GNU bug report logs - #57781
missing wallpaper command

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From: Felix <felix.dick <at> web.de>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 57781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Subject: bug#57781: missing wallpaper command
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 23:04:56 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Felix <felix.dick <at> web.de> writes:
>
>> I don't really know what i'm doing, but
>> i found that it works if i replace the start-process call with:
>
> I'm not sure I follow.  Could you explain what wasn't working before
> this change, and what started working with it?  Are we talking about
> setting the wallpaper in KDE Plasma and Gnome, or something else?
>
>> (apply #'call-process
>>                 wallpaper-command
>>                 nil 0 nil
>>                 (mapcar (lambda (arg) (format-spec arg fmt-spec))
>>                 wallpaper-command-args))
>
> Thanks.

That way the process is not attached to emacs.

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