Don't support with MATE 1.6

[Pavel]

1. variety 0.4.13
2. MATE Desktop 1.6
3. Linux Mint 13 Maya (LTS)

Since 1.6 MATE stored settings via gsettings, therefore Variety don't change wallpaper via mateconftool

[StratosJL (stratosjl)]

Same goes for MATE 14

[Krash (krash1220)]

Same here.

MATE Desktop 1.6
Variety 0.4.13
Ubuntu Server 12.10

I even tried changing the script files to gsettings get org.mate.background picture-filename and it still doesn't work.

[Peter Levi (peterlevi)]

Please find the commands that work on your machines for setting/getting the wallpaper from the command line. After you have them and have confirmed that they work, please try putting them inside the set/get_wallpaper scripts in ~/.config/variety/scripts and see if Variety works. Also please write them here so I can update the scripts. Thanks.

[Krash (krash1220)]

Mine is now fixed. I was putting gsettings GET org.mate.background picture-filename in both script files.

gsettings get org.mate.background picture-filename and gsettings set org.mate.background picture-filename is now working just fine.

[Peter Levi (peterlevi)]

Here's a fixed version. If it still does not work for you, please delete the folder ~/.config/variety/scripts and run again.

[Ofer Chen (oferchen)]

Linux Mint 15 made it work using the following entries

get_wallpaper:
# MATE
elif [ `env | grep MATE_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then
gsettings get org.mate.background picture-filename

set_wallpaper:
# Mate
gsettings set org.mate.background picture-filename "$1" 2> /dev/null

[Jacob Fulton Buckle (jacobafb)]

Hello, I am still effected by this bug where my wallpaper wont change. However when I log into a session of Unity it works fine. I am runing the MATE Desktop Environment 1.6.0 ontop of Ubuntu 12.04.3 and my version of Variety is 0.4.13-0extras12.04.1.

[Peter Levi (peterlevi)]

You use an old version. Please update from PPA to the latest version. This was fixed in 0.4.15.

[Jacob Fulton Buckle (jacobafb)]

Thanks, I updated and it works now - so cool! Sorry for not realizing that I had an old version in the first place.

[Rich Monk (richardmonk)]

I have an issue with MATE 1.12 and getting/setting wallpapers. I noticed that the syntax in the get/set scripts didn't work right, so I rewrote it to handle anything "greater or equal" to 1.6:

get_wallpaper:
# MATE
elif [ `env | grep MATE_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then
        version=`mate-about -v | sed s/MATE\ Desktop\ Environment\ //`
        version_re='([0-9]*)\.([0-9]*)\.([0-9]*)'
        [[ "$version" =~ $version_re ]]
        if [[ "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}" -ge 1 && "${BASH_REMATCH[2]}" -ge 6 ]]; then
            gsettings get org.mate.background picture-filename
        else
            mateconftool-2 --get /desktop/mate/background/picture_filename
        fi

In the set_wallpaper it just runs gsettings without checking, so it actually works, but it throws errors about mateconftool. I'd recommend a similar config as above so that it checks to see the version of mate before blindly running commands