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smartcatxxx
October 16th, 2015, 04:36 AM
Hi,

I would like to change the XFCE desktop background from the picture the installer sets it to, to a solid color. In the Desktop properties, one can select a picture for the background, or it appears that he could select a color instead. But then there is no way to apply the color so it would replace the existing picture. It used that in the older versions of XFCE (the ones that came with 14.04 if I am not mistaken, and earlier) this just worked, but not anymore in the latest versions.

I am running XUbuntu 15.04 64 bits.

Any suggestion highly appreciated,

Thanks,

smartcatxxx

loup2
October 16th, 2015, 09:47 AM
Go to Settings, select "Desktop". In the first tap "Background" make sure that the "style:" is set to "none".
Then select "Colour" and choice the colour that you wish to use.

slickymaster
October 16th, 2015, 10:18 AM
Hi,

I would like to change the XFCE desktop background from the picture the installer sets it to, to a solid color. In the Desktop properties, one can select a picture for the background, or it appears that he could select a color instead. But then there is no way to apply the color so it would replace the existing picture. It used that in the older versions of XFCE (the ones that came with 14.04 if I am not mistaken, and earlier) this just worked, but not anymore in the latest versions.

I am running XUbuntu 15.04 64 bits.

Any suggestion highly appreciated,

Thanks,

smartcatxxx
See this http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/usage#colors

Just for completeness, http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/start

smartcatxxx
October 16th, 2015, 11:10 AM
Thank you loup2. That did it.