wallpaper engine kde wallpaper picker not showing any wallpapers

I can no longer change my wallpaper engine wallpaper its just defaulting to my previously picked wallpaper

Solution:

figured it out it was my firewall/vpn software portmaster :mrpgSighFacePalm:

22 Replies

zany130OP•2mo ago

hmm seems like python websockets is missing even though i its installed on the image https://paste.centos.org/view/eb3127d3

GGQQmax•2mo ago

pip install websockets?

zany130OP•2mo ago

tried that it just says i already have websockets installed on the system hmm i tried rebasing to bazzite stable with no luck is wallpaper engine just broken right now?

zany130OP•2mo ago

it doesn't even see python installed .....

zany130OP•2mo ago

Looks like others have similar issues right now

RottnRoll•2mo ago

I fought trying to get this to work for almost 4 solid hours lol 🙁

zany130OP•2mo ago

The weird thing is it works fine on my arch machine so it looks like it's a packing issue with bazzite Guess I'll open an issue on the GitHub https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/3151

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KDE wallpaper engine wallpaper picker broken (works fine on Garuda)...

Describe the bug Wallpaper selector fails with a python error. This does not happen on my Garuda Linux install, suggesting a problem with bazzite's packaging of wallpaper engine What did you ex...

PegaSys•2mo ago

did you point it to your wallpaper engine folder

zany130OP•2mo ago

yup i pointed it to the same folder on both garuda and on bazzite ~.local/share/Steam hmm looks like it might be something with my user as it doesnt happen on a fresh install on a vm not sure what though as i tried moving .config to see if some config or env i set was the cause but no luck i also uninstalled ever pip package i had and i still get the error Edit: same thing with .local moving it and recreating it fresh does nothing Is that it though? Arnt all user configs and envs either in .config or .local?

Solution

zany130•2mo ago

figured it out it was my firewall/vpn software portmaster :mrpgSighFacePalm:

zany130OP•5w ago

I figured it out it wasn't port master it was homebrew! For some reason homebrew is braking system python packages I reproduced this on a fresh install Once I set up homebrew on my fresh install it broke wallpaper engine @Kyle Gospo it's because of the python brew which is installed by the bling-cli just The weird thing is this used to work I always had brew with python installed and it was working before hmm i couldn't repoduce this in a vm and i noticed for some reason my .bashrc has these extra lines which the .bashrc in the vm don't have.

[[ -f ~/.bash-preexec.sh ]] && source ~/.bash-preexec.sh
eval "$(atuin init bash)"

eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

[[ -f ~/.bash-preexec.sh ]] && source ~/.bash-preexec.sh
eval "$(atuin init bash)"

eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

it looks like this is the culprit of the wallpaper engine issues though i have no clue where those lines came from and if there needed for something else i tried running all the same ujust that i ran on my local install on the vm and i didn't get those lines in my .bashrc and wallaper engine worked fine

Giodude•4w ago

hey guys, running into the same issue here i dont run any firewall or vpn software

Giodude•4w ago

it also shows no items found somtiesm but assuming thats a separate bug

Giodude•4w ago

zany130OP•4w ago

if you use hombrew it might be the same as what was happening to me basically it was trying to use the hombrew python instead of the system one i deleted these lines from my .bashrc and it worked afterwords however I started getting issues with my brew installed cargo not being able to find its dependices but I rarely use it anyway and i guess i could use distrobox for thatt brew is just cursed lol

Giodude•4w ago

wait, so here's my bashrc

  GNU nano 8.3                                                                       /home/gio/.bashrc                                                                                 
# .bashrc
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
    . /etc/bashrc
fi

# User specific environment
if ! [[ "$PATH" =~ "$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:" ]]; then
    PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
export PATH

# Uncomment the following line if you don't like systemctl's auto-paging feature:
# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=

# User specific aliases and functions
if [ -d ~/.bashrc.d ]; then
    for rc in ~/.bashrc.d/*; do
        if [ -f "$rc" ]; then
            . "$rc"
        fi
    done
fi
unset rc
export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/home/gio/tools/path/:$PATH"


[ "$giofetch" = true ] && giofetch
[ "$giofetch" = true ] && clear

  GNU nano 8.3                                                                       /home/gio/.bashrc                                                                                 
# .bashrc
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
    . /etc/bashrc
fi

# User specific environment
if ! [[ "$PATH" =~ "$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:" ]]; then
    PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
export PATH

# Uncomment the following line if you don't like systemctl's auto-paging feature:
# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=

# User specific aliases and functions
if [ -d ~/.bashrc.d ]; then
    for rc in ~/.bashrc.d/*; do
        if [ -f "$rc" ]; then
            . "$rc"
        fi
    done
fi
unset rc
export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/home/gio/tools/path/:$PATH"


[ "$giofetch" = true ] && giofetch
[ "$giofetch" = true ] && clear

im assuming the last 3 exports are what's causing the issue

zany130OP•4w ago

Specifically the Linuxbrew ones the other one is probably fine

Giodude•4w ago

wont that fuck up anything i installed via brew?

zany130OP•4w ago

From what I understand.bashrc should NOT affect GUI apps though that's exactly what's happening for some reason Bazzite already does all this in the /ect/profile.d files so it should be fine

Giodude•4w ago

so commenting out

export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"

export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"

theoretically shouldnt fuck shit up cool thank you

zany130OP•4w ago

Yeah brew commands still work for me so like if I have python linked python still uses the brew one (in an interactive terminal) but for some reason brew programs can't see other brew programs unless I add the brew path in .bashrc that's why I had it I think and I forgot about it So things like cargo that needed other brew libraries don't work now that I removed it from .bashrc but oh well I guess of you really need the brew path in your bashrc you could unlink the brew python brew unlink python That should fix this particular issue with wallpaper engine but other issues may crop up I guess if brew overrides another system package like I remember one time having issues with systemd getting overridem by the. Brew one

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