[SOLVED] LXDE desktop wallpaper

[parnote]

I don't have a Desktop folder, all those icons you see there are folders or links in ~/.  Maybe there's a setting somewhere to set your "Desktop Folder", but I haven't seen one .

Really? I hadn't seen that. I wonder what would happen if you were to just recreate the /home/Desktop folder. I'm sure you'll have to log out an back in again, but that may be worth a try. Ok ... that was my thought too, and I see you posted an edit to your original post, indicating you had tried that already.

Oh, and thanks for your article on LXDE in this month's mag Parnote, I followed your help to get stuff autostarting - works a treat .

Thanks! I'm glad it helped.

Maybe Neal will weigh in on this topic soon. Neal ... any ideas?

parnote

[melodie]

EDIT2:

I even tried creating a ~/Desktop folder and rebooting to see if it would use that, but it didn't work.

What happens if you put a file .directory in /home/growbag/Desktop directory, with theses lines in it ? →

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=user-desktop
Type=Directory

Once with and once without icons enabled ?

[growbag]

Thanks for the suggestion Melodie, sadly it didn't work.....  but I found a config file named user-dirs.dirs in ~/.config/

I changed the line:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"

to:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"

...and it worked

Thanks for all the suggestions.

[Neal ManBear]

I got a bite to eat and dozed off. (Happens sometimes. ) But it looks like you got this sorted out. Good.

[melodie]

I changed the line:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"

to:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"

...and it worked

Thanks for all the suggestions.

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And thanks for your feedback. I just learned something : this file belongs to xdg-user-dirs.
Extract of "apt-cache show":

Package: xdg-user-dirs
Section: System/Libraries
Installed Size: 99190
Packager:
Version: 0.12-1pclos2010

It provides several commands, among which "xdg-user-dirs-update". Well, it's incredible in fact, there are many commands provided by this package, just type "xdg" and without leaving a space, hit tab, you'll see them all. I wonder all what we can do with them ?

I will have the use of it now, in the Openbox Mini project. I'll try it at once.

[growbag]

Glad you got something out of my crazy efforts

Although when I ran it, I got this:

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[me@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
Strange, but glad it fixed my problem 

[melodie]

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$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
Same for me, but I guess we don't especially have the use for a command that is used only in the session ? That's what I read in "xdg-settings --manual".

For the results, I will tell you that soon.