configure desktop problem

[przxqgl]

when i right-click on the desktop, and choose "Configure Desktop" from the context menu, i have the following settings:

Layout: Desktop
Wallpaper Type: Slideshow
Positioning: Scaled, Keep Proportioned
Background: Solid colour (i chose purple, because i like purple)
Change every: 0 Hours, 5 Minutes, 0 Seconds

and i would expect that i can have these settings regardless of whether i reboot my computer or not...

but that is not, actually, the case.

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. i reboot my computer, it has all of the settings listed above, EXCEPT FOR the background, which, instead of being the solid colour purple, like i would expect, is a blur of whatever photo i chose. if i right-click, choose "Configure Desktop", and look at the settings, it SAYS "Solid colour", but it's actually a blur. if i choose "Blur" and click apply, nothing happens, but if i, then, choose "Solid colour" and click apply, it suddenly changes back to the colour purple, like it should be.

this is REALLY ANNOYING, despite the fact that it isn't something crashing, and i'm not even sure to whom i should report this, in order to have it fixed. presumably it's part of Plasma, but to whom should i report it?

[vinnywright]

check system settings>Desktop Behavior >Desktop Effects and uncheck "Blur" and click apply ,,see if that helps .

VINNY

[przxqgl]

check system settings>Desktop Behavior >Desktop Effects and uncheck "Blur" and click apply ,,see if that helps .

good thought... i didn't even know that existed.

nope.

i still have to right click -> choose "Configure Desktop" -> set to "Blur" -> click "Apply" -> set to "Solid colour" -> click "Apply" to make any difference in what i get when i reboot. 😕

[Rod J]

Ignore ... I misunderstood the problem.

[przxqgl]

leave it to me to find the most annoying and least significant bugs... 😕

[Rod J]

Yeah, it seems like you have found a bug. I haven't tried your settings here though, so at the moment I can't confirm that.

I have similar settings for my Desktop, but instead of "Scaled, Keep Proportioned" I use "Scaled and Cropped" so eliminating the need for any other background. That works just fine for me here.

[przxqgl]

update:

when the desktop first loads, it loads a purple screen, just like it's supposed to, and then it loads the desktop wallpaper, with a "blur" around it...

it's almost like it knows what to do until the last possible moment, when it does something strange, instead.

what would really like is some direction to point this "bug report" (for lack of a better term) in order to get it fixed...

because it's REALLY annoying!

[Worzel]

Perhaps not directly related to your problem but with desktop wallpaper - I'm sure that once they were saved in a .wallpaper folder because that how I have old ones on a usb.

Changed mine and another user's images. Next time, another was ok but mine was reset. I then realised that the image is linked, not copied. So my image linked to the usb which was not installed at that time.

Possibly ? something similar is causing your problem

[przxqgl]

Perhaps not directly related to your problem but with desktop wallpaper - I'm sure that once they were saved in a .wallpaper folder because that how I have old ones on a usb.

Changed mine and another user's images. Next time, another was ok but mine was reset. I then realised that the image is linked, not copied. So my image linked to the usb which was not installed at that time.

Possibly ? something similar is causing your problem

i'm not 100% certain what you're trying to say... my desktop settings are:

Layout: Desktop
Wallpaper Type: Slideshow
Positioning: Scaled, Keep Proportioned
Background: Solid colour (i chose purple, because i like purple)
Change every: 0 Hours, 5 Minutes, 0 Seconds

the images are stored in my /home/images directory, and not in the .wallpaper directory

[przxqgl]

this is REALLY ANNOYING, despite the fact that it isn't something crashing, and i'm not even sure to whom i should report this, in order to have it fixed. presumably it's part of Plasma, but to whom should i report it?

every day i boot my computer and get exactly the same results. i would really like to report this bug, but i don't know where to start, since it is not a crashing bug, and it's part of the system. does anybody have a clue?