[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000197]: ~/.xfce4/backgrounds.list are not the same as /home/stefan/.xfce4/backgrounds.list?!

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The following bug has been RESOLVED.
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=197
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Reporter:                   Kiezkicker
Handler:                    dannym
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000197
Category:                   general
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   trivial
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     resolved
Resolution:                 not a bug
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Date Submitted:             2004-05-17 14:45 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-05-17 17:00 GMT
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Summary:                    ~/.xfce4/backgrounds.list are not the same as /home/stefan/.xfce4/backgrounds.list?!
Description: 
(Sorry for my "groovy english" - german "translation" ;) at the bottom)

Hi,

i I put ~/.xfce4/backgrounds.list as the value for my background- list I
became a requestpopup at the next bootup told me that my list couldn't be
found cause the file or dir wasn't found.
I have to put the whole /home/stefan/.xfce4/backgrounds.list into the
field - but so I can't share my config with the other local users who are
login at my machine or rename my account without fixing the whole xfce4-
config cause the whole "pfad" are needed.
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Moin,

wieso muss der komplette Pfad ins Userhome in die Desktopbackgroundconfig
eingetragen werden? Also bspw.
/home/stefan/.xfce4/desktopbackgrounds.list
Wieso reicht nicht die Angabe von ~/.xfce4/desktopbackgrounds.list? In dem
Fall, wo ich die relative Pfadangabe eintrage, meldet er mir beim
naechsten einloggen ins X, dass der Ordner oder die Datei nicht gefunden
werden kann. Ich war eigentlich bisher immer der Meinung,
/home/stefan/.xfce4/desktopbackgrounds.list sei dasselbe wie
~/.xfce4/desktopbackgrounds.list? Waere jedenfalls sehr vorteilhaft, wenn
man seine Config mit anderen Usern dieses Rechners austauschen moechte.
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 bmeurer - 2004-05-17 15:04 GMT 
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Brian, now I guess, you want xfsm_expand_variables() in libxfce4util, eh?
;-)

edited on: 05-17 15:04

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 kelnos - 2004-05-17 15:09 GMT 
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right - we just pass the filename string as-is to the file open function,
and no tilde-expansion is done.

i'm really not interested in implementing this.  if you have root on the
machine, and you really want to do this, put the file in a
globally-readable place and reference it with an absolute path.

incidentally, sharing configs with multiple users doesn't sound like a
great idea (permission issues?), and i really don't see why you'd need to
rename your account all that often, if ever.

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 dannym - 2004-05-17 16:59 GMT 
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I always put the path relative to my homedir into all fields (panel
launchers,  desktop background list, ...), and never had any problem ;)

What I do is give it relative to the homedir without any "~"

For example:

.xfce4/bg-list

Works here with head, I think... I can see the pics, that is :D