After upgrade from 41 to 42,
Fedora 42 xfce still shows the old blue desktop wallpaper,
not the more beautiful green one with the trees.
To be exact, the new one appears for a split second , before login,
but then it reverts to the old blue one.
After login it is your prfile. Upgrade is not changing it.
Please create a new user and check if you get the 42 Background.
You should be able to use the settings app and define your desktop background.
On Workstation with gnome that is shown here
He uses xfce and the default wallpaper should be taken from /usr/share/backgrounds/images, and point to default.jxl:
If this is not the case it will not display the default from the newest version. I guess @ninos changed it manually to the F41 image and not over the .jxl . When not mistaken we changed the default from png to .jxl ?!
While default.jxl is a sim link which points to /usr/share/backgrounds/f42/default.
I understand there are differences and that is why I showed what works for me on Workstation. Simply intended to hint that there may be a tool to set that for him. I am not familiar with xfce but many spins have similar tools.
I didn’t change anything.
I just upgraded from 41xfce to 42xfce.
The settings/desktop menu does not have the new green background at all,
so I can’t choose the new one.
ok
when using xfce
thunar
file system
usr
share
backgrounds
and there you see the icons
you need to right click on the icon you like
&
set as default
