[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-Dev]Default directory for wallpapers

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 30 18:09:26 CEST 2011


On 30 April 2011 08:57, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Donald Stewart
> <watersnowrock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Currently, nearly all the artwork is stored in /usr/share/mga/* this
>> is fine for everything apart from wallpapers as kde looks in
>> /usr/share/wallpapers for its wallpapers.
>>
>> Either, all the wallpapers are moved from */mga/backgrounds to
>> /usr/share/wallpapers, which would surely lead to issues with other
>> desktops, kdm possibly gdm and others, kdebase4-workspace is patched
>> to look in */mga/backgrounds which seems a little extreme, or symlinks
>> are added between */mga/backgrounds --> /usr/share/wallpapers.
>>
>> What do people think?
>>
>> Donald "schultz" Stewart
>>
> the pb is that all the WM doesn't use the same folder by default :
>
> KDE => /usr/share/wallpaper
> GNome =>  /usr/share/background

No, GNOME uses /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome, that's where the
GNOME upstream wallpaper is:
libgnome2:/usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg

/usr/share/backgrounds is used by gnome-screensaver (only).

>
> and so on
>



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Ahmad Samir


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