"It's not a bug, it's a feature." Yeah, right. Who's idea was it to say this isn't a bug? And then you need to install some other app to override it? I tried the recommended operations above, and it still didn't work for me. This is totally bogus.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1115886 Title: Can't change wallpaper unless /org/gnome/desktop/background/show- desktop-icons is true. Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: 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) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1115886/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp