Double wallpaper-entries in appearance menu

[Christoph Werthwein]

I've added a wallpaper to the /usr/share/backgrounds folder and added an entry for it in the /usr/share/gnome-background-properties/ubuntu-wallpapers.xml file. Since then, every wallpaper appears twice in the appearance menue.

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you add your modified .xml to the bug?

[Christoph Werthwein (krissel)]

Hi, here is a copy of the file. I've added the last entry for "Saturn Eclipse".

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what did you try to achieve by editing that file? getting the wallpaper listed or added to a slideshow or...?

[Christoph Werthwein (krissel)]

Hi Sebastien,

I simply wanted the wallpaper to be listed, because the new unity-greeter does not display user-wallpapers from the home folder.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

weird, I can't trigger the issue there, it behaves as it should...

[Christoph Werthwein (krissel)]

I've tried to reproduce it and it worked. Here are the steps:

1. Downloaded latest daily build of precise
2. Created a new VM in Virtualbox
3. Installed the image
4. Installed all updates
5. Dowloaded a random wallpaper (size 1024x768, VMs resolution)
6. copied image to /usr/share/backgrounds
7. copied the last entry in the ubuntu-wallpapers.xml file and changed name and path to file
8. checked appearance menue - All Wallpapers appear twice

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ali Najafi (alinajafi)]

I have this problem too. After deleting the lines added to the ubuntu-wallpapers.xml, nothing changed. Even the added wallpaper remains there!

[Ali Najafi (alinajafi)]

I found a solution!

After backup the file, I edited the file "ubuntu-wallpapers.xml" and deleted some wallpapers listed randomly. Now, every image deleted from the list, is single in "Appearance" app. The others are still double!

Hope this comment to help finding real problem.

[Freecore (softdreamter)]

I found THE solution!

(thanks to Ali for his information in comment #10)

I had the same problem.

It appears to be that Ubuntu seeks for XML entrys in ALL the files in /usr/share/gnome-backgroud-properties directory, not only the xml files (you can even have a file named my-wallpapers.ogg but filled as XML with your pictures entrys and it will work). So it is not necesary to add the entrys in precise-wallpapers.xml file or in ubuntu-wallpapers.xml file, you can have your own file like my-wallpapers.xml.

- Now, why the pictures appears twice in the appearance menue?

It's because text editors like gedit creates backup files for every file you are changing (for my-wallpapers.xml it will create my-wallpapers.xml~). All you have to do is to remove all the backup files and you will have the appearance menu just like you wanted it.

PD: Text editors backup files are hidden by default, because of that one can no realize why the pictures appears twice. you can remove the backup files with sudo rm, or you can run nautilus as root and hit the "view hidden files" option.