Nitrogen bug

flajeen · 2012-01-15 14:18:57

If I add a new folder for wallpapers, at the first time it detects the images in the folder, but if I add another image and go check for it on Nitrogen it doesn't appear, keeps happening if I remove and add the folder again.

Workaround: start Thunar as root and put the images in a default #! folder which I can't remember the name by now.

Sector11 · 2012-01-16 00:35:56

flajeen wrote:

If I add a new folder for wallpapers, at the first time it detects the images in the folder, but if I add another image and go check for it on Nitrogen it doesn't appear, keeps happening if I remove and add the folder again.
Workaround: start Thunar as root and put the images in a default #! folder which I can't remember the name by now.

I use: /media/5/Wallpapers for my wallpapers.

I got tired of the ~/images/wallpapers/shared folder that I've always had problems with.

~/.config/nitrogen/nitrogen.cfg

[geometry]
posx=4
posy=2
sizex=1225
sizey=944

[nitrogen]
view=icon
icon_caps=false
dirs=/media/5/Wallpapers/;

~/.config/nitrogen/bg-saved.cfg

[:0.0]
file=/media/5/Wallpapers/Night_Lights.jpg
mode=2
bgcolor=#252627

[:1.0]
file=/media/5/Wallpapers/Mountain_Road_Night.jpg
mode=4
bgcolor=#000000

rml · 2012-03-08 05:35:08

this is happening to me too, and it's not solved by editing nitrogen.cfg or bg-saved.cfg. those config files are set to the folder and image i chose while running nitrogen. in nitrogen the folder i selected is still in the list of added directories, but the images in that folder just don't show up in the main nitrogen window. i have to delete the folder i previously added, click okay, then go back into preferences and re-add the folder, then the images will show up.

anyone have any idea what's going on?

Sector11 · 2012-03-08 12:28:03

rml wrote:

this is happening to me too, and it's not solved by editing nitrogen.cfg or bg-saved.cfg. those config files are set to the folder and image i chose while running nitrogen. in nitrogen the folder i selected is still in the list of added directories, but the images in that folder just don't show up in the main nitrogen window. i have to delete the folder i previously added, click okay, then go back into preferences and re-add the folder, then the images will show up.
anyone have any idea what's going on?

I may be wrong but I think nitrogen can only read sub-directories of the first directory. The only file you should change is nitrogen.cfg, nitrogen itself creates the second: bg-saved.cfg

I have a sub-directory under:

/media/5/Wallpapers/ and nitrogen sees them:

~/.config/nitrogen/nitrogen.cfg

[geometry]
posx=4
posy=2
sizex=1225
sizey=944

[nitrogen]
view=icon
icon_caps=false
dirs=/media/5/Wallpapers/;

Last edited by Sector11 (2012-03-08 12:30:10)

rml · 2012-03-08 16:52:59

Sector11 wrote:

...nitrogen can only read sub-directories of the first directory...
I have a sub-directory under:
/media/5/Wallpapers/ and nitrogen sees them:

is that an external hard drive named '5'?

i'm not sure what you mean by 'first directory'. do you mean the first one in nitrogen's list? i only have one in the list:

~/.config/nitrogen/nitrogen.cfg

[geometry]
posx=359
posy=106
sizex=450
sizey=500

[nitrogen]
view=list
icon_caps=false
dirs=/home/ryan/images/1280x800;

thanks for your help

machinebacon · 2012-03-08 16:54:32

try:

dirs=/home/ryan/images/1280x800/;

in the last line, instead of

dirs=/home/ryan/images/1280x800;

rml · 2012-03-08 17:04:29

^ hmm, no luck...

rhowaldt · 2012-03-08 17:06:01

hmm, my wallpapers are in /home/rhowaldt/images/wallpapers, and nitrogen seems to detect them just fine...

machinebacon · 2012-03-08 17:07:47

^ Wallpapers are BLOAT! lol

rml · 2012-03-08 17:16:37

something else i've been wondering, why the same images located in both

/usr/share/backgrounds/

and

~/images/wallpapers/shared/

not links or anything, but copies of the exact same #! wallpapers that nitrogen shows by default

Sector11 · 2012-03-08 17:23:44

rml wrote:

is that an external hard drive named '5'?
i'm not sure what you mean by 'first directory'. do you mean the first one in nitrogen's list? i only have one in the list:
~/.config/nitrogen/nitrogen.cfg
[geometry]
posx=359
posy=106
sizex=450
sizey=500

[nitrogen]
view=list
icon_caps=false
dirs=/home/ryan/images/1280x800;
thanks for your help

No /media/5 is a separate partition that I use for all my personal data

/media/5/Wallpapers being one of them.

