antiX 19 LightDM IceWM Nitrogen Loses Wallpaper on Reboot/Logout

[Member rej]

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I am running IceWM with LightDM and Nitrogen – it puts the Wallpaper on the desktop but on logout loses it.

Startup “nitrogen –restore &” does not restore it.

Does it conflict with the wallpaper option in the control center?

Or cannot restore wallpaper by any means in IceWM LightDM?

Thank you.

[Forum Admin Dave]

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What startup file did you put the command in?

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[Member rej]

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Hi Dave-

/home/rj/.icewm/startup

[Forum Admin Dave]

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OK. Does the command work if you run it manually in terminal?
Do other items in the startup file run?

A few things
Maybe post the contents of /home/rj/.icewm/startup; you may have a malformed line prior to the nitrogen one.
Make sure lightdm is running icewm-session not icewm. Otherwise the startup file is not even called.
If I recall correctly the startup file will need to have execute permissions. Make sure it does and/or try with execute permissions if it does not have them.

Any particular feature in nitrogen vs the default wallpaper app that you are looking for? Otherwise you could add desktop-session-wallpaper & to the icewm startup file to use the default one.

Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown

[Member rej]

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Thanks so much for your help!

OK. Does the command work if you run it manually in terminal?

•No [does not restore the wallpaper]

Do other items in the startup file run?

• No none of them run.

A few things
Maybe post the contents of /home/rj/.icewm/startup; you may have a malformed line prior to the nitrogen one.

•

#!/bin/bash
#Turn on xscreensaver
xscreensaver &
# Auto suspend after 15 min
xautolock -time 10 -locker "sudo /usr/sbin/pm-suspend" -detectsleep &
sleep 1 &&
nitrogen --restore &

Make sure lightdm is running icewm-session not icewm. Otherwise the startup file is not even called.

• Not sure where that is –

[usr-share-xsessions] icewm-session (File)?

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Name=IceWM Session
Name[da]=IceWM-session
GenericName=Window Manager
GenericName[da]=Vindueshåndtering
GenericName[fr]=Gestionnaire de Fenêtres
GenericName[pt]=Gestor de Janelas
Comment=This session logs you into IceWM
Comment[az]=Bu iclas sizi IceWM'a daxil edəcək
Comment[be]=Гэтая сэсыя завядзе вас у IceWM
Comment[ca]=Aquesta sessió entra en IceWM
Comment[cs]=Toto sezení vás přihlásí do IceWM
Comment[cy]=Mae'r sesiwn hwn yn eich mewngofnodi i IceWM
Comment[da]=Denne session logger dig ind på IceWM
Comment[de]=Diese Sitzung meldet Sie an IceWM an
Comment[el]=Αυτή η συνεδρία σας εισάγει στο IceWM
Comment[es]=Con esta sesión accede a IceWM
Comment[fi]=Tämä istunto kirjaa sisään IceWMen
Comment[fr]=Cette session vous connectera dans IceWM
Comment[he]=תצורת הפעלה זו מחברת אותך ל IceWM
Comment[hi]=यह सत्र गनोम में लॉगिन होगा
Comment[hu]=Ez a munkamenet a IceWM-ba jelentkeztet be
Comment[it]=Sessione di lavoro con IceWM
Comment[ja]=IceWM セッションにログインします
Comment[ko]=IceWM세션으로 로그인합니다
Comment[ms]=Sesi ini akan log anda  ke IceWM
Comment[nl]=Deze sessie meldt u aan bij IceWM
Comment[nn]=Denne økta loggar på IceWM
Comment[no]=Denne sesjonen logger deg inn til IceWM
Comment[pl]=Sesja logowania do IceWM
Comment[pt]=Esta sessão inicia-o no IceWM
Comment[pt_BR]=Logar no ambiente IceWM
Comment[ro]=Această sesiune vă va loga în IceWM
Comment[sk]=Toto sedenie vás prihlási do prostredia IceWM
Comment[sl]=Ta seja vas prijavi v IceWM
Comment[sq]=Kjo seancë do t'ju fusë në IceWM
Comment[sr@Latn]=Ova sesija vas prijavljuje na IceWM
Comment[sr]=Ова сесија вас пријављује на IceWM
Comment[sv]=Denna session loggar in dig i IceWM
Comment[tr]=Bu oturum ile IceWM'a giriş yaparsınız
Comment[uk]=Сеанс роботи в середовищі IceWM
Comment[vi]=Session này cho bạn đăng nhập vào IceWM
Comment[zh_CN]=此会话使您登录到 IceWM
Comment[zh_TW]=選取這個作業階段後會進入 IceWM 環境
Icon=icewm
TryExec=/usr/bin/icewm-session
Exec=icewm-session
NoDisplay=false
Hidden=false
Categories=WindowManager;Application;System;
StartupNotify=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager
X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager
X-GNOME-WMName=icewm
DesktopNames=ICEWM
X-LightDM-DesktopName=icewm

[Window Manager]
Name=icewm
SessionManaged=true
StartupNotification=false

If I recall correctly the startup file will need to have execute permissions. Make sure it does and/or try with execute permissions if it does not have them.

