Wallpaper starts without any image

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff]

I have Wallpaper rev. 23, and both in Compiz and Metacity it's blank until I change the dconf key. See attached video.

[Pim Vullers (pimvullers)]

I had the same issue when making packages (ebuilds) for Gentoo. I resolved it by making a elementary-backgrounds package which at least includes the cloud background from the jupiter elementary OS release.
These get installed into /usr/share/backgrounds/elementary. Finally I adjusted the gsettings schema to have the cloud background as default, resolving the issue of this bug. (with pantheon-wallpaper depending on elementary-backgrounds)

This approach might help with the ubuntu packages.

[Arturo Torres Sánchez (r2d2.art2005)]

The workaround doesn't work for me. No matter how many times I change the background picture, I still have a gray (#333) background.

[Arturo Torres Sánchez (r2d2.art2005)]

Nevermind. It works, but I need to report a new bug.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

What is the status of this bug? Does any action need to be taken on the part of the codebase?

[Pim Vullers (pimvullers)]

I'll have to check again. Can you tell me how to remove the gsettings installed by this application?

I think it mainly has to do with setting a default in the gsettings file and providing this file with the installation. The alternative would be to do the handling of a missing setting in the code.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Pim Vullers: I think you misunderstand the bug. The dconf key is there. Wallpaper just fails to read on startup, but watching it for changes works properly. See attached video.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

For what it's worth, I've noticed this issue on my computer but it seems to have disappeared as of late.