Desktop changed to grey, won't change to anything else

[Stuart Perkins]

My setup:

Lenovo T420i
Coreboot
Qubes OS 4.0
xfce4 desktop
fully encrypted disks, 250Gb SSD main, 2TBHD for the larger MV images.

The problem cropped up the other day where my assigned solid color of black background suddenly changed to gray. Using the system tools, desktop to change it has no effect either on solid color or background image. Everything else is working fine, but the sudden change is distressing.

Stuart

[Qubes]

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> The problem cropped up the other day where my assigned solid color of black background suddenly changed to gray. Using the system tools, desktop to change it has no effect either on solid color or background image. Everything else is working fine, but the sudden change is distressing.
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There is an option there to "Apply to all workspaces", you didn't
perhaps untick that so the particular workspace you are on is different?

[Stuart Perkins]

Actually it is that xfdesktop stopped being started automatically. Starting it fixes the issue, but it has to be started manually.

Stuart