• It looks as though it has executable permissions.

Any particular feature in nitrogen vs the default wallpaper app that you are looking for? Otherwise you could add desktop-session-wallpaper & to the icewm startup file to use the default one.

•Using LightDM, the wallpaper option in the control center doesn’t function (black or “debian” background). I also prefer Nitrogen, because it has many features and is fast.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by rej.

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[Anonymous]

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tested, launched via commandline in antix 19 Full:

rox-icewm session —v

demo@antix1:/home/demo
$ nitrogen --restore
UNKNOWN ROOT WINDOW TYPE DETECTED (ROX-Filer), please file a bug

icewm session —v

no error message, and (but) no effect

fluxbox session —v
space-fluxfox —v
zzzfm-fluxbox session —v

nitrogen works, successfully restores its last saved wallpaper image

$ apt show nitrogen
Package: nitrogen
Version: 1.6.1-2
[..]
APT-Sources: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages

So, rej, you can file a bug report here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=nitrogen;dist=unstable

[Member rej]

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Thanks Skidoo-

I have Nitrogen working with the same setup in MX19 IceWM with LightDM.

Is Rox-Filer associated with LightDM? Or is the posted result from SLiM?

I am wondering if there is something in antiX configuration preventing it from overriding the default wallpaper settings.

It might not be possible to use Nitrogen in antiX IceWM.

[Forum Admin Dave]

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rej wrote:

I am wondering if there is something in antiX configuration preventing it from overriding the default wallpaper settings.

It might not be possible to use Nitrogen in antiX IceWM.

No there is not. Or at least there should be no reason for it to work not.
It should by all means work so I am not sure why it does not work for you. antiX had used nitrogen in the past.

If it is not working from terminal there is another issue at play. Most likely not a startup issue.
Is the save file still there after logout / login? Is it still a valid configuration?
~/.config/nitrogen/bg-saved.cfg

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[Member rej]

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If it is not working from terminal there is another issue at play. Most likely not a startup issue.
Is the save file still there after logout / login? Is it still a valid configuration?
~/.config/nitrogen/bg-saved.cfg

Yes-

[xin_-1]
file=/home/rj/Pictures/user acct icon scaled 320 tiling.png
mode=1
bgcolor=#000000

I changed the WM to SLiM and now everything in startup works, except for Nitrogen.

Screenblanking also now works in SLiM, but did not in LightDM.

Nitrogen no longer works at all.

rj@antix19rj:~
$ sudo nitrogen

(nitrogen:5792): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 00:31:07.064: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.background' does not contain a key named 'draw-background'
Trace/breakpoint trap
rj@antix19rj:~
$ 

It would set the wallpaper in LightDM, just not save it.

Nothing in SLiM.

I had tested the Bullseye Alpha and found that the same issue will be present with imported “plain text documents” changing into “executable” when copied to antiX SLiM and hoped that since LightDM doesn’t do that, I could use Nitrogen to have wallpaper and use it that way.

[Forum Admin Dave]

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Maybe try renaming the wallpaper so that there are no spaces in the name.

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[Anonymous]

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rej,

it’s known issue, not antiX -specific, affecting even users of “gnome, under manjaro”
https://github.com/l3ib/nitrogen/issues/131

Toward chasing a solution, here’s a startpage.com search query:

GLib-GIO-ERROR Settings schema org.gnome.desktop.background “background”

[Member rej]

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Thanks Skidoo-

GLib-GIO-ERROR Settings schema org.gnome.desktop.background “background”

That issue comes up only with SLiM for me, not LightDM. Nitrogen works perfectly in antiX IceWM with LightDM otherwise. My problem is getting the “Startup” file to work with LightDM. The entire “Startup” file does not function in LightDM, but it does in SLiM. Nitrogen does not function at all in SLiM and perhaps that where the bug is.

“Fails to set the background image” is not a problem I am having – it does set the background image. It doesn’t restore it, because everything in my “Startup” is not working.

[Member rej]

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Thank you Dave-

Maybe try renaming the wallpaper so that there are no spaces in the name.

Yes – I had remembered that from testing beta 19 and it did not work.

I am pretty certain that if I could get “Startup” to work in LightDM, it would solve the problem.

Is there any place else to put “Startup” for LightDM apart from /home/rj/.icewm?

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