Opensuse 11.3 LXDE Keeps Changing My Wallpaper Back To Default

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Just like the title says…I can set it but when I reboot it goes back to default
thanks in advance

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I can reproduce this. It also used to work when 11.3 was first released. I sent the openSUSE LXDE packager a PM on IRC, so next time he logs on he should be notified.

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OK, I was able to reproduce this , and then noted there was a bug report on it. I followed advice in bug report and fixed this.

Bug report is here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651089

I added the repository:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/lxde/openSUSE_11.3/

and installed:

pcmanfm-lang-0.9.8_rc2-1.3.1
pcmanfm-0.9.8_rc2-72.2
libfm-0.1.14_rc2-75.2
libfm-gtk0-0.1.14_rc2-75.2
lxde-common-0.5.0-48.2
lxde-common-branding-openSUSE-11.3-10.3.1
libfm0-0.1.14_rc2-2.3.1

Note bug report says updated were: libfm, libfm-debuginfo, libfm-debugsource, libfm-devel, libfm-doc, libfm-gtk0, libfm-gtk0-debuginfo, libfm0, libfm0-debuginfo, lxde-common, lxde-common-branding-openSUSE, lxde-common-branding-upstream, pcmanfm, pcmanfm-debuginfo, pcmanfm-debugsource, pcmanfm-lang
… but since I did not have all those installed I did not update all them. I only updated the one’s I had installed.

After updating I removed ~/.config/pcmanfm/pcmanfm.conf

That was important. If I did not do that then the fix did not work. Then I changed my wall paper.

I restarted LXDE and the wall paper changed and change remained !

Good luck.

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Thanks for the reply…but when I try to install those packages it says it cant find them and I tried the find on web function too…I did add the repo you said too…what am I doing wrong?

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Please provide the output of :

zypper lr -d

so we can check what you stated about the repository is correct (ie do a quality check).

I suspect thou, you may not figured out how to use YaST > Software > Software Management to do such updates.

Please take a look at these images on an alsa updat site showing how to update alsa. Yes, it is completely different app, but the same update philosophy applies: SDB:Alsa-update - openSUSE ie :
http://thumbnails26.imagebam.com/11281/d6aa12112800422.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/d6aa12112800422)

Note the ‘versions’ tab needs to be used to ensure the correct version is updated. This is all pretty basic stuff that for some reason a lot of new users fail to pickup.

Now the above example is using the ‘qt’ version of YaST (and I can’t recall what the gtk version of YaST looks like here). I also can’t recall if LXDE comes with that qt version launched by default or if it comes with the ‘gtk’ YaST launched by default, nor can I remember if I had to edit things to launch that qt YaST version automatically ( yes, I think old age is making me senile). But you can always launch it (assuming YasT is NOT running) from a terminal by typing:

su -
yast --qt

Then be careful to ensure you select the version to update in the versions tab.

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zypper lr -d

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

–±----------------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±-------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | 11.3_updates | 11.3_updates | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.3 |
2 | LXDE | LXDE | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/X11:/lxde/openSUSE_11.3 |
3 | google-chrome | google-chrome | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386 |
4 | openSUSE-11.3-NON-Oss | openSUSE-11.3-NON-Oss | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss |
5 | openSUSE-11.3-Oss | openSUSE-11.3-Oss | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
6 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.3-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
7 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
8 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.3-Source | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss

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OK, some comments, …

You have OSS twice. There is no need for that (ie 5 & 7 are the same). So disable #7.

Unless you are very very heavily into Linux development, there is no need to enable repos-source (#8). So disable that #8.

For now I recommend you disable the google-chrome repos #3 (at least until we sort this). You could also consider adding Packman repos.

So the LXDE repository is correct. The only thing stopping you from updating the apps I told you about is your unfamiliarity with YaST Software Management. I gave you a sketch indicating where you need look to update - So GO UPDATE !