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[Tim Bernhard <ohiomoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm this behavior (using 64-bit ISO).

Tim

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:16 AM, PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
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