Something is fundamentally not working here. I'm just trying to change the desktop background picture.
I go into Settings > Desktop. The "Background" tab is open by default.
The "Folder" dropdown list offers several predefined locations. I pick "Other", and a file selection dialog opens, showing the contents of "/usr/share".
But every file and subdirectory of "/usr/share" is grayed out and disabled. I can't actually browse the filesystem. The dialog is dead.
The only thing I can do here is pick from one of the preselected directory locations on the left, like "Desktop", "Documents", "Music", etc. Each one opens the corresponding directory, but that's it. Every file and subdirectory is grayed out and disabled.
I'm seeing this on two separate laptops that were upgraded to F26. What the heck is going on?
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
Something is fundamentally not working here. I'm just trying to change the desktop background picture.
I go into Settings > Desktop. The "Background" tab is open by default.
The "Folder" dropdown list offers several predefined locations. I pick "Other", and a file selection dialog opens, showing the contents of "/usr/share".
But every file and subdirectory of "/usr/share" is grayed out and disabled. I can't actually browse the filesystem. The dialog is dead.
The only thing I can do here is pick from one of the preselected directory locations on the left, like "Desktop", "Documents", "Music", etc. Each one opens the corresponding directory, but that's it. Every file and subdirectory is grayed out and disabled.
I'm seeing this on two separate laptops that were upgraded to F26. What the heck is going on?
The same happens here, Sam.
A workaround: go to
/usr/share/backgrounds/
through your file manager, open your preffered wallpaper with Ristretto, and then
View --> Set as Wallpaper.
Paul
On 2017-07-11 at 22:41:00 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Something is fundamentally not working here. I'm just trying to change the desktop background picture.
I go into Settings > Desktop. The "Background" tab is open by default.
The "Folder" dropdown list offers several predefined locations. I pick "Other", and a file selection dialog opens, showing the contents of "/usr/share".
But every file and subdirectory of "/usr/share" is grayed out and disabled. I can't actually browse the filesystem. The dialog is dead.
The only thing I can do here is pick from one of the preselected directory locations on the left, like "Desktop", "Documents", "Music", etc. Each one opens the corresponding directory, but that's it. Every file and subdirectory is grayed out and disabled.
I'm seeing this on two separate laptops that were upgraded to F26. What the heck is going on?
Same on F25.
-- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
On 07/12/2017 04:15 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
On 2017-07-11 at 22:41:00 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Something is fundamentally not working here. I'm just trying to change the desktop background picture.
I go into Settings > Desktop. The "Background" tab is open by default.
The "Folder" dropdown list offers several predefined locations. I pick "Other", and a file selection dialog opens, showing the contents of "/usr/share".
But every file and subdirectory of "/usr/share" is grayed out and disabled. I can't actually browse the filesystem. The dialog is dead.
The only thing I can do here is pick from one of the preselected directory locations on the left, like "Desktop", "Documents", "Music", etc. Each one opens the corresponding directory, but that's it. Every file and subdirectory is grayed out and disabled.
I'm seeing this on two separate laptops that were upgraded to F26. What the heck is going on?
Same on F25.
Confirmed on F25 and F26. This appears to be a bug in the file selector code in gtk2 versions above 2.24.30. There are complaints about it on the archlinux sites going back almost a year. Theoretically, reverting to gtk2 2.24.30-3 fixes it.
My up-to-date F25 uses gtk2-2.24.31-2.fc25.x86_64, my just-installed- and-upgraded F26 is using gtk2-2.24.31-4.fc26.x86_64. Looks like time for yet another bug report to the gtk2 people. Sheesh. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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