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[Daniel Polehn <dpolehn@xxxxxxxxx>]

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393727

Title:
  Pictures folder:  --location requires absolute path

Status in “gnome-screensaver” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “gnome-screensaver” source package in Lucid:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

  As I understand it, gnome-screensaver detects if ~/Pictures exists and
  if so loads photos for a slideshow from there.

  However, this does not seem to work on my system.  If I create
  ~/Pictures and put photos in it, nothing shows up.  I was able to get
  it to work by editing /usr/share/applications/screensavers/personal-
  slideshow.desktop and set Exec as follows:

   Exec=/usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver/slideshow
  --location=/home/bryce/Pictures

  I could not get --location=Pictures nor --location=~/Pictures to work,
  so I believe the issue to be that relative directories are not being
  handled properly.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jun 29 21:56:35 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: gnome-screensaver 2.27.0-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/share/applications/screensavers/personal-slideshow.desktop]
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=C
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-9.10-generic
  SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
  Uname: Linux 2.6.30-9-generic x86_64

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