Comment 13 for bug 69938

Use --no-background if you don't want it writing the background. Turns out
using a GNOME component outside GNOME leads to undefined behavior
On Aug 3, 2014 7:15 AM, "pwaring" <email address hidden> wrote:

> The Chrome argument does not address the problem that if I launch
> Nautilus from the menu then I can no longer access the menu, even if I
> quit Nautilus using the standard cross icon in the top right corner of
> the window. Plus, even if I kill all the Nautilus processes, the
> background image has still changed.
>
> As I said, that may be a bug with Nautilus instead of Fluxbox, but
> either way it breaks functionality and changes the user interface. I
> can't see how that is anything other than a bug. Yes there are
> workarounds like binding the RootMenu action or passing extra arguments
> to Nautilus, but these things should not happen in the first place,
> especially when the fix is to change how the menu is generated.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/69938
>
> Title:
> Fluxbox background disappears on certain events
>
> Status in Fluxbox Window Manager:
> New
> Status in “fluxbox” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I have a script that randomly selects a wallpaper from my art folder
> and than uses the command "fbsetbg" to set it as my background. This
> script is in my ~/.fluxbox/startup file.
>
> The script runs fine and displays the wallpaper after I login. I
> noticed, however, when I run certain programs (WINE in particular) the
> fluxbox background just disappears, and goes back to a plain gray. I
> am fairly certain the problem is not with the script or the entry on
> my startup file, but I am providing them below anyway.
>
> Here is my startup file:
>
> wallpaper.sh
> gaim &
> xmms ~/music/GamingFMClassicConsoleLowBW.pls &
> swiftfox &
> exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox
>
> and the script (wallpaper.sh):
>
> #!/bin/bash
> WALLPAPERS="/home/paul/wallpaper" #change this path for your system
> ALIST=( `ls -w1 /home/paul/wallpaper` )
> RANGE=${#ALIST[@]}
> let "number = $RANDOM"
> let LASTNUM="`cat $WALLPAPERS/.last` + $number"
> let "number = $LASTNUM % $RANGE"
> echo $number > $WALLPAPERS/.last
> fbsetbg $WALLPAPERS/${ALIST[$number]} &
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