If you go to select a wallpaper using the "+" option, you can navigate around the filesystem and pick something you like from wherever. Now change your wallpaper again to anything else. Now go back and try to pick the one you picked before - the "open" option is grayed out.
It seems that Ubuntu makes an copy in ~/.cache/gnome-control- center/backgrounds when you pick a wallpaper, giving it a catchy filename like "abe9c645b497f500c08a9225f9894f61af4a45c347eca62c6 f525d6d25578245", and you can't pick it again as long as it has that entry there. Just delete the entries there, and you can pick anything you like again. Or, you will find that you can select it from "pictures" in the dropdown box - the file isn't copied from its original location into your Pictures directory, but a link seems to be generated by the wallpaper selection dialog code to the copy in your cache. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/899647 Title: When I try to change backgrounds to a previously selected background it won't let me open it. Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Found in 11.10 Oneiric 64 bit. I changed my background to one of the stock backgrounds, when I went to change back to my normal background in my ~/Pictures directory it was grayed out and it would not let me open it. I had to make a copy of the file with a different name to open it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/899647/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
