Ilya Dogolazky wrote:

> I'm trying to setup my self-compiled copy of TDE. I opened "Trinity
> Control Center" and then "Appearance & Themes" and then "Background".
> There I selected a picture "Aghi" (showing some green tree branches)
> and pressed "Apply" (then spent like 10 mins for similar steps, never
> mind these)
> 
> As you can see on the screenshot https://i.paste.pics/7kbai.png the
> background is not changed at all, it's some kind of default picture
> being there from the very beginning.
> 
> On my real computer with TDE from official repository there is no such
> problem, so I suppose I might have either installed or started TDE in
> some wrong way on this hacking clean system (which is running inside a
> docker container, so not even systemd is present there).
> 
Yeah it is odd, cause I can see the picture on my daily use PC with self
compiled TDE.
I do not think it depends on if you compiled yourself or not, but one can
never be sure when working with repositories which change often (see
below).

> My question is: what process/daemon can be missed or maybe some other
> reason for this wrong background behaviour ?
> 

AFAIK it is KDED 
And in kdcop you can see the interface (img attached)

> Just to explain why I so much care about background on a development
> system: it's about bug #3059 (X11 resources leak). After some research
> I'm almost sure it's about slide show on background window and now I
> just want to reproduce this bug in "clean lab conditions".

Hmm - I have it running here for a month now

$ uptime
 19:08:05 up 27 days, 11:04,  3 users,  load average: 0.57, 0.46, 0.29

Could be that something in the background is causing this.

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