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2010-10-08 , 16:39
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#11
Originally Posted by nicolai View Post
The shortcuts should be a problem. The calendar home
widget is pretty stable. Anyway I bet it is one of
the widgets. What happens if you remove the two widgets
and reboot, then wait until the desktop is fully loaded and
try to change the desktop image.

nicolai
I assume you meant the shortcuts *shouldn't* be a problem. The widgets are both gone now, and I did as you suggested, with the same problem result. The icons disappeared but the desktop background list did not appear. This is very frustrating.
 
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2010-10-08 , 18:37
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#12
Yes I meant "shouldn't" :-)

If you have many images in your image Folder
(/home/user/MyDocs/.images), in the top level
(not in any subfolder), at least it may take long until the
dialog loads. But I have no idea why it doesn't show up
at all.

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2010-10-08 , 20:31
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#13
Originally Posted by nicolai View Post
Yes I meant "shouldn't" :-)

If you have many images in your image Folder
(/home/user/MyDocs/.images), in the top level
(not in any subfolder), at least it may take long until the
dialog loads. But I have no idea why it doesn't show up
at all.

nicolai
Now *that's* an interesting question. I wonder if I have too many images in there. Let me move that directory elsewhere and put a few things in there...I currently have 252 images in that directory. I will move out all but the ones that are either 3200x480 or have .desktop files to another location and see if that helps.

Thanks nicolai
 
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2010-10-08 , 21:31
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Originally Posted by nicolai View Post
Yes I meant "shouldn't" :-)

If you have many images in your image Folder
(/home/user/MyDocs/.images), in the top level
(not in any subfolder), at least it may take long until the
dialog loads. But I have no idea why it doesn't show up
at all.

nicolai
Okay, I moved 118 image files out of that directory and tried again. Same indications. Rebooted, and was able to change backgrounds if I did it *as* the desktop came up. After that, I was unable to get the backgrounds screen to come up...So it wasn't the count of images (since most of the ones remaining are the ones that ship with it).

At this point, I am starting to think about whether I should a) restore from backup (need to see what the backups on this device entails), b) reflash or c) wait for the next release to see if that fixes it. Personally, I'd rather fix it than reflash...

Thoughts?
 
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2010-10-08 , 21:41
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I don't think the next release will help, as far as I know,
there isn't a known bug that could cause this.

I think reflashing is the simplest and fastest "solution".
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2010-10-09 , 03:49
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Originally Posted by nicolai View Post
I don't think the next release will help, as far as I know,
there isn't a known bug that could cause this.

I think reflashing is the simplest and fastest "solution".
This is the first time I have ever flashed the N900 (and its been about 2 years since I flashed the N810). Do you think I can get away with just the OS flash or should I also do the filesystem flash as well?
 
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2010-10-09 , 21:55
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#17
I'm not sure if you have the same problem I had, anyway, I've posted what I did to sort out my prob: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...8&postcount=13
 
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2010-10-09 , 22:33
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#18
have you tried reinstalling hildon-desktop
maybe its corrupt somehow
just a suggestion after reading the thread
cos i know its VERY frustrating when problems pop up from nowhere!
good luck with it anyway bro
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2010-10-09 , 22:55
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Originally Posted by leetut View Post
have you tried reinstalling hildon-desktop
maybe its corrupt somehow
just a suggestion after reading the thread
cos i know its VERY frustrating when problems pop up from nowhere!
good luck with it anyway bro
I have reinstalled hildon-desktop as well as installing hildon-desktop-kinetic to get improved kinetic scrolling performance. Neither has affected the background image problem.
 
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2010-10-09 , 23:44
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#20
Hey gang, I just found something interesting I was looking around in the filesystem trying to figure out what is causing my desktop background switching problems, and I noticed the file /etc/gconf/schemas/hildon-desktop-background-settings.schema. Here is the contents of this file:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gconfschemafile xmlns:confml="http://www.s60.com/xml/confml/2">
  <schemalist/>
</gconfschemafile>
Well, I don't know that much about xml, but the gconfschemafile xmlns has a valid url, so I went to it. The site said, among other things:

Code:
S60.com is now closed. The S60 team would like to thank everyone who contributed to the S60 community and took part in discussions on S60 blogs over the years. It was a great experience for us all.
The hildon-desktop-background-settings.schema is part of the hildon-desktop-background-settings-002 package. Did I miss an update on this? I figure that if this were a real problem, more people would be up in arms.

So, I did an

Code:
apt-get install --reinstall hildon-desktop-applet-settings-002 hildon-desktop-background-settings-002
No change appears to have occurred. Behavior is still consistent with before, I still can't change backgrounds, even after a reboot.

Any ideas? Am I barking up the wrong tree?
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