fails to display wallpaper image (root window is all white)

[Jeff Fortin Tam]

If nautilus is set to not show icons on the desktop, when you run "mutter --replace" in Ubuntu 9.10, the wallpaper is replaced by a solid white screen. Replacing mutter by metacity or compiz correctly reverts the wallpaper.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 7 11:29:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: mutter 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic-pae
SourcePackage: mutter
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae i686

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

Also happens if using gnome-shell, the wallpaper is then replaced by a solid blue.

[Matti Viljanen (direc85)]

I'm not sure what mutter --replace does, but

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#head-2682ace4d30fd717d5b01cbcec2abf9c2be02976

suggests that you use gnome-shell --replace. Also, changes are often because the packages are compiled against git. Could you update the packages and see if the problem still exists?

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

This still happens with xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.13.1 and mutter 2.31.5 in Ubuntu 10.10.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I cannot duplicate this issue in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Please upgrade if you haven't already.