Bug 2336942 - Changing Background doesn't populate with images
Summary: Changing Background doesn't populate with images
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: cinnamon
Version: epel9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: EPEL Packagers SIG
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-01-10 15:20 UTC by Will Senn
Modified: 2025-01-10 17:01 UTC (History)
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Description Will Senn 2025-01-10 15:20:23 UTC 
Description of problem:
When I right click on the desktop, choose Change Desktop Background, it doesn't show any wallpapers.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cinnamon-5.6.8-2.el9.src.rpm

How reproducible:
as described, every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right click on the desktop
2. Choose Change Desktop Background
3. Click on any folder or add one

Actual results:
Nothing is displayed and nothing can be chosen as background


Expected results:
Images to choose as background should appear

Additional info:
This has been addressed in other ports:

https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/cinnamon/-/commit/6172cacec9d5012ad056606406ebbf73e3ae1a35

The workaround found in the patch is to edit:
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/bin/imtools.py
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_backgrounds.py
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_user.py

and change instances of Image.ANTIALIAS to Image.LANCZOS

This works and the problem is solved in my case.
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