Background color reset to #7f0000

Hey! I was just linked to this bugreport, it never made it up to xfdesktop. Can you provide the output of:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -lv

Can you also open xfce4-settings-editor and right click on xfce4-desktop and select the monitor option, then launch xfdesktop-settings and see if notices any changes? I'm just trying to pin down exactly where this issue is in the code so we can fix it for you.

Thanks!

Hi,

I have this issue, except the color gets reset to black, not to 7f0000.

> Can you provide the output of:
> xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -lv

user@laptop:~$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -lv
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/xfce-stripes.png
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-show false
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/last-image /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/xfce-stripes.png
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/last-image-list /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/backdrop.list
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/last-single-image /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/xfce-stripes.png
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/saturation 0.000000
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace0/backdrop-cycle-enable false
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace0/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace0/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace0/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace0/last-image /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/cloudbreaker.jpg
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace1/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace1/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace1/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace1/last-image /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/xfce-stripes.png
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace2/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace2/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace2/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace2/last-image /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/xfce-stripes.png
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace3/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace3/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace3/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace3/last-image /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/xfce-stripes.png
/desktop-icons/font-size 12.000000
/desktop-icons/icon-size 48
/desktop-icons/style 2
/desktop-icons/use-custom-font-size true
/last/window-height 552
/last/window-width 636
user@laptop:~$

> Can you also open xfce4-settings-editor and right click on xfce4-desktop and select the monitor option, then launch xfdesktop-settings and see if notices any changes?

It does not. The only output from it is:
1402396962: /backdrop/screen0/monitorLVDS1/workspace0/color1 (GPtrArray_GValue_: [ 4, 0, 16, 65535 ])
1402396924: start monitoring channel "xfce4-desktop"

Thanks.

Hi,

I have the same problem

Desktop: Xubuntu 14.04, current updates
Date: Aug 26, 2014 (so this problem has been there for almost 3 months (at least))
Graphics card: Nvidia Quadro FX 580
Monitor DELL 2408WFP (DFP-3), connected via DP

tomsam:~$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -lv

/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/brightness 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path /home/tomsam/Desktop/sophia/IMG_0192.JPG
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-show false
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/last-image /home/tomsam/Desktop/sophia/IMG_0192.JPG
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/last-image-list /home/tomsam/.config/xfce4/desktop/backdrop.list
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/last-single-image /home/tomsam/Desktop/sophia/IMG_0192.JPG
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/saturation 1,000000
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace0/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace0/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace0/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace0/last-image /home/tomsam/Desktop/sophia/IMG_0192.JPG
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace1/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace1/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace1/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace1/last-image /home/tomsam/Desktop/sophia/IMG_0192.JPG
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace2/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace2/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace2/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace2/last-image /home/tomsam/Desktop/sophia/IMG_0192.JPG
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace3/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace3/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace3/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace3/last-image /home/tomsam/Desktop/sophia/IMG_0192.JPG
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace0/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace0/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace0/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace0/last-image /home/tomsam/Desktop/sophia/IMG_0192.JPG
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace1/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace1/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace1/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace1/last-image /home/tomsam/Desktop/sophia/IMG_0192.JPG
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace2/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace2/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace2/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace2/last-image /home/tomsam/Desktop/sophia/IMG_0192.JPG
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace3/color1 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace3/color-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace3/image-style 0
/backdrop/screen0/monitorDP-1/workspace3/last-...

I pushed a patch to xfdesktop that should fix the issue eveyone was seeing. There was a little mixup between my color1s and color2s which means it was looking for the color settings in the wrong places. If someone can test it out and verify that was the only problem with that section that would be great.

commit 824050c60b3febe1f731964d343432dce32372dc
Author: Eric Koegel <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Aug 26 19:49:30 2014 +0300

    settings: Fix background color loading

    The issue was launching xfdesktop-settings changed the
    wallpaper background color, either to black or #7f000 or
    some other color.
    There's a bit of a mixup in the code, there's color 2s where
    there should be color 1s. With these corrected the colors
    should properly be loaded and old versions should be migrated.
    Bug reported to launchpad but never sent up to xfce's bugzilla:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfdesktop4/+bug/1313728

http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=824050c60b3febe1f731964d343432dce32372dc

I have set up a PPA for daily builds of xfdesktop4 (and xfwm4). By installing xfdesktop4 from it you can easily test the latest upstream commits without the need of compiling from source code:

https://launchpad.net/~thad-fisch/+archive/ubuntu/xfce-git

Strange enough. On an up-to-date Ubuntu 14.04 I can't reproduce the original issue any more. What the...

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

This bug was fixed in the package xfdesktop4 - 4.11.8-0ubuntu1

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xfdesktop4 (4.11.8-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream development release
  * Bugs fixed:
    - Infobar in desktop settings for <2 desktops (LP: #1365382)
    - Background color resets when starting settings (LP: #1313728)
    - Wallpaper spans multiple screens on reload (LP #1312577)
 -- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Sep 2014 06:24:44 -0400