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toni

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Registered: 2011-10-15

Posts: 437

Cannot change desktop background (wallpaper)

Usually I change the wallpaper following one of below methods in gnome 3 without problems:

1) From nautilus, going to the location where my background is, then left click and choose set as wallpaper
2) Using gnome-tweak-tool

but recently I have changed my gnome theme to this one (Delorean-dark-3.10):

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/DeLorean-Dark-Themes?content=159296

Once installed, my desktop background (wallpaper) has disappeared, and now it is grey.

If I change the wallpaper through the methods above indicated  the wallpaper does not change but when I point to the upper left corner in order to search applications, then I can see that desktop wallpaper is there (but not as my desktop background).

Furthermore, using gnome-control-center, where are the images shown there? in what system folder? I have put my background in /usr/share/backgrounds/gnome but it does not appear in gnome-control-center.

What happens?

UPDATED:

I have discovered right now from gnome-tweak-tool that if I turn off show desktop icons option, my desktop background (wallpaper) is shown correctly but if I turn on show desktop icons option, my wallpaper is not shown. I remember that in previous versions of gnome It used to work, but now it doesn't. Has gnome decided to change this behaviour?

Last edited by toni (2014-03-30 15:45:09)