Background with feh doesn't work

[Robin McCorkell]

When gnome-settings-daemon or unity-settings-daemon are not installed, feh is run using one of a handful of predefined wallpapers. However, while it appears to run correctly, as it flashes up the background briefly, the actual installer has just a black screen. It seems like the feh invokation needs to be later after the Ubiquity installer has started.

This behaviour was noticed when using XFCE, so xfwm and xfsettingsd are running. Perhaps it is caused by the xsetroot invokation, which occurs after the feh invokation?

[Robin McCorkell (xenopathic)]

In the interest of code improvement, I made a patch that fixes the issue and additionally searches for /usr/share/backgrounds/installer.png when using feh (the current list is rather arbitrary).

The patch is for the trusty-proposed version of ubiquity, 2.18.8.3

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