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impact
June 19th, 2008, 05:06 PM
Hello,

I have started having a problem recently after a large (cca 150MB) upgrade, I can't set any image as a desktop bacground. I can select the image but it doesn't show on the desktop. Only the solid color/gradient seems to be working. Any ideas where to look/what to look for?
henriquemaia
June 19th, 2008, 09:08 PM
I'm having this problem too. I can't figure out why.
henriquemaia
June 20th, 2008, 04:59 AM
Bump
henriquemaia
June 20th, 2008, 08:06 AM
Hello,

I have started having a problem recently after a large (cca 150MB) upgrade, I can't set any image as a desktop bacground. I can select the image but it doesn't show on the desktop. Only the solid color/gradient seems to be working. Any ideas where to look/what to look for?

I think I have found the solution. At least in my case it worked:



open gconf-editor
then go to /desktop/gnome/background
and tick the option draw_background.


Hope this helps you.
impact
June 21st, 2008, 06:30 PM
Indeed it did. Perfect! :)
rich_biker
August 16th, 2008, 06:03 AM
I dind't have a draw_background key (?!) so I created one. And it worked. Thanks for the pointer to this.