Snap not working on Ubuntu 22.10

[Former user]

The "set wallpaper" feature doesn't change the wallpaper.

I also tried uninstalling the snap and installing from the PPA repo, but that failed to install.

I then tried to re-install the snap, ran it this time from the terminal but still no luck.

This is the log:

$ wallpaperdownloader 
log4j:WARN File option not set for appender [logfile].
log4j:WARN Are you using FileAppender instead of ConsoleAppender?
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:76 - Checking configuration...
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:77 - Checking application's directory
[22:45:28] INFO  PreferencesManager:49 - Creating PreferenceManager instance for the first time...
[22:45:28] INFO  PreferencesManager:65 - Setting user's configuration file path to /home/adam/snap/wallpaperdownloader/31/.wallpaperdownloader/config.txt
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:86 - Retrieving operating system... Linux
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:109 - Operating System detected: Linux
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:114 - Retrieving CPU architecture... amd64
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:131 - CPU architecture detected: AMD
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:139 - There is no configuration file. Creating a new one. Please wait...
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:146 - Checking downloads directory...
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:167 - Downloads folder doesn't exist. Creating...
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:172 - Downloads directory -> /home/adam/snap/wallpaperdownloader/current/.wallpaperdownloader/downloads
[22:45:28] INFO  WDConfigManager:177 - User configuration file doesn't exist. Creating...
[22:45:29] INFO  WDConfigManager:369 - Checking blacklist directory...
[22:45:29] INFO  WDConfigManager:374 - Blacklist directory doesn't exist. Creating...
[22:45:29] INFO  WallpaperChanger:73 - Instantiating wallpaper changer...
[22:45:29] INFO  LinuxWallpaperChanger:55 - Checking XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable. Value = ubuntu:GNOME
[22:45:29] INFO  LinuxWallpaperChanger:98 - Desktop environment detected: GNOME3
[22:45:29] INFO  WDUtilities:322 - Downloads directory space occupied: 0 %
[22:45:29] INFO  WDUtilities:232 - Getting all the wallpapers in downloads_directory...
[22:45:29] INFO  ChangerDaemon:74 - Starting automatically changing process...
[22:45:29] INFO  Harvester:74 - Initializing providers...
[22:45:29] INFO  Harvester:184 - Starting harvesting process...
[22:45:29] INFO  Harvester:74 - Initializing providers...
[22:45:29] INFO  BackgroundChangingProcess:68 - Available wallpapers linked list is removed in order to build it again freshly if it is necessary
[22:45:29] INFO  Harvester:207 - No providers configured. Nothing to do.
[22:45:29] INFO  BackgroundChangingProcess:79 - Automated wallpaper changer process is OFF
[22:45:34] INFO  Harvester:168 - Stopping harvesting process...
[22:45:39] INFO  Harvester:184 - Starting harvesting process...
[22:45:39] INFO  Harvester:74 - Initializing providers...
[22:45:39] INFO  Harvester:105 - Bing provider added
[22:45:39] INFO  Harvester:194 - Providers configured and downloading process enabled. Starting to download...
[22:45:39] INFO  BackgroundHarvestingProcess:88 - Downloading timer set every 3600000 milliseconds
[22:45:39] INFO  Provider:227 - Checking download directory. Removing some wallpapers if it is necessary...
[22:45:39] INFO  BingProvider:57 - Downloading Bing daily wallpaper
[22:45:39] INFO  BingProvider:122 - Wallpaper wd-bing-OHR.DarkSkiesDV_EN-GB6252462547.jpg successfully stored
[22:45:39] INFO  BingProvider:123 - Refreshing space occupied progress bar...
[22:45:39] INFO  WDUtilities:322 - Downloads directory space occupied: 0 %
[22:45:39] INFO  WDUtilities:232 - Getting all the wallpapers in downloads_directory...
[22:45:54] INFO  WDUtilities:232 - Getting all the wallpapers in /home/adam/snap/wallpaperdownloader/current/.wallpaperdownloader/downloads...
[22:46:02] INFO  LinuxWallpaperChanger:209 - Wallpaper set in Unity or Gnome 3: /home/adam/snap/wallpaperdownloader/current/.wallpaperdownloader/downloads/wd-bing-OHR.DarkSkiesDV_EN-GB6252462547.jpg

The "About" page says this is version 4.2.

[Eloy García Almadén]

Hi, and thank you very much for your feedback. I think I suspect what is happening. Some months ago, when I released version 4.3 of WallpaperDownloader, I was working on the snap package for releasing it but, due to some snap limitations, I couldn´t finish this work.

One of the features included on 4.3 was the possibility to set the chosen wallpaper on the last version of GNOME when the dark theme was selected. Dark theme on GNOME works slightly different from the Light Theme so I guess you have dark theme enabled and that’s why version 4.2 doesn’t work with that.

There have been some fixes on snap during this time so I have to try again and see if I can bring v4.3 to the snap store. Meanwhile, you can install WallpaperDownloader from Flathub which doesn’t present this problem https://flathub.org/apps/details/es.estoes.wallpaperDownloader

or change your desktop to light theme.

Thanks again for your feedback