be found in /usr/share/wallpaper. 
I use a photo viewer to browse that folder.
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda14
Registered Linux User #380263

Thread

Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 07:00 +0200
  Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 07:30 +0200
    Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 12:00 +0200
    Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2017-05-20 20:50 +0200
      Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 01:30 +0200
  Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-20 04:20 +0200
    Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-05-20 07:10 +0200
      Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-05-21 15:00 +0200
        Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-05-21 18:10 +0200
        Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-21 23:40 +0200
          Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-22 10:00 +0200
            Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 22:30 +0200
            Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-23 01:50 +0200
          Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-05-25 13:40 +0200
            Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 01:10 +0200
    Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 01:30 +0200
  Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2017-05-20 21:00 +0200
    Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 01:40 +0200
      Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 04:40 +0200
        Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 18:00 +0200
        Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-24 19:30 +0200
          Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 00:30 +0200
            Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-25 02:00 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 02:30 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-25 13:20 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-25 17:40 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-25 20:30 +0200
          Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-25 13:00 +0200
            Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 13:10 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-25 13:30 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 01:10 +0200
            Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 16:50 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-26 17:20 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 01:10 +0200
            Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 01:00 +0200
              Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-27 13:40 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-27 17:00 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-27 17:20 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-27 20:20 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-29 20:20 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-30 06:00 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-30 11:20 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-30 11:40 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-30 14:30 +0200
                Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-30 15:10 +0200
  SOLVED? - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-10 23:00 +0200
    Re: SOLVED - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 02:40 +0200
    Re: SOLVED? - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-06-11 03:10 +0200
      Re: SOLVED? - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 03:10 +0200

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