[SOLVED] KDE4.1 - Newly installed wallpaper missing

[jim_h]

Hi,

I just installed the latest Kubuntu this morning and added KDE4 from the repos. After logging in, I selected to install a couple of new wallpapers using the desktop settings app. These two images are showing as installed, yet I cannot find them.

I have looked in:
/usr/share/wallpapers
~/.kde/share/wallpapers
~/.kde4/share/wallpapers

Could anyone suggest another location please? I was going to use Strigi to find the file names, but it doesn't seem to want to load.

Thanks,
Jim

[Fintan]

Re: KDE4.1 - Newly installed wallpaper missing

Welcome to the party

Try here:

/usr/lib/kde4/share/wallpapers

[jim_h]

Re: KDE4.1 - Newly installed wallpaper missing

Welcome to the party

Thank you. Kubuntu has come a very long way since I last installed it. Very nice!

Try here:

/usr/lib/kde4/share/wallpapers

Hmmm. All that's in this folder is another called Blue_Curl for the default blue curl image. It contains a few copies of the pic, but neither of the ones I installed.
If I log into KDE3 and dowload pics, they're placed in ~/.kde/share/wallpapers

I'll keep looking!

[Rog131]

Re: KDE4.1 - Newly installed wallpaper missing

Welcome #2

Here (Intrepid):

Downloading Wet flower
Real file name is 88914-mokry_kwiat_1600x1200.jpg

Hmm - where it is - using locate

#1

sudo updatedb

man updatedb

NAME
updatedb - update a database for mlocate
SYNOPSIS
updatedb [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
updatedb creates or updates a database used by locate(1). If the database already exists, its data is reused to avoid rereading directories that have not changed.

#2

locate 88914-mokry_kwiat_1600x1200.jpg

/home/rog/.kde/share/wallpapers/88914-mokry_kwiat_1600x1200.jpg

man locate

NAME
locate - find files by name
SYNOPSIS
locate [OPTION]... PATTERN...
DESCRIPTION
locate reads one or more databases prepared by updatedb( 8 ) and writes file names matching at least one of the PATTERNs to standard output, one per line.

With the Intrepid Ibex the path is /home/<USER>/.kde/share/wallpapers/

[jim_h]

Re: KDE4.1 - Newly installed wallpaper missing

Cheers for the info on locate. I've never used it before, but it's very good!

After a lot of experimenting, it seems that the two images which showed as being installed by the desktop wallpaper app, actually weren't. I tried this originally with "KDE Dragon" and "Kdragon". When they are selected to be installed, changes the button state to "uninstall", but the progress bar never moves as it does with all the other images I've tried. So, my conclusion has to be that the app is falsely reporting them installled. Phew! It looks like the app doesn't do any checking whether the pics are really downloaded.

According to locate, the images I've successfully downloaded in this way are installed to: ~/.kde4/share/wallpapers

Thanks to you both for all the help.

Jim