Variety defaults to stock Ubuntu wallpaper if the name of the file starts with the # character

[ThreefoldBurly]

I'm not sure this is actually a problem with Variety or the underlying system (some Unity quirk?). Not sure also if "#" has to be the first character in the name of the file. I've just had bunch named in "#0001" convention and noticed every time Variety was supposed to show them it showed the default Ubuntu wallpaper instead. Getting rid of the hash in name remedied the situation.

Variety version: 0.5.0 but I'm pretty sure it was also the case with the previous one (0.4.2 if I remember correctly)
DE I'm using: Unity
Version of Ubuntu: 14.10
~$ uname -a
Linux Tamriel-on-Ubuntu 3.16.0-28-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 12 17:37:40 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[ThreefoldBurly (greatorety)]

It looks suspiciously to me as if something reading the filenames treated the parsed string as a comment. Just a thought

[Peter Levi (peterlevi)]

Still trying to reproduce this, no luck... Can you please run with -v and send me the log file after you reproduce it (/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/bin/variety -v, log file is generated in ~/.config/variety/variety.log). Thanks.

[ThreefoldBurly (greatorety)]

I'll do exactly that but no sooner than on Friday (16th Jan) as till then I'm on a different computer and on that one I also had no luck with reproducing this. The two machines are pretty different, the one I spotted the bug is a desktop with two monitors and the one I'm on right now is a laptop but both have almost exactly the same software installed so it could be the problem was caused by something hardware-related and had nothing to do with Variety.

[Peter Levi (peterlevi)]

Any update on this one?

[ThreefoldBurly (greatorety)]

Sorry for the delay. I managed to reproduce the bug (just recopied the old files with hash at the start of filename to the old place and then selecting the affected image from the Wallpaper Selector produces the stock ubuntu wallpaper). Attaching the log you asked for.

[ThreefoldBurly (greatorety)]

Also I'm on Variety 0.5.2 now.