It doesn't work on Ubuntu 11.10

[Xin]

I upgrade my computer from 11.04 to 11.10 beta. The daemon is running but the wallpaper is not changed as expected.

[Martin Gustafsson (filescraps)]

Changed 11.11 to 11.10 since 11.11 doen't exist. :3

[David Breakey (david-breakey)]

Looks like it's necessary to edit org.gnome.desktop.background.picture-uri now. Found this via 'dconf-editor' The gconf key is still being updated, but seems to be completely ignored.

[whl2 (whale2-box)]

I have a patch for this. I'm totally not good in gnome programming, it's just a result of one-night-at-googling and probably not the best way for it.

But I met another problem - desktopnova-daemon can't connect to DBus. Curiosly, when I'm starting it under strace to see what happens - it connects.

[whl2 (whale2-box)]

Oops. DBus connection failure was caused by setuid bit on desktopnova-daemon. Without it it works fine.

[angus73 (angus73)]

whl2's patch works for me (thank you!), btw I am not able to see the trayicon, even if launching desktopnova-tray gives no errors...

[swedpool (demoling-nilsson)]

Can someone more technically gifted than med explain how to use the patch provided?

Thanks in advance

[angus73 (angus73)]

swedpool, you should use the patch command, see

man patch

for the correct options to use.

Typically, you should save the file included in comment #3 to any location you like (e.g. "path-to-the-patch-file"); then chdir into the directory containing your module_gnome.c, and issue the command

patch < path-to-the-patch-file/desktopnova-ubuntu-11.10.patch

Then you can compile the program again and it should work (sorry if I cannot be more detailed now, but I don't have access to my desktopnova installation at the moment)

[quantenemitter (quantenemitter)]

Yeah!
@swedpool: the following might work (perhaps I forgot something)

sudo apt-get build-dep desktopnova-module-gnome
sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot devscripts
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
apt-get source desktopnova-module-gnome
cd desktopnova-0.8
cd src
cd modules
patch < path-to-the-patch-file/desktopnova-ubuntu-11.10.patch
cd ../..
debchange -i
[Enter Version number ....-ubuntu3 and some comments]
debuild -us -uc -i -I
sudo debi

see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpdatingADeb

[Mohegan (jack-mohegan)]

Befere the debuild, it is necessary to install libdconf-dev :
sudo apt-get install libdconf-dev

[3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk)]

Thanks for the comprehensive instructions, quantenemitter, and thanks especially to whl2 for the patch. I can confirm it works great here.

[Filippo Mazza (filippo-mazza)]

Confirmed that patching like in comments 9 and 8 works.

[Binho RbSoft (binhorbsoft)]

A similar bug is happening in 12.04. I've applied a similar fix to that solved in 11.10, but some bugs remain. If anyone can help ...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/desktopnova/+bug/962449

Thanks!