unlocking background

[Silvio Knizek]

Am Mittwoch, den 12.08.2020, 08:46 +0100 schrieb Piscium:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 at 09:46, Piscium <groknok at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have two PCs with similar configurations:
> > Arch Linux
> > lightdm with background image set
> > XFCE session
> > openbox as window manager
> > xfdesktop not installed
> > feh to set the background
> > xfce screensaver
> >
> > Here is the puzzling thing: in one of the PCs when I unlock the
> > background is the image I have configured (Arch wallpapers) and in the
> > other PC the background is greyish blue, that is, the wallpaper I
> > configured is not shown.
> >
> > Any ideas about what could cause this difference?
>
> I have still not found the reason for the difference. It seems to
> affect almost nobody. I spent some time googling and only found one
> instance of someone talking about the same problem as I have: a Ubuntu
> user in June, and apparently he has not found a solution either.
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1252629/xfce4-screensaver-change-lock-screen-background
>
> One thing I forgot to mention in my description above is that the PC
> where the wallpaper is displayed as expected has Intel graphics and
> three monitors attached, whereas that where I get the dark blue-gray
> background has Nvidia graphics with the proprietary driver and two
> monitors. I don't think how this could have an effect though.
>
> Any ideas of how I could investigate this?

Hi,

well, as you set your background with feh and also use the propriatary
nvidia driver I don't think this is a Xfce problem. Can you check if
the same happens with xfdesktop?

BR
killermoehre