Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36670
Description changed to: I use applications that draw themselves on the X root window, so i disable the "draw_background" key for gnome with gconf-editor. However, gnome *still continues to draw the background* and hides the window of the application drawing to the root of the screen. When disabling the draw_background, gnome must not draw anything (image or bgcolor) on the root window. I believe this worked correctly with standard gnome from gnome.org when i used it (at least for a previous version) so i think it is an ubuntu bug. version: gnome 2.12.1 ubuntu breezy + official dapper backports -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs