Public bug reported:
When I logged into my computer today, Unity wasn't showing my wallpaper.
The first thing I tried was to go into the Appearance settings and
change the wallpaper. At first, I was not able to make any changes to
the wallpaper. Then I started tinkering around with dconf, just to see
if I could find any settings that might interfere with the wallpaper.
What I found was that /org/gnome/desktop/background/show-desktop-icons
was set to false, but if I set it to true, then the regular Appearance
settings panel was able to change the wallpaper. and again, if I set it
back to false, then I was no longer able to change what wallpaper is
used.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Using dconf, set /org/gnome/desktop/background/show-desktop-icons to
false
2. Using Gear menu -> System Settings -> Appearance, try to change the
wallpaper. You can't.
3. Set show-desktop-icons back to true.
4. Change the wallpaper now -- it works.
So, this is quite strange to me -- turning on show-desktop-icons doesn't
actually render any icons on my desktop. It only enables the wallpaper
switching to work. My best guess as to what is happening here is that
"show-desktop-icons" really just means "make nautilus render root
window", and somehow I've stumbled onto a bug by which g-s-d can no
longer render the wallpaper for itself, so turning on show-desktop-icons
forces nautilus to take over, where it is successful in rendering the
wallpaper.
Let me know if there's any additional information I can provide, and I
will happily cooperate in troubleshooting ;-)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.6.4-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-4.8-generic 3.8.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 4 19:56:37 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-14 (143 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120905.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_CA.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-11-14 (82 days ago)
** Affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug raring running-unity
** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
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Title:
Can't change wallpaper unless /org/gnome/desktop/background/show-
desktop-icons is true.
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