Xubuntu displays Ubuntu's backdrop when installing rather than it's own

[Dave Morley]

Ubuntu's Hardy Heron backdrop is displayed as Xubuntu installs and not the Xubuntu desktop image I would of expected. All the other version display there own backdrop correctly.
This does not effect the install which works fine it just looks wrong.

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Sorry not very clear on when. This occurs after the first reboot when you select Xubuntu from the boot menu and it sets up it's partition etc.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Hmm, I didn't know Xubuntu had its own artwork.

Boot with the 'break=casper-bottom' kernel parameter, run 'chroot /root nano /usr/bin/ubiquity-dm', and comment out the following piece of code by putting a '#' symbol at the start of each line:

        if self.frontend == 'gtk_ui' or self.frontend == 'mythbuntu_ui':
            if os.access(background, os.R_OK):
                import gtk
                pixbuf = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(background)
                root = gtk.gdk.get_default_root_window()
                (root_width, root_height) = root.get_size()
                scaled = pixbuf.scale_simple(root_width, root_height, gtk.gdk.INTERP_BILINEAR)
                (pixmap, mask) = scaled.render_pixmap_and_mask(0)
                root.set_back_pixmap(pixmap, False)
                root.clear()
                gtk.gdk.flush()

... then type 'exit' to boot normally. Does it come up with the background you expect, or none at all?

I suspect that in fact we need to run xfdesktop in order to get the correct default background.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

I did the changes as indicated but then I end up with a plain black background

On a side note, the usplash logo was also Ubuntu's. Strangely enough when rebooting the usplash was Xubuntu's.

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

Subscribing Xubuntu Team.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

xfdesktop is not in the running processes
running xfdesktop manually shows the right desktop (but with desktop icons).

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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