Unable to change Desktop Wallpaper. Menu sends me to System Settings.
Hey, about four days ago I changed my wallpaper to the background that you get when you first install windows as a joke to confuse my friends, but starting two days ago, I was unable to change it. WHenever I right clicked on the desktop and clicked 'change desktop background,' I would get sent to the System Settings menu. I had no appearance button either. If anyone can help, I'd be grateful.
I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 x64 with Intel HD 3000 Graphics. When I first installed Ubuntu (About an hour after recieving my laptop) I tried to install the proprietary AMD Radeon graphics drivers (both fglrx and AMD's versions) and screwed up the system (Which I was able to fix after seven hours of nonstop work). I have been slightly late with receiving system upgrades (for example, I didn't get any option to upgrade to 12.10 until 13.04-13.10 was released). Would any of these cause my background to stop working?
Re: Unable to change Desktop Wallpaper. Menu sends me to System Settings.
http://www.unixmen.com/how-to-upgrad...ktop-a-server/
you can change the background from the System Settings : click on the image to get the available background list, select one and validate. You need using dconf to get / set more appearance details.
Re: Unable to change Desktop Wallpaper. Menu sends me to System Settings.
I don't think I have that option. I'm looking in dconf and I don't have anything for it either. And I don't know what image your talking about.
EDIT: I found a fix. I somehow overlooked an asnwer in my search yesterday. Somehow the package gnome-control-center-unity was removed from my system. Just reinstalled it and the appearance section works again.