GNU bug report logs - #53842
XFCE sets wallpapers to gc'd store paths.

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From: Brendan Tildesley <mail <at> brendan.scot>
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: XFCE sets wallpapers to gc'd store paths.
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 10:49:05 +0100 (CET)

Backgrounds in XFCE get set to their store path that over time get gc'd killing the background. Perhaps somehow making them point to /run/current-system/profile/share/backgrounds/xfce somehow would be better.

/home/b/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml
22:          <property name="last-image" type="string" value="/gnu/store/fmds2rcqqxmiq1ipk6wqbf8x68ks93pp-xfdesktop-4.16.0/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-verticals.png"/>
27:          <property name="last-image" type="string" value="/gnu/store/sc0lz41k6l41yyyrgh8k3x9cyvxwn418-xfdesktop-4.16.0/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-verticals.png"/>
32:          <property name="last-image" type="string" value="/gnu/store/gym3674d636cxlk1jxgwqn3qv55hm99d-xfdesktop-4.16.0/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-verticals.png"/>
37:          <property name="last-image" type="string" value="/gnu/store/gym3674d636cxlk1jxgwqn3qv55hm99d-xfdesktop-4.16.0/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-verticals.png"/>
60:          <property name="last-image" type="string" value="/gnu/store/fmds2rcqqxmiq1ipk6wqbf8x68ks93pp-xfdesktop-4.16.0/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-verticals.png"/>
65:          <property name="last-image" type="string" value="/gnu/store/sc0lz41k6l41yyyrgh8k3x9cyvxwn418-xfdesktop-4.16.0/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-verticals.png"/>
70:          <property name="last-image" type="string" value="/gnu/store/gym3674d636cxlk1jxgwqn3qv55hm99d-xfdesktop-4.16.0/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-verticals.png"/>
75:          <property name="last-image" type="string" value="/gnu/store/gym3674d636cxlk1jxgwqn3qv55hm99d-xfdesktop-4.16.0/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-verticals.png"/>
80:          <property name="last-image" type="string" value="/gnu/store/l8psafxs8fhniyi0y6qycjv25bxm7pq6-xfdesktop-4.16.0/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-verticals.png"/>

Message #8 received at 53842 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Brendan Tildesley <mail <at> brendan.scot>, 53842 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53842: XFCE sets wallpapers to gc'd store paths.
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:48:50 +0100

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Brendan Tildesley schreef op ma 07-02-2022 om 10:49 [+0100]:
> Backgrounds in XFCE get set to their store path that over time get gc'd killing the background. Perhaps somehow making them point to /run/current-system/profile/share/backgrounds/xfce somehow would be better.

That assumes XFCE is in the system profile,
which is not necessarily the case when XFCE and X are started manually
with startx or xinit.

Instead, what do you think of introducing a $BACKGROUNDS_PATH
search path, teaching XFCE to look there, and adjusting XFCE
to serialize things a little differently, e.g. like

<property name="last-image" type="string"
value="$BACKGROUNDS_PATH/xfce/xfce-verticals.png">

?

Other desktop environments might be affected as well.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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