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hiroki
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 Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject: cannot add wallpaper in GNOME (2.6) |
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hi!
recently I'm having an issue with Gnome (2.6). Anytime I want to add a wallpaper (at the moment I have a color gradient [unwanted]) I click on "open", but then the wallpaper simply does not appear in the list!
How come 
This is really annoying.
I tried deleting $HOME/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml several times, didn't work.
So what
Please help ...
Thanks in advance!
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Arker
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: cannot add wallpaper in GNOME (2.6) |
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| hiroki wrote: | hi!
recently I'm having an issue with Gnome (2.6). Anytime I want to add a wallpaper (at the moment I have a color gradient [unwanted]) I click on "open", but then the wallpaper simply does not appear in the list!
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When I go to the "Change Desktop Background" option by right-clicking on the background, I get a dialog that has no "Open" button. The first time I did this, I got an empty list of wallpapers and needed to click the "Add Wallpaper" button to add one to the list. Since then, any wallpaper that I've added to this list appears automatically when I return to that dialog.
After the list is populated with at least one wallpaper, clicking on the one you want will make it your new background.
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hiroki
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject: Re: cannot add wallpaper in GNOME (2.6) |
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| Arker wrote: | | hiroki wrote: | hi!
recently I'm having an issue with Gnome (2.6). Anytime I want to add a wallpaper (at the moment I have a color gradient [unwanted]) I click on "open", but then the wallpaper simply does not appear in the list!
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When I go to the "Change Desktop Background" option by right-clicking on the background, I get a dialog that has no "Open" button. The first time I did this, I got an empty list of wallpapers and needed to click the "Add Wallpaper" button to add one to the list. Since then, any wallpaper that I've added to this list appears automatically when I return to that dialog.
After the list is populated with at least one wallpaper, clicking on the one you want will make it your new background.
HTH,
~djc |
yesyes, that's exactly what i did... well, i have used gnome for a long time before, and i have always been able to add wallpapers.. so, as you said, i (as usual) opened the background-dialog by right-clicking on the desktop. then i choose "add wallpaper"... then a file-dialog appears and i choose the jpg-file i'd like to have... but.. when i then click on "open", it does NOT appear in the list of available wallpapers.. that's why i also cannot chose another wallpaper in the list...  |
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superjaded
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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What happens when you try to drag a picture from Nautilus to the background capplet? Or middle click dragging a picture from Nautilus to the desktop and selecting "Set as Wallpaper" ?
I found that because the 2.6 capplet offered no preview in the "Add Wallpaper" dialogue it was useless since a good amount of my wallpapers are named 59240924.jpg and such, so I got into the habit of using Nautilus to D&D my wallpapers places.. |
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hiroki
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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hm. thanks for your tip, i didn't know this possibility yet.
but, well, it did not help 
the problem now is: when i drag it with the middle mouse button, te menu appears, BUT the "set as wallpaper" function is grayed 
so i cannot set it as wallpaper.... what's wrong?
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superjaded
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| Do you have any weird settings in gconf for Nautilus? e.g. having show_desktop disabled under apps/nautilus/preferences ? The description of it sounds like a blanket way to have a clear desktop without any icons, but it actually makes it stop drawing on the desktop at all. |
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hiroki
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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hm. hi.. no. i already checked that, drawing desktop is not disabled.. and i do have icons on my desktop.. another thing that confuses me.. i thought the same as you did :-/
so, i have icons.. but cannot set a wallpaper.. too weird.. |
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hiroki
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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ok.. now i became really angry and annoyed by this problem... and removed all directories in my homedirectory liek .gconf .gconfd .gnome .gnome2 ...
and i STILL have the problem, although i also rebooted...  |
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