‘Choosing Wallpaper Option’ Not Working In Control Centre

[Member berghsg]

Greetings

My OS: Antix 19.1 Marielle Franco
My Kernel: Linux antix1 4.9.200-antix.1-amd64-smp
My File Manager: SpaceFM
My Windows Manager: IceWM
My Theme: Ultrablack-Large
My Look and feel: Niroki (dark theme)
My Icon theme: Numix square antix

i) PROBLEM:
Go to Start > Control Centre > Desktop > Choose Wallpaper > click > nothing happens
I cannot see option window to allow me choose my wallpaper

In terminal type:
wallpaper.py

The output shows
………………..
space-icewm
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/wallpaper.py”, line 532, in <module>
Var().read()
line 124, in readvar.CURRENTCOLOR = var.COLORAttributeError: class Var has no attribute ‘COLOR’
……………….

ii) SOLUTION:
In terminal:
pico ~/.desktop-session/wallpaper.conf

Scroll down to
COLOR=000000000000

change to:
COLOR=000000ffffff

Ctrl o
Enter (Press Enter on the keyboard)
Ctrl x

Restart session if you have to.

PS: I must have changed the COLOR code in error a while back when the select wallpaper option no longer worked in the Control Centre

• This topic was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by berghsg.
• This topic was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by christophe.
• This topic was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by christophe.

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[Moderator BobC]

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1. Is the software all up to date?
2. Which desktop are you running (it says in the conky)
3. Any programming mods?
4. Which version of antiX 19.1, ie 32/64 full or base, installed or running from flashdrive?

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Looks to me like antiX 19 64bit . No mention of full or base or core install though to go by.

Maybe they will mention it next.

This works a treat

inxi -zv8

and this for is the system up to date question

harry@biker:~
$ su
Password: 
root@biker:/home/harry# apt upgrade && apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  icewm icewm-common
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,317 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.2 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bullseye bullseye/main amd64 icewm amd64 2.9.8-1.0antix1 [668 kB]
Get:2 http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bullseye bullseye/main amd64 icewm-common amd64 2.9.8-1.0antix1 [649 kB]
Fetched 1,317 kB in 1s (889 kB/s)     
(Reading database ... 176388 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../icewm_2.9.8-1.0antix1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking icewm (2.9.8-1.0antix1) over (2.9.7-1.0antix1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../icewm-common_2.9.8-1.0antix1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking icewm-common (2.9.8-1.0antix1) over (2.9.7-1.0antix1) ...
Setting up icewm-common (2.9.8-1.0antix1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.48) ...
Setting up icewm (2.9.8-1.0antix1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.48) ...
Available xsessions have changed
Updating Slimski /etc/slimski.local.conf
desktop-session-update-wm-menus: Writing file: /usr/share/desktop-session/wm-menus/fluxbox-wm-menu
desktop-session-update-wm-menus: Writing file: /usr/share/desktop-session/wm-menus/icewm-wm-menu
desktop-session-update-wm-menus: Writing file: /usr/share/desktop-session/wm-menus/jwm-wm-menu
desktop-session-update-wm-menus: Writing file: /usr/share/desktop-session/wm-menus/RAW-wm-menu
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@biker:/home/harry# 

Nice tutorial. Thanks. 😀

Edit: I guess I’ll mention I have never had a issue like this and the 1st thing after install is I point my wallpaper application to the wallpaper folder I keep in /home/username

harry@biker:~
$ cd Wallpaper
harry@biker:~/Wallpaper
$ ls
219-icewmbg.gif      infected-wallpaper-7.jpg
dirty_hardtail1.jpg  red_antiX.jpg
hibiscuis.jpg        tumblr_843870fd4f65914b27a467c2f932b090_59531072_1280.jpg
infected-5.jpg

• This reply was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by rokytnji.

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