Description of problem: Beacon appeared at xinetd vnc session startup ...? No usage trouble. Version-Release number of selected component: caja-1.8.1-5.fc20 Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.2.3 backtrace_rating: 4 cmdline: caja crash_function: handle_error executable: /usr/bin/caja kernel: 3.15.10-200.fc20.x86_64 runlevel: N 5 type: CCpp uid: 1000 Truncated backtrace: Thread no. 1 (9 frames) #4 handle_error at xcb_io.c:213 #5 handle_response at xcb_io.c:325 #8 XCloseDisplay at ClDisplay.c:61 #9 make_root_pixmap at mate-bg.c:1305 #10 mate_bg_create_pixmap at mate-bg.c:1194 #11 eel_background_ensure_realized at eel-background.c:363 #12 eel_background_set_up_widget at eel-background.c:550 #13 background_changed_cb at eel-background.c:603 #18 gtk_main at gtkmain.c:1257
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Maybe i helps if you disable background transitions. (Use set instead of get). [rave@mother ~]$ gsettings get org.mate.background background-fade true I don't think you need this effect for changing a background image in a vnc session. And the backtrace shows that caja chrashed at this point. I know this because in mate-1.2/1.4 versions for my former external repo i patched out the bg transition function to get a working background for MDM (old obsolete mate fork of GDM). You can also disable [rave@mother ~]$ gsettings get org.mate.background draw-background true This key is only needed if the key 'org.mate.background show-desktop-icons' is disabled and caja don't draw the bg. In this case mate-desktop and mate-settings-daemon draws the bg. Which points to the real issue, imo. The bg code is pretty distributed over 3 packages in mate. In gnome this is already changed.
Thanks for the hint, Wolfgang. In fact, this transition stuff is the default (I've never changed it before). I set the way you tell and will report here if it occurs again. Thanks again.
any news?
The gsettings trick did not make it with 1.8.1, but 1.8.2 seems OK. Thanks.
fine, good to hear. we can reopen the report if it comes back.