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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/23/2011 01:33 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote:
>
>> I'm not aware of any big crasher.
>
> Right click on the Lubuntu 11.04 desktop.  Click "Desktop Preferences".
>  In Desktop Preferences dialog box, click on the "Wallpaper mode" field.
>  Select "Fill with background color only".
>
> Crash!  X disappears, then lxdm shows up, your old session is history.
> Worse still, sometimes (maybe one time in ten?  I can't do it repeatedly
> or reliably!) lxdm does not come back, and you are left in a text mode
> screen with no prompt or other obvious way to proceed.
>
> That probably qualifies as a "big crasher", doesn't it? :)
Actually, this might be related to a recent bug of X11 itself rather
than the file manager.
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-May/022281.html
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-May/022455.html
>
> I'm not picky about my wallpaper, but IMO that's a fairly nasty bug.  If
> you have any unsaved work in open windows in your session, most likely,
> you will lose it.
>
> There is a (possibly related) strange (but less dramatic!) effect if you
> select the Wallpaper field instead, and then press Escape.  It sets it
> to (none), but closing the dialog does not then do what it should, it
> seems to just totally ignore the setting change.
Then this sounds like a bug.
> Jonathan