Hi, Am 23.04.2013 00:06, schrieb Kyle:

It's just the regular tweak tool.

Oh, haven't realized that the tweak tool is capable of that. At least I haven't thought of that, given that I never actually used it. So, just ignore my previous question ;). Best regards, Karol Babioch

-----Mensaje original----- De: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-bounces@archlinux.org] En nombre de Martti Kühne Enviado el: martes, 23 de abril de 2013 13:39 Para: General Discussion about Arch Linux Asunto: Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: [...]

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I guess you are using some sort of an extension to get "icons on the desktop"?

That "sort of an extension" is nautilus' (imo annoying) property to create its "desktop window" when it's not already there. To set a desktop background there you need to tell gnome and nautilus instead of wmsetbg/feh/display what desktop background you wish. There seems to be a gconftool-2 way to do that properly [0].

cheers! mar77i

[0] http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-244297.html

I'm using the following script. I don't remember where I found it. I call it from a cron job. #!/usr/bin/bash # Script to rotate GNOME 3 wallpapers export $(xargs -n 1 -0 echo

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Hudson wrote:

On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:49:24 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Gnome 3.8 has now hit the official repos and it looks great. They only thing I can't seem to get to work is the desktop background. I try to set it to a nice image I have, but my desktop background remains a dull grey. The only place I see a change is in window overview mode. The only way to get the background on my ordinary desktop is to turn off "Have file manager handle the desktop" in Tweak Tool, but then I lose the icons from my desktop. Please tell me I'm not forced to chose the lesser of these evils and that there is something I've missed ;)

/M

You are using an old theme. Set up with the default theme and you'll get a background. Then try and find a theme that (a) works with 3.8 and (b) you like.

I'm currently using the theme Nokto-3.8[1] which claims to be working with 3.8 and [2] is a screenshot of when the file manager isn't handling the background, and [3] is when it is handling it. This is how it looks with all 3.8 themes I've tried (not that many I have to admit) and also with my old 3.6 theme. If this really is caused by the theme, where can I find a theme that *does* work? /M [1]: http://cbowman57.deviantart.com/art/Nokto-3-8-363805533 [2]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/187401/without-fm.png [3]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/187401/with-fm.png -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Bjoern Franke wrote:

Hi,

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I'm currently using the theme Nokto-3.8[1] which claims to be working with 3.8 and [2] is a screenshot of when the file manager isn't handling the background, and [3] is when it is handling it. This is how it looks with all 3.8 themes I've tried (not that many I have to admit) and also with my old 3.6 theme. If this really is caused by the theme, where can I find a theme that *does* work?

I had this issue also with the standard theme. It worked only with one background image, with other images including the standard blue stripes image I got only a blue background.. Did you try some other images?

It doesn't matter which of the shipped images, or even available colours I choose in the "Change Desktop Background" settings dialogue, the background remains grey no matter what. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus