Created attachment 5611 screenshot of xfdesktop-settings xfdesktop-settings only shows the dialog to configure the backdrop for DVI-0 screen, while xfce4-display-settings correctly shows DVI-0 and DVI-1 screens.
That impossibly hard to read infobar should say to move the dialog to the desktop/workspace you wish to configure. Does it update when you do that? If you're in Zaphod mode it might be easier to launch the settings app again on the 2nd screen. This was changed per the design SIG https://wiki.xfce.org/design/xfdesktop/settings and also because having tabs for the per-screen and per-worksapce and per-monitor combinations gets a bit messy. Or is this a regression between one of the 4.11 releases?
Hah, so rather a dark theme issue (xfce-dusk here), with a light theme i see the message. When i move the dialog to DVI-1 it correctly updates the label in the dialog, but the selected backdrop is still the one from the previous display, dunno if it should update the selected backdrop to match the one in the currently focused display. $xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitorDVI-0/workspace0/last-image /home/landry/wp/00061.jpg $xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitorDVI-1/workspace0/last-image /home/landry/wp/Degar_sunset_from_cannon_point.jpg That's the first 4.11 release i'm testing. Is it possible to make the infobar display correctly with dark themes too, or the theme itself should be fixed?
Yeah, at a minimum we need to hard code the label color since the infobar background color is hard coded. We can also look at scrolling to/selecting the image when there's a monitor or workspace change.
Created attachment 5621 Hardcode the infobar label color This should make the label readable with a dark theme.
Comment on attachment 5621 Hardcode the infobar label color Yes, that's definitely nicer here with xfce-dusk theme.
Thanks for testing, pushed to master: commit b8b11ad4180f3b41dbb07bde88da1b1a6a1230ac Author: Eric Koegel <eric.koegel@gmail.com> Date: Mon Sep 1 11:08:30 2014 +0300 Hardcode the infobar label color (Bug 11100) The GtkInfoBar hard codes the background color which makes the label impossible to read with dark themes. This patch hard codes the label's color so you can read it with any theme. http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=b8b11ad4180f3b41dbb07bde88da1b1a6a1230ac