Yes, ok, I've tinkered with this further, and what I've discovered is that once I enabled org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.background.active, then I was able to change desktop wallpapers with show-desktop-icons set to false. And, as you say, the background changing only has the nice fade when show-desktop-icons is true.
So, I guess the real question is, how did org.gnome.settings- daemon.plugins.background.active get set to false? Did some update do this to me? Or did I just forget about setting some weird setting somewhere? (I have used both gnome-tweak-tool and unity-tweak-tool in the past so it's not impossible that I inadvertently disabled this without realizing) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1115886 Title: Can't change wallpaper unless /org/gnome/desktop/background/show- desktop-icons is true. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1115886/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
