Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 256901
No working way to disable background for gnome-settings-daemon
Last modified: 2008-03-14 11:11:59 EDT
Description of problem: There is no working way to disable background for gnome-settings-daemon. Everythime gnome-settings-daemon is started, the background/root will be drawn. Setting /desktop/gnome/background/draw_background to false has no effect. If /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename is set, this picture will be drawn; if it is not set, then a gradient or a solid color will be painted in the root window. gnome-settings-daemon is needed for gtk applications to use the proper font rendering even if gnome is not used at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): control-center-2.19.90-4.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start without a desktop or with a window manager only 2. Start gnome-settings-daemon 3. Watch at the root window Actual results: Background is drawn - always. Expected results: No drawing in the root window. Additional info: This is also a problem in F-7.
seems nothing looks at the key, and the schema for the key is in libgnome which is sort of funky
This is still a problem for F-8.
Created attachment 255201 [details] patch for gnome-settings-daemon to honour /desktop/gnome/background/draw_background
Can you please add this patch for control-center for F7+?
Created attachment 255211 [details] Here is the patch for the spec file
feel free to commit it, otherwise, i'll commit it some time this week.
control-center-2.20.1-5.1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update control-center'
control-center-2.20.1-5.1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.