On Settings-->Backgrounds there's a list of built-in wallpaper folders. They work fine.
However, if I press the '+' button to add a custom folder and that folder is not on the boot drive (there's a second nvme data SSD on my system), then no pictures are shown.
Any idea what might be the cause of this ?
[Solved] Photos not showing if custom folder is not on boot drive
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[Solved] Photos not showing if custom folder is not on boot drive
Last edited by ThomasAn on Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Photos not showing if custom folder is not on boot drive
How have you mounted the 2nd SSD? Is it configured as a permanently attached storage through /etc/fstab? I.e., you haven't mounted it to /media or /mnt -- special directories for temporary attached storage. Not sure that is the cause but removable storage is treated special by the system so this could explain it.
Re: Photos not showing if custom folder is not on boot drive
I believe so. I undid the Mint default and found instructions to make the drives permanent. So the SSD are no longer showing on the left panel (as media) or at the taskbar tray (that usually asks to remove media). The drive's are now mounted on a unique directory "/drv" and took care of the permissions prior to mounting the volume.xenopeek wrote: ⤴Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:41 am How have you mounted the 2nd SSD? Is it configured as a permanently attached storage through /etc/fstab? I.e., you haven't mounted it to /media or /mnt -- special directories for temporary attached storage. Not sure that is the cause but removable storage is treated special by the system so this could explain it.
This is the line I used in the fstab.
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UUID=9692BA3012BC9028 /drv/nvme1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=000,dmask=027,fmask=137,uid=1000,gid=1000,windows_names 0 0
Re: Photos not showing if custom folder is not on boot drive
Follow up.
This is solved. I've been working on some other issues with the installation of Mint, that I had to reinstall the OS a couple of times since I opened this question. Today when I try this it works, as long as the folder you select contains the images in it directly (so, it will not recursively look for images in sub-folders)
This is solved. I've been working on some other issues with the installation of Mint, that I had to reinstall the OS a couple of times since I opened this question. Today when I try this it works, as long as the folder you select contains the images in it directly (so, it will not recursively look for images in sub-folders)