WhiteOrchid.jpg replaces warty-final-ubuntu.jpg as login wallpaper

[Brian Vaughan]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-wallpapers-extra

After installing ubuntu-wallpapers-extra, WhiteOrchid.jpg replaced warty-final-ubuntu.jpg as the background for the Gnome login window. I'd guess this is because /usr/share/gconf/defaults/16_ubuntu-wallpapers-extra overrides /usr/share/gconf/defaults/16_ubuntu-wallpapers.

I expected that installing this package would only add additional wallpaper options, without changing any other system settings.

[godhika (godhika)]

I can confirm this behavior. Removing ubuntu-wallpapers-extra brings back warty-final

[Stephen Davison (dvsnse)]

Seems like this package shouldn't be doing anything but adding image files to /usr/share/backgrounds/

[K. Deniz Ogut (kdenizogut)]

ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

I can confirm this as well.

Story:

My brother-in-law had Ubuntu 9.10 - fresh installed by me; dual boot with Windows XP. I web updated Ubuntu part of it to 10.04 Lucid. I installed 3 or 4 additional wallpaper packages from the repositories - one of them was "ubuntu-wallpapers-extra". Lucid's original login window's theme changed to a flower image. There were reports that changing GDM is very hard after Ubuntu 9.10 -if it is not impossible. So I didn't try much to alter it. I also didn't try to uninstall those wallpaper packages one by one to check for the defective one. By eye control I decided that the image is WhiteOrchid.jpg being among the wallpapers. I removed WhiteOrchid.jpg from the wallpapers directory (most probably it was /usr/share/backgrounds) and the background of the login window became plain white (no theme, I mean). I copied WhiteOrchid.jpg to that directory again. It reappeared as the login window theme. I told my brother-in-law that he should use that for some time, for some reason which is hard to tell.

I'm still on 9.10 Karmic but if developers ask for gathering info from my brother-in-law's machine which we experienced the issue; I will be happy do that.

[K. Deniz Ogut (kdenizogut)]

Addition to my comment #3

I think the guess of the original reporter (as repeated in comment #2) as "WhiteOrchid.jpg replaced warty-final-ubuntu.jpg" (it should be .png, I suppose) which is found in /usr/share/gconf/defaults/16_ubuntu-wallpapers is not valid. I don't have the Lucid machine I confirmed the bug with me right now but checking from my Ubuntu Karmic installation:
* My login screen was and is what Karmic default is which is obviously not the warty-final-ubuntu.png image
* The first line of my /usr/share/gconf/defaults/16_ubuntu-wallpapers reads as:
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png"
* Even there's a reference to warty-final-ubuntu.png, which is indeed in /usr/share/backgrounds, neither my login screen theme nor desktop background have never been and is not at the moment "warty-final-ubuntu.png" image
* When I delete that line
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png"
from the file
/usr/share/gconf/defaults/16_ubuntu-wallpapers
and save the file and restart x; my login screen theme is still the Karmic default; and my preferrred user-set desktop background is still the same
* I don't know if that line (or even that file completely) has any use but seems that it is not related with the login screen theme
* In Lucid the image used for the login screen can be found in wallpaper choises as well (actual source files may be different; images are similar/same) but in Karmic the default login screen image is even not found as a desktop background choice
* And I even don't know / can't find where that Karmic login screen image lies and what the filename is
* As a result; Gnome login screen or its Ubuntu modification gets that image from somewhere but not from /usr/share/gconf/defaults/16_ubuntu-wallpapers
* As I stated in comment #3 community have difficulties to modify the login screen theme from Karmic on and its not that easy as to change a line in a file lying in /usr/share/gconf/defaults. In my opinion its not good to hide such files and preferences to some mysterious places and not to document them, but this is beyond the scope of this bug
* As a result, what I confirm is: Installing that package changes the the login screen theme to that image, as I said in comment #3
* In this sense, a modification for this bugs name maybe usefull, if the issue has nothing to do with "warty-final-ubuntu.jpg" [.png ???]

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is not a gdm one

[Corey B. (cbodendein)]

This bug still exists in Maverick. I have seen this issue on all of the Ubuntu installations I have done.

[Corey B. (cbodendein)]

Is there any way this bug could be put in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project for Natty in the Miscellaneous section? This should be extremely trivial to solve and really damages a user's experience who just wants to install more wallpapers.

Thanks.

[Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't understand how Debian packaging works, but a file called ubuntu-wallpapers-extra.xml.in has WhiteOrchid.jpg at the top of the file, with the rest listed below. So for some reason, something is setting the GDM to WhiteOrchid.jpg because it's the first on the list (probably something to do with the call from setup.cfg).

I'm positive this is a one line fix, I just can't find it because I don't understand packaging at the moment.

[Corey B. (cbodendein)]

Yeah, it also changes the wallpaper to white orchid too.

[Corey B. (cbodendein)]

Is the bug because this package replaces ubuntu-wallpapers less than a certain version?

[moli (f-launchpad-moli-hu)]

this bug should be fixed.

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

Still an issue in Oneiric (created new user and got the orchid).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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