And MB is right you need a semi-colon on the end:

dirs=/home/ryan/images/1280x800/;

nitrogen will read sub-directories under that.

Now if you create:

/home/ryan/images/1280x800/
/home/ryan/images/1280x800/Cars
/home/ryan/images/1280x800/Factorial
/home/ryan/images/1280x800/Themed
/home/ryan/images/1280x800/Nature

Your images will be sorted in directories, but nitrogen will see them all in one screen.

Do a test:

in /home/ryan/images/1280x800/
make s subdirectory: /home/ryan/images/1280x800/test

and copy the first 20 or so images in

/home/ryan/images/1280x800/

to

/home/ryan/images/1280x800/test

and then open nitrogen.

You'll see those images twice
Example: /media/5/Wallpapers/test

Last edited by Sector11 (2012-03-08 17:25:31)

2ManyDogs · 2012-03-08 17:31:17

rml wrote:

something else i've been wondering, why the same images located in both
/usr/share/backgrounds/
and
~/images/wallpapers/shared/
not links or anything, but copies of the exact same #! wallpapers that nitrogen shows by default

Because ~/images/wallpapers/shared is a link to /usr/share/backgrounds. Select ~/images/wallpapers/shared/
in thunar and click "properties" or do this in a terminal

ls -l ~/images/wallpapers

Or try deleting one of the files in ~/images/wallpapers/shared/ without root privileges.

rml · 2012-03-08 17:52:45

Sector11 wrote:

...MB is right you need a semi-colon on the end:

the semi-colon was already there, that wasn't what MB suggested, MB suggested putting the '/' at the end before the semi-colon, and anyway, it didn't make a difference.

yes, images in subfolders under '1280x800' show up, but still only the first time. only works the first time i add a folder to nitrogen. any subsequent time i run nitrogen, the pics in the folder (and subfolders) don't show up even though the folder is still listed in nitrogen.cfg. that's the bug i'm experiencing

rml · 2012-03-08 17:54:24

@2ManyDogs thx i see

rml · 2012-03-08 18:09:19

btw i'm running the squeeze nitrogen 1.5.1-1, anybody running the wheezy 1.5.2-1?

also i was wondering if running nitrogen as root would make some kind of difference....

Sector11 · 2012-03-08 19:07:13

rml wrote:

btw i'm running the squeeze nitrogen 1.5.1-1, anybody running the wheezy 1.5.2-1?
also i was wondering if running nitrogen as root would make some kind of difference....

Strange....

Testing (Wheezy) with 1-5.2-1 here.

Should not need to run as root.

2ManyDogs · 2012-03-08 19:16:21

I just tried on squeeze with nitrogen 1.5.1.1 and I can't duplicate the problem. I think I read all the posts, but have you tried specifying the folder in your nitrogen call:

nitrogen /home/ryan/images/1280x800

or

nitrogen /home/ryan/images

to show all the images in all the subfolders?

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-03-08 19:22:56)

rml · 2012-03-08 20:51:59

2ManyDogs wrote:

...have you tried specifying the folder in your nitrogen call:
nitrogen /home/ryan/images/1280x800
or
nitrogen /home/ryan/images
to show all the images in all the subfolders?

Ugh! That was it! thanks 2MD. i didn't expect that. the entry in obmenu was set to

nitrogen ~/images/wallpapers/

which made it ignore nitrogen.cfg and load ~/images/wallpapers/, so i just changed the command to 'nitrogen', without folder specification, now nitrogen displays images from the correct folder, and remembers it each time i run it.

thanks @everyone for your help

Sector11 · 2012-03-08 23:03:24

^^^ Well doesn't that just beat it all!!

In a terminal:

nitrogen

reads the config file:

[geometry]
posx=4
posy=2
sizex=1217
sizey=952

[nitrogen]
view=icon
icon_caps=false
dirs=/media/5/Wallpapers/;

... and there's all my images ....

I click on my OB menu entry:

Label: Fondos de pantalla
Execute: nitrogen --sort=alpha /media/5/Wallpapers

Shows the same info - sorted

Click on the #! OB menus entry and get - nothing!!!!

Label: Choose Wallpaper
Execute: nitrogen ~/images/wallpapers/

~/images/wallpapers does not exist!!!!

The config file is not even being used ... unless you use the command in a terminal.

So the is on all of us!!

2ManyDogs · 2012-03-09 01:41:09

Well, I'm not sure how helpful I was, but I'm glad you got it sorted. Now please mark your thread [solved] (edit your original post ) before rholwaldt notices there's a solved thread not marked hmm

(edit) wait never mind -- it's not your thread -- we will just have to incur the wrath of the mods neutral

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-03-09 01:43:42)

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