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06-28-2014, 03:58 PM
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Registered: Mar 2014
Location: El Lago, Texas
Distribution: Ubuntu_Mate 16.04
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Directory for desktop backgrounds
I can not find out what directory contains the desktop backgrounds.
I am using the KDE verion of OpenSuse.
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06-28-2014, 04:01 PM
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Registered: Sep 2010
Location: Lawrence, New Zealand
Distribution: Slackware
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Usually they are in /usr/share/backgrounds or thereabouts. I'm not on SUSE so I could be wrong, but certainly on Slackware and stock KDE, they are stored in /usr/share/backgrounds by default.
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06-28-2014, 07:46 PM
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They aren't there.
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06-29-2014, 09:42 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, UK
Distribution: Debian Testing Amd64
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Have you looked in /usr/share/wallpapers?
jdk
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06-29-2014, 11:37 AM
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Registered: Jun 2012
Distribution: Slackware
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According to the KDE Filesystem Hierarchy they should be in /usr/share/wallpapers, or ~/.kde/share/wallpapers at a user's level.
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Originally Posted by notKlaatu
certainly on Slackware and stock KDE, they are stored in /usr/share/backgrounds by default
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Are you sure? I have them in wallpapers as above.
Last edited by Philip Lacroix; 06-29-2014 at 01:41 PM.
Reason: fixed user-level path (thanks to BrianL)
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06-29-2014, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Philip Lacroix
According to the KDE Filesystem Hierarchy they should be in /usr/share/wallpapers, or ~/share/wallpapers at a user's level.
Are you sure? I have them in wallpapers as above. |
As do I.
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06-29-2014, 12:58 PM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware64 15; SlackwareARM-current (aarch64); Debian 12
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If you've got any by clicking on "Get new wallpapers" in the desktop settings GUI, they end up in ~/.kde/share/wallpapers.
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06-29-2014, 05:18 PM
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Sorry, my mistake.
I was looking in usr/share/backgrounds which is where Puppy Slacko keeps backgrounds.
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06-30-2014, 06:19 AM
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Registered: Sep 2010
Location: Lawrence, New Zealand
Distribution: Slackware
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Originally Posted by Philip Lacroix
Are you sure? I have them in wallpapers as above.
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Interesting, I do have that directory as well. But also a /usr/share/backgrounds. Since there's an 'xfce' directory there, maybe it's an XFCE thing..? |
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06-30-2014, 08:11 AM
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Yeah, I've got /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce, too. Must be where the default XFCE wallpapers go. And /usr/share/wallpapers (with loads of subdirectories) for all the default KDE wallpapers.
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06-30-2014, 09:01 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2012
Distribution: Slackware
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Originally Posted by notKlaatu
Interesting, I do have that directory as well. But also a /usr/share/backgrounds. Since there's an 'xfce' directory there, maybe it's an XFCE thing..?
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It seems that at least Xfce and MATE use "/usr/share/backgrounds" by default (not sure about Gnome):
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...xfdesktop.html
http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/docs:gsettings
I also have a Slackware machine here with no desktop environments and no X server at all: there's an empty "/usr/share/wallpapers", which I guess is part of the "Slackware Filesystem Hierarchy" as well.  |